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Watcha' Doing - 2021
Sorry to go back, but thanks for those links on daylight savings Kristie. I can see what you mean now. For me reading them, I completely understand that issue. It sounds like people aren't able to adapt to the new time patterns for a week or two. I get that. My body clock wakes up at 10am and sleeps at 2am. This is unacceptable for no real reason in modern society. I have to adapt every week to wonky sleep cycles as I'm expected to be at work between arbitrary times. My body thank goodness is really quick at adapting to these sleep cycle changes as I have to be, but others aren't at all. And the last few nights on 5 hours sleep trying to get back in a rhythm is hard.
I also find it interesting as comparitively to you guys, we are talking about very minor changes to our light to you guys in the North. Here we are talking about sunset between 7pm or 8pm. Janice's comment about it at 1am is mind boggling. I think I need to remember we are all talking the same sort of sport but maybe some of us are talking cricket and some baseball :)
Shirley wrote: "Rusalka wrote: "Why anymore? Tech has changed a lot but hasn't been able to change the sun. Nah, those extra hours of daylight here at a normal time at 7pm instead of 4am are wonderful. And I don't..."Oh I am so glad you caught my dig lol. I completely understand :D
For the rest of you, in the rest of Australia, Queenslanders are considered a bit slow. And in summer due to the lack of daylight savings they are literally 1 hour slower.
Kristie wrote: "I am currently doing the Inca Trail one, which is pretty short. I think it's probably a better value for your money if you choose a longer one, but I wanted to see how I'd do with it first. I think..."Great Ocean Road is gorgeous.
Sandra wrote: "Everyone did better when we came back, though. I am not sure why."You went with the rotation of the earth. As a seasoned jet lag person *tosses hair* just as leaving the country means jet lag, one direction knocks you around HEAPS and the other does not. And it depends if you are travelling with the rotation of the earth or against it.
Against it, so Aus to US for example, is horrid. Aus to Europe which is with the rotation, I can land, sightsee, eat, maybe see a show, and then sleep a night and be fine.
Rusalka wrote: "As a seasoned jet lag person *tosses hair*"Loved this. Lol
Wait. I'm confused. US to France is with the rotation of the earth, and France to US is against it, right?
Jet lag:Going east is killing me. Even going back from the west coast, a 3 hours difference is enough to start a bout of insomnia.
West is better if I can make myself stay awake long enough to go to bed a the proper local time.
Sandra wrote: "Wait. I'm confused. US to France is with the rotation of the earth, and France to US is against it, right?"Oh my god. What is with me at the moment? Yes!
I need to point out that directions are not my strong suit, and I used to write left and right on my shoes as an adult. Lexx also has banned me from using left and right as driving directions, and east and west is also not on.
The jet lag against the rotation of the earth is worse. Apparently I just have no idea which way that is at the moment...
Urgh, so embarrassing!
Oh, no, no. Nothing to be embarrassed about. I'm the same way. It actually took me a while to realize, and took my mouse and "rotate" it to see if it made sense. I'm helpless with orientation too. I learned how to drive when I was pregnant with my 4th child, because it was absurd to pretend to keep using the bus with a line of small people following me. My worst nightmare was I was going to be perpetually lost, and for a long, long time driving outside of my city made me so anxious I could barely sleep the night before a trip. I'm doing much better now regarding the anxiety (I mostly don't care anymore if I get lost), but not necessarily doing better orientation wise. So I feel your pain.
I'm joining your club!When we're at home Rob sometimes says: 'Peggy, point your finger in the direction of the supermarket' (or park, or church, or mosque, or other things nearby) and my first instinct is ALWAYS wrong. I just can't do this quickly. I can if I can think about it, turn around so that I'm sitting in a better direction (like facing the street), then think about all the roads and turns leading to the supermarket/park/city centre) and then I might be able to get close. It's even worse in unfamiliar places. I could walk around in circles for hours, lol!
Rob on the other hand visits a place once and he remembers it forever. We spend some weeks in Sydney 13 years ago, and just last week he said 'Oh, I can still easily walk from our hostel to the Opera House in my mind. Go left here, right here, we pass this building, that park, etc.' And it was a 30-minute walk, not just around the corner! He always thinks I'm weird for not being able to do that, but I think he's the weird one.
I can also name almost any city or town we've ever been to on our holidays, even if just for a night, and he can find it on the map (I can do that part too!), but then also in a matter of seconds has found the hotel or apartment we stayed at, including detailed information like 'We had an apartment on the second floor, it had a tiny kitchen and a red couch. On the other side of the living room was a hallway and the first door on the right was the bathroom and the second door was a bedroom we didn't use. On the left side was also a bedroom and it had twin beds. If we went out of the apartment it was left left right straight to the supermarket, and right straight left right to the beach.' And he does this for every.single.place of the past 17 years. And we've travelled a lot.
Please tell me he's the weird one.
Heh I didn't think you were embarrassing me, Sandra. I've just had a couple of clangers the past few days!Oh I can understand that would be nerve wracking. But particularly with little people in the car. Just adding more compounding factors. I am glad you feel better about it now though.
I am really good with street names and remembering how to get places after being there once or looking at a map. But directing using lefts and rights, or east and west etc not so much. Problem is Lexx is a directional navigator, and rarely remembers street names. So .... yeah...
Peggy wrote: "Please tell me he's the weird one. "Lol. Probably. But my husband is the same. Not in the sense of remembering so many accurate details, but in orientation. My father too. I always say they both have an internal GPS.
I also point anywhere but where I mean. I would be talking about a place and instinctively point in a direction and that's never it.
I might or might not remember street names, but I'm definitively better at saying things like "in the corner where that big hotel with the balconies is" instead of saying the crossing streets names.
When we visited Rome in 2001 (before smartphones and google maps) my husband and I were checking the a map and deciding where to go next, and when we had decided on something I said "ok. let's go" and started walking in the exact opposite direction. My husband can't believe his eyes when I do things like that. "You still have the map in your hands!". It is kind of a private joke now. One of us will say "ok, let's go" and start walking the wrong way.
I don't know. It just doesn't come to me naturally. It is not how my brain works. I'm famous for giving exaggerated indications to friends to get places. I draw maps, send pictures, add lots of comments. Like if everyone were like me and needed all that extra help...
Rusalka wrote: "My body clock wakes up at 10am and sleeps at 2am. This is unacceptable for no real reason in modern society. I have to adapt every week to wonky sleep cycles as I'm expected to be at work between arbitrary times. My body thank goodness is really quick at adapting to these sleep cycle changes as I have to be, but others aren't at all. And the last few nights on 5 hours sleep trying to get back in a rhythm is hard."
I forgot about this yesterday. My oldest daughter is the same. Her most productive time in the day is between 7 pm and 3 am. She suffered at school, and is doing better now in college because she doesn't take courses early in the morning, and does most of the study during the night. But one day she will have to come back to the real world, which is not ready for people who doesn't fit in the 9am-5pm schedule.
Sandra wrote: "Peggy wrote: "Please tell me he's the weird one. "Lol. Probably. But my husband is the same. Not in the sense of remembering so many accurate details, but in orientation. My father too. I always ..."
You're describing me! :D
It's much easier now with Google maps and the blue dot that moves along and shows you where you are. I have no problems navigating that way. But before, when we had only paper maps, horrible! It reminds me of this scene in Friends where Joey navigates using a map in London and he actually has to go stand on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKCIM...
When we were in Australia it was also way before smartphones, so while Rob drove I had to use a road map to navigate. I did fine on the hundreds of km of straight roads, but in towns and especially cities I just couldn't do it. I got lost on the map all the time, and then when I found a street name and located it on the map, we already moved on so much I had to start over again. We ended up in the Harbour Tunnel in Sydney (first day driving there, trying to get out of Sydney) and downtown Melbourne because of me, even though we had looked at the map before. We weren't even supposed to come near those places. Pfew, lots of stress, I'm surprised our relationship survived ;-)
Peggy wrote: "It reminds me of this scene in Friends where Joey navigates using a map in London and he actually has to go stand on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKCIM...."Lol. Totally identified...
Sandra wrote: "Rusalka wrote: "My body clock wakes up at 10am and sleeps at 2am. This is unacceptable for no real reason in modern society. I have to adapt every week to wonky sleep cycles as I'm expected to be a..."There is a great study where they moved a high school's hours back from 9-3 to 10-4 as teenagers body clock's change. And it showed a dramatic improvement in attendance and achievement. I can't remember were it was now, but it was such a subtle change to respond to a physiological change instead of this weird societal rule, and had significant results.
See, I have much more in common in these circumstances with Rob and your husband, Sandra. Lexx frequently relies on me to navigate in unfamiliar places as unless he gets a good visual landmark, he has issues with things like street or place names.My problem is I'll get you there, but you just have to follow. If I have to direct you with descriptive terms which aren't "Go up Kings St and turn onto Queens Ave", then I'm stuffed. I can get there, but my instinctive directions are wrong.
I had to check my hands today while writing an email describing which side the cell was on a spreadsheet that I needed people to fill in (right for those wondering).
It's funny how we're all so different in this.
Rusalka wrote: "Sandra wrote: "Wait. I'm confused. US to France is with the rotation of the earth, and France to US is against it, right?"Oh my god. What is with me at the moment? Yes!
I need to point out that ..."
LOL!
One of my friends is directionally challenged. We have so many funny stories about her. There is an annual folk fest in the area that we call "hippy fest". It's a rural event and you take campers, trailers, tents etc. We'd hang a neon coloured bra up on a flag pole so that she could find her way back to our group. The year I went, our group did a Hawaiian theme, and the bra was fuchia pink. The year before, the theme was Mexico and the bra was neon green.
Oh, and talking about maps! We were in Vancouver and I had the map. I said, "Turn left at the next intersection." Jerry turned left, and I turned the map. "Turn another left here." Jerry turned left, I turned the map. He almost blew a gasket when I took us in a complete circle. Another friend used landmarks to denote the directions. She knew the hospital was east and the airport was west. It worked fine until she was east of the hospital and wanted to go east. She'd head in the direction of the hospital, only to be going west.
Change of subject... just to let you all know that I'm going to be away for the next couple of days. I have to go to Edmonton for my 6 month angiogram and ultrasound. It's actually 7 months since I had the procedure but we couldn't coordinate appointments in February. I plan to be home on Friday night providing the doctor doesn't have any surprises in store. It will likely take me a bit to catch up on tracking challenge reports, so bear with me.
Janice wrote: "Rusalka wrote: "Sandra wrote: "Wait. I'm confused. US to France is with the rotation of the earth, and France to US is against it, right?"Oh my god. What is with me at the moment? Yes!
I need to..."
Funny!
Festivals are the worst though. There's thousands of tents, all sort of the same, how can you ever find your way? If I had to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, I always had to wake Rob to go with me. I don't think he would let me go alone either, I would probably never get back. Unless we would be straight across from the toilets, but honestly, that's not really a place you want to pitch your tent either. And I can't count the times people arrived at our tent, lost. They were mostly male, drunk and/or on drugs though.
Janice wrote: "Change of subject... just to let you all know that I'm going to be away for the next couple of days. I have to go to Edmonton for my 6 month angiogram and ultrasound. It's actually 7 months since I..."Good luck Janice!
Good luck Janice, hope everythong goes well.
Good luck, Janice. Glad you were able to coordinate it in arch and hope it goes well for you. I can't believe it's been 7 months already.
Thanks! I'm feeling anxious and just want it over with. This will not be my last angiogram unfortunately. There is still bleeding going into the aneurism. March does work better. The weather was extremely uncooperative in February and then there were other glitches - like making me an appointment and not informing me about it. Another glitch was that my neurosurgeon was scheduled for a Covid rotation.
One thing I've really noticed this time around is a significant decline in efficiency and coordination. I'm attributing it to covid burnout. Edmonton had a very difficult time with numbers and hospital admissions. You know things are bad when a neurosurgeon has to do a covid-rotation.
ok. One of the annoying thing about daylight saving time. It is hell when you are working with people all over the globe.So we have these sessions at work. Because we have people all over the place, There are a few time slot available to suit everyone`s schedule.
I registered for the 6h PDT. This means 9h EDT for me, I received a confirmation for 14h GMT which is 10h EDT. So I have no idea when this thing is.
Janice wrote: "We'd hang a neon coloured bra up on a flag pole so that she could find her way back to our group."I should do something like this to find my car in parking lots. :/
Janice wrote: "Change of subject... just to let you all know that I'm going to be away for the next couple of days. I have to go to Edmonton for my 6 month angiogram and ultrasound. It's actually 7 months since I..."Good luck, Janice! We'll be thinking of you.
Esther wrote: "ok. One of the annoying thing about daylight saving time. It is hell when you are working with people all over the globe."Oh, how annoying. Yes, this is also something that gets messed up for a few days after the time change.
Sandra wrote: "Janice wrote: "We'd hang a neon coloured bra up on a flag pole so that she could find her way back to our group."I should do something like this to find my car in parking lots. :/"
Hahahaha!! This made me laugh out loud. You could tie it to your car like they do ribbons on suitcases at the airport. 😆
Janice wrote: "Change of subject... just to let you all know that I'm going to be away for the next couple of days. I have to go to Edmonton for my 6 month angiogram and ultrasound. It's actually 7 months since I..."All the best, Janice. Hope all goes well.
Kristie wrote: "Hahahaha!! This made me laugh out loud. You could tie it to your car like they do ribbons on suitcases at the airport. 😆 "..."lol. I should seriously consider it.
Good luck, Janice. Hope all goes smoothly. About those colored bras....did you have to buy one specially for the occasion or was it just one that was hanging out in the drawer? Neon green? Fuchia pink? Terrific!
Getting things ready for major storms to come through here early in the morning or whenever they decide. Flashlights ready, candles, fully charged electronics (including my Kindle!), space made in closet, inhaler in my pocket and pillows ready. Hoping it’s much ado about nothing but local storm warnings predict tornadic activity and winds up to 60 mph. So there’s that!
Sharon, I hope it's not very bad. Good you are getting ready. Are you in an area where this happens often?
Sandra wrote: "Sharon, I hope it's not very bad. Good you are getting ready. Are you in an area where this happens often?"Yes. It seems like it is getting an earlier start and with more storms. We are in middle Georgia so just a tad north of tornado alley. Alabama gets it really bad. Usually April and May are the worst months. We do what we can. Trusting all will be well. I have family and friends scattered across the state so we will be up and listening. Thank you for your good thoughts.
I see. So you know already what to expect. I'll be thinking of you.
Sandra wrote: "I see. So you know already what to expect. I'll be thinking of you."Thank you! We’ll be okay.
I'm so happy that I received my special signed Robin Hobb books that I've been waiting for, its been 5 months and I already gave up. Ahhh how sweet of her to do this signing all for free. <3
Janice wrote: "Change of subject... just to let you all know that I'm going to be away for the next couple of days. I have to go to Edmonton for my 6 month angiogram and ultrasound. It's actually 7 months since I..."Hope all goes well Janice 🤞
Hope all the tests go well, Janice! I can't believe it's been that long, but I'm really glad it's flown by.Good luck with the storm, Sharon. Sounds like you guys are well prepped and know what to do. Doesn't make it less scary, so hope all is okay.
Rusalka wrote: "Hope all the tests go well, Janice! I can't believe it's been that long, but I'm really glad it's flown by.Good luck with the storm, Sharon. Sounds like you guys are well prepped and know what to..."
Thanks, Rusalka. We are still under a tornado watch and it is very overcast and rainy, but not much to worry about. It looks like it has split to go around us. The frustrating part is that it is always a “dire” situation so it is hard to gauge the degree of the storm, but I know weather prediction is an iffy thing. Although tornadoes did hit in Alabama, there was fortunately no fatalities. Just the start of our Spring. Thanks for thinking about us!
No worries! Storms are always unpredictable too. They do their own thing and whip up winds or things by themselves. Better to be prepared and it being a false alarm.Glad all is good.
Janice wrote: "Change of subject... just to let you all know that I'm going to be away for the next couple of days. I have to go to Edmonton for my 6 month angiogram and ultrasound. It's actually 7 months since I..."Good luck, Janice. Hoping all goes well! We will all be thinking about you until you get back home!
Janice wrote: "Change of subject... just to let you all know that I'm going to be away for the next couple of days. I have to go to Edmonton for my 6 month angiogram and ultrasound. It's actually 7 months since I..."Good luck! I hope it went well, Janice.
Janice wrote: " Farmers continue to work their schedule regardless because - cows! LOL! If they are harvesting, they're in the fields way past sundown any way."Yes! Farmers don't care what time the clock says - they do what they do regardless - my hubby is an urban farmer. He has no concept of time - he is ruled by the sun and the weather not the clock. I, on the other hand, HATE the time change!
Dawn wrote: "Kristie wrote: "I do know people that feel it for a full week though and I find the research interesting...."I am jealous of anyone who only feels the effects for a day or a week with the time ch..."
Same Dawn! I have been dragging all week and it's not done. Even the better one in the fall messes me up for at least a week. It wasn't always that way for me, but it sure is now!
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