Though I Am Not an Opponent of Daylight Saving Time

First, I apologize, but I have to put off my Alley Oop recap for a day. Not because I was caught unprepared by my weekly custom here but I don’t know how it is we got to Tuesday quite this early in the week.

That done, I have to say I’m going to really look forward to the end of it this year. I’ve been doing a lot of scheduled calls, and it’s hard enough to convince people that Michigan is in the Eastern Time Zone. When they start setting the time for “Eastern Standard Time” when it’s actually currently Eastern Daylight Time, though? And I realize there is absolutely no way that I can clear up whether they actually mean Standard Time or if they mean Daylight Time without getting everybody more confused and vaguely angry with me? Nope. There are many things I do not need, and this is one of them. To sum up: all I ask is that people please stop scheduling phone calls with me. Just send me an e-mail saying that you’ve decided to give me a hundred thousand dollars a year for reasons even you’re not clear on.