Beneath the Wraps

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/usa-canada-start-dst-2021.htm   Daylight Saving happened on March 14 th this year.  Oh, joy.  After a month and a half of not being able to drive to the church in the morning there finally came a time that I could leave the house at 7:10 and then gradually at 7:00.  For about a month after Christmas I had left the house at the very time that seminary got out before Jenna ’ s instructor volunteered to bring her home until it was light enough for me to see. https://dlpng.com/png/6598304 The first week before spring break was too dark for my eyes – but I didn’t have to go to the church until this week as the six youth were in quarantine the week before spring break started.  Thankfully, after the youth returned to their normal routine it has been light enough to leave the house by seven.  That gives me an extra ten minutes to drive around the creek instead of crossing over the bridge that leads to downtown.  I prefer...

One year ago today – Friday the 13 th .   They tried to pass it off as an extension of Spring Break and were confident it wouldn ’ t last.   How did they think it wouldn ’ t last? Last day at school for the remainder of the year. Well, maybe not for everybody.   It was for me.   And in person for Jenna – who has friends in quarantine and reminds them about last year at this time. March 7 th was a Saturday.   Ester was scheduled to be baptized and Gary would be the following week.   But Bill and Kayla changed it so that Gary would be baptized at the same time as Ester ’ s baptism.   Different wards.   March 8 th was a Sunday – unbeknownst to us, the last Church meeting ’ s to be held for over six months in 2020.   On the 9 th this year I received a memory that was written in 2011.   It said “ It sounds like now days that it is going to come down to the fact for parents to take it upon themselves to home school. ”   Wow! ...

          I've been going over some notes, or suggestions rather, on how to make for an interesting PowerPoint: no more than 20 minutes for entire presentation and no more than 10 slides.   Hey, instructors, I guess this doesn't apply to you then, does it?   It should.           I changed my slide show.   Kept half with clips and the others were boring but included the premises and conclusions . . . blah, blah, blah . . . "What is Daylight Saving Time and why do we have it?   This country started practicing DST during Ward War I to conserve on energy. This helped to cut down the cost of coal for heating and candlelight (History, 2012).   But what has happened to us over a century later?   Many people have a problem with changing their sleep patterns.   "Researchers have found several people complaining of headaches.   One study found a 10% increa...

        As I was somewhat stressed by the midterm and final of my history class, I decided to get a jump start on the final for my philosophy class (which ended May 26 this year).  I ended up changing the PowerPoint three times however as I was supposed to work fallacies into the document - which I didn't foresee as a problem until I was told I'd have to provide the name for the fallacy.  Oh, Oh ... I thought that might be a problem.         So we were supposed to pick a topic and have premises and conclusions for the Pro as well as the Con . . . my original PowerPoint was very one-sided and so I had to redo to include the opposite.  I brought in a fallacy slide which didn't feel like it belonged.  I didn't think I'd receive full credit as it still felt one-sided.  It was hard!  The more research I did, the more biased I was about having to set clocks every six months.  So this was...