What's on your mind? (2025) - good way to start... even if a bit early... :-)

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I still can’t decide what is the right answer. I guess I’m like the Congress in this regard.

As a kid playing in the slightly north Midwest, I loved that due to Summer Time the sun didn’t set (and so didn’t stop our play) until after 9 pm. I also hated trudging through dark snow at 5:30 p.m. in the dark in the slightly north Midwest after work.

But as a parent with kids on the bus stop (years ago now), I liked that Winter Time had the sun at least peeking over the ridge as the bus was coming for them at 8 a.m,.

And I realize that some of our fellows (like Dan in AZ, and other states that don’t change times) haven’t dealt with these kinds of changes in decades or longer.

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Yes – this is good. My mother gets very confused as part of the year there is a 2 hours difference and most of the year 3 hours difference. She seems to do better when we are three hours different as she lumps Arizona in with California.

Mom is on the East Coast.

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Pick one

Most of the world seems to survive without changing time twice a year :woman_shrugging:t2:

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Most? The majority by number of countries, sure. But most of EU and central EU use summer/winter time. North (of course) and some in South America do.

It seems fairly prevalent in the Western hemisphere, anyway.

My problem quite frankly is that I don’t want to pick between the one or t’other.

I likes `em both!

:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Eta - oh, crap, I just read John’s comment (@emglow101) and realize it was NOW. NO, I don’t want it to be now. I have stuff to do still.

Oh, wait - I still have 24 hours to get it all done!

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Run those numbers again by population?

Anyway, I don’t expect anything to change. But I will complain twice a year about it nonetheless.

This one is worse, because 1 hour less of sleep.

Or maybe the fall is worse, because you leave the house when it’s dark, and it’s dark again when you come out of work. So no sunlight on either end.

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Why? I already said it was mainly restricted to western hemisphere, which is not the majority of population.

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Eh, like I said I don’t think anything changes. Though if there was any chance of it happening, it would be now, a la Gulf of… somewhere.

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My vote is to call it the Saregama Gulf Of Keyrock!

I mean, how cool would that be?

Edit - I’ll call President Trump straight away. I have him on speed dial, doncha know.

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Nah, Steve Martin already claimed it (1:05).

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Still kicking butt at 79.

“Do you think these hearing aids make my ass look smaller?”.

Plus a shout out to one of my daughters’ favorite shows, “The only Canadian (actor) who wasn’t in Schitt’s Creek”.

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It was a good monologue. Actually it was a pretty good show overall, not the usual snl inconsistency.

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Martin’s early and mid-career standup is really outstanding. It’s one of the main reasons I’ve kept Sirius XM, because various bits of it get played on the 92-98 channels (US version of XM, anyway).

I didn’t see the show itself, though. I kind of gave up on TV about 15 years ago. I catch “highlight” type reels if someone sends me links, though.

I don’t even know how to access our TV anymore. If kids are home from college and have it on, I might watch a bit with them (girls like “Bones” etc.) but I don’t know how (edit - don’t care to know how) to get to any shows myself.

Edit2 - and it’s not that the shows aren’t good. The stuff they watch is pretty interesting and well acted. It’s just that given my druthers, TV is not my thing, I guess.

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Fur lined sinks and not being able to return spitted on cat toys still get me laughing.

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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY! Celebrate the women in your life, today & every day, and continue to fight for equality everywhere! We’re not free until ALL of us are free.

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Gotcha sister, and let’s remember those women whose shoulders we stand on.:clap:

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And @mts: The NYT would like your input :wink:

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After 40 years together, one of our secrets is to not tell the news a damn thing about our lives. That info. is strictly for internet boards! :roll_eyes:

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Well, don’t be shy now :kissing_heart:

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