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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:30 pm
by Sorus
Linna Heartlistener wrote:
I had a long, ridiculous nightmare about being late to work a couple of weeks ago!
including but not limited to the toilet overflowing after I already knew I was gonna be late.. (and I was -not- just leaving that problem w/out dealing with it.)
My nightmare involved my alarm not going off, then the buses weren't running so I hitched a ride in a big rig truck that was being driven by my guildmaster (which was completely irrelevant to the dream, but I had been talking to him right before I went to bed), and he took me to my workplace (which looked nothing like it does in real life - actually the whole city was redone in some sort of scifi dystopian style, which didn't seem strange due to dream logic) - and there was a sign on the door saying they'd moved. So we went to the new location, and found it had moved again. This repeated about five times.
There's probably some deep meaning in there somewhere, but I'm going to blame the whole thing on DST.
aliantha wrote:Is it too late to join in the general grumbling?
I'm declaring this whole week to be open season for grumbling, and it can carry over as long as necessary. Grumbling is serious business.
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:50 pm
by wayfriend
aliantha wrote:Is it too late to join in the general grumbling?
Grumble!
aliantha wrote:Getting old sucks, I tell you.
Grumble
grumble!
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 5:19 am
by Avatar
Grumble indeed.
--A
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 2:50 pm
by aliantha
Sorus wrote:Grumbling is serious business.
Agreed!
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 5:38 am
by Avatar
But not to be taken too seriously.
--A
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 9:23 pm
by aliantha
Avatar wrote:But not to be taken too seriously.
--A
Sez you.
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 5:25 am
by Avatar
Yes, yes I do.
--A
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 5:31 am
by MsMary
My daughter saw me online this week, awake way too late and said, "We fail at daylight savings time."
That was Wednesday.
As of tonight, we're still failing.
At both ends. I slept till noon Sunday morning!
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 5:45 am
by Avatar
Sounds good to me...my damn cats keep me awake.
--A
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 9:26 pm
by Sorus
My cats are in favor of DST because it means they get fed an hour earlier. Of course, when it changes back they'll be convinced I'm trying to starve them.
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:02 am
by Avatar
Mine change their schedule every now and then just to screw with me...
--A
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:36 pm
by Sorus
Mine are very, very punctual.
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:47 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
Sorus wrote:...the buses weren't running so I hitched a ride in a big rig truck that was being driven by my guildmaster...
Just saw this!
Sorus wrote: and he took me to my workplace (which looked nothing like it does in real life - actually the whole city was redone in some sort of scifi dystopian style, which didn't seem strange due to dream logic) - and there was a sign on the door saying they'd moved. So we went to the new location, and found it had moved again. This repeated about five times.
Right, that!
Umm, full disclosure - I was just talking to someone the other day when I realizeded I really like the longer periods of light in the evening, so maybe I'm happy about DST. (?)
(or maybe just this direction of time change.)
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:04 am
by StevieG
I think we have another week or so before daylight saving ends. Then it's the beginning of the dark period - we're 42 degrees south, so the days get shorter and shorter as we approach June...
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 5:30 am
by Avatar
We're 26 south, so although the same is true, it's not to the same extent.
--A
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 1:21 pm
by peter
Here we go again. This weekend, my early one on the work three week rota, when added to the indignity of finishing at 7 pm on Saturday then haul-assing myself out of bed at 5 am on Sunday, I have the additional bug-bear of actually loosing an hour so in reality I'm getting up at 4am to complete a nine hour standing only shift. In the days prior to the early Sunday I've done a string of 11 pm closes, where I go to bed around 1.30 am, then all of a sudden on Saturday [having done the 11-7 shift] I have to alter my rythem [Ha Ha - what rythem!] and get to sleep so I can arise at 5... no 4 am! No wonder I'm f***ed up!
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 4:09 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
peter wrote:..so in reality I'm getting up at 4am to complete a nine hour standing only shift. In the days prior to the early Sunday I've done a string of 11 pm closes, where I go to bed around 1.30 am, then all of a sudden on Saturday [having done the 11-7 shift] I have to alter my rythem [Ha Ha - what rythem!] and get to sleep so I can arise at 5... no 4 am!
Gross. Missing sleep is miserable. And needing to get to sleep waay earlier than in prior days makes it kinda hard to not miss sleep.. sooo...
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 6:59 am
by sgt.null
a humble grumble.
we do not need daylight savings time. so just end it.
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2016 8:49 pm
by Sorus
I'm really disappointed that Australia has DST. A fictional place should have more sense.
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 7:05 am
by sgt.null
Sorus wrote:I'm really disappointed that Australia has DST. A fictional place should have more sense.
it should be better written. too many authors making it a chaotic jumbled mess.