Twice a year I have to reset my circadian rhythm and as I age it gets more difficult. We get one Sunday to get ready for the work week. OK, I don't go to work but my Monday is supposed to be more productive than my Sunday.
There are fourteen devices that display the time in this house. Yesterday morning thirteen of them were reset to Daylight Savings Time. I don't know how to change the clock on the home alarm keypad. It's correct part of the year. I try not to get confused when I walk down the hall and pass the alarm and the clock on the thermostat. I lose an hour going north and gain an hour heading south.
Yesterday I was faced with some very difficult decisions. Should I eat when the clock said it was meal time or wait until my stomach indicated it wanted food. Bedtime was another issue. I usually hit the sack around ten and get up at six. I wasn't tired at ten last night, it was really only nine. I stayed up until eleven which was really ten. Of course when I woke up at six this morning it was close to seven.
My cruising friend Liz posted this yesterday I thought it was great.
"And just in case I haven't voiced my opinion lately, let me say that I absolutely hate daylight savings time. Just what are we saving anyway? We can't save daylight. We only get a days worth at a time and it has an incredibly short shelf life. It is such a disruption to every ones life. According to the radio today, it also causes enough stress to increase major health issues and traffic accidents. So tell me why again do we do it? Also studies done in Indiana
The majority of us dislike the time change. There are several pages on Facebook devoted to the disruption. Twice a year people look them up and complain. I found a petition this morning. Once it has 100,000 signatures it will be sent to the White House. So far it has seven. Not seven thousand, not seven hundred.....seven.
I get it. Some people do not want their names on a petition. I marched against the Vietnam War in the 1960's. God forbid the government learns I'm still an agitator fifty years later.
STOP THE TIME CHANGE....
But only SEVEN? Maybe it's easier to complain and adapt then instigate change.
Next October, I'm going to protest. I'm not going to change my clocks.
Is a daily shower bad for your skin?
According to some dermatologists frequent showers can dry our skin. It's not so much how often you bathe but how you bathe that matters.
Dr. Casey Carlos, professor of medicine and dermatology at the University of California San Diego School Of Medicine says, "When teaching technique the hardest part is trying to get people to use soap only where they need it." Because soap is designed to remove oils from the skin, it's drying. So Carlos suggests using it in armpits, the groin area and feet-the potentially smelly places-and skipping chest, back, legs and arms.
The Academy of Dermatology says that small children and the elderly need to shower less.
I'm surprised by small children as they get so grubby but the elderly I understand. They don't need to bathe every day because they don't go out often.
"No Uncle Seymour, I don't think you smell like cats."
"Many people, Carlos said, think that tight, after-shower feeling is a sign of cleanliness. It's not. It means your skin is too dry."
Dry skin be damned. I haven't had tight skin since 1993. I'm going to take a hot shower every day. And I'm washing all my parts, potential smelly ones or not.
Old joke: Two men are standing in front of urinals peeing. One sees a quarter in his. When he's done urinating he reaches in his pocket, takes out a dollar and throws it in the urinal. Then he reaches in and takes the money. The man next to him says, "Why did you toss in the dollar?" and the guy says, "I wasn't going to reach in there for only a quarter."
How far would you go for twenty bucks?
Authorities in Oklahoma said a man who chased a $20 bill into a storm drain ended up trapped underground for two days.
A group of teenagers walking home from school last week heard a voice calling for help from a manhole and called 911. Police arrived to find the manhole cover removed and a man who seemed to have been stuck for some time.
The man, who was 12 to 15 feet below street level, is believed to have climbed into a storm drain to chase a $20 he had dropped.
"He had a bump on his head, he may have hit it against a wall down there because it obviously pretty dark," said the responding officer. "The man seemed very disoriented. He did not remember what day it was. He wasn't sure how long he had been down there. He was pretty dehydrated and not really sure of the time or the date."
The man was unable to locate his lost $20 bill.
His hospital bill is just under $1,400.00
Police in Australia said they arrested a suspect in the case of a G-string clad man who stole a Batman mask and cape from a second-hand store.
Investigators said CCTV footage from the Trash Converters second-hand store in Cardiff depicted a man in G-string underwear going through boxes of toys until he found a Batman mask and cape.
The suspect donned the mask and cape, as well as a silk sash reading "bride to be," and ran off into the night after about a half-hour behind the store.
Michelle Rowe, owner of Trash Converters, said the man in the Batman outfit "didn't look too bad in it either."
Police said their investigation led them to an address where they seized the mask, cape and sash. The home's resident, a 35-year-old Cardiff man was arrested and charged with stealing and entering enclosed lands.
"I just wanted something special for the wedding and couldn't afford a tuxedo, he said. The sash was for my girlfriend."
The man was released on bail. The wedding is currently on hold.
I've got to run.....I'm running an hour behind.
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