DST
I normally forget these time changes completely, but not this year. My life has been so busy of late that I'd been looking forward to that extra hour of sleep for weeks now. Pathetic, isn't it?
Ironically, the only timepiece in the house that I can't seem to set is this shitty Timex digital watch that I only wear while sleeping (I'm too nearsighted to see a clock without my contacts.) I tried for about half an hour and then gave up, and attempted to find the manual online. It said something about turning the watch at a 90 degree angle and pointing it toward Colorado. That didn't work either.
It's a sign of growing old. At a family reunion last summer, my brother-in-law, who is also a fortyish, computer/math/science geek, enlisted my help in navigating the options menu on a digital camera. We both futzed around with it for more than half an hour. "Well, this is it," we thought. "It's time to pass the torch to a new generation. We've become our grandparents, with whom we were so impatient with their inability to program a VCR two decades ago." What goes around comes around, circle of life, sunrise, sunset, spring forward, fall back, blah blah blah....
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wow, how can you sleep with a watch on? Have you tried that BIG_NUMERAL CLOCK they sell at Radio Shack?
Well, i'm a nerd, and some of those digital clocks ARE a big pain to set. Some you have to hod down for some indiscriminate length of time, and some you have to hold 2 buttons, but then let off one before the other, etc. FooK!
They don't wanna make it too easy to set, you know? That way you don't accidentally change the time while you roll over on your arm in bed.
Posted by: ortho | October 29, 2006 11:53 PM
ha! whoops, should read "indeterminate"
Posted by: ortho | October 29, 2006 11:54 PM
You should try figuring out this Motorola Q phone I just got. It's part PDA, part phone, part camera, part MP3 player, part bottle opener, etc.
Posted by: Tracy Miller | October 30, 2006 12:28 AM
I find the car clock really annoying to fix.
I'm always happier about falling back than springing forward because of the the sleep thing. Unfortunately, I never actually go to sleep early (or even at the same time as normal) on either of those days, so I either end up sleep deprived or really sleep deprived the next morning. And, no, this year was not an exception.
Posted by: K | October 30, 2006 07:41 AM
I'm much older than you are. I WAS the guy who couldn't set the damn clock on his VCR. My complaint is that everyday items that used to be easily accessed by any two year old now require a ten page manual.(In Ingles, Espanol, Italia, and Esperanto) TV used to have on/off/ volume and a station dial. Now I need two remotes with buttons I still haven't tried. It's the same with watches, telephones, radios, and this dang thingamabob I'm typing on.
Posted by: Paul Moore | October 30, 2006 08:32 AM
Yeah, the car clock is also a pain. So much so that I left it alone back in the spring when we went on DST, so it was an hour off for many months. Unfortunately, I took it in to have the transmission worked on a week ago, and technicians did me a "favor" by setting it for me. So it was right for about a week and now it's wrong again.
Posted by: BNJ | October 30, 2006 08:36 AM
What a bunch of wusses.
Posted by: withoutfeathers | October 30, 2006 09:46 AM
DST is a Repuglican dirty trick created by the neocons in the White House to confuse the people.
Did I mention that I hate G W Bush...and religious people and blacks...and especially Indians...even more especially those Indians who stole my job.
Damn you Indians....damn you DST...and damn you chimpboy Bush!!!
Posted by: Anonymous | October 30, 2006 01:12 PM
DST is a Repuglican dirty trick created by the neocons in the White House to confuse the people.
Did I mention that I hate G W Bush...and religious people and blacks...and especially Indians...even more especially those Indians who stole my job.
Damn you Indians....damn you DST...and damn you chimpboy Bush!!!
Posted by: JMK | October 30, 2006 01:13 PM
Everything of mine is wireless and updated automatically, including my wall clocks.
Science and Technology are your friend, Repugs.
Sorry about the whole Evolution thing.
Posted by: Bailey Hankins | October 30, 2006 01:16 PM
"Everything of mine is wireless and updated automatically..." (BH)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/amish.html
Posted by: JMK | October 31, 2006 03:01 PM