h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm another year older.


I've typed many words and deleted them all.

So, I'm another year older. Anything I try to say after this....


Nevermind.

Ok...


So that was my birthday message to the world, in an angry drunken voice.


I've actually had a fairly pleasant holiday; my birthday included. My parents and I agreed a few years ago to not buy presents for each other, but to buy a single present for ourselves, wrap it, and open it on Christmas day and show the others what "they bought" for each other. I suggested this tradition because the three of us are uniquely impossible to shop for. I'm picky, my father is impetuous and buys what he wants when he wants it, and my mother is a saint and wants for nothing.

This year we all enjoyed Christmas day, a few extended family members came buy for dinner, and my mother was happy they did. It was a good day.


However...

When I asked my parents what they got for themselves, my mother said that their cruise vacation a couple months earlier was present enough.



Damn it! No!


That was a vacation. Not a present.



I suggested this to relieve the stress I had and they had about obligatory gift buying. But it only works if each of us treat ourselves to a proper gift opened before the others to alleviate the angst of shopping from the others.


Shit!

This place isn't very fun right now.

Oy!

This place is as much fun as you want it to be, My Lord


As for presents, Hubby and I did something similar one year. We both went shopping and as we passed each other in the aisles said 'Thank you darling'.

Now we each buy a little something - This year he bought me a number of CD's. I am currently listening to Albatross from the Silence is Golden compilation discs. All the music from my youth is there!!


lil


*dances round her *

No... it's not as fun as I want it to be.

There is rude behavior and name calling and many people have left or are threatening to.

Even I am beginning to think about doing as I was told and "just go away".

Who has told you to go away??


We can't have that... No, not at all


*lifts up her Matt*


Would you like some ? My friend MS leaves me loads of it for when I get peckish

Itsh raaather niiish

Youish most welcomez, hunny


*wipes lips from his Lordship's cheek*

New years eve, when I got home, I went to retrieve my dog Nessie from my parents house downstairs. Nessie is a nervous and frightful dog on a good day. With all the fireworks being shot off in my little redneck, crackhead town, she was in a terror.

Normally she greets me at the door ready to go upstairs. When she's scared, she hides on her bed in the corner of the back room behind my father's computer desk. But she wasn't there. So I checked in the utility room. She wasn't there either so I checked upstairs on the off chance my mother took her up there before the battleground heated up. Still no sign of her. So I went back downstairs and finally saw her poking her nose out from behind the shower curtain. She was so frightened she hopped into the bathtub.

Oh the poor love. I hope she's settled down now


lil xx

Oh, yeah. She was in a playful mood the next morning.

It's the first day of DST.

I'm surprised I'm feeling as alert as I am. Besides the early wake up, I was up rather late due to a drunk driver stuck in the ditch in front of our yard. At about 10:30 last night, I heard the sound of wheels spinning. I didn't think much about it until I heard it repeating. I got out of bed and looked out the window and saw the car in our ditch. We've had a LOT of rain for the last day or so making the ground quite soft. This guy was going nowhere but that didn't stop him from trying. I took a quick pic of his license plate just in the very unlikely chance he managed to get out, but it was unnecessary. Our ditch is rather deep and narrow and he was in the bottom of it. Even if the ground wasn't soaked, that car was well and thoroughly stuck. I called 911 as the non-emergency number lead us through an unnavigable automated phone tree. I don't think this guy could have gotten away in any case as he couldn't even stand up, much less run away. If the police had arrived 20 seconds earlier they would have caught him with his manhood in hand relieving himself in our front yard.

The tow truck finally pulled away at nearly 1:00am. This weekend I'll need to try to repair the ruts in the ditch. That ditch is difficult enough to mow as it is.

I suspect I should have little problem getting to sleep early tonight if I can manage to stay awake here at worhgggggggggjyvbuyjhvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvb,j

I'm not so averse to the change, as you probably recall, but I'm not at all keen on it happening this early. Now, it could be because it's raining heavily and therefore the sky is completely overcast with thick cloud, but here we are at 7.30am and it's still pitch dark outside, because this time last week it was 6.30. I was just getting used to it being light by the time my alarm goes off at 7am.

Yeah, it would be nice to wait until Spring actually arrives to Spring Forward.

Oh, I should mention the other people I saw last night before the police showed up. There were three people talking to the drunk when I walked up to take photos of the licence plate and the drunk (too dark). They were probably just passing by, but they were trying to convince the young man to turn off and get out of the car. One was on foot, two were on bicycles, one with a trailer behind it (ice cream peddler?). All were wearing rain gear as it was spitting down. It was too dark to get a look at anyone other than the driver (I shined my flashlight in his face to get a look at him). I was too amped up on adrenalin to talk to the bystanders, but I wish I had now. I'm very curious about that trailer and what they were doing riding bicycles in Bacliff on a rainy Sunday night. They're probably interesting folks.

I heard on the radio mere minutes ago that a Texas legislator is introducing a bill in the current session to take us out of the time change because, among other people not happy about it, mothers are brassed off about sending their kids to school in the middle of the night and putting them to bed in broad daylight at 8pm.

No. No, no, no. If anyone takes away those long summer evenings, *I'm* going to be unhappy about it

Firstly, kids aren't going to school in the middle of the night, they're going to school at the same time. Secondly, even if the clocks don't change, kids will still be going to bed when it's light in June and early July, around the time of the longest day.

Well, boo ing hoo. Try living further north, where the days are longer in the summer and shorter in the winter. Or even further north, beyond the Arctic Circle, where it never gets dark in the summer and never gets light in the winter. What happens here is a very, very small inconvenience. There's no law or regulation or convention that says kids have to go to bed when it's dark. In fact, when they're young it's almost impossible to put them to bed in the dark during the summer months, unless you live close to the equator where the sun is up for 12 hours all year round.

If the bill passes and we stay on winter time it'll start getting light at at 5.00am instead of 6.00am around the time of the summer solstice; I don't think anyone sends their kids to school that early. And it'll be dark by 8.00pm instead of 9.00. That's not summer to me

I don't care about the problems of kids or their parents, (breeders... <spit&gt, but I do hope they drop DST. It's a needless program that does nothing but give me jetlag once a week. That "extra hour of daylight" isn't a gift, it's a trade-off. If you want it, feel free to get up an hour earlier on your own. There will still be longer daylight hours in Summer without it. It's called seasons.

The folks at the John Oliver's show, _Last Week Tonight_, agree.
http://youtu.be/br0NW9ufUUw

(Once a YEAR),


Oh, I learned something about those mysterious folks that were riding bikes in the rain Sunday evening (with the drunk in our ditch).

According to our neighbor across the street, these folks go around and pilfer from people's yards and garages at night. That's what the trailer was for.

That explains why they buggered off when I came out to take pictures of the car and call the police.

If there's to be no change of clocks we should stay on summer time all year round. I have no problem getting up in the dark, and anyone who goes to work early in the morning has to do it for most of the year anyway. If that was the case it'd start getting light around 8am in late December and be dark by 6pm, instead of 7am/5pm.

NO! Time is arbitrary enough as it is. Noon wanders on it's own ( A3239796 ) enough, no need to shift it an hour away from midday.