I Love Daylight Savings Time!

“Halloween is on the 31st, lizs. I am betting it will go on until after that date.”

“We have to come up with thanksgiving names after the 31st...:)”

“Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo”

“�WHO is BlackWidow? And anyhoo, aren't we back to real names? (so to speak...)�
lizs
9:26:35 PM
10/30/05

Not yet, lizs. Tomorrow to go. I just wiped out all my cookies and didn't feel like typing in all the GreasyGrimy....... crap.

Only one person could be BlackWidow, lizs. I'm suprised so many don't know. Gem has been having this problem too. Ha Ha.



















It's Free24/25 aka Spirit Coyote.”

“:P”

“State of residence: Alabama

LOL I think she fibbed a bit on the state.”

“my watch is screwed up and so are my clocks I am so confused”

“Well TT Time is only about 4 minutes fast. Use that. ;-)”

“I thought Indiana finally decided to do the daylight savings time thing. It was confusing when I lived there. Some parts of Indiana did it and some did not.

Well they cleaned all that up and now they are all going to do daylight savings time.

...but now I hear that parts are going to be Eastern and parts Central time zone (but all daylight savings!)”

“so I have to sit in front of my computer till I need to go to work? arghh, am I gonna see you on the Florida trip stovie ?”

“I'm planning on it, spalpeen. I've been on most all the 'Ocala' trips except the first.”

“My dad lives about 40 miles away from the trip and said he would help out any way he could,so I am looking forward to it and escape the Wisconsin winter for a few days”

“I'm so glad I'm in Arizona. The only clock I had to change is the radio-controlled one, and it had to be switched from Pacific to Mountain. Yanno, they keep talking about making it Daylight Savings like year-round, why not just eliminate it completely?”

“Amen.”

“So do I.”

“i can finally join in your celebration...after fighting for years indiana finally past DST...the bars pitched a #&%!$ about loosing an hour of business so the governor stepped in and let them stay open for an extra hour”

“i cant f'n wait!”

“Looks like I'll have more time to fish after work.”

“I hate the clock change thing. Seems like you have a hangover even if you haven't been drinking. What fun is that? lol”

“Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More apparent daylight!!!!!”

“DST sucks rocks!”

“great - getting to work an hour earlier is so much fun. Just leave it one way or the other.”

“Actually I am not looking forward to it. We have the baby on a good schedule and now it is going to be disrupted.”

“Cheer up peeps!
It's only hard for the first few days.

I wish it was full time, dang farmers! ;-)”

“I love it, except on the first day or two - when I miss that hour of sleep.”

“I'm looking forward to the extra daylight after work in the evening... to get outside more!”

“Grrr. It's dark on the drive into work again.

A beaurocrat telling me how to set my watch. Lovely.”

“Except for the first few mornings when it's dark when I leave for work I love it”

“daylight savings time doesn't work when there's no daylight...stupid clouds”

“daylight savings time can kiss my black ass!”

“I'm so glad Indiana finally good it's head out of it's @ss and went on DST!!! I was sitting on my patio last night enjoying a nice steak dinner at 8:30!! and still had time to smoke a cigar. It's frigin April. Daylight Savings Time rocks!!!”

“Okay this weekend is time to change your clocks. As a small matter of reminder don't forget to switch the batteries in your smoke detector.

If your detector is more than 7 years old it might be time to get a new one. This is not a sales pitch for the Smoke Detector Industry but rather the reality. For any of us OLD TIMERS...the smoke detector was originally developed for....the Space Lab (big thing, allowed us to drop a large object on Australia years later...you remember). In my job I see older detectors that have gone WAY past their useful life.
If you are getting a new detector look into an AC/DC detector. The problem with older detectors is they are AC current only. When the power goes out.....what do we frequently use to light the house? Okay not WE (lol I have headlamp that works great) but the we who use candles. And as pretty as that is...without the detector going it may prove...very bad.
They do make a smoke/carbon monoxide detector and they make em with 10 year batteries...Carbon Monoxide is only a problem if you use some form of fossil fuel in the house as for the ten year jobs....Okay, I still don't like detectors older than 7 years old.

Hope this helps someone.”

“Thanks for the reminder about the smoke detectors! We just bought four new detectors (when the wood stove went in). Next on the list are three new extinguishers.
It's pretty easy to ignore those things unless they're beeping.

Our five year old came home from school one day and asked how old our detectors were. She'd spent an hour in gym class learning fire safety, stop drop and roll, etc. Her gym classes are awesome (aside from the homework).”

“Sass, for the kitchen you can get an extinguisher that is not an ABC powder...those can be so aggrivating when you fire them.

Also with a wood stove get a carbon monoxide detector.”

“We have two. Those were fairly new.”

“Ya have any questions you can e-mail me. Be glad to help.”

“Hey XL -

When we moved into our older home a couple of years ago, one of the first things I did was to install a hardwired (with battery backup) smoke/CO detector system throughout the house.

We had a false alarm the other night and the system went off for maybe 30 seconds. My wife and I were up immediately but my kids weren't. The oldest woke up, but just barely. The two youngest slept right through it.

I saw this product a while back and thought it might make sense to put them in the kid's rooms. I wish they were hard-wired, but it seems they might be a good idea as an auxiliary.

http://www.lufkinsecurity.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=366

Do you know enough about them to have an opinion?”

“Is there a smoke alarm made that would actually wake up a sleeping teenager?”

“I hate this time change!”

“Love the extra hour of sleep in the fall, but hate the late afternoon darkness - would rather it be darker in the morning, when all I'm doing is going to work....

This means the reflective vest goes on during the post-workday runs....”

“Love the extra hour of sleep in the fall, but hate the late afternoon darkness - would rather it be darker in the morning, when all I'm doing is going to work....

This means the reflective vest goes on during the post-workday runs....”
BowlderMan
10:56:23 AM
10/26/06

It's dark when I leave for work, and dark when I drive home in the fall and winter, regardless of what time we are observing.”

“I hate daylight savings time. It takes me weeks to get adjusted to getting up and going to bed at another time.
Somebody says "ya gotta all change your clocks" and we all go along with it. Bah!”

“I have to say the time change is no big deal for me. I don’t even notice it.”

“Can you wire their bed frame/mattress so when the alarm goes off it jolts them? ;-)”

“Chicago...You have inadvertently stumbled on one of the greatest Practical Jokes (April Fools Jokes) in history. I had a friend who on April Fools Day was on a local radio show talking about this and that. He is a Psychologist (actually a pretty good one) and this caller calls in about "wetting the bed" by younger kids. Now we all know most times that is becuase the kid's bladder grows faster than the rest of them. It fills and OOPS. They usually grow out of it or become an attorney (LOL)...no back to the story.

So this 'caller" (later we found it was a set up) asks about bed wetting. The doctor goes off on a tangent about alarms etc. Then he says,"When my boy was 3 he had a real problem so we finally hit on this sure fire solution. We put a Car Battery under the bed and ran the positive and negative to opposite sides of the mattress. If he wets the bed it completes the circuit...and POP negative reinforcement. Then a caller later its the kid (now grown) saying how great this was...LOL...Then they came back and admitted it was a practical joke and they were kidding...APRIL FOOLS....

OH MY GOD the fire storm of protest...LOL.

Okay for the smoke detectors. Schools do fire drills all the time yet there are VERY few fires in public schools. Yet in our home we never practice. There is a video that talks about the parents worst fear. They have four or five families and watch as the kids fail miserably to react. Then they retrain the kids and WOW the kids respond appropriately.

I suggest you do some fire drills. There is no way to really sleep through a smoke detector if you KNOW what it is. As for an alarm that will notify the fire department. I don't know the law in your state but in Georgia you cannot transmit directly to the 911 center, it has to go through an alarm company. Another idea if you want is i think in most places you can put 6 sprinkler heads on a residential water supply. If I ever build I will install the heat measuring heads...usually 18 bucks as opposed to 2 bucks for a normal head. But they spray until the heat level drops....
Usually one head is all you need to control a fire.

If you need any information please send me an e-mail I can send you some stuff. Or check with your local fire department.”

“I don't have to change my clocks, so there, nyah...”

“LOL...yeah but you have to claim John "where are my strawberries" McCain.”

“I'm so glad daylight savings ends this weekend. The past few years I haven't adjusted to dst at all. All a part of getting old I guess. :P”

“Let's see if I understand this right. When the smoke detector goes off, I need to put new batteries in the clocks, have the extinguisher charged and then go back to bed for another hour.”