Daylight shavings

From Fox news:
"If you turned your clocks back one hour Sunday morning thinking it was the annual move back to Standard Time, all you succeeded in doing was moving into a new time zone. The move from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time doesn't happen this year until the first Sunday in November, instead of the usual last Sunday in October. That means computer software, cellphones and other electronic equipment that is programmed to automatically change will have to be manually reset Monday morning back to Daylight Saving Time, then changed back one hour next Sunday. President Bush in 2005 signed the Energy Conservation Act, which pushed back the time change in an effort to squeeze just a little more daylight — and a bit of energy savings — into the daily lives of Americans.

The legislation also changed the "spring forward" to Daylight Saving Time, which next year will be on March 9.
Government estimates place the overall energy savings at just over 1 percent."

LA County Fire Demo

Okay, we finally have dates.
LA county will be holding a training seminar on Wed Nov 28th. At this seminar, Captain Penn, will be going over the new LA County bullet point list for permitting fire performances, and training one marshal from each of the various county stations. They'd like us to set up a fuel station, let them tour it, then put on a 20 minute show illustrating a variety of tools, then maybe a Q&A session. Since their new list is heavily based on the NAFAA regs, I'm looking for 6 rigidly-nafaa performers to do this demo.

So Cal wildfires

Okay folks, we see socal burning again, and if the last big fire four years ago taught us anything, is that the fire departments will need some help.
Here's a few ideas:
If you have any experience fighting wildfires, traffic control, etc, offer your time.
If you have a massage table, fire fighting is tough work.
If you have some cash, cold beer, water, or soda on the fire line can go a long way.
Sandwiches, ice tea, vitamins, etc can help keep over-stretched firemen

Evacuees have it tough too. There's a growing number of families in the stadium there, who could use entertainment, good food, hugs, books, and other essentials.

Columbus Day

Yes, it's that time of year again. That day when we get to celebrate a man who:
- is credited with "proving" the world is round, when that had been mathematically proven long before, and would not be physically accomplished until Magellan.
- is credited for "discovering" the Americas when it's known that the Vikings and Chinese had done so centuries before, and by Russian hunters millennia before that.
- was actually on an elaborate search for drugs. Opium from the East was hard to come by and a quick sea route would have been financially beneficial.
- supposedly made friends with the natives, but the tribes that welcomed him are all dead.
- had never been to his destination by normal methods which is why he thought he had landed in India, and summarily named the natives "Indians".
- delivered the scourge of alcohol to the native americans who had no such intoxicant.
- opened the door for tobacco to reach western culture.

So, when you go to the bank on Monday to find it closed, just do what columbus did: go on a search for drugs, get lost, "discover" any place that you happen across, make some friends, kill them, take all their stuff, and return home. :)

Yaaayyy! Does this explain the Iraq war a little better?