Day 4, Level 2 (Sun 27 Sept 2020): Daylight savings, Broods, furmination, Commitment and Drive
The clocks went forward overnight. This messes with things and I really do think we go into summertime several weeks too early. The weather is still pretty shitty and unreliable. It is definitely not "sit outside and enjoy a bbq" weather quite yet! Spring is never consistently warm and calm. So we have to endure dark mornings and make do with longer evenings that we can't really make the most of for a wee while ... until we actually do get to summer.
I love the nighttime and never like to lose out on hours of darkness, so this last-Sunday-in-September night of going forward into daylight savings is never a good thing for me. It happens at 2am so it is technically snatching an hour of night from us nightowls. And I'm often still up then, so have to grapple with going to bed at 3am! Daytime people see it as being gifted an extra hour of day! It's all perspective!
Farmers have a hard job with cows getting all out of kilter with milking etc - even though that's morning and evening, and not the dark of night, I get it!
Clocks going back at the end of summer is better, at least you get an extra hour of nighttime/sleep. But the cows will get all out of kilter again. They don't know about clocks. Just daylight and natural patterns. Maybe all this switching in and out of natural daylight is making people go just a tad crazy, not just the cows!
Anyway, for a few weeks at least, we're on a straight 12-hour time zone difference from the UK until they go back to normal timezone, which is helpful as it's the easiest part of the year to connect without to much ado.
That single hour time difference that summertime clock changing brings can make an easy link-up awkward for one party or the other, depending on who is on daylight savings. Can be either too late or too early for one or the other, but is manageable with strategy.
But to be honest, with Covid - who knows what the hell time or day or even date it is! I for one have to consult my phone, diary, clock to be sure!
The morning dawned rainy and nasty in Auckland - but definitely not as bad in other parts of the country. Storms have been forecast all week.
A morning of housework (a must-do yawn) - washing sheets, vaccuming, ironing, cleaning. Productive. Dull.
Plus a bit of catch-up work stuff and a long session "furminating" the cat (using a special tool to extract the underhairs of her coat that can produce the dreaded furballs - which she's had for the past week or so, and coughed up). Productive. Not dull. Therapeutic. The furminator looks rather like a razor, except it is not sharp, more like a comb. It cleverly pulls out the fluffy fur beneath the coat proper to minimise what she digests when grooming. I could not believe how much fur came out - and I only did this not long ago. I'll try to make it a weekly ritual, especially as she is moulting - and clearly loves it (like a massage)!
Brett got back from his golf tournament in Palmerston North after midday. He said it was atrocious down there this morning and his golf sounded about as miserable as the weather! He had a decent game yesterday apparently. He's been going to this lawyer's golf tournament for the last 25 years or so. Shows how fast 25 years goes!
I headed to Omaha late afternoon. I have a meeting tomorrow morning Monday up here. Swift drive north, no issues. Stopped at the supermarket to pick up a few things. Upon arrival the weather was calm and lovely, although it had been raining up here through the day and apparently was torrential this morning.
I opened the doors and windows, settled in and let the twilight and subsequent darkness of night seep into the house. Took longer than it might have given clock change!
I made sure I changed the clocks pronto, otherwise I could be inadvertently thrown - and miss my 8am meeting! Which is the very purpose for the trip - so that would be disastrous!
As I type this post, I'm listening to Broods on the TV via YouTube - a brother/sister duo from NZ.
Snippet about them from Wikipedia ...
Broods is a New Zealand music duo from Nelson, composed of Georgia Josiena Nott on lead vocals, with older brother and multi-instrumentalist Caleb Allan Joseph Nott on production and backing vocals. They released the single "Bridges", which went to No. 8 on the New Zealand single chart, and signed with Capitol and Polydor Records. They released their self-titled debut EP, Broods, on 30 January 2014, which was followed by a full-length album, Evergreen, on 22 August 2014. The band has toured with Ellie Goulding, Haim, Sam Smith, and Taylor Swift. They have won ten New Zealand Music Awards. On 24 June 2016, Broods released their second album, Conscious. They released their third album Don't Feed the Pop Monster on 1 February 2019.
I've loved Broods since they came on the scene in 2014 with the fabulous single Bridges. Here are my fave songs of theirs:
- Bridges
- Free
- Heartlines
- Mother & Father
- Couldn't Believe
- Peach
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| Georgia & Caleb = Broods |
Going forward, I'm going to pop in some share-notes of the day based on posts from my Two Words blog I started in 2016 - my own take on/definition of two different words that either complement or contradict each other! I've slightly updated/adapted/improved them from my 2016 version - and they're always written in the second person. They are not plagarised from elsewhere, but emanated from my own chaotic mind!
And although these are not at all cryptic, as a self-confessed rambler and occasional cruciverbalist (crossword compiler), I've tried to write them using one of the three important cryptic crossword clue rules that requires extreme discipline: write only what is necessary, use only words that are required - and nothing more!!! Not so easy to do this as it requires taming said chaotic mind!
SHARE-NOTE OF THE DAY:
Commitment and Drive ...
COMMITMENT:
Never giving up until you see absolutely no point or purpose in continuing.
DRIVE:
Using your energy, determination and abilities to pursue your goals until you reach them - or until the commitment is lost.
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| One of my ink artworks - I think the chap on the right lost his Commitment and/or Drive! |
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