Micah 6:8
Matthew 25:13
Yes, your life matters.
We all are still sheltering in place, but I'm here to keep you sane and entertained.
One could hardly ask for much more than that, now could one?
Daylight Saving Time is coming this Sunday. As always, folks are up in arms because we're all going die in car crashes or heart attacks because the clocks move. I don't understand the mechanism here, but the stats indicate that there are more deaths each time we change the clocks.
Now there's a movement for Michigan to stay on Eastern Daylight Time year-round. That seems foolish to me. We moved to Eastern time from Central time about a century ago in order to be on the same time as New York, purely for business reasons. Essentially, we've been on Central Daylight Time whenever we think we're on Standard Time.
If we're going to stick with one time across the year, Eastern Standard / Central Daylight would be my choice. Setting ourselves on Eastern Daylight Time (= Atlantic Standard Time) is setting our clocks about two hours ahead of the Sun. Noon according to the Sun's position would be around 2PM. That seems a bit extreme to me. Eastern Standard time puts solar noon around 1PM, so that's what we consider Daylight Saving Time anyway. Let's stick with that.
I really would like to see us go to a half-hour time (like Newfoundland, to pick the nearest example), but I don't think most people could handle that.
Keep Calm and Stay Away.
I'll be back tomorrow.
The mental health issues related to our lockdown and the pandemic are especially hard for people with depression. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, has a 24 hour helpline: 800-950-6264.
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