Dear Congressbeings who sponsored this weekend's Daylight Savings change legislation:

[camwyn]

I hope you all get fleas.

And ticks. The really persistent kind, the ones that wind up not only itching like hell but causing people to ask you if you have small grapes stuck to your body. I'll settle for a really really persistent itch infestation, and by 'really really persistent' I mean 'the morticians may have to bind your fingers down to make the corpse stop scratching'.

rassum frassum stinking bloody system patches grumble rumble mutter still have to patch all the friggin Blackberries scowl mutter hiss spit...

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[innerbrat]

I am dum. *deletes comment*

What I meant was.... oooh, you'll only be four hours behind for two whole months a year!

[camwyn]

I was gonna say. No, in this case the problem is running about updating all of our frigging computer systems so that it doesn't bollix up our financial trades and whatnot by skewing times and dates and just... ARRGH.

FLEAS. ON ALL OF THEM.

[innerbrat]

>_>

Yes, but I don't care about

you

.

(I do, really, and I think it's a dumb idea with no logic behind it but meh. I'm sorry.)

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

SOX!

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

FLEAS ON THEIR SOX!

[sdelmonte]

When do you go to "Summer Time?" (It's 15 degrees F today - no way I can call this Summer Time.)

The timing is almost convenient, as my mother is in your city for a wedding and flying home Sunday, so she gets one less hour of jetlag than we did. But for the most part, I'm with Cam.

[innerbrat]

Um, 25 March. So not that long after you guys anyway.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Yes.
Although since my agony is based merely on the difficulty of adjusting my personal clock, it's a weak and petty agony compared to that of every person who workes in IT.
It was an excuse for Congress to avoid dealing with real problems.

[sdelmonte]

The man to blame is a Congressman from Michigan named Fred Upton. It was his idea to do this, claiming it would save us energy.

Send all your fleas and any bills for tech services to him.

[the-reda.livejournal.com]

GRIN
that is the most inventive curse I have heard in a while.

Poor thing, I used to suffer under the time change, too.
Move to China, they/we don't have that nonsense.

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

And don't forget all the vendors that waited until a month before the change to release any sort of patch, and then didn't bother to bug test it. *grumbles*

[lasa.livejournal.com]

I don't have to deal with the IT issue at all, so I'm probably unqualified to comment - but I'm looking forward to driving home in daylight.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Ditto not having to deal with the unqualified to comment, but my seasonal affective disorder is very grateful for more sun.

[mephron]

Oh dear.

Does this mean I need to show up tomorrow at your apartment with a great deal of chocolate, booze, and/or DVDs of uncertain provence?

[camwyn]

I don't drink, although I appreciate the offer.

This gets worse every time someone here pokes his/her head in and announces they're having NEWER and SHINIER problems and just AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHGHGGHGHGHGH fscking bloody custom application software FLEAS AND DEATH AND FIRE.

[mephron]

There's still the DVDs and the DOUPs.

I'm sure I can come up with something appropriately needs-no-brain dumb. CleavageVoltage Fighter Gowkaizer, or somesuch.

[camwyn]

It might not be a bad idea. I'll let you know further once I"ve figured out whether I"m going to be stuck at the office working on Saturday or not.

[mephron]

Okay then.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

*huggles*

Now I feel bad about the unbridled glee I felt when I realized it was coming early this year.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

I no longer work in IT, but we've been getting the "Daylight Savings is changing; the world is NOT ending." emails from IT for the past 10 days or so. I think they may have actually convinced themselves by this point.

[camwyn]

The world's not ending here, either. It's just forming itself into a gigantic hemorrhoid: you can still get your shit done, but it's going to hurt for a while, and there may be blood.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

Okay, I think this deserves a trips to metaquotes

[camwyn]

Fine with me.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

Done (http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/5911996.html) in the right journal this time.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

And fleas, evidently.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Iono, if it were me, I might be more hacked off at eejit system and custom application developers who think DST rules are, like, set in stone, or something. I mean, never mind all the furrin places where nobody can decide if they like the concept or not, there's Indiana. Right here in the yooessaye.

[eor.livejournal.com]

or

"May the fleas of a thousand camels come to rest in your bed." -- Klinger

[drharper.livejournal.com]

Or "May the fleas of two thousand, mangey camels infest the crotch of your firstborn." - some guy my Dad met in Turkey.

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

Can it be incessant anal itching? The kind one gets (reportedly) from way too much spicy food and caffeinated sodas?