Daylight savings time.  I really thought I had it wired this year.  Instead I got busted again.  Usually it gets late, and I get tired, and my wife and I don't think about changing the clocks the night before.  Most times the trusty (and annoying) old cell phone saves the day, or the morning.  Lets hear it for high tech!  But this year I got burned by that same high tech.  It seems I had purchased an alarm clock that automatically resets itself for the twice a year time change.  I didn't know that of course, because like any self respecting man, I threw away the instructions that came with it.  And I never set my alarm.  I'm an insomniac who is always awake prior to wake-up time. 

But this year I dutifully set the clocks before going to bed.  The clock on my bedstand was set one hour ahead, and all was well, right?  Wrong!  The high tech clock with unread instructions then set itself ahead another hour, I'm guessing at 2 a.m.  So in the morning when I rolled over and saw 7 a.m. on the clock, I knew it was time to get up and make coffee.  Problem is that 7 a.m. wasn't the old 6 a.m., it was now the old 5 a.m.  So there I was, in the kitchen making coffee when the digital clock on the microwave caught my eye, or should I say poked me in the eye. 

I quickly realized my mistake.  But by then it was too late.  I had the coffee fixins in my hand, and going back to bed would probably have been as annoying to my wife as getting out of bed at the old 5 a.m.  Plus, I'm an insomniac.  There would be no more sleep on this Sunday.  Won't somebody please fix this time change thing.  Pick a time and stick with it.  Yawningly yours ... Rusty