you just move around the times you deal with the heat, really.

DST is bad enough--then some institutions shifting their hours by an hour because they need to compensate for the dealine with the heat hours? Crazy.

Of course, if everyone shifts, you might as well not have had DST in the first place.

I thought it was light, not heat?

Personally, I prefer that we have light in the morning earlier -- because I wake up better that way.

Damn, those fore-edge paintings are amazing, particularly the videos!

Aren't they amazing? For years, I've harbored a fantasy that I pick up an old book in a flea market where they had never fanned the pages to see what they had and gotten a fore-edge painting for a song.

I thought it was light, not heat?

The issue is light in most of the world, but in Arizona, it's the heat. From Wikipedia:

Arizona did observe DST in 1967 under the Uniform Time Act when the state legislature did not enact an exemption statute that year. In March 1968, the DST exemption statute was enacted and the state of Arizona has not observed DST since 1967 (however, the large Navajo Indian Reservation, which extends from Arizona into two adjacent states, does). This is in large part due to energy conservation since the temperature in and around Phoenix and Tucson is hotter than any other large U.S. metropolitan area during the summer, resulting in more power usage from air conditioning units and evaporative coolers in homes and businesses. An extra hour of sunlight while people are active would cause people to run their cooling systems longer, thereby using more energy.

Lemon cupcakes are now in the oven. My apartment smells all lemony.

Okay, thanks Typo & Ginger. I may email you later for more info.

Arizona still doesn't switch?

We're the only (continental) ones now, since Indy caved! I feel quite crotchety about it. It's a thing. You young whippersnappers with your crazy, mixed up time! And actually, it's perfectly easy to live without it. We barely notice that you've all changed. Except for tv schedules. Which is just weird.

For a while, though, our entire family lived in non-change zones. We were in Arizona, my folks were in Hawaii & the SO's folks were in Indiana. We were very smug with our non-changingness.

My next door neighbour was hoarding my new flash drive. Sure, I had it shipped to the wrong apartment number, but he could have given it to me, you know?

Opened it and everything. When I knocked on his door, he knew just why I was there.

Hmmph. This is the same guy that's been parked in my parking spot since I moved here a few years ago. I tired of that fight fast. And my current parking spot lets me practice my parallel parking skills.

Hmph. That's annoying. I would be annoyed.

The Navajo reservation time thing is odd, too. We used to drive from New Mexico, which changed, to Arizona, which didn't, and then back onto the reservation, which changed. So we'd go through three time changes in about an hour. It was very confusing.

Hmm. The cupcakes turned out really well. The frosting, NSM. I'm waiting to see if sitting in the fridge for a little while will firm it up. If not, either more powdered sugar, or just forget the frosting.

But, yay! I have my drive now and I can install apps on it. Cross-platform Firefox, even.

I think I'm in love.

How did it take me so long to notice that my iPod automatically pauses when I unplug my headphones? Really confused me when I was switching from headphones to the car system yesterday. Neat protection, though.