Domestic Geek

Wow, we got a little bit of snow yesterday. We got well over a foot here in Aurora. When Marcus came to bed at 4 a.m. Sunday, he told me it was just raining, so I decided to sleep in for another hour. By 5:30, I had 3–4 inches of snow on the car. Power kept blipping out at work. It took me well over an hour to get home on the side streets (between the blinding snow and the totally covered Southbound traffic lights). I was amazed at the amounts of dumbasses out driving without their headlights on and without cleaning the cars off. Cleaning a one foot section so you can see out the windshield is totally unacceptable. Oh, and if you're afraid to drive more than 5 miles per hour, STAY HOME!

When I got home, I rousted Marcus out of bed so that we could hit the grocery store. We had absolutely no food here. He wanted bagels for breakfast, so we head out for Einstein Bros. and they were closed. He was disappointed, but least Marcus was having fun driving around in his truck. Traffic around I-70/Airport/Pena Blvd. was at a standstill. Several semis and busses had slid off the road or jack-knifed and were totally blocking the highways and ramps.

Marcus wanted Starbucks and they were open, but we decided to grab the groceries first. By the time we had finished, though, Starbucks had closed. Marcus was soooooo mad. We went home and he was complaining about needing his Starbucks fix. We decided to take the new vehicle out because Marcus needed gas to get to work in the morning and he wanted to see how it handled in the snow. We figured that while we were out, we'd try another Starbucks. I took some pictures of him and Skippy out in the snow. You can see them here. Of course, by this time, almost everybody had closed up. The shopping center at Abilene/Alameda looked like a ghost town. After he got gas, we went home and Marcus had to brew his own coffee. Poor baby.

I don't know if they closed the place where I work yesterday or not. As usual, I got absolutely no phone calls from anybody. I know there were no school orders this morning because I was watching the school closings last night before I went to sleep and their districts were listed. I still got a small bump of excitement when I saw Platt on the closing list until I realized I don't go there anymore. *sigh* I don't really want to go to work if they were closed yesterday because there won't be anything to make. I can't call until 11, because nobody answers the phones until then. That's another pet peeve I have about that place. Even if the phone rings at 10:58 and all work is done and everybody is standing around picking their noses, you can't answer the phone. Losers. Anyway, it would be really nice if the manager would call and tell me not to come in, but I'm not holding my breath.

I just came in from helping Marcus clean off his vehicle so he could get to work. I cleaned off my own car and shovelled the steps while I was out there. It is already warming up out there and temps are supposed to be in the 70s by Wednesday. There probably won't be much evidence that we even had a storm by then. Ah, Colorado weather—gotta love it!

Since it will be about a week or so before I actually begin working my new job, I've decided to give my house a throrough spring cleaning: dusting, windows, carpets, everything. I'm concentrating on a room a day. That should be manageable. Today I tackle the bedroom. I am also going to get my web site finished for school so I'm not trying to do it the night before graduation (Chrissy told me she thinks it is May 21) or some other such stupid thing. If I don't write much over the next few days, that's what I'm doing.

There's going to be an eclipse of the sun today. I love eclipses of all kinds. They're freakin' cool. Unfortunatley, I don't live in an area that will be able to view any part of it.



Bah! The good news, however, is that according to my horoscope, things in my life are going to get better after the eclipse and after Mercury (my ruling planet that has been retrograde) turns direct, all of which is supposed to happen after April 12. Since that is approximately when my new job is supposed to start, things are looking up!

Well, I guess it's a good thing that I'm going to be employed soon and not able to listen to the Sports Zoo on 850 KOA anymore because Scott Hastings is going to be leaving. His last broadcast is tomorrow. One of the reasons I liked the Zoo was because of Scott's humor. Dave is so dang stiff. Oh, well. I wish Scott the best and can certainly understand wanting to spend more time with your family. He's spread himself rather thin this year between radio, coaching, Broncos and Nuggets.

I suppose it all depends on who the replacement is, but I doubt I'll be listening much after Scott leaves. Especially if it is that CJ Johnson guy that filled in for Dave during football season. Ugh. I wonder if they're trying to get the format back to more sports.

The radio stations have totally jacked me. I really don't listen much anymore, anyway. They keep moving my favorite shows to time slots when I don't or can't listen. At least Coast to Coast is still on KHOW overnight and Rick Barber is still on KOA.

What the hell is wrong with the people in Congress? It's bad enough that we have this stupid, outdated system of Daylight Saving Time, but why in hell would we extend it?

Lawmakers crafting energy legislation approved an amendment Wednesday to extend daylight-saving time by two months, having it start on the first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November.

"Extending daylight-saving time makes sense, especially with skyrocketing energy costs," said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Michigan, who along with Rep. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, co-sponsored the measure.

The amendment was approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee that is putting together major parts of energy legislation likely to come up for a vote in the full House in the coming weeks.

"The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use," said Markey, who cited Transportation Department estimates that showed the two-month extension would save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day.

The country uses about 20 million barrels of oil a day.

This is so stupid. Screwing with time only screws with people. We have more accidents, we get sick, we are less productive as we acclimate to time changes. I don't see how this will result in less energy use. We are becoming more and more of a 24-hour society. We have computers on in our home 24 hours a day. Anybody who has been on the road at 4 am knows that there are people up and about. There is a set amount of daylight at any given time of the year. There is no way they can legislate more daylight. If people want to utilize the existing daylight better, then isn't that their responsibility?

Let's just dump Daylight Saving Time altogether and stop this stupidity. Isn't there more important things like illegal aliens, wasteful government spending, etc. that congress should be worrying about?