It's 2241 Central Daylight Time. It's 2041 Pacific Daylight Time. It's 2141 Mountain Daylight Time.

I work on the first time, currently am parked in the second, and deliver in the third tomorrow. This is a long haul driver's life. Constant time zone math.

This was not such an issue just a few weeks ago. I had a different phone then. Now I have a new phone. It does not let me turn off the auto time adjustment. The best I can do is set the clock on the main display to read two times: the current time and the time in a large city of my choosing. Since Minneapolis wasn't an option, I went for Chicago.

So now, since I logged off for the day at 2145, I can start tomorrow at 745, which means I need to get up around 645. This used to mean I would set the alarm clock on my phone to 645. Now it means I have to do the same math for my alarm clock as I have to do for pickups and deliveries. 645 CDT backs up to 445 PDT. Which also, incidentally, gives my brain a chance to see an "early morning" time and try to convince me to fall back asleep.

Thursday morning, if I want to wake up at 645 CDT, I'll need to set my alarm for 545, because I'll be in MDT then.

At least I'm not in Arizona. They're on MST year round. So when everybody else changes, they don't. Half the year they're with Nevada and California, the other half they're with the rest of the mountain states.

I recommend every state take a page from AZ. Ditch DST, it's stupid.

In other news, if you've ever seen the box of 20 Mule Team Borax in the cleaning aisle at the grocery, and perchance wondered where it came from, probably it came from here:


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I was there today, and I go to Utah with what they gave me. What is it really? I don't know. It does not need HazMat Placards, and that's about as far as I care.