Save Me From the Daylight

Man, I like this daylight savings time. This one is the good one, where you get an extra hour of sleep, weather you're working in the morning or not. It helps even more when you do have to work the next morning, like me. The only people it really doesn't help all that much is the people who have to work midnights. They just have to work an extra hour, and I suppose it's up to the management if they want to pay the employee the extra hour worked. Because technically, they only worked eight hours. That's what the time card says, anyway. We were lucky enough at the casino that they did pay the extra hour. Here at my current employer? Not sure.

But for those lucky folks like me, who work the weekend, this is the best day of the year. You get an extra hour of sleep. I actually went to bed pretty early last night as well, so I got extra extra sleep. I honestly don't feel that much better than normal, I guess. But just knowing I got like, nine hours of sleep before my early Sunday shift? That's never happened before, I don't think.

It's also a great time of year if you like to party at the bar, because those stay open for an extra hour, too. Here in Nashville, the bars say open until 3 a.m. anyway, so make that 4 a.m. on a night like last night. I recall taking advantage of the time change a few years ago, when my brother and Jesse Smith and I went out, and stayed out until the extra party hour was expired. Good time, I think. I don't know I was pretty drunk. Pretty sure I had to work the next morning, however. This is where the extra hour backfired. I had used the hour to party instead of sleep. That was a rough morning, if I'm not mistaken. Still, if I was able to remember it, the partying, that must mean it was worth it. Good times.

The only other drawback I can think of from this time change is that it will start getting dark here in Nashville at around 5:30 today. That's just depressing.