Have We Done It?

[HoosierGiant]

Have we managed to exhaust every topic imaginable this winter as we look out our windows and hope for spring? Is there anything else that we can discuss? I am BORED - someone come up with something. Quick.

The girls and I took a walk this evening and needed something to brighten the expedition -- brown trees, brown grass, brown ditches, brown fields, brown corn stubble, broken brown beer bottles -- Indiana's not exactly burstin' with Spring colors yet.

Anyway, the following topics were discussed: quarks, anti-matter, Fibonacci numbers, and the wild Przewalski's Horses (in addition to singing the "Beep-Beep! Road Runner" song).

Perhaps these topics would lend themselves to a rolicking good discussion here also!

[snapdragen]

Beep beep! Arrrgh!!! The house next door has been up for sale, it is closing now. Thursday they tented it for termites. I guess the gas or something disagreed with the smoke alarm - it started Thursday, and continued beeping through to Saturday morning. Have I mentioned my bedroom faces the street? I could hear that incessant beeping all_night_long. At about 4:00 am I'm standing out in the driveway, listening and trying to pinpoint the beeping. Figured out what it was, and knew there was nothing I could do (besides be really *****y and call the Realtor at 4 am--but I didn't) I ended up moving to the couch in the back of the house.

Someone showed up this morning and disabled the smoke alarm. Tonight I will sleep!

[divingbiker]

Stupid technology! My alarm clock automatically adjusts for daylight saving time. But, it doesn't know that Congress changed the rules, so this morning I woke up and saw that it was 6:30, so I got up. An hour later, I look at another clock and it's still 6:30!

Dangit! Up and at 'em at 5:30 on a Sunday morning! Not fair!

[OakLeaf]

LMAO divingbiker, I did the exact same thing.

I bought a new PDA in December and stupid me, I assumed it would have the freakin' 2007 DST system update already installed. (Actually I didn't assume that, I'd downloaded and installed the update in my old PDA so long ago that I'd forgotten it even might be necessary. ) So when I looked at it this morning and it said 6:05 a.m., I got up, even though it seemed pretty dark. Well, it was supposed to be cloudy.

By the time I got to the kitchen to make my cup of tea and saw that it was really 5:05 by the oven clock, I was already awake, no point trying to go back to bed for an hour. I assumed I'd just misread my PDA with my sleepy eyes. It wasn't until 7:00, when my PDA rang for a reminder I'd set for 8:00, that I realized what had happened