Stop the MADNESS

Woke up at 6:00 this morning and it was

DARK OUTSIDE.

For a lot of people, me included, getting up in

the dark is a difficult thing. 

Just Yesterday

it was light at this same time

and I was cheerfully up and getting

about my day,

following the Earth’s NATURAL

and gradual rhythms.

But TODAY

All I wanted to do

was

roll over and

go back to sleep.

IT’S DARK OUTSIDE FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE.

I had been following the sun’s lead

and rising just a tad earlier each day.

NICE and EASY

And now

KABOOM

Back into the

Morning DARK.

TWICE a year

THIS

 makes my blood

boil. 

WHY

Do we play this clock

switching game

 which takes most people at least

a week or two to adjust to.

Light is such a powerful cue to our brains

and the body's internal circadian rhythms,

which affect sleep, eating and even hormones

So far

I haven’t been able to find anyone who can give me

one

good CURRENT reason

for why we continue to do this.

Among the reasons I have heard

is that it saves energy

BUT

Indiana just recently

Switched from non observance

To observance in the spring of 2006.

UC Santa Barbara Professors did

a study to test energy savings

Before and after.

The Result

It COSTS Indiana households

And additional $8.6 M in electricity bills

To move off of standard time.

  

In addition,

it cost$$

businesses, governments, schools et al

to change all their

electronic everythings.  

They have to pay the workers time and a half

to come in during the

wee hours of the morning

on a week-end

to either do it

or check to see that

everything it has been done to

is working correctly.

Even my senators and congressman

were unable to answer the question.

Of WHY do we keep this up.

Of course that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

So if you actually know one

Good reason,

shout it out.

Why ARE we all just accepting this nonsense

and not insisting on its end?

Doesn’t it irritate anyone but me?

How do you like “falling” back and then “springing” forward?

Dizzy yet???

How many clocks or pieces of equipment do you have to change?

Yes I’m grumbling. 

I don’t care which one we stick with. 

I just want this  jumping around twice every year

to

STOP.