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What’s up with people using their GPS devices while driving back and forth to work?
Don’t they know their way yet?
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A 10 TON Japanese trawler capsized while trying to haul in a smack of Nomura’s jellyfish. Normura’s jellyfish can weight over 450 pounds!! A 450 pound jellyfish!! Get Out! Check out these pictures of Nomura’s jellyfish next to divers.
And you guys thought Paranormal Activity was scary stuff!
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Spring Forward.
Fall Back.
WHY are we still doing this?
I’m time change challenged. Every time we Spring Forward or Fall Backwards, I end up a confused mess. I always want to know what time it feels like. I like to know when my alarm clock goes off at 4:30 am, it will feel like 5:30 am … or will it feel like 3:30 am? Of course, none of them are good choices and all of them are way too early to wake up in the morning.
Add a time change challenged person to a husband who can’t handle being wrong or being questioned about anything and it’s a wonder we even have clocks in the house at all this week.
On Saturday, our daughter asked if the time change would make it light in the morning again. I said that it would. And because I always have to get into the ‘what time it will feel like’ deal, I explained to her that when her alarm clock goes off at 5:45 am, it will feel like 6:45 am … and when we leave for the bus, it will be light outside again.
Hubby jumps in the conversation and says that I’m wrong. He explains that it will be darker (which is more than dark, I guess) in the morning and will be dark earlier in the evening. This left me scratching my head because I’m thinking that usually you get extra light at one end or the other.
My 49 years and two husbands have taught me when to fight a battle and when to let it go. So, I said “Oh, ok.” That’s it … just “Oh, ok.” And hubby explains again about the darker, darker thing. I said “Ok.” And then he explains AGAIN. What does he think I am, a moron that can’t understand his words until he says them three times? So, I showed him … this time I said “OK” … you know, all loud and with ‘tone’ which he doesn’t hear or just ignores. Wasted tone. What a pity.
The next morning, this maybe not so time change challenged person woke up early and left for the bus stop … in daylight. Ha. The little victories in life!
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November 3, 2009 at 11:42 pm
soccermom
I practically have to use paper and pen to figure out the damn time change…lighter, darker whatever. Why can’t we just keep it the same.
It is either dark going to work or coming home…whats the difference, you still go to work. Boo!
November 4, 2009 at 1:21 am
atiredwife
Exactly. Boo. Work. Boo.
November 3, 2009 at 11:53 pm
ntsc
I let my computer tell me.
Followed you back from Attila the Mom.
November 4, 2009 at 1:24 am
atiredwife
Well, THAT’S just entirely too easy! *wink*
November 4, 2009 at 12:48 am
Ginger
I go through this every single week, sometimes twice in the same week. Imagine having to get used to going into work at 7 pm, instead of 7 am and then as soon as you get used to it, change back again! I have to have a piece of paper and a pen to figure it out, only I’m so disorganized and befuddled that I can’t find a pen and sometimes not even a piece of paper. AND it’s always dark here. It’s dark in the morning and it’s dark at night.
There. have I elicited some pity from you yet?
November 4, 2009 at 1:23 am
atiredwife
You always have my sympathy … except on when you’re on one of those 7y days off deals. Then you suck. *wink*
November 4, 2009 at 3:40 am
Mad Woman
Holy CRAP those are some big Jellyfish!!! Wow. No wonder they capsized. Sheesh.
My husband does that. I just walk away. It pisses him off
November 4, 2009 at 8:36 pm
atiredwife
Sorry your husband does it too. It’s aggravating, isn’t it? I should start telling HIM everything three times!
November 4, 2009 at 10:12 am
Casey
Holy crapoli, that’s a big effin jelly fish. And I remember us both bitching about the time change this time last year. It still sucks. Like you wrote on my blog today.
November 4, 2009 at 8:37 pm
atiredwife
I bitch about the time change every time they flip it. Why can’t we vote on this?
November 4, 2009 at 11:53 am
Sprite's Keeper
TELL me those jellyfish pictures are altered! I’m shocked! I would think I’d have heard of them before now!
November 4, 2009 at 8:37 pm
atiredwife
Totally real. The second picture was from National Geographic. National Geographic lying would be like … well, it would be like the world should just end.
November 5, 2009 at 2:18 am
dangergkitty
I hate the time change. It’s like eternal darkness for me. I get up when it’s dark, and by the time I get home—it’s dark again! All my sunshine is wasted because I’m inside my office all day. This makes me even bitchier.
Geek Boy does that explaining thing too. He usually stops after I threaten him with bodily harm.
November 5, 2009 at 7:54 am
atiredwife
Nothing wastes a sunshiny day like work. Grrrrr.
November 11, 2009 at 12:54 am
Fantastic Forrest
Did your husband ever acknowledge that you were correct and he was WRONG? I’m married to a geographer, so this isn’t the sort of thing we argue about, but we do have our moments. We’re usually able to resolve our disagreements with the great adjudicator, the google machine.
You’re obviously right that it is lighter in the morning after we adjust our clocks. But it feels like a temporary improvement. Although we’ve enjoyed not getting up in the dark, we don’t like the earlier darkness. And let’s not forget that the days are getting shorter on both ends until December 18th or so. Here’s a chart for the my area: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/aa_rstablew.pl You can use the “back to form” link to calculate your own sunrise/sunset times. Might be interesting to share with your daughter.
November 11, 2009 at 12:55 am
Fantastic Forrest
Oh, and about the jellyfish? What Casey said.