Sleepy Monday Morning Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- I hate Daylight Saving Time. Let me be clear on this. And I want my hour back.

-- On Friday, I had an inconveniently-timed doctor's appointment (is there any other type on Friday if you're a Shabbat observer?), so I worked from home. Got lots accomplished, both workwise and preparing-for-Shabbat-wise.

-- Walked to shul on Shabbat in drizzle. Walked from shul to the friends' house at which we were having lunch in significant downpour. Got ride back home after Shabbat from very sweet friend because significant downpour had become torrential downpour. It was sunny yesterday and in the 30s, and today it's bright and sunny and in the 20s. Ah, New England. How I love your weather oddities.

-- And, oh, look! A flood warning for the Charles River and other rivers in the area due to the aforementioned torrential downpour. Oh, goody. With luck, this time the Muddy River won't flood into Kenmore Station.

-- Off to a Sheva Berachot tonight. Yay for people getting married!

-- Because it came up in conversation *again* this weekend: Weekly World News report: 12 U.S. SENATORS ARE SPACE ALIENS! (transcription).

Comments

12 US Senators....

[madknits.livejournal.com]

Only 12? Hmph. I would have thought it more.

Re: 12 US Senators....

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Mm, yeah. Though the list from WWN doesn't match with the list in "Men in Black," if I recall correctly, so perhaps there are more that WWN didn't know about.

[madfilkentist]

I miss Weekly World News. It was more fun than The Onion.

Kenmore station may not have gotten flooded, but I got this rather alarming email this morning:

Saturday evening the heavy rains caused a pipe to burst in Pusey Library resulting in extensive water damage. HCL Operations and the Library Collections Emergency Team (LCET) responded and were assisted by staff from Houghton, the Office of the Librarian, the custodial clean-up crew, and moving vendor to move collections out of danger, clean and dry affected areas, and begin treating damaged materials.The area most affected was the back stacks of the Harvard Theatre Collection on P1 and the Houghton Library manuscript level on P2.
 
Finding space to lay out the extensive number of materials, many of which are oversized, proved a particular challenge. Emergency staging for drying materials has been set up in the Pusey corridor, Harvard University Archives, Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton's Edison and Newman Room, and Lamont Library. **Level 1 of Pusey Library and all adjacent reading rooms will be closed to the public until mid-week to allow materials to dry.**

[badgerthorazine.livejournal.com]

eek!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, yikes. I hope not too much was lost.

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

HCL Operations?

I guess you'd need one of those if you're going to preserve on acid-free paper.

I'm just glad we don't have to deal with an HFSO₃ department.

[madfilkentist]

I certainly hope HCL doesn't let its books anywhere near HCl.

[badgerthorazine.livejournal.com]

wow. Crazy weekend. :-)

Twelve? I bet there're more these days. ;-)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It wasn't such a crazy weekend, just wet. :-)

Sunday was busy, but that even wasn't too bad.

[half-double.livejournal.com]

I hate Daylight Saving Time. Let me be clear on this. And I want my hour back.

Hey, at least you remembered that it was Daylight Savings Time time. Mister Brown woke me up at about 7:30 Sunday morning. I was quite proud of myself for getting up so early. Leora usually gets up around 8:30 on the weekends, so I had great plans for taking a shower, doing a little cleaning, maybe even rustling up some good menus for the week, so that when she got up, we could eat breakfast, make our shopping list, and be out the door nice and early.

Instead, as I was coming down the ladder, I looked into the living room and said, "Huh. Now why does the cable box say 8:30?"

And then I was going back up the ladder, shaking my poor, underslept wife's shoulder, and saying, "Sweetie, you know how you always tell me to wake you up if you're not up by 8:30? Well...wake up."

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'm one of those crazy time maniacs; I *always* want to know the correct time. So while going on and off DST drives me bonkers, I always know when it's happening.

Usually we change the clocks and watches on Saturday night so that on Sunday when we wake up the clocks are already right. This time, we did the bedroom clocks and I did my watch, and then we did the rest in the morning.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Hey, you try coming home from work at 6:30, 7 at night. I LOVE DST. (I'm more of an AM kinda person anyhoo.)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'm very much a morning person, too.

I have many issues with DST, one of which is the US arbitrarily deciding what time it should be.

[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

I have many issues with DST, one of which is the US arbitrarily deciding what time it should be.

Isn't Standard Time also an example of the US arbitrarily deciding what time it should be? In the old days each city had its own local time, determined by solar noon. So (e.g.) NYC would be offset around 15 minutes or so from Boston. I assume you don't want to go back to that.

I don't mind DST so much, but it shouldn't start before the spring equinox. I *hate* getting up in the dark (and pity the poor folks in cities in the western ends of their time zones, like Detroit, where sunrise today was 7:52 EDT).

Actually, the thing I hate most about DST is how, when DST is in effect, people are always specifying times as EST instead of EDT.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I love DST too. But the designated hitter rule is an abomination before the Lord, and must be abolished. :-)

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

I have so much to learn about religion ;)

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

The DH rule is one of those issues on which Nomi and I come from two different sects. :-)

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

I want to say, "How Phelpsian," though I don't want give him any legitimacy.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I can do quite well without DST, but Amen Brother on the DH rule!

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

Blasphemer! (About the DH, not the DST.)

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

Daylight savings time = evil!

It's been a BEAUTIFUL and sunny past few days here in CA! :-) Yesterday was in the mid-70s and we checked out this Judaica shop a few towns away. I got a new Challah cover :-) I am having a few Shabbat guests this coming weekend!

Bleh, Monday - back to work :-(

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It's beautifully sunny here today, just *cold*. It still hasn't made it past freezing, but it's at least sunny out.

Mazal tov on the new chalalh cover; you should use it in good health. And yay for Shabbat guests.

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

B"H, all will go well this Shabbat!

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

DST, alas, is a sham. More and more studies are proving that it actually causes us to use more electricity. But I have to say, I like it at this time of year, because as soon as it's sufficiently warm, I can walk to and from work without encountering coyotes in the cemetery.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I saw something about that (the increased energy use) just yesterday.

I'm all for spring; I just don't like the time changing like this. It was dark-dark when I woke up this morning, and I hate that.

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

...as soon as it's sufficiently warm, I can walk to and from work without encountering coyotes in the cemetery.

One does not normally expect to encounter this kind of statement, but it doesn't feel too out of place coming from you. I make no judgment or comment as to what this might mean.

Other than, perhaps, "Are there are coyotes when it's cold?"

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

It's not a function of the cold, but of the dark. Several times, when walking to or from work when the sun is rising or setting, I have encountered a coyote. I find it vaguely creepy.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. Hate hate hate DST. Still not adjusted. Grump.