Spring Forward

Yes, it’s that time of year when we end Standard Time and go into Daylight Savings Time. So it gets darker later – why do we care about that again? I’m not really sure that we ever got a good explanation for that. Farmers, maybe (they don’t care: farmers do things based on crops or livestock, and cows don’t have watches). I remember that during the energy crisis in the 1970’s that we didn’t switch back to “regular” standard time for a while, as somehow keeping sundown later in the day was supposed to save time, but I remember getting on the bus as a student in the dark.

Seems like it’s mostly a habit now – one that my wife doesn’t like because she loses an hour of sleep. I tell her to go to bed earlier or get up later. It’s Sunday – who cares?I was just getting to the point where it was sun up by the time I get to work, and not sun down went I got home – now I’ll show up in the (near) dark for a month or so. It’s better than when I went to work in the dark and came home in the dark – winter’s leaving, and the beginning of Daylight Savings Time is one of the signs of spring – the big storm heading our way Tuesday notwithstanding.

So let’s celebrate losing an hour of sleep with Tinariwen, Delbert McClinton, the Waterboys, Procol Harum, the Pretty Things, Small Faces, Robyn Hitchcock, 801, Garland Jeffreys, Steely Dan, David Bowie, Sparks, Peter Gabriel, and the Beastie Boys.

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