“Take a nap!”

Last night we switched to Daylight-Savings-Time.
Which means my digital auto-clock, which gets its time from the satellite, sprung ahead an hour at 2 a.m.
“Spring ahead, Fall back.”
I already reset all my non-auto clocks. I have seven including my watch. Most important are my VCR’s internal clock, my clock-radio, and the clock in my programmable thermostat.
This computer also has a clock, but that resets itself.
My water-heater runs on a timer that has to be reset.
The clock in my car is non-auto clock number eight, but I haven’t got to that yet.
My iPhone also has a clock, but that resets itself.
So instead of sleeping in ‘til 8 a.m., it was 9 a.m.
When I turned on my clock-radio, National Public Radio was delivering the news.
NPR is my classical-music radio-station’s news feed.
They reported we were now on Daylight-Savings-Time, and losing an hour of sleep can be discombobulating.
They thereupon interviewed a sleep-specialist, who solemnly advised taking a nap.
What a joke!
As one who once worked for a newspaper, the dreaded media (gasp), I can imagine how this happened.
Newspaper higher-ups assign a reporter to get a quote from a sleep-specialist.
Too bad it wasn’t me; I woulda argued.
“How about I call my mother? She’s gonna give me the same advice.”
“Your mother isn’t a sleep-specialist.”
“Both are gonna suggest I take a nap.”
100,000 smackaroos per year for the same advice I get from my mother for free.

• Over 11 years ago I retired from the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper. Best job I ever had — I worked there almost 10 years (over 11 if you count my time as a post-stroke unpaid intern [I had a stroke October 26, 1993, from which I recovered fairly well]). (“Canandaigua” [“cannan-DAY-gwuh”] is a small city nearby where I live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” —It’s about 14 miles away.)
• The classical-music radio-station in Rochester I listen to is WXXI-FM, 91.5, publicly supported.