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brigdhWill write longer posts to explain my dissaperances later. Now I'm being lazy and just want to say:
Daylight Savings Time! On the one hand, this is nice. I like having it still be light outside at 8pm. That makes me happy, and hell, it's not like I'm ever awake to notice the extra darkness at 7am. The only time I see dawn is from the wrong side.
On the other hand, I now have another six months of constantly having a watch with the wrong time. You see, I have a big ghetto plastic watch, the cheap digital kind. It's plain and black and has a big thick watchband, with big easy-to-read numbers. All of this is very nice, because the last watch I had was a tiny delicate thing. It was an analog watch, except that it didn't even have the numbers, so you had to guess at what time it was by estimating the hand's distance from the top or bottom of the circle. And I always had to wear bracelets with it, because it didn't cover enough of my wrist.
Anyway- by the time that one broke, I was ready for something cheap and easy. Hee. I like the watch I have now. I just... can't figure out how to change the time on it. Neither can anyone else. Plenty of people have tried- because everyone I tell this story to responds, "Let me try!"- but no one can managed it. They push every possible combination of buttons, and yet, nothing.
So, for half the year my watch tells the right time, and the other half it's an hour behind. That's okay, because it's also a day ahead: it wasn't programmed to anticipate last year's Feburary 29th. I have to do more adding and subtracting to use my watch than anyone I know.
Daylight Savings Time! On the one hand, this is nice. I like having it still be light outside at 8pm. That makes me happy, and hell, it's not like I'm ever awake to notice the extra darkness at 7am. The only time I see dawn is from the wrong side.
On the other hand, I now have another six months of constantly having a watch with the wrong time. You see, I have a big ghetto plastic watch, the cheap digital kind. It's plain and black and has a big thick watchband, with big easy-to-read numbers. All of this is very nice, because the last watch I had was a tiny delicate thing. It was an analog watch, except that it didn't even have the numbers, so you had to guess at what time it was by estimating the hand's distance from the top or bottom of the circle. And I always had to wear bracelets with it, because it didn't cover enough of my wrist.
Anyway- by the time that one broke, I was ready for something cheap and easy. Hee. I like the watch I have now. I just... can't figure out how to change the time on it. Neither can anyone else. Plenty of people have tried- because everyone I tell this story to responds, "Let me try!"- but no one can managed it. They push every possible combination of buttons, and yet, nothing.
So, for half the year my watch tells the right time, and the other half it's an hour behind. That's okay, because it's also a day ahead: it wasn't programmed to anticipate last year's Feburary 29th. I have to do more adding and subtracting to use my watch than anyone I know.
