Three things for Sunday

1. It's daylight savings time today. I hate losing standard time, and I've a bit miffed that there is now a bill to keep us on DST year round, rather than either skipping back and forth, which I'm pretty neutral on, or staying on standard time. Yes, I know, the early sunsets in the winters here are difficult... but sunrise not until about 9am through at least December is not appealing. Especially to someone like me who gets up to exercise outdoors in the morning. Perry, if that happened, would be rowing entirely in the dark. And kids would be going to school in the dark etc. Anyhow. I suspect there would be fewer proponents for DST if Michigan was in the Central time zone, and parts of New England in the Atlantic tz, where Nova Scotia is. My take is that I don't need it to be light at 10pm in the summer, but I do need it to be light at 9am in the winter.

2. Keilir, a volcano in Iceland, may be due to erupt "any day". There have been many earthquakes in the area etc. There are, of course, webcams pointed at the damn thing. I have been watching them as much as I can, what with things to do and the time zone thing. Dh: "I am not going to sit and stare waiting for a mountain to blow up.... though I guess it's at least better than waiting for a giraffe to give birth." I was up late last time and caught sunrise. It was pretty.



3. From someone on Twitter yesterday, which chilled me to the bone:

Just realized that the Itsy Bitsy Spider is Sisyphus for toddlers.

As someone engaged in the Sisyphean lifestyle that is attemping weight loss, I'm now seeing the normalization of repeat failure and trying again. The lesson of the Itsy Bitsy Spider is more internalized, at least in me, than the more accurate lesson of "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Note that that quote is apparently misattributed to Einstein. I always thought it was an accurate attribution, but that he was of course referring to quantum mechanics.