Thursday, November 02, 2006
Cement Mixing and Daylight Saving
The amount I mixed was 10 scoops of gravel, 6 scoops of sand, about 2 scoops of cement powder and about 1/3 a bucket of water. My Dad figured it out by making the first batch. We worked together while I did the shoveling and my Dad did the spreading and smoothing.
That was a lot of shoveling. I got to tell you. I shoveled all the sand and gravel that was on the truck, which was quite full and shoveled a bunch of sand and gravel that was a pile on the ground after we ran out with what was on the truck. By the time we finished I was cream crackered. It was good exercise though.
I know that some countries in the world just moved their clocks one hour ahead. I think it's a brilliant idea. My question is "Why hasn't Japan started doing it?" It will save farmers to not need to wake up so early in the morning and help people like me to be able to skateboard for extra minutes(not that I can't skateboard at night). You basically can't shoot a basketball after 5 o'clock, because it's too dark.
Oh, well I guess I just need to get up earlier and and go to bed earlier until summer comes along again or when Japan decides to save daylight. 
: 1:28 AM The reason being that most farming and so on is done in the late spring summer and early autumn... So shifting the clocks a bit allows for a longer work day (keeping light later) and makes for more productive farming... So I'm afraid it wouldn't help winter skateboarding.
The reason we switch back in the winter is because it will get light a whole hour later and I think we all know it is much easier to stay up past sunset than get up before sunrise! ;-)
: 8:37 AM Now I realize that they didn't forward the time, but actually backed it up.
I was wrong now I understand.
So what I really wanted was the world to forward the time in winter even though we don't really need it.
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