Leave the clocks alone!  I could see a potential energy savings if we still worked primarily outdoors during daylight hours, but nowadays, we ignore the sun and schedule our lives around the clock.  Businesses and homes alike use electric lights whether the sun is shining or set.  How does changing the time help anything, except to make people tired while they readjust?

Bah.  I’ve already decided that if I ever have a physical storefront, I’m going to change the hours of operation to negate the stupid clock change, so people don’t have to reset their personal biorhythms just to come to work on time.  If businesses want to change their hours during the summer, that’s their choice (car dealerships do, because that’s their busy season), but the government should get its nose out of our lives.

I guess I just always expected that someone who wanted a mail-order bride would be the one to initiate contact, not the other way around…

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Interesting. Apparently my no-longer-existent PayPal account is in danger of some sort of administrative nightmare. Riiiiiight.

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Again with the British Lottery. Really, now, people, how many times do you think I can win this thing without entering one? This one’s not as much fun; still has bad grammar from supposedly English writers, still two people referenced in the email and a third in the return address, and still asking for my full bio for ID theft ahem, winner verification purposes, but not nearly so much entertaining filler to shoot themselves in the foot.

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Except not. Look what I got in my inbox this time! I’m interspersing comments because I can’t help myself

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