Actually the springing forward of returning to Daylight Savings time now isn't as bad -- other than losing an hour of sleep on a Sunday. I'm thinking in terms of the dogs. Losing an hour means that things happen earlier for the boys ... waking up, walking, having dinner. It's the Fall one where we gain an hour and put things off an hour later I think is harder for them.
Why do we do it? Why do we advance clocks during summer months by one hour so that light extends into the evening hours—sacrificing normal sunrise times? "Proponents of Daylight Saving Time argue that most people prefer a greater increase in daylight hours after the typical "nine-to-five" workday. Supporters of DST generally argue that it saves energy, promotes outdoor leisure activity in the evening (in summer), and is therefore good for physical and psychological health, reduces traffic accidents, reduces crime, or is good for business. Opponents argue that actual energy savings are inconclusive, that DST increases health risks such as heart attack, that DST can disrupt morning activities, and that the act of changing clocks twice a year is economically and socially disruptive and cancels out any benefit."
This weekend I finished season 3 of Doctor Who and started season 4 (David Tennant's last as the 10th Doctor) on Netflix. And I finished reading A CRIMSON WARNING by Tasha Alexander right before this digital loan left my Kindle.
I'm about to start AN INQUIRY INTO LOVE AND DEATH by Simone St. James. This is a stand alone. Here's a description:
In 1920's England, a young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle’s mysterious death in a town haunted by a restless ghost… Oxford student Jillian Leigh works day and night to keep up with her studies—so to leave at the beginning of the term is next to impossible. But after her uncle Toby, a renowned ghost hunter, is killed in a fall off a cliff, she must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. Almost immediately, unsettling incidents—a book left in a cold stove, a gate swinging open on its own—escalate into terrifying events that convince Jillian an angry spirit is trying to enter the house. Is it Walking John, the two-hundred-year-old ghost who haunts Blood Moon Bay? And who beside the ghost is roaming the local woods at night? If Toby uncovered something sinister, was his death no accident? The arrival of handsome Scotland Yard inspector Drew Merriken, a former RAF pilot with mysteries of his own, leaves Jillian with more questions than answers—and with the added complication of a powerful, mutual attraction. Even as she suspects someone will do anything to hide the truth, she begins to discover spine-chilling secrets that lie deep within Rothewell…and at the very heart of who she is.
Published in 2013, it has 368 pages. This is a digital loan from the library.
Nothing on TV tonight for me. I've been fighting off a bug that's been trying to get me since Friday so I imagine I will go to bed early tonight after trying to read for a bit.
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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