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[V-Adore]

Living with reduced daylight is awful, I cannot imagine living in Deadhoss or Barrow where the sun disappears for months at a time. I'm far enough south that we get a little daylight even in the darkest months. It isn't daylight like people in the Lower 48 think of daylight, the sky turns a little grey instead of black, but in Alaska we have to take what we can get.

When I was a kid in Alaska, I would regularly meet kids from Barrow at camp and such, and they were universally crazy as a shithouse rat. I mean, so crazy that even at an art camp populated by weird kids/teenagers, they crossed the line from "enjoyably eccentric" to "... holy shit." I will defend to the death the livability of most of Alaska, but Barrow makes you go mad.

[Nabubrush]

Barrow's sort of just down the block from here. Wombles, I am sending you pure unadulterated love and extra hugs to get you through this difficult time.

[wombat]

Aw thanks. Maybe I'll just think of that and skip trying the NyQuil and 7UP to get to sleep then....

[Muse_Of_Fire]

I hate losing the hour, but I like being tricked into thinking it's lighter later. I love it in the fall when we get an extra hour in the day. So nice! Re: daylight--I MUST have it. And in ridiculous amounts. I should be living in a glass house on the equator, really. I am utterly solar-powered, and the longer I have to go without sunlight, the more time I spend lying on the couch, imagining myself drowning.

[Nabubrush]

I hate losing the hour,

Remember, you only lose the hour if you die before we fall back.

[Muse_Of_Fire]

True, Nabu. So true.

[AugustWest]

I just spleep late on this occasion every year.  I mean, I usually sleep late on weekends anyhow, but on Spring Forward day I sleep a little later than usual.  HOORAY!

I'm pretty neutral on the whole issue.  I'm just glad the sun is coming back and I can spend time outside.  Spent the whole afternoon working in the yard and both my body and my psyche feel better than they have in weeks.  Woot.

[linnea]

I wish that I lived someplace warm right about now. Or at least someplace with a sauna.

[theinevitable]

It is supposed to be in the low 80's by mid-week here. Blegh.

[robot_god]

I'm confused.  Is the joke about "time running out" or something like that, or did somebody use the clock to squash a tarantula?

Hmm, good question, actually.

I figured since an enormous arthropod seems to have crawled behind the clock and died, it's better to just leave it on the wall than to change the time and discover what is underneath.  It's funny because you can picture yourself making the same choice in the scenario, and it is comically summed up with profanity and improper grammar.

[Ruta Bagas]

You guys so nearly got me to change my clock in a panic even though we don't switch until the last Sunday of the month here. I think that's a sign that I'm really not fit to cope with the time jumping about all over the place.

Especially as my clock changes itself automagically.

[Arachno-capitalist]

It was calculated to save energy back in World War I and again in World II to save coal for times of war. The thing is that no one has ever saved a damn lump of coal and it has never been proven to reach any of its intended benefits. The only people who win out here are golfers... And I am damn hell a golfer so I'm not complaining.

[wombat]

The candy manufacturers lobbied hard for the change to have daylight time end later in the year. They think that they will sell more candy at Halloween if there is more daylight for kids to go trick or treating.

This doesn't make sense to me because what is the point of trick or treating in scary costumes in the daytime? I think we are meddling with tradition in an ominous way, here.

[side_show]

I am so pissed off. 

To celebrate daylight's savings time someone vandalized my SO and I's cars with a steel garbage can.  They tried to smash in my rear window, resulting in many scratches right down to bare steel, and then smashed in the reer window of the SO's truck cab.  Thanks a lot asshole.

Also after almost three weeks of waking up naturally to the rising sun, I now get up when it's dark again with the aid of an alarm clock.  I hate this time change, and hate it even more now that it's been bumped so that the suns not even up.  Sucks.

[jaydub]

We should just stay on the "Savings Time" schedule, so we get our extra hour of snooze and then never change back.  Or all go to GMT or something.  Pretend we work for NASA, but without diapers.