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<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:34:16 -0400, cranky old coot wrote:</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> >"Gain one hour of sleep" How do you figure that Rob?</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Recently seems that everyone wants me to show my computations.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Ok, here goes...</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> This gain-an-hour-of-sleep thing is one of the great constants of the universe. </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> It happens to everyone - regardless of how sane and normal, or paranoid and </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> cranky they are.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Of course, the lucky ones live in ignorant bliss. They set their clocks back </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> just before retiring on Nov 3, and presto, they are sleepy an hour early and </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> hit the sack for an extra hour of sleep. Simple.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> The rest of us (that is, Lou and I) fret and worry about the insanity of it all. </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Or at least, the insanity of daylight savings time. So for 1 to 3 weeks ahead </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> of the change, we stay up late and fret over how it saves no energy, ruins </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Halloween, messes with the VCR, generates worthless TownTalk messages,</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> etc etc.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Yet we still form a plan for how we will deal with it. On Nov 3, I will swallow </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> extra coffee and attempt to stay up to 2 am to make sure my new </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> automatic clock actually sets itself back to 1 am. </FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Lou will do it the old fashion way and set his alarm for 2 am to get up and </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> fumble around setting his clocks and VCR. In reality, he will only succeed </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> at resetting his alarm clock back to 1am, so it will go off again at 2am...</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Of course, both of us have built up weeks worth of sleep deprivation worrying</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> about this. (Check the time stamp on this email). So on Nov 3, despite the </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> coffee and acid reflux, both Lou and I will actually fall asleep in our favorite </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> chair an hour earlier than normal. And sure enough we get an extra hour of sleep</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> too. So the universal constant works even for guys like the cranky old coot and me. </FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> -Rob</FONT><br></div>
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