DST in the MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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It’s aways after 9am here. Sun is long up, I’m long up, and it promises to be another lovely day in Paradise. My night-owl woman unit is just up and showering, so my turn is next. Then simple breakfast here. Perhaps with some “home entertainment” first. Hope springs eternal. :wink:

Today I’ll see the audiologist about new aids. With luck he’ll have a pair in stock, but that’s sure not the way to bet. Come on Supply Chain; pay off for me this time!

Today is Taco Tuesday, so dinner will be outdoors at a nearby frequent haunt for yummy craft tacos. It’s amazing how even when the tacos are on special and we don’t eat very many, dinner out for two (with drinks) costs what used to be considered a silly amount of money.

Cheers all!

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happy pi day! i brought a bunch of pies for the office today. the chocolate cream was yummy!

the snow has started to fly in philly. it won’t stick but will up our barely over 0 amout of snow for this winter. we haven’t even had a decent dusting this year.

i hope cerby is able to go to a rescue. ripple is a good brave boy at the vet!

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Hey, I finally have a post that’s related to the thread title!

I set all of the clocks that didn’t auto-reset to DST on Sunday morning. I have two identical clocks in my room (lost one, bought a replacement, found the first one) that didn’t automatically reset Saturday night/Sunday morning, so I reset them manually. They reset to DST overnight. So my alarm goes off at 04:30. I get out of bed. I see the nixie tube clock under the TV in the living room. It says 03:30. Ar? I realised what happened, and went back to bed to sleep until my iPhone alarm went off at 04:20.

I’ve noticed that my clocks haven’t reset correctly for the past couple of years. I never pay attention to the year when I’m resetting them after a prolonged power failure. One of the clocks had the year set to 2060, and the other one’s year was 2032. I’ve just googled it, and DST starts on both of those dates on March 14th. On the hunch, I did reset the years to 2023 before I left the house.

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Was awakened around 1015 by Angel sitting on my chest and hinting that it was time for her morning glop. Lady SCAdian’s day off; she has a doctor’s appointment this afternoon, after which we’re going to go buy some seeds – we have several raised beds that we haven’t done anything with for several years, but the housemate has rebuilt them so we can use them again.

The time shifts normally don’t bother me, but Saturday night I made the mistake of staying up until 0300 – which of course is now 0400 – to finish my book, and then woke up around 0900. Went to bed early Sunday, though, and have now recovered.

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Howdy Y’all! Laundry is all laundered and put away where it stays until it becomes dirty laundry once again. I made a pee-kahn pie and have achieved nappage. I feel so domestic today! Now we continue to chill on this chilly day.

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My aunt died this morning at 09:55. She would have been 96 in July.

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Correction: She would have been 97.

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Our kitchen clock is sorta the ‘main’ clock because you can see it from all of the most frequently inhabited areas of our house. It hangs in a certain place requiring a ladder and a bit of awkward stretching to reach.

This year as one of my Christmas gifts for Mrs. Morty, I bought a fancy “atomic clock” to replace it. It was designed to auto-reset for DST as well as correct for any time anomalies such as those caused by the wobble of the earth. I’ll admit it was more a gift to myself so I wouldn’t have to climb the ladder anymore other than to change the battery every few years.

I was attempting to hang the new clock when it managed to loosen itself from my tenuous grip during the aforementioned awkward stretching exercise. It bounced off the kitchen counter and then to the floor where it discombobulated itself into numerous chunks.

The old clock went back up and there it hangs, currently off by one hour and several minutes. I’ve gotten pretty good at the mental gymnastics of addition/subtraction to figure out the time.

If I really need to know what time it is I can just look at my phone.

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I keep thinking today is Monday! I have no idea what I did yesterday…I mean, I know that I worked, etc., but it mostly somehow feels like the day never happened. Even just now, I went to look for the new MMP and was thinking “oh hey, I can post on the first day of the new thread!” :woman_facepalming:

There is a wind advisory in effect until 2am, for “Northwest winds 25 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph.” I’ve been hearing the noisy wind all day, and I went out at lunchtime to finally go to Staples and the grocery store: it’s not fooling around out there!! Happily I will be staying home with the doggy tonight, but I do have plans tomorrow evening so I’m hoping things settle down by then.

While I was at the grocery store I noticed some unusually empty shelves in the laundry detergent aisle, and I amused myself by posting the following on FB and IG with the caption “Low Tide :grin:”:

I do use Tide, but luckily I don’t need any at the moment!

A quick Google search tells me that massages generally increase blood flow, which could increase your menstrual flow for a day afterwards…which isn’t actually a bad thing, but if people need to be told to remove their child before folding a stroller I can see them needing a warning about this!

Yay! :smiley:

Phew! And congrats on the continued weight loss!

Back in the '80s, Carnation made Breakfast Bars. Probably completely unhealthy by today’s standards, but those things were my favorite for a long time! I think I stopped having them when I went to college, and by the time I looked again they weren’t being made anymore (or weren’t the same). I still miss them sometimes.

Awww, I’m sorry.

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Ultimately she did. We got stuck in traffic on US50 and while we were sitting there we realized that there was no way we’d make it on time, so I called Southwest and rebooked her on the next non-stop flight, which was 3 hours later. FCD and his mom hung around the airport and got something to eat, and I went to my sister’s house with the kid. We visited a while, went to Wendy’s for lunch, then when MIL was loaded into the plane, FCD texted me and I picked him up.

Tobias slept part of the way back, and we went directly to Roxy’s school to pick her up. I had to keep both kids entertained in their bedroom because Daughter had a teleconference. She worked from home today because her son gave her a tummy bug. It was almost 4:30 when we got out of there and just hit 5 when we got home. We’s both whipped. But MIL arrived safely in Austin, so yay for that.

It’s stoopit windy hereabouts, and cold, but the sun is shining, so there’s that. Brain is empty. Better luck next post…

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Glad you tracked down your credit card metal mouse.

I hope that one of the rescues come through sari. You’ve done everyting that could be done for him.

I’m sorry about your aunt flyboy.

My dad keeps a boatload of change around the house. I was cleaning out his freezer one time and found a cookie tin full of half dollars, literally cold, hard cash.

Irked, but it took a lot out of me. It’s cold outside and fixing to get colder. Yet, the trees are still having sex with wild abandon. I figure 2-3 weeks more of allergies.

Stay safe and healthy y’all!

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Happy Toosday!

Cold morning, 33 feels like 22.
No park though.

We took Cerby to the vet today. Was breaking our hearts.
However, Cerby tried to go after Ripple again this morning. He was on the leash though, and my son was able to pull him back.
That kind of sealed it for me.
We didn’t stay, I just couldn’t. It’s a blessing for Cerby that I didn’t.

We just got back home when the vet’s office called and asked if we would come back and sign him over to them instead of putting him down. The tech told me the vet was furious that she wasn’t notified that I was bringing him in.
They are going to give him a chance. He may not work out, but they said he is young and healthy, and maybe a different environment would help. As well as that they are taking him off Trazodone and going to try something else. They think Ripple is the problem because of cancer. I said Ripple has had cancer for months, but they said they think that could still be the problem.
I hope for Cerby’s sake he behaves himself. They know what they are getting into.

I had already paid for the euthanasia, but since the vet clinic has a rescue, I told them if they don’t put him down to donate the money to the rescue.

Lucy dad said he would have taken him if he were 20 years younger, but with his hips and knees, Cerby would have been too much. I didn’t know that he was looking for a home for him.

The house feels empty without him, he radiated a lot of energy.
I’m not sure if Ripple and Echo are missing him.

Thank you all for listening to my constant whining over the whole mess.

My watch reset itself sometime in the middle of the night. It was off by an hour and 50 minutes.

I’m sorry about your aunt, Flyboy

I am exhausted. I hope I sleep well tonight.
My son is tired, he has gotten almost no sleep today. I think he should call in sick, but he is determined to tough it out.

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Me and the TD for the high school ventured out into the snow and finished building the musical. No students, so it probably went faster than it would have if they were in. So that’s done. Now, the other job, gotta prep for a client visit on Firday. I need to make a mock-up of the dumb exhibit they want to put out. Huzzah. (I’m trying to build a comeback for “huzzah”)

shoe These massage boots…do they get up to the calves? Linky, plz. I’m a 50-some odd year old dude who still spends too much time standing on concrete floors, and my legs hurt.

sari Hoping some rescue comes through for Cerby. I’ve been reading the stories and they break my heart. You’ve done everything you can.

morty, Best of luck on the next attempt at reaching the clock.

I realized this morning that I had forgotten to re-set the timer on my “it’s nice to have lights on when I wake up and get home” light. So that was accomplished.

The winter weather warning turned out to be a dud. Inch anna half, maybe.

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Afternoon (still is here) all. Made a call to the fence people I contacted on Thursday, they confirmed I was on the list and I must have been one of the few friendly sounding voices they’ve heard lately, because 10 minutes later I got a call from one of their agents that was in the area and he came out 30 minutes later and gave me a quote (which I accepted–nearly 2 grand). Now the bad news is that their crews are swamped and it may be 4-6 weeks before they can do the work! Ah well, patience is a virtue, I hear. Then made it to the gym for some exercise and watched some soccer (it was on a Spanish channel, but I just turned to sound off).

Got a quandary; my front door is ‘sunk’ 5-6 feet back and in the eaves above it a bird is building a nest. They did that last year and did hatch chicks, but the nest failed for whatever reason and I had to bring it down and ‘bury’ four dead baby birds. So do I tear this one out now or let nature take it’s course with hopefully a happier ending this time? (I seldom use my front door and neither does anyone else, so it’s not a matter of disturbing them). My instinct is to let things be and see if there is more success this year; if it fails again I’ll just make a note to clean that out every year.

Sorry to hear about your aunt, Flyboy; but 96 is a ripe old age, I hope to make it that far myself.

Glad to hear the trip went (sorta) well, FCM. One nice thing about Southwest is with as many flights as they have, you don’t have to wait all day to make a new connection.

Oopsie, I remember the bars, just looked it up and they were discontinued in 1997.

Morty, had a couple of those “Atomic” clocks, changed them out a year or so ago, so far I haven’t dropped any of mine, which is good because time doesn’t fly…

OK, need to look into dinner for the night. All y’all take care.

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Time flies. Clocks don’t :wink:

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Somebody posted a picture on Facebook of what they called “Shotgun Shells” – cannelloni struffed with ground pork and beef, and wrapped in bacon. No recipe provided, but they looked good, so Lady SCAdian is experimenting for supper tonight. :slight_smile: (She’s also adding ricotta to the mix.)

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Busy day. Filtered close to 4 gal water. Walked with a friend; didn’t go as far as we normally do because the temp was mid 20s and the wind chill was mid teens; I forgot to wear a scarf, just gutted it out. Took Hubs to chemo, went Krogering while he was there; only needed a few items but Lindt chocolate Easter bunnies were on super sale if you had the downloaded digital coupon which I did; the ad said they were selling milk chocolate, dark chocolate and white chocolate; as I think I said last mmp, we MUST have DARK chocolate. I had checked at our normal Kroger this past Friday but they only had white chocolate. So, that’s why I wanted to go to the Kroger close to the chemo hospital, sale ends today. Eureka!!! They had both milk and dark chocolate so I bought 5 dark which is the limit. Then went and sat by the river and read a chapter of a book. Picked up Hubs and was supposed to go to the drugstore to pick up a 'scrip for Hubs and a few OTC items but he forgot the coupons so we just went home. Had intended to go to the Fitness Center but it didn’t work out. Will try to go early tomorrow.

The first 2 teams are currently dancing, well it’s halftime, so March Madness is officially underway. Go Hoops!

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Howdy Y’all! We supped and cleanded up the kitchen. I am happy to report the pee-kahn pie is quite tasty, especially heated up with a scoop of 'niller ice cream plopped on top. I done good.

FlyBoy sorry about your Aunt. She had a good run though.

MetalMouse yay for found card! I say let the bird nest alone and see if the babies make it this year, especially if it does not inconvenience you or visitors.

MOOOOOOM glad MIL made it to Austin.

sari hope the vet is able to find a good home for Cerby. You did your best, so you got nuttin’ to be ashamed about.

VanGo glad you got the musical saved.

Morty I’d be just lettin’ the clock be and do the math to figure the time. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Oopsie I am old and decrepit. I remember when Tide came with a little rubber ball inside. It was a prize in a box of detergent!

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MIL called and told us the only bad part of the trip was after sister-in-law picked her up and got lost trying to get out of the parking garage. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Apart from that, all is well. I’s tahred, so off to beddy-bye.

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