Yahoo!! It's up!

[SadieKate]

Just to say, thank goodness. The withdrawal symptoms were getting pretty severe!

[MomOnBike]

It wasn't just the withdrawal.

When I was getting the "You are not permitted to view this page I thought nobody here loved me anymore. {whimper}

Glad to see my friends back where they belong.

[JanT]

I, too, was in mental pain! One of my greatest pleasures of the day is checking out the scoops in the forums. And on days when work prevents a ride, it helps prevent withdrawl symptoms.

[Trek420]

whew I was about to join Betty Ford clinic for withdrawl symptoms... but it's worth it all for the full color smilies, lavendar background, and i can make italic type

[spazzdog]

Ain't it perdy!

[MightyMitre]

Oooh - very snazzy. I ,like many others was starting to get worried. Glad we're back in business

[MightyMitre]

Hee hee - just noticed we've now got the time of post. I notice Spazzdog & Trek420 posted at 3.30am . Now either you guys stay up very late or that's you time of posting in British time.

PS I'm like a kid in a toy shop - brace yourselves for load of 'Guess what - it now does this' style messages

[spazzdog]

It's showing post time as per your time zone... my post was 11:44 pm edt. I can't stay up til 3 am anymore

[MightyMitre]

Looks like I'm going to have to learn a whole load of time zones. What's EDT to get me started.

[SadieKate]

EDT = Eastern Daylight Time (I think) as opposed to Eastern Standard Time. Our USA rightcoasters are in this zone.

This may seem silly, but do you have the whole daylight savings thing going on there in the UK or Europe? We do, except a few states or cities opt out. Gets kind of confusing when you can't remember what the time is for your co-workers.

[cyclingnewbie]

I'm not here all the time, but I thought it was just me when I couldn't get in. Hello ladies! It's great to see all of you again.

[MightyMitre]

Hi Cyclingnewbie - glad you made it back

Sadiekate - we do have daylight saving although here it's colloquially known as 'Changing the Clocks'. Around the last weekend in October we put the clocks back one hour so we have more daylight in the morning ( or that's the theory - just means it gets dark an hour earlier than normal , bah!) . Then round the last weekend in March they go forward again so we get nice light evenings again. Fall back, Spring forward - is a useful rhyme to remember what's going on.

However, the UK is always an hour behind France, even when the clocks go forward.

How do you cope with different time zones in the same country? Us little UK islanders get all in a flap when it changes by an hour!

[spazzdog]

In the U.S. almost all the states do the Daylight Savings adjustment... is it Nevada that doesn't?

So from end Oct to end Mar the whole country is adjusted back an hour, then come Spring we all "spring forward"... except those one or two who stay in spring time all the time.

Have I got that right ladies?

[nuthatch]

You can't believe all the work I got done while the forum was down! Now I know where all the time goes when I should be making dinner, washing clothes, working, etc.!

MM, I've got a sister in Mountain Time, a sister in Eastern Time, a sister (in law) in Pacific Time and I'm in Central Time. Makes phone calls crazy!

[CorsairMac]

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! When I got the "your IP address is on this servers rejection list" I actually sent a message to TE asking them if I had said or posted something I was unaware of that had booted me from the board. I was already thinking how to start a TE Board Anon for recovering ex-TE posters but - whew - it wasn't me! I LOVE the new look but it's gonna take some time to get used to moving around in This one!

And MM - my posts should show up as MST or MDT which is Mountain Standard Time. It puts me 2 hours behind the east side ladies and I guess I just don't think about the time difference. It just is! (heavy thoughts for the day no?!) Anyway, welcome back everyone - gosh I missed you!!!!

Actually Spazz: it's Indiana - parts of it, and all of Arizona don't change time. I lived both places before moving to New Mexico and LOVED it! I HATE the time change. How do you tell your body - ok hun...its an hour ahead now on the clock so you gotta change your inner clocks??