I thought I had something to say: WTF Wednesday #5

WTF Wednesday number 5

Daylight savings time. Seriously people what is the point of day light savings time.

There isn’t really any point in it other than to pretend that we have some magical control over the forces of nature. We don’t, we never have, and my guess is we won’t ever.

One rule in life is certainly true, nature doesn’t like us and if don’t respect nature you die or at least suffer.

Oh but we are people we know better than nature. See watch we can control the amount of sunshine in the day with a piece of paper and the turning of some mechanical hands or pushing buttons.

Tada

This is the part where you are supposed to ooh and awe at the wonder that is man’s control over the sun. I’ll wait while you do.

Ok that is enough awe maybe a few more oohs for good measure, alright then good.

We aren’t magicians and we haven’t made it sunnier longer. Our position relative to this hemispheres vernal equinox, axis rotation and approaching the northern solstice on our orbit of the sun is really what is making it sunnier.

If you say economy I may have to slap you. And I’m all about being kind to the planet see that rule above. The day in April should be called save the humans from their own stupidity day not Earth Day. DST is not all that economical

So now we trade an hour of darkness in the evening for an hour of darkness in the morning to save electricity. I’m not sure

So wait if I have to turn on my lights in the morning now for two hours and not turn them on in the evening for one hour haven’t we used an hour more electric than before? I’m just checking because some times my math can be a little fuzzy. Because I don’t know about you once the lights come on in the a.m. they don’t go off until you leave for work school, or where ever it is you spend your days not at home if you are like most people. And if you are like most people that means lights are on now for more than two hours in the morning while you are getting ready. There is no savings here, there is more usage.

Then for the next several weeks people will be waking up late, calling in sick because if you are late anyway might as well just take the whole day off if you can, or you rush out the door, get into an accident and cause a traffic jam that makes 900 people late for work, which leads to a helluva lot of bad choices which makes even more people angry then there is crime and chaos and unrest all because we want it sunnier in the afternoon for a bit longer. That seems like a lot of trouble for some sunshine. If you really want more sun wait a month it will be sunnier or move closer to the equator its sunnier there most of the time, but don’t mess with my mornings. I haven’t had my coffee. Ok I’m not that cranky in the mornings I’m just a slow starter, always have been with or without the coffee.

I’m just not a morning person I’ve accepted it there are millions I dare say billions of us that don’t do mornings well. To the masses of us who are not morning people, mornings just seems like a really bad idea that someone came up with very early in the morning and submitted without coffee at a board meeting and then it became a thing. Seriously who gets up out of bed, already ready to meet the world with a smile and wants to get things done quickly. Isn’t that’s what afternoons are for not mornings, mornings are for sipping coffee in a dark room without the lights on because they hurt your eyes and stretching and telling the person you like they are great and the cat curling around your feet and not doing things quickly.

But now you are going to take away an hour from the day. Don’t say they didn’t take it away because they did. It’s gone. They moved the clock up whole hour in one second and then we don’t get it back for 7 months. That’s not a fair trade I want two hours in the fall this time and then I say we forget about this whole daylight savings time business.

Back to the economical thing most of you turn your lights on when you get home in the afternoon sun out or not because your house, apartment, basement lair isn’t built to maximize the sunshine or if it was some inconsiderate person built a house right next door to your house and it blocks the sun or worse you live in a interior facing apartment. This means you can see into other apartments most of the time rather than really seeing outside.

I’m just not sure we are really accomplishing anything here other than making a lot of people angry and sleep deprived.

Morning people are up before the sun anyway because they like being up at the ass crack of dawn. You haven’t made anymore day light for them in fact you pushed them an hour behind schedule.

I don’t know why anyone wants to wake up to see the sunrise, I find it is far easier to say up and wait for the sun to come up and then go to sleep but that’s just me. That said sunrises are rather beautiful. I have still seen more sunrises by already being awake from the previous sunset and staying awake and then going to sleep than I have seen waking up before the sun and then going to work.

In other news

The thumb feels better today

And a newish thing what do you think? Yes … no ????

That’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow

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