Turn back the clocks

It is Saturday, November 05, 2011 and tomorrow morning at 2:00 AM, we turn the clocks back. One of the headlines in today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal read “Time to Go Back in Time”, with the photo of clocks underneath. That headline should inspire a few stories or poems.

It is fall and we step back in time one hour, while in the spring, we step forward one hour. That one hour messes up my sense of time for a couple of days. I am not sure how it will affect my sleep. As it is, I wake up sometime between 2:00 and 3:00 AM on a regular basis. Sometimes, I wake up about 1:00 AM then go back to sleep for about an hour and wake up again. This cycle usually last for a couple of weeks and then I go back to my regular sleep pattern.

For the past few day, I wake up about 1:05 go back to sleep until about 2:00, when I usually get up. If this pattern continues tonight, then I can turn the clocks back then; however, I need to turn only three clocks back, which are the alarm, the coffee pot, and the microwave because the rest of the clocks are automatically set back by their programs.

Did you remember to fall back today?

I did not set my clock back last night. This morning I woke up about 4:15, at least I thought that was the time. It turns out I woke up at 3:15. My computer set itself back, I had to set the alarm clock back myself. I am sure I set it four or five minutes fast, but I will wait until tomorrow to find out if that is true.

All the clocks are set back now. The next thing I have to do is put Mom's clock in her room and set it. Mom has an electric clock with a battery backup. I am going to get a battery for the clock. I believe my clock has a battery backup as well. I will get batteries for both clocks. It is either that or buy a windup clock in case the electricity goes out.

I like to know what time it is, even if I have no place to go. This coming week I have several places to go all in the mornings. I have a full week ahead of me and the only thing I want to do is to stay home.