The twice-yearly time changes seem to bother me less than they do most other folks around here, though I wouldn’t be mad if they went away.
But, I want the whole country to be on board with whatever system we have. If some states switch and some don’t, it’s just a mess. It’s confusing enough living next to Arizona.
About twenty years ago, Congress, after being lobbied by the candy companies, moved the DST ending so it occured after Hallowe’en, giving the trick or treaters an extra hour of daylight. Candy sales shot up as a result.
So screw them and their poor quality chocolates. I want to be able to run safely in the morning in the spring and fall.
The office job I had for a few years in the 90s had casual Fridays. Polo shirt and khakis. The rest of the week we wore ties. I never interacted with anyone outside of the building except by phone.
For most of my working life I spent very little time reading or responding to emails.
Huh. I remember when that happened, but not why.
As a kid, we weren’t allowed to go trick-or-treating until it was dark.
Yeah. That was a lot of the point – out there in the scary ghost-filled dark!
At my jobs in the '90s, “Casual Fridays” was a fairly brief transitional phase. Until around 1996 or so, business attire (i.e., suits and ties for men) was the everyday requirement. Then, we started having Casual Fridays for maybe two years, until my employer went to all-the-time business casual by around 1998.
Since then, while I have occasionally had to wear a suit for work (for big meetings, visits with certain clients who had more stringent dress codes), it’s been business casual.
That sounds about right. About that time, it was business casual with Jeans Friday. Around 2010, my employer said, “Ah, screw it. Just don’t dress like a slob.” Then in 2014, I moved to Nashville and was working out of a sales office, and had to dress business casual again. Unfortunately, I was begun running and all my slacks were two inches too big.
We still get most of our trick-or-treaters after dark.
I thought it was a safety concern. Little kids shouldn’t be walking around after dark. The horror.
I actually love that we change the clocks, as i like to wake up at dawn it a little later, and this allows me to do so almost all year. (Even when i was working.) But i, too, liked to “fall back” earlier, when the mornings got dark.
Really little kids, IME, had either a parent or an older sibling with them. They might come up the driveway or walkway to individual houses alone (I certainly did), but the parent or older sib would be with them when near the road, and watching while they went up to the house. (An only moderately older sib might also be trick or treating and so go up to the house with them.)
For me, just as the dawn and evening times have just come to fit my schedule, they get yanked around so they don’t fit again – dark is a bit too late for supper but not late enough to go out and do outside work after supper, dawn becomes again on the late side for getting up. The ideal timing for me wouldn’t last all that long in any case, but it would last longer if we stayed on standard time.
Daylight savings also means that I get up on market days in the dark much sooner than I would otherwise have to. But all of these things are going to vary depending both on individual schedules and on location both north/south and how close to a time zone line and on which side of time zone lines if not in the middle.
That tracks. I got hired by the police department in 1998 so I didn’t get to see if the standards became more lax. For the next 25 years my fashion choices were made for me. Thankfully at that office job they just required shirt and tie not a suit. We were not paid enough for them to require us to wear suits. The higher ups did wear them.
Most of my career I worked in engineering departments. Every day is Casual Friday for engineers. I don’t know what would have happened if the company actually asked us to dress more casually. Underwear and bathrobes I guess.
After cataract surgery I basically had to retrain my eyes to see Magic Eye images, but I got there again after some practice.
Those were kinda fun.
It usually takes me several seconds or longer to see them, i don’t see them right away. But i can’t recall ever failing to see one. So i felt i was between two of the choices.
I was only able to ever see the image on a Magic Eye picture once, and even that was just for a moment. I found the entire fad to be very frustrating.
When will it be my turn to see the sailboat?
Wow, this is interesting. I recently ran across a bunch of Magic Eye images (hence my poll) and found that I do not see them as readily as I did a few decades ago. I attributed this to my getting older, but maybe 'twas my cataract surgeries that are at least partly to blame.
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Hmmm, I just did the first one in a long while, and it took about 10 seconds. So NOT instantly.
I can usually see them with a modicum of effort, but the result is never really worth said effort, IMO.
I’ve tried Magic Eye images a time or two but didn’t have any success. It could be that I wasn’t quite patient enough, but I was never convinced that the payoff would be worth it stare longer.
I tend to be bad at visual pattern recognition, faces, places, Jesus in toast, etc. 
So I’m in the group that normally sees it, but it may take a few minutes. And some degree of effort.