Today marks the beginning of Daylight Savings Time … and what could possibly go wrong?

I was up bright and early at four AM … except that it wasn’t. It was five AM.

I knew this because I had fallen asleep playing Sudoku on my trusty Netpad. The timer on the game said I had been playing for well over two and a half hours. But the PC clock said otherwise.

Change the Mickey Mouse clock by my bedside.

Roll over and go back to sleep remembering the man who gave me the clock … and how we had gotten each other matching Mickey Mouse wrist watches for Christmas.

Can’t take life too seriously, after all.

Woke up at six o’clock seven o’clock and read this:

As reported by ABC, “Researchers in Sweden reported in 2008 in the New England Journal of Medicine that the number of heart attacks jumps during the period immediately following time changes, and that those vulnerable to sleep deprivation should be extra careful.”

Okay, so I popped an aspirin and continued reading.

“These transitions can disrupt chronobiologic rhythms and influence the duration and quality of sleep, and the effect lasts for several days after the shifts.”

Well if that’s not an argument for a nap at 0-dark-thirty, I don’t know what is. So I rolled over and went back to sleep. Planned to let my internal alarm wake me up at no later than 10:30.

Woke up at 11:30.  How do you reset your internal alarm, anyway?

Heard that “The extra hour of daylight has been credited for preventing traffic injuries and reducing crime …” And the US Department of Transportation wouldn’t lie about something like that, would they?

Remembered that I had to go out and take some things across town, run some errands, return a movie. Beautiful day outside. So it’s all good. I threw open the windows and made coffee.

No milk? No problem. I’ll just use the cream I had gotten for making soup. In my super strong coffee.

OK. Here’s a hypothetical question. What happens if you are a little bit sensitive to food preservatives and lots of dairy products … and you use lots of real cream (with preservatives) in your super strong morning coffee?

Hint: I’ve been contemplating Daylight Savings Time mostly from the inside of one particular room in my house.

Cancel running around. Close windows. Except maybe the bathroom window.

I was comforted knowing that I was not alone in dealing with this time shift … until I saw this:

Aside from Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Marianas and the Virgin Islands do not move their clocks forward.

Arizona doesn’t do it (except in the Navaho Nation up north there) because of the temperatures. According to an editorial “… we must wait until about 9 p.m. DST to start any night-time activity such as drive-in movies, moonlight rides, convincing little children it’s bedtime, etc.  And it’s still hot as blazes!”

So some areas don’t have it. But for the rest of us, it’s a challenge, right?

Everyone knows that when you Spring Ahead it’s also a good time to put new batteries in smoke detectors. But of course that would require batteries. Which I do not have. And am not going outside to get.

They were new when I installed them four months ago. I think they are OK till we Fall Back.

I actually love when Daylight Savings Time kicks in. It lets me go places later. And I don’t feel like the day is over at five in the afternoon. And if there was any Seasonal Affective Disorder in the house … well, sunlight cures a lot of things including that.

So, Happy Daylight Saving Time everybody.

Ear Worm Warning. I went out to Facebook and saw this posting from a friend. Although I was a big fan of the Flintstones, I pretty much stopped watching when Pebbles and BamBam became the main story line.

I listened to it and couldn’t get it out of my head for several hours. I suffer. You suffer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4l3UsOle6k