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I vote for organized sportsball forever so we don't have to have DST end ever again!Seriously, get rid of that crap.
Noooo!
Let it end once and for all and is never enacted again! Winter Time is the one true time!
If it stayed at the Winter Time, it actually wouldn't be horrible, because it'd be a lot easier to get used to than this weak-willed flippy-floppy concession to playpretend time.
EDIT: It's clearly ALSO "Put on some shorts and a t-shirt time..."
I vote for organized sportsball forever so we don't have to have DST end ever again!Seriously, get rid of that crap.
DST is the only good thing about the awfulness of summer.
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I'd take a chance on your gyros.My kids.
WW had been asking for gyros, so I made homemade garlic flatbread, smoked eggplant for baba ghanoush, grated cucumber to mix tzatziki, and marinate and pan-seared lamb chops.
The children ate the bread. Only the bread. Because eating lamb made them sad, and now I'm a terrible person.
EDIT: BABA ghanoush, not ABBA ghanoush.
Curse you, autocorrect.I must not quote ABBA lyrics.
I must not quote ABBA lyrics.
I must not quote ABBA lyrics.Yay! Made my Will save!
:D
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DST is the only good thing about the awfulness of summer.
I vote for organized sportsball forever so we don't have to have DST end ever again!Seriously, get rid of that crap.
Go away, you are mad.
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Go away, you are mad.DST is the only good thing about the awfulness of summer.
I vote for organized sportsball forever so we don't have to have DST end ever again!Seriously, get rid of that crap.
It's colder longer here.
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DST is a mathematical principle applied to timekeeping, Freehold.
In other words: unnecessarily complicated and abusive.
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I've said it before, but I'm cranky so I'll say it again: If you don't like the way things are scheduled, change the schedule, not the fundamental concept of time.
You want sportsball in the afternoon while it's still light but the sun sets at 4:00 pm? Change the school schedule to 7:00 am - 2:00 pm, don't rearrange the clock so that it's light until 5:00 pm.
It drives me to distraction that so many corporate policies are driven by, "Well, we have to be open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, no matter what."
Every place I've worked has taken a VERY different approach: "Core hours are from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm with a 1-hour break for lunch. We expect you to be available during those hours. Otherwise you can add to either end to put in an 8-hour day and we're fine with that."
So I work 6:30 - 7:00 am, 7:30 - noon, and 1:00 - 4:00. It adds up to 8 hours, but I get to set my breaks.
I think my funniest job was at the video store. He adjusted the store hours to match daylight savings time, so during the winter we were open 10:00 am - 9:00 pm, and during the summer we were open 11:00 am - 10:00 pm so that the "actual" hours never changed. So a concrete demonstration of a retail outlet adjusting its hours, not the universe's.
DST is a mathematical principle applied to timekeeping, Freehold.
In other words: unnecessarily complicated and abusive.
It's one hour. It's not that complicated.
Abusive in that you lose that hour of sleep? Okay that I might buy.
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Little Timmy: Teacher, what does "High Noon" mean?
Teacher: Well, Little Timmy, that's a good question! At first, "High Noon" meant the time at which the sun was at its highest point in the sky.
LT: Oh, that makes sense!
T: But take a look at the globe! If we look at the sun and the globe, we can see that "High Noon" at this point isn't the same as "High Noon" at that point!
LT: Uh oh! What did people do?
T: Well, since there are 24 hours in a day, people decided to slice the globe into 24 pieces, one for each hour, and call them "Time Zones". The center of each zone would have "high noon" just at the sun hit its highest point, and the rest of the people in the zone would have to fudge it a little.
LT: Oh, that makes sense!
T: But wait! The time zone lines cut right through countries, states, and even cities, and people didn't want to have two different times within the same city!
LT: Oh, no! What did they do?
T: They fudged the time zones a bit so that everyone was "happy enough" with them.
LT: So that's why time zones go along state borders?
T: Yes! Now you get it!
LT: Oh, that's not so hard!
T: Oh, but wait! Some countries didn't like the one-hour time zones, so they introduced half-hour time zones.
LT: What? Wait...
T: And other countries wanted more light during summer evenings so they could stay out more, so they arbitrarily change their time zone twice a year, while others don't... some countries even do it on a state-by-state basis...
LT: You've got to be ******* kidding me!
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I've said it before, but I'm cranky so I'll say it again: If you don't like the way things are scheduled, change the schedule, not the fundamental concept of time.
You want sportsball in the afternoon while it's still light but the sun sets at 4:00 pm? Change the school schedule to 7:00 am - 2:00 pm, don't rearrange the clock so that it's light until 5:00 pm.
It drives me to distraction that so many corporate policies are driven by, "Well, we have to be open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, no matter what."
Every place I've worked has taken a VERY different approach: "Core hours are from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm with a 1-hour break for lunch. We expect you to be available during those hours. Otherwise you can add to either end to put in an 8-hour day and we're fine with that."
So I work 6:30 - 7:00 am, 7:30 - noon, and 1:00 - 4:00. It adds up to 8 hours, but I get to set my breaks.
I think my funniest job was at the video store. He adjusted the store hours to match daylight savings time, so during the winter we were open 10:00 am - 9:00 pm, and during the summer we were open 11:00 am - 10:00 pm so that the "actual" hours never changed. So a concrete demonstration of a retail outlet adjusting its hours, not the universe's.
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I've said it before, but I'm cranky so I'll say it again: If you don't like the way things are scheduled, change the schedule, not the fundamental concept of time.
You want sportsball in the afternoon while it's still light but the sun sets at 4:00 pm? Change the school schedule to 7:00 am - 2:00 pm, don't rearrange the clock so that it's light until 5:00 pm.
It drives me to distraction that so many corporate policies are driven by, "Well, we have to be open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, no matter what."
Every place I've worked has taken a VERY different approach: "Core hours are from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm with a 1-hour break for lunch. We expect you to be available during those hours. Otherwise you can add to either end to put in an 8-hour day and we're fine with that."
So I work 6:30 - 7:00 am, 7:30 - noon, and 1:00 - 4:00. It adds up to 8 hours, but I get to set my breaks.
I think my funniest job was at the video store. He adjusted the store hours to match daylight savings time, so during the winter we were open 10:00 am - 9:00 pm, and during the summer we were open 11:00 am - 10:00 pm so that the "actual" hours never changed. So a concrete demonstration of a retail outlet adjusting its hours, not the universe's.
Work places on the west coast are VERY different than work places in the Midwest.
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Little Timmy: Teacher, what does "High Noon" mean?
Teacher: Well, Little Timmy, that's a good question! At first, "High Noon" meant the time at which the sun was at its highest point in the sky.
LT: Oh, that makes sense!
T: But take a look at the globe! If we look at the sun and the globe, we can see that "High Noon" at this point isn't the same as "High Noon" at that point!
LT: Uh oh! What did people do?
T: Well, since there are 24 hours in a day, people decided to slice the globe into 24 pieces, one for each hour, and call them "Time Zones". The center of each zone would have "high noon" just at the sun hit its highest point, and the rest of the people in the zone would have to fudge it a little.
LT: Oh, that makes sense!
T: But wait! The time zone lines cut right through countries, states, and even cities, and people didn't want to have two different times within the same city!
LT: Oh, no! What did they do?
T: They fudged the time zones a bit so that everyone was "happy enough" with them.
LT: So that's why time zones go along state borders?
T: Yes! Now you get it!
LT: Oh, that's not so hard!
T: Oh, but wait! Some countries didn't like the one-hour time zones, so they introduced half-hour time zones.
LT: What? Wait...
T: And other countries wanted more light during summer evenings so they could stay out more, so they arbitrarily change their time zone twice a year, while others don't... some countries even do it on a state-by-state basis...
LT: You've got to be ******* kidding me!
I thought high noon meant someone found the stash.
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High, noon!
I'm sorry - let me try that again.
Hi, John!
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I thought High Noon was a movie starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly...
As an aside, I'm curious how many of you are familiar with that expression? "I'll give you three guesses, but the first two don't count." Growing up, my dad said it all the time, but I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone else ever say it. Maybe I have and I just don't remember, but I thought I'd see if any of you have heard it before.
Very familiar, yeah.
I'm not gonna ask how many of you know about the Birthday Frog, though. I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to that one.
EDIT: Not this one, though. XD
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My kids.
WW had been asking for gyros, so I made homemade garlic flatbread, smoked eggplant for baba ghanoush, grated cucumber to mix tzatziki, and marinate and pan-seared lamb chops.
The children ate the bread. Only the bread. Because eating lamb made them sad, and now I'm a terrible person.
EDIT: BABA ghanoush, not ABBA ghanoush.
Curse you, autocorrect.
Eating gyros always make me feel weird about listening to Enrique Iglesias, later.
(Sounds delicious, though.)
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So...
...one of those "only in California" things is people coming to your door, claiming to be from the local utility company (PG&E), but actually trying to get you to unknowingly switch your provider.
The problem is, as a lifelong environmentalist and conservationist, trying to convince me that I have a problem is an issue for them.
This guy's tactic was pretty standard.
"Did you get the insert about PG&E's rates?"
"Yes."
"And you totally understand them?"
"Yes."
"So you know that the rates are going to go up, and from now on if you go into Tier 2 then your charges will stay in Tier 2 even if your usage goes down?"
"Yes."
And the scary thing was, he went on and on for a good 3-4 minutes, trying to get me to see an issue. When I pointed out that I had solar, he said that he was with PG&E's gas division. Then he threw the "deregulation" scare word at me a few times.
Finally not able to get a rise out of me, he gave up, confused and flustered. What do you do when you show up at someone's house and tell them their energy bills are going to skyrocket, and they just don't care?
But let's see:
- When gas hit $5/gallon, while all the 12 mpg SUV owners were screaming bloody murder about their gasoline bills approaching their rents, our gasoline bill was still under $100/month for both cars. GothBard was using public transportation, I negotiated no commute, and the kids walked to school because driving half a mile each way is stupid.
- My electric bill is the minimum $12/month.
- My gas bill is near the minimum at around $30/month for 9 months of the year.
I need a break why?
EDIT: And yes, I did due diligence the moment the guy left, and he was a complete liar, so no surprises there.
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I never answer my door for solicitors and I make sure they see that I'm home and I'm not going to be answering the door.
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I never answer my door for solicitors and I make sure they see that I'm home and I'm not going to be answering the door.
I've stopped answering the door, but this guy saw us go in and GothBard was feeling magnanimous.
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So...
...one of those "only in California" things is people coming to your door, claiming to be from the local utility company (PG&E), but actually trying to get you to unknowingly switch your provider.
That was a common scam years ago. In fact my grandfather was contacted and mislead into thinking it is a new contract from the old company that will be cheaper, but in fact was a trick to switch the provider.
He noticed when the first bill came and made a lot or ruckus about it and forced them to annul the contract and returned to the old provider.
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I used to enjoy having lengthy chats with the Jehovah's when they'd come a'visitin'.
Having a solid sense of Self and Awareness of the belief paths of others makes for a delightful discussion about spirituality from the 'good' Jehovah's and the 'bad' ones rapidly start eyeing the exits...
EDIT: For some reason they just don't come around any more. I wonder why.
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Strangely, I have no strong opinion either for or against daylight saving time. It sucks for a couple of days as my body adjusts to a different schedule but after that I just carry on with my life.
I am glad they wait until after Halloween to start it, but I wish they'd still stop it a couple of weeks later then they have been the last few years but that's as far as my complaints go.
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"I gotta get my black belt, then I'll be a ninja, officially" - Tiny T-Rex, after karate class.
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Strangely, I have no strong opinion either for or against daylight saving time. It sucks for a couple of days as my body adjusts to a different schedule but after that I just carry on with my life.
I am glad they wait until after Halloween to start it, but I wish they'd still stop it a couple of weeks later then they have been the last few years but that's as far as my complaints go.
My father was a physicist.
I'm a physicist (well, at least a B.A. in Physics from U.C. Berkeley, which ain't nothin').
Impus Major is working on getting a degree in physics.
Shiro is an amateur astronomer.
So all of us bristle at legislatures arbitrarily saying, "Nope. The astronomical definition doesn't work for us, and we can't be bothered to change, so everyone's got to change their clocks instead."
I know that it's been demonstrated that Daylight Savings Time kills people.
I believe that it's been demonstrated that Daylight Savings Time now costs more energy because air conditioning costs more than lights.
So it's a detrimental system that defies science, kills people, and costs energy.
Yep. Hate it.
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So, it's really hard to get mad, but Sabaton just canceled next week's concert because they're touring with Judas Priest and one of the Judas Priest guys is in the hospital with a heart condition. Not good.
But this *was* going to be our first concert since COVID started.
Can't you tour with someone a little younger, Sabaton?
(And well wishes to the Judas Priest guy -- I'm not a fan, but I'd still love to see him recover and return to touring. Do what you love 'til you drop. It's the right way to live.)
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Can't you tour with someone a little younger, Sabaton?
That's why you are sticking with us, don't you?
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I used to enjoy having lengthy chats with the Jehovah's when they'd come a'visitin'.
Having a solid sense of Self and Awareness of the belief paths of others makes for a delightful discussion about spirituality from the 'good' Jehovah's and the 'bad' ones rapidly start eyeing the exits...
EDIT: For some reason they just don't come around any more. I wonder why.
:>
I have some cousins who are Jehovah's Witnesses.
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G'night, John.
And for the record, it's Richie Faulkner with the heart condition.
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We have the Jehovah's Witnesses in town, plus the mainstream denominations like Church of England, Roman Catholics, Methodists, etc. There is also an Elim Church, whatever that may be (Pentecostals?), and the wonderfully named Progressive Spiritualist Lycaeum, where one can get married, and talk to ghosts.
I've had the Mormons around once. I read the Book of Mormon not long afterwards, which was...
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Strangely, I have no strong opinion either for or against daylight saving time. It sucks for a couple of days as my body adjusts to a different schedule but after that I just carry on with my life.
I am glad they wait until after Halloween to start it, but I wish they'd still stop it a couple of weeks later then they have been the last few years but that's as far as my complaints go.
It usually takes me about three-four months to FINALLY get adjusted to it, and then my body starts trying to adjust to the 'new time' a month in advance'. It's horrible, and if there was a way to claim it as a disability I sure the heck would barring removal of the rule.
Oddly enough, I don't have as much of a problem when traveling across time zones, as long as I spend about a week in advance sort of setting my mind to the adjustment.
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Jehovah's witnesses stopped coming around our house as a kid when they made the mistake of stopping by when we were butchering.
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Random Thoughts for the Morning
(1) My schedule today: Meeting from 7-8 am. Meeting from 8-9:30 am. Meeting from 10-11 am. Kids coming over for a birthday game at 1:00 pm. I will accomplish very little today.
(2) Richie Faulkner is only 41. Joaquim Broden of Sabaton is only 10 months younger. Pretty terrifying when someone that young needs "major heart surgery". The news says he's recovering well, but it's still a, "Holy cow!" moment.
(3) I've mentioned it before, but the uber-aggressive Jehovah's Witnesses of the 1980s finally gave up around here, and we got a very nice, polite group whose attitude is, "If you're living a good life, we're not going to bother you."
They came by after my father died, saw me doing a massive amount of work to help my mother, told me I was blessed, and left me alone other than to smile at me and wave every time they came around after that. I liked them.
EDIT:
(4) I'm also driven to distraction by the sheer unadulterated wastefulness of American society in general. Last night I ordered pizza for the kids. I very clearly stated, "I do not want plates, or silverware, or napkins, or cheese, or peppers. Please bring me nothing except the pizzas."
And the delivery guys can't handle it. Every delivery place automatically delivers all that crap because a handful of people still expect it. And all of it is going in the landfill. Again. We tried saving it for a while "in case we needed it" and ended up with literally several hundred little packets of peppers and cheese. It's depressing that it's nigh impossible to get a delivery outlet to not be wasteful, because some people want their cheese and pepper and paper plates, and will complain bitterly if they don't get them.
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...one of those "only in California" things is people coming to your door, claiming to be from the local utility company (PG&E), but actually trying to get you to unknowingly switch your provider.
Wait, you're saying you have a CHOICE of who provides your gas, electricity, or water? That honestly blows my mind more than the idea that you have people walking up to your door trying to solicit .. which is also something that just does not happen around my area, even the LDS stopped doing this as everyone either ignores the knock/doorbell or will shout/threaten unexpected guests away.
That is completely and totally unheard of around here, you pay what the singular company in the area charges, or you don't get service at all and are evicted within 90 days for failing to maintain your utilities... that is if we're talking about residential services.
Shoot, it's only been in the last 5 years that people REALLY had any choice in broadband ISPs.
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...one of those "only in California" things is people coming to your door, claiming to be from the local utility company (PG&E), but actually trying to get you to unknowingly switch your provider.Wait, you're saying you have a CHOICE of who provides your gas, electricity, or water? That honestly blows my mind more than the idea that you have people walking up to your door trying to solicit .. which is also something that just does not happen around my area, even the LDS stopped doing this as everyone either ignores the knock/doorbell or will shout/threaten unexpected guests away.
That is completely and totally unheard of around here, you pay what the singular company in the area charges, or you don't get service at all and are evicted within 90 days for failing to maintain your utilities... that is if we're talking about residential services.
Shoot, it's only been in the last 5 years that people REALLY had any choice in broadband ISPs.
It's more the illusion of choice. A good example is my ISP: I use Sonic.net. They couldn't possibly put new lines in everywhere, so they lease lines from AT&T. While I'm technically sending my money to Sonic, a good chunk of that money is going to AT&T.
The utility companies are the same. You can choose a different utility company, but they're leasing the lines and the delivery mechanisms from PG&E so you're not getting a heck of a price break.
The reason to do it is to provide the funding to the little guys so they CAN get in the infrastructure. My mother in law lives on the same street as I do, but about a mile and a half down in Berkeley. Sonic managed to install all their own fiber optic cables there, so she's fully Sonic internet on Sonic equipment, and AT&T isn't involved.
So if I hate PG&E with a passion, I go with a different company, pay about the same price (or even a little more), and wait for them to build their infrastructure.
Or, possibly, this guy really WAS from PG&E and was trying to get me to sign up for "constant billing". (A scam where they take your annual use, calculate an average annual bill, then charge you the exact same amount every month. But they have to pad the bill with "a bit extra" just to protect themselves, of course, so you're always paying more than you would on a month-by-month plan.)
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No wonder I got this job, in addition to the fact there's five separate inlay areas, there is also three different thicknesses of pavers.
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(4) I'm also driven to distraction by the sheer unadulterated wastefulness of American society in general. Last night I ordered pizza for the kids. I very clearly stated, "I do not want plates, or silverware, or napkins, or cheese, or peppers. Please bring me nothing except the pizzas."
And the delivery guys can't handle it. Every delivery place automatically delivers all that crap because a handful of people still expect it. And all of it is going in the landfill. Again. We tried saving it for a while "in case we needed it" and ended up with literally several hundred little packets of peppers and cheese. It's depressing that it's nigh impossible to get a delivery outlet to not be wasteful, because some people want their cheese and pepper and paper plates, and will complain bitterly if they don't get them.
Weird. Here when you order pizza you get pizza and the box. That's it. Some places might add a small packet of ketchup. Sauces are usually an optional and paid for separately (or one of free choices as a part of never ending promotion - i.e. I can get either sauces or a box of juice/bottle of soda, but not when I am getting any other promotion like early purchase discount or cheaper second pizza). I never saw a pizza place that would give plates, silverware, or napkins to go.
I once got a small freebie pack of potato chips (crisps for you Brits) last year (or maybe it was early this year? not sure) when the pizza deliveries restarted during the lockdown.
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19 pallets of pavers were delivered. Looks like I'm going to be busy for awhile!
Which is in addition to the 4 pallets I already brought with me.
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Email from Victoria's Secret "Madison Beer, from Victoria's Secret. Light up the night".
My first response is "That's weird, you wouldn't expect Victoria's Secret to branch out into alcohol sales" it turns out Madison Beer is the name of the most recent supermodel they're advertising.
Fortunately, this is Wisconsin so if I do want to get my wife some underwear and pick up a six pack at the same time I can because there's a specialty booze store in the mall.
But, it's still a little disappointing.
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Email from Victoria's Secret "Madison Beer, from Victoria's Secret. Light up the night".
My first response is "That's weird, you wouldn't expect Victoria's Secret to branch out into alcohol sales" it turns out Madison Beer is the name of the most recent supermodel they're advertising.
Fortunately, this is Wisconsin so if I do want to get my wife some underwear and pick up a six pack at the same time I can because there's a specialty booze store in the mall.
But, it's still a little disappointing.
Beer is dutch for bear.
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also three different thicknesses of pavers.Oh dang
No complaints from me, I thrive on overly complex projects.
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So after WW lost out on the job with his friend's wife's company last week, he has another interview at 8 this morning for a different position there.
Lower ranked, similar pay and benefits.
After which he is leaving for Colorado until Monday for the big annual fall TSYR training shindig.