C'mon you knew this was coming
 

Time for my irrational rant against daylight savings time.

For those of us who don't live in the plastic fantastic 9 to 5 work world its good bye to morning sun, forget cycling to work, kids standing in the dark at bus stops, losing an hour of sleep, and no sunbeam in the morning shower. Pass the coffee :coffee: its time to embrace enforcement of random state edicts.

:grinnylov and the days are longer and summer is coming!

What does it mean when staceyv sees the bright side before I do? :mg:

Thank goodness for spring. Life is evolving once again. Depression is lifting, and the suicide rate is dropping........

Yeah, but if they get too exuberant the murder rate is going up. :dead:

:question: :confused:
I don't think that my patients got the memo. Please see to it that it's forwarded to them.

Didn't really notice here, sun is such a rarity anyway but comeon, it's time for open shirts, pimms and bikinis, it's the best time of year!

here in arizona, we never lost the sun, skin is ever visible, and we don't do daylight savings time.

on the downside, you're in arizona.

Was talking to a business contact the other day. She's based in Phoenix, AZ. We got to talking about the weather and I complained that we were having a heat wave +80 deg F. Whew! HOT, (relatively speaking). Well, she told me that they were in the twentieth day of +100 deg F temps. Continuous, night and day, never below +100 deg.

Yeah, downside, you're in Arizona.

edit:

Sorry, "other day" was during late summer, some years ago. I probably should have said "once" instead. But the story's the same, and it certainly made an impact on me--I remember and retell it today.

And energy prices are only going up. Arizona won't be so nice (relatively speaking) when the air conditioners are too expensive to run.

But then the geriatrics will be dropping like flies and the real estate prices will come down. :biggrin:

I think that Lookout was merely mentioning that the sun was ever shining in AZ. Here in Ohio we could use a big, fat dose. It's been ages since we've seen anything remotely resembling the big star. So freaking depressing!*
* Brianna, Hapless Victim of SAD. :mecry:

:confused:

we haven't seen 100 deg yet this year. we are probably more than a month from getting that hot and we don't get to 20 + consecutive days like that until mid - late summer.

i know everyone has heard "but it's a dry heat", but there is some truth to it. i am from Rock Island, Illinois. @85 degrees with humidity in illinois is a lot more uncomfortable than 105 in the desert.

i don't really know how to compare energy costs other than to say that i have a 2300 sqft home with a pool (electric pumps) and my energy bill is $140/month.
my last house was 1300 sqft with no pool and my bill was $130.

both places i keep it at 76 deg in the summer and 72 deg in the winter.

is that expensive compared to back east?

Living here 90kms from the equator the sun keeps shinning and it's up at 6-ish and down at 6-ish all year round. It's bit darker in the morning during burning season which keeps the sun hidden and when it rains it doesn't ease the pain. It just washes everything away.