Here in the western world, it’s the way we read.\u00a0 It’s the way we organize things from smallest to largest.\u00a0 In mom’s obscure cleaning system, it’s the way you remember to wipe the counters before you sweep the floor so you don’t rake crumbs onto a clean floor…\u00a0 among a myriad of things.\u00a0 Since it’s the way we read, it’s also the way we lay out our calendars.\u00a0 Yet in every business measurement paradigm, it’s considered a bad thing.\u00a0 Always to the right and up.\u00a0 Increase.\u00a0 Upswing.<\/p>\n
Or not.<\/p>\n
The long and short of things is that regardless of what we do, time marches steadily on to the right and down.\u00a0 At this time of year people tend to pay more attention to a particular moment in time and ascribe particular significance to a certain moment simply because it means you have to get another stack of papers with a new number written on the top so you can keep track of where you’re supposed to be.\u00a0 After spending time in Arizona and then Iraq, and then Arizona again, I have come to see the foolishness in the purportedly ‘energy-saving’ benefits of Daylight Saving Time.\u00a0 It’s a really stupid, stupid idea.\u00a0 And from that thought follows the simple step to “Why does the calendar look like it does?”\u00a0 Why don’t we have 10 months with 36 days each, and a 5 (or 6) day party at the changeover?\u00a0 Tradition dictates<\/em> that we do things this way.\u00a0 And I guess without a particularly specific and pressing reason, there’s no real benefit in changing things.\u00a0 (Thus the self-apparent stupidity in DST, since there’s more light at the beginning of the day too, which is wasted because you’re sleeping until after the sun comes up… but I digress).<\/p>\n So what, dear readers, does this all mean?\u00a0 Bupkus.\u00a0 Diddly.\u00a0 Squat.\u00a0 Sound and Fury.\u00a0 I think that’s going to be my theme for the year.\u00a0 Sound and Fury.\u00a0 Enlightening, but only to the already enlightened.\u00a0 Which is as it generally goes anyway.<\/p>\n F*ck it all.\u00a0 I’m going for a ride, and maybe I’ll post some pictures.\u00a0 Assuming I can find my camera battery charger, which has somehow migrated from its usual spot plugged in above my computer power-cord… Oh well.\u00a0 Either way, some good wheelies should do wonders to cleanse the soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here in the western world, it’s the way we read.\u00a0 It’s the way we organize things from smallest to largest.\u00a0 In mom’s obscure cleaning system, it’s the way you remember […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}