The U.S. or at least most of it will make the switch from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time this weekend. I seem to be preparing for the change without trying. I've been waking up a bit earlier each day for the past few days. I'm awake about an hour earlier than usual now. I'm also getting tired a bit earlier, which is only to be expected ( Read more... )

I had been informed last night that the rumor was that the Nishna River RenFaire was no more. Today I went looking for the Nishna topic on At The Faire's web board and didn't find it in the usual place. Now it's in the the defunct listings.

Well, that frees up a weekend in October, I guess. But it's a weekend I won't be seeing many folks I know ( Read more... )

While I was looking for a listing of time zones I found this page which tells, at the time of pageload, what the time and date is in several places around the world.

Last year I read this account of RST's visit to Wichita which included this line: "There weren't clocks in the hotel room, none of us had watches, and for some reason, the time on my cell phone was completely off." A bit later I saw RST at the Nishna faire in western Iowa and asked about things like that and was surprised to find they'd wound up ( Read more... )