Daylight Savings
Well that time of year is upon us once more.
In the past, this really has made little difference in the scheme of things - you lost an hours sleep, you gained an hours sleep.. and the effect had completely worn off after a day or so anyway. You hardly noticed it in the real world, it was just one of those silly annoyances you put up with when it changed. You adjust and you move on.
However, since joining MINI2, all that has changed.
I’ve come to know mates - great friends that I have bantered with for years now - that just happen to reside in England. Thereby making Daylight Savings that crippling bit more important. The clocks roll back (and forwards for my UK mates) and as a result, we are put at a combined two hours apart. It doesn’t sound so terrible, but the reality of the situation is; when I wake up, they are going to bed. When I’m going to bed, they are waking up or going to work.
And I miss the daily routine, the conversations, the banter, the muppetry and the innuendos. I wake up and the discussions have finished. The last posts littering threads are ‘goodnight’ and ‘goodbye’.
In 1784, Benjamin Franklin published a satirical essay urging Parisians to save money by getting up earlier to use morning sunlight, thereby burning fewer candles in the evening. Franklin did not mention daylight saving time however - he did not propose that clock time be changed. His letter was in the spirit of his earlier proverb “Early to bed and early to rise / Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
This year I’m going to try and get to bed earlier; try and wake up earlier. Hell, I used to do it all the time - back in the day when I was still on dial-up and would get a killer connection in the morning. Back when I used to play Quake with mates overseas and needed better than a 400 ping average to have any chance of landing a frag. Surely it can’t be that hard to change a stubborn body-clock twice a year?
Bloody Daylight Savings Time..
I’ll miss you lot. Roll on October.
becca3003 said,
March 26, 2007 @ 1:09 am
hmmm yes, this will be strange to get used to again. you appearing online around 11pm and only getting a couple of hours to chat before the rest of head off to bed. It will also be weird you still being around online when i’m just about to head home from work
I have a feeling that all though you say you’ll try and get up earlier so you can chat to us all for longer, the thought of staying in bed that little bit longer and those cold wintery mornings will appeal to you more
will wait to see if i’m wrong 
Come live in the UK, you’d get to chat to us all the time then not having to worry about daylight savings, and you’ll even love our weather - cold, rainy, miserable etc
you know its makes sense 
Phanny said,
March 26, 2007 @ 6:00 am
I’m going to try and alter my posting habits too Scotty! Like Bec, I am rather sceptical about you leaving the cosiness of your bed earlier than what you need to :p
Yeah Scotty, come live here - it’ll be party night every night :p Bring Kate too, we can do the cinema every week :p One rule though - as gory as possible :p
xxx
Kate said,
March 26, 2007 @ 7:18 pm
well! if scott actually decides to live in england with the advice from you guys, i will be most unhappy. after all i spent last year over there and didn’t get a visit! haha! however in saying that i still have a year on my visa eh scotty!
becca3003 said,
March 26, 2007 @ 9:22 pm
awwww no need to be unhappy, you can come and live over here too!
ScottyB said,
March 27, 2007 @ 1:46 am
Well… looks like Kate has spoken… Moving to UK it is!
Kate said,
March 27, 2007 @ 10:25 am
i wish! you know i would like to. But i know you wouldn’t!
Vanwall said,
March 28, 2007 @ 7:38 am
They just moved up the daylight savings time here in the States by a coupla weeks. Sucks. When i lived in Arizona, they didn’t use daylight savings - it was too effing hot as it was in the summer.