Monday, November 15, 2010

Does anybody really know what time it is?

Does anybody really care?

As full-timers we really don't notice the time that much. We go to bed when we are tired, we sleep until we wake up, and we eat when we are hungry which is pretty much all of the time :-)

We have two DVRs so we hardly watch a television program live anymore. We do try to catch the local weather wherever we are. That is when we recently started noticing the impact of the time changing on us. We were in the Central Time Zone when Daylight Savings Time went away. The very next day we crossed over into the Mountain Time Zone and we have been screwed up time-wise ever since. Usually after the local weather was watched Bob started his going to bed routine but now he can barely stay awake long enough for the weather. You would have thought we would have adapted by now and although it is getting better we are still getting tired earlier than we usually did.

Daylight Savings Time is one of the few areas where we have a difference of opinion. Bob feels that we should not mess with time and quotes an Indian Shaman who said, "Only the white man could think that by cutting off the bottom of the rug and sewing it to the top that you end up with a longer rug". Jo feels that the clocks should never be turned back so that we are on Daylight Savings Time all the time. Neither one of us will get our way so we guess we will just have to deal with yet another big government intrusion on our lives.

Till next time,

Bob and Jo

4 comments:

  1. I have to agree. They should leave the time alone. I am ready for bed at eight o'clock with this silly time change.

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  2. I am so glad I am not the only one. We did the same thing - Central Time Zone when we lost day light savings, then into Mountain Time a couple of days later. I finally got a pretty good night's sleep last night but I'm still off schedule.

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  3. The time change only affects us as we move between time zones for reservations and opening closing times of places.

    For the rest, as you said, we kind of live in our own little world. since I often forget what day of the e week it is, how important can the time of day be.

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  4. So we will see you at Destiny this winter!! We will be there Feb 1. I bet you'll know some good places to eat by then. Yum

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