Saturday, November 03, 2007

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME AGAIN

Tomorrow we fall back,an unending ritual to try to explain in bureaucratic terms why the sun sets earlier in fall and winter,lets harsh nature's buzz by putting a perfectly logical reason for the shifting of the planets on a geo planetary natural phenomenon.And we'll call it a clock.That's right...a fucking clock.
A man made ticking device designed to mark the passage of time.And while we're at it,we'll give the clock super powers...an ability to tune the nature of our reality,like those creepy guys in that movie Dark City.
I happen to like daylight savings time...just the fact that we are saving so much daylight year after year,but what will we do with all that daylight?What good is it to us now?We've been saving it up since 1916,actually,Ben Franklin first thought of it(and we all know he was heavy into the hemp).So, if you do the math,based on the 1916 model,we have 91 hours of surplus daylight.
What in the hell are we gonna do with 91 hours of extra daylight?Are we gonna use it to make up for all that fucking off we did on the job for the last 91 years?At 40 hours a week that would take 2 weeks,1 day and I'm leaving at lunch to clean the slate.
91 years reduced to slightly more than half a month?If I was daylight savings time I'd be insulted.
That's cheap by any standard and I think we need to give daylight more credit than that.
Another rationale for DST was to conserve fuel...after 91 years of saving,you'd think oil would be happy days era cheap,but it's approaching 100.00 a barrel.So much for that theory."I got a great idea...lets turn the clocks back an hour every year until 2007,and then us oil company guys can put a fucking on the public and blame it on the "economy during wartime"...BRILLIANT.
But the bottom line is,for me anyway...I like the chill in the air and the early orange skies.And the darkness.It's somehow romantic.And as the winter progresses something dies and something new is born.

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