My time change fumbles are behind me now. No, I didn’t reset the alarm clock. I dunno if the GG did or not. My take-away from that minor debacle was “look at your iPhone if you want to know the time.” One of the funny parts of this is that the GG often randomly tells me what time it is. Um. I KNOW what time it is. Why did he not tell me what time it was at 6:00 AM yesterday? Because he was not awake. Snore.

The truth is, I don’t really need every clock in the Landfill to tell the correct time, or any time. I don’t even need the alarm clock to do that. There are four clocks that I need to be accurate and three of them change themselves. The automatic ones would be my iPhone and our automotive vee-hickles Cygnus X-1 (2021 Subie Crosstrek) and Mooon Yooonit (2018? Toyota RAV4) change automatically. Not 100% sure about Mooon Yooonit because I don’t drive it a lot but probably.

The one other clock in the Landfill that I like to be accurate is Gertrude’s clock. Gertrude is my stove and she is named after a cartoon that was affixed to the inside door of the broom closet in the kitchen of my childhood home, a shabby little bungalow on Superior Street on the back side of “Stinkin’ Linkin'” school in Sault Ste. Siberia. In the cartoon, Gertrude is on her back, draped across an ironing board, totally exhausted. Alas, I cannot find this cartoon ANYWHERE. I can only guess it was lost when my parents moved away from that shabby little bungalow to my (dead) grandparents house up on the hill. Not as shabby as the bungalow but not fancy either. Changing Gertrude’s time (the stove, I mean) is a couple of user friendly clicks.

Other clocks? I do not care. The microwave and other appliances, the time either flashes 00:00 or doesn’t display anything at all. Doesn’t matter.

In the grand scheme of things, if we do away with the time change, I am a fan of standard time.

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