National Silly Clocks day, autumn edition

Spring ahead, fall back. Problem is, we live so far east we should be in the Maritime Zone with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Daylight Savings Time just puts us close to _real_ time. What idiot put Maine in the same time zone as Michigan? And my digital watch does _not_ reset automatically.

In other news, this computer made a funny fan noise when I started it up this morning. Don't know if it was the case fan or the power supply fan, but I shut down and restarted a few times and the noise went away. And the processor hasn't cooked . . . yet. The machine is a 300 mhz pentium, Win98 just when 98 was first released, and it really doesn't owe me much. But I hadn't planned on shopping for computers anytime soon. May get a Mac next time, get away from the eternal updates and virus attacks. Of course, if there were enough Macs out there to make it worth a punk's time, there'd be viruses and worms and spyware for the Mac.

Don't need a fancy computer. Word processing, simple accounting, and simple digital photo processing. And solitaire. Does the Mac have a solitaire game?

Gray, damp, not actually raining this morning, temps supposed to reach 60 F -- maybe the last time we see 60s until next April.

A horde of plundering orcs

Some number in excess of 200 pillagers on our street, demanding candy. The number remains indeterminate because that's the point at which we ran out and shut down.

At least they seem to have learned the basics -- first pillage, then burn.