Sat 10 Mar 2007
Today, after a hard workout and a pow-wow in the steam room, I weighed myself on the sliding weights scale AND at home on my digital bodyfat scale after a Black Angus prime rib dinner, and I’m STILL in the 120s! Yay! That means that after I debloat, I’ll be in the low 120s, and then I’m back on track to before I gained weight due to my inability to work out those 2 weeks I was deathly ill.
People have been reminding me to turn my clock forward an hour at 2am Sunday morning, which is in a few hours. I always rely on other people telling me to know when to spring forward and fall back, so it was news to me that it’s actually 2 weeks early this year. Really? Why change it? Cuz now we’re not gonna match up right internationally, since everyone globally is expecting us to maintain this time standard for another couple weeks. I’m glad I don’t work in a job where I have to deal with the technical problems this will cause on the computers and international stock trade.
Also be glad you don’t work in a hospital on 3rd shift because in the fall they make you stay an extra hour…but then you get off an hour earlier and lose that pay in the spring. I guess it evens out but yuck!
Oh yeah, I didn’t think about that! Yuck!
Mmm black angus prime rib dinner, that’s one of my favorites!
The time change thing wreaked some havok at work. Usually all the computers and meeting schedules are automatically shifted. Now that they changed it we had to patch all our computers and run special programs to move all of our meetings.
Of course it never works out right and it took us a week to figure out how to fix all the recurring meetings and make sure they occur at the right time after the time shift!
As one of the computer people responsible for patching for the new DST, let me tell you, it sucks! Patches kept changing every week, and some companies didn’t have a patch available till the 1st of this month. Which didn’t leave us enough time to actually test them, so we just installed them in production and prayed nothing broke, which of course it did.
I hate DST!
Yeah, I’m still glad I don’t have your jobs.
Yeah, it is affecting my work, too. People’s meetings are all over the place. I totally forgot to set my clock forward and was late to practice and almost late to work today. Thank goodness for roommates to wake you up and tell you it’s 7:15AM and you need to leave for work soon. I need a remind myself to set it tonight, because waking up in panic mode is so not cool!
half the work day’s over and so far, no impact.
I just realized another thing. While we entered DST the rest of the world hasn’t. So all of our meetings with other parts of the world are moved forward an hour. Bleh, now meetings that used to end at 5:30pm end at 6:30pm!
What the world does for our business.