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change every clock in your house as a reminder idiots are in charge

You would have expected us to be smarter than that, or have our politicians under better control by now.

Nope.

A Tulsa publisher looks at it:

‘Spring forward’ has lots of haters, so why has daylight saving time been so hard to change?

Bitterroot Bugle looks at it: My post three years ago.

daylight savings

Sure is a shame about the hour I am losing this weekend.

It was the one I intended to spend worshiping our government.

While there is even a .gov website describing circadian rhythms, other than the governments of Arizona and Hawaii, […]

welding lighting

I graduated from heavy-metal farmer-grade stick welding to light metal shielded wire feed welding with mixed success.

I recently figured out the pattern.

When the sun through my shop windows was lighting the work, I could see the two metal pieces through my dark helmet screen. When I could see what I was doing my welds were fine.

As soon as that light came on, I ordered some modern LED task lighting. Looking for a way to put it in the right position led me to a tripod I bought three years ago without any purpose […]