Time change this!

Arizona knows what’s up…almost. I don’t know or care who made the decision that Arizona would not conform to this time change thing, but it’s nice to know that one state has things almost together. I say “almost” because this time of year things are too crazy with the lack of sunlight during the useful part of the day. Who cares if the sun is up at 6:00 or 7:00 in the morning! I can’t remember the last time I was up that early, but I do know that it was before this last time change.

My life just has not been the same since the time “fell back” - Up is down, and night is day. I can’t seem to get to bed before 4 or 5 in morning. It feels like I should be awake during the night and asleep during the day. How much daylight is there right now anyway, like 8 hours?! I don’t actually know, but I think that is a solid guess. I miss the summer nights lasted like 5 hours and it was daylight the rest of the time. Asking for summertime all the time is too much, but please, can’t we move daylight to end around 6:30PM, since no one cares about it being in the butt-crack early morning hours. I am just asking for my hour to stay where it was when it “sprung forward”.

On top of it all, I feel like I was duped by people telling me that the time change makes sense. At this point, hearing people say “but think about the hour you’ll save!” I don’t see the excitement in this statement. I’m still ticked about the hour I lost the 6 months before. Statements like that remind me of people telling me that my tax return is like free money. Yeah, free money that I work for. Don’t get me started on the tax program!

Arizona, move your time up an hour and we’re talkin’ business. For the rest of the nation that believes in time change - stop kidding yourself and accept the fact that time does not change. Stop messing with my life stupid time change!

PS-Thanks for bringing this issue to my understanding Jim. Haha, Jim!

What’s cool about normal?

The idea of normality seems to cover the majority. Is normal perceived or is it real? That is a question each person can answer for themselves. On top of that each individual should evaluate the value he/she puts into normality. My opinion is that normal sucks! Normal is boring and rarely is it even safe. Normal in uncool and that is the bottom-line.

The history behind my thought on normality comes from a long string of pondering moments where I realized the uniqueness of my friend pool. My friends are cool and must therefore not be normal.

It is true that every friend I have is way cool in their own way. My friends are far from normal. We may be freaks or nerds, but we don’t aim to achieve some form of being like the masses. Sometimes, in a public place you will hear one or a couple of us screaming semi-obscene words louder than the other to see who can say the word the loudest before embarrassment hits. Now and then one of us may run down your street with their pants around their ankles. On occasion we may leave a special little fruit character on your doorstep with a note, all in good fun.

I don’t know what normal people do, but I doubt they have half the fun we do. I remember thinking to myself many years ago (last week) that I wish I truly knew what normal was. I have realized that I will never know normal, and I think I am better off for being so ignorant.

PS – Ben thanks for keeping things exciting and bringing out the freak in us!