I will second this! Also the beach park on Memorial Day - it is on Long Island Sound and as such does not get that nice toasty warm Gulf Stream [you have to get out of the sound like on the ocean side of Long Island, or maybe Rhode Island.] Such complaints about the freezing water <evil grin>
Or he was high as a kite in celebration. 
I heard it was; The two happiest days of your life are the day you buy your boat, and the day you sell it.
That would suck, which is why we should stay on Summer time year-round. We’ve got clocks these days, there’s no reason we need solar noon to match local noon. Yes, I do realize that (in Minneapolis) that means that the sun sets at 3:30pm in December, but the sun setting before you get home is depressing no matter what, so who the hell cares if it’s 3:30 or 4:30?
I drive a boat for work. Trailer it all over the Ohio River basin. The number of people that sit at ramps and watch me put a boat in the water is amazing. When I get a new employee I like to take them to Greenville ramp just downstream of Louisville. Three lanes, sharp corners and always busy. I make them back the trailer in with 30 retirees commenting on their every mistake. Grows character!
This is backwards. If Minnesota were on DST during the winter, sun would set at 5:30 (assuming as you do that it now sets at 4:30). But the sun would not rise until 8:00 am or later, which some people don’t like. Some people don’t like sending their children off to school in the dark, for example.
Roddy
Oops. Thanks for the correction.
My husband got a new job, which is fantastic, as it brings with it at 33% raise. The minirant is that COBRA coverage for the five of us is going to cost $2100 for SIX WEEKS. I’m in intensive outpatient therapy right now, so I have to decide really freaking fast if we want to fork over the cash to keep me going in the interim or if I have made enough progress to stay sane for that long. Not to mention the three boisterous boys who could injure themselves / fall ill at any given moment. GRR.
Amen and hallelujah! They always do that, because some “do-gooder” always lets them in. Stop letting them in! Let them sit there and think about the evil that they do!
3:30, 4:30, 5:30, it doesn’t matter. It’s all before I ever get up if my life is working the way it should be. 
Not me. If we can figure out a way to get the most daylight during waking hours in winter when we need it, summer doesn’t matter. Pick whatever time system that is and stick with it.
I’ll add my annual anecdote as well - I grew up in Saskatchewan, a province that doesn’t switch the clocks at all, and I never felt a lack living there. When I moved out of the province I had to start switching, and I have yet to feel like switching the clocks twice a year has made any improvement in my life.
Um, my car has heated seats. Nice and toasty in about 20 seconds. Mmmm. Warm buns.
(Ducks and runs)
:eek: Sorry, but I probably laughed much harder than I should have at that.
I used to drive a highway that had what I called “blow by” lanes. They were supposed to be used to exit the highway for businesses, or to turn right to another highway and then the lane would end.
At first, I would be nice and let them in…thinking that they had not understood the signs. After a while, I started noticing that the same cars would make the same “mistake” all the time, just so they could get a few cars ahead. I also noticed that after they had forced their way in, that they would force their way all the way left for another lane curve.
So, being the bitch I am, I started to drive in the left lane, just at the right place to keep the idiot blocked in.
I noticed that they never seemed to learn, so I stopped doing that.
I’m totally on board with the “Just figure out one time and stick to it” team. Back when I lived in the land of “We don’t need no more stinking sunlight”, time changes were a bother because I had to remember what time it was before I tried to call anyone.
Now that I’ve gone through a couple, they just suck. While cats like getting fed early, they really don’t like getting fed late.
My car not only has heated seats…it has AC’d ones. I use that option more often because its so warm where I live. (Hides under a table while people throw things at kayT)
Relevant XKCD. Although it doesn’t cover cat stomach timers.
My next car will probably have those, too - I ain’t getting any younger.
People will forgive you if you forget what time it is in their part of the world. Cats will puke in your shoes.
Oh, don’t worry. I wrote it while on the train, just after it happened. I started with a grin, then a silent giggle, then couldn’t hold it in and just started laughing like a loony while sitting in the middle of the train car with a dozen people. Then that made me laugh and I had tears streaming down my face and I almost missed my stop. I’m that crazy lady. And it’s still funny.
This really needs someone to adopt it as a sig line.
Speaking of which, I wonder why they took the ‘crotch cooler’ out of cars. That was a nice feature.
Mice have been coming into our basement in greater than usual numbers, probably due to the cold winter. Last December I trapped and killed several.
Just recently there’s been a revival of the mouse plague, and the little bastids have decided to invade the fluorescent light growing area, clambering up into my triple-decker plant stands to eat newly planted seeds, dig around in pots etc.
This meant war - the setting of eight different traps around the area, which has resulted in a new and even more impressive mouse harvest, including one that made it to the top shelf of a plant stand, nearly six feet off the ground. [Groucho]How it got up there I’ll never know[/Groucho].
Goddammit, these vermin are bad enough on the ground, I hate it when they get up to face level. The last time this happened was in the living room awhile back when I was getting a book off the bookshelf and found myself staring into the snout of a mouse. It fled behind a heavy volume, a seriously bad tactical move (crunch).
Now I need to go check the coldframe to see what my traps out there have caught. Can you compost mice?
Last week I was driving through an alley, and swerved to miss a big pothole.
In the process, I ran over a piece of debris, and got a flat tire THAT way.
My brother-in-law was remodeling his garage, and has some walls open. He saw what looked like mouse shit on one of the walls, and thought, “How did a mouse crap way up there?” as he reached inside the wall.
He got bit by a bat. He had to get the whole series of rabies shots.