Time Change
Letter to children
Dear children, and associated in-laws and outlaws:
Reuel and Brigitte have finally made it to 21st century! Pacific daylight saving time hit us again…and Briggie was frantically punching the buttons on the clock in the Merc. After some minutes and many miles, she gave up. I reached over, hit SEEK, clock hour jumped ahead one unit, we are there!!!!
Knowledge and skill is wonderful. No longer do we have to drive around for months looking at the car clock and trying to remember if we are forward or back and did we? Nor do we have to unhook the battery in cars and remember to re-fasten it exactly 11 hours later!
And inside the house, wow! That was really a bummer, trying to cut the power in the fall and keep it off just exactly one hour so all the electric timers on everything would synchronize. Springtime is lots tougher in spring when we had to keep things off 23 hours. This kind of solution was only partially successful because then all the automatic dates would be wrong. Is it AM or PM and is it really 5th or now the 6th? Aiiee!
So to Joe and Dan and Martina and Ken and Bryan, all your hard earned training hours and patience in teaching us this complicated stuff, has paid off.
Maybe in a couple years we will try to master the VCR thing hiding under the TV.
Dear children, and associated in-laws and outlaws:
Reuel and Brigitte have finally made it to 21st century! Pacific daylight saving time hit us again…and Briggie was frantically punching the buttons on the clock in the Merc. After some minutes and many miles, she gave up. I reached over, hit SEEK, clock hour jumped ahead one unit, we are there!!!!
Knowledge and skill is wonderful. No longer do we have to drive around for months looking at the car clock and trying to remember if we are forward or back and did we? Nor do we have to unhook the battery in cars and remember to re-fasten it exactly 11 hours later!
And inside the house, wow! That was really a bummer, trying to cut the power in the fall and keep it off just exactly one hour so all the electric timers on everything would synchronize. Springtime is lots tougher in spring when we had to keep things off 23 hours. This kind of solution was only partially successful because then all the automatic dates would be wrong. Is it AM or PM and is it really 5th or now the 6th? Aiiee!
So to Joe and Dan and Martina and Ken and Bryan, all your hard earned training hours and patience in teaching us this complicated stuff, has paid off.
Maybe in a couple years we will try to master the VCR thing hiding under the TV.
posted by Daniela | 10:37 AM
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