Can't Sleep
I generally think of myself as a pacifist. However if Benjamin Franklin were alive and were within easy reach of me, I would make him walk around with 20 pound weights tied to his testicles. Why? Because it was good ol' Ben who, in 1784, conceived the idea of Daylight Savings Time.
To be fair, Ben was 78 at the time, and was suffering from gout and gallstones, but I don't think that gave him an excuse to make everyone else suffer. Again, to be fair, he was probably half joking when he suggested people turn their clocks ahead. No matter, I still think he deserves to take his punishment for even letting the idea pass from his lips.
Apparently he was in Paris at the time of his misguided revelation. After being shown some new-fangled oil lamp (which got him thinking about artifical versus natural light), he went back to his friend's house and played chess until the wee hours of the morning. He was woken at 6 a.m. by the sun shining through the bedroom window. The solution? Well, he could have tried going to bed earlier next time or pulling the curtains. But no. Ben figured if we all turned our clocks ahead, it wouldn't get light so early in the morning. He even suggested it would save a huge amount of money because people wouldn't spend so much on burning candles and such in the evening.
Well, Ben...I can't say that I'll be seeing a savings on my power bill this month. In fact, my bill will probably go up, because ever since your Daylight Savings Time went into effect on the week-end, I haven't been able to get a decent night's sleep, and I've been up for hours in the night using electricity that I wouldn't normally use. Yes I know...I do give you some points for inventing electricity. But I gotta tell you....this moving the clocks ahead gets a big thumbs down from me. Now be a good boy and put on these weights.
12:29:27 AM 
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