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baroque_mongooseI had to postpone yesterday's D&D session at the last minute. This turned out to be just as well, because for one thing a parcel arrived rather sooner than I was expecting it (it was from Buy Wholefoods Online, who are very good, but normally you expect them to take a week), and for another I inexplicably ran out of energy mid-afternoon and had to take a short nap. A nap! At my age! I'm only in my early 60s. (I did have to take afternoon naps regularly when I had Sidney, but that was different, because he used to wake me up around 3 am every night because either he'd blown or he was just about to if I didn't get him to the loo. But that did have an obvious cause.) I think what's going on is that my sleep quality is rather low at the moment, which is not like me; so we'll see if it settles. I didn't sleep especially well last night either.
However, the reason for postponing had nothing to do with either parcels or unexpected naps. It was entirely due to time zone confusion. We have a transatlantic player (I can't recall whether she's USAian or Canadian), and she initially said she'd have to leave half an hour early. I said, no problem, I'm sure we can finish in that time. Unfortunately, what both of us had forgotten was that the clocks over there change three weeks before they do here; I believe it's similar in the autumn, but I can't remember who changes first or how big the discrepancy is. So, about an hour before the session was due to start, she realised that in fact she was going to have to miss half the session if it went ahead, because she was now an hour forward (relative to here) of where she usually was.
So we agreed to postpone, and we also unanimously agreed that we hate clock changes. I've hated them for years. It's not quite so bad in the autumn, but in the spring we go an hour forwards and I end up jet-lagged for most of the subsequent week. It may well have made sense in the days when lighting was not too good, but these days it really doesn't matter; the extra daylight during waking hours doesn't justify the inconvenience caused. Especially since the world as a whole doesn't do it in synch, and I believe some places don't do it at all (including, I believe I'm right in saying, the state of Nevada).
Oh well. They get to explore my small but moderately fiendish cave system next week; and, right now, I'm off to church. I may not make it this time next week, though I'll obviously do my best. The clocks will have changed...
However, the reason for postponing had nothing to do with either parcels or unexpected naps. It was entirely due to time zone confusion. We have a transatlantic player (I can't recall whether she's USAian or Canadian), and she initially said she'd have to leave half an hour early. I said, no problem, I'm sure we can finish in that time. Unfortunately, what both of us had forgotten was that the clocks over there change three weeks before they do here; I believe it's similar in the autumn, but I can't remember who changes first or how big the discrepancy is. So, about an hour before the session was due to start, she realised that in fact she was going to have to miss half the session if it went ahead, because she was now an hour forward (relative to here) of where she usually was.
So we agreed to postpone, and we also unanimously agreed that we hate clock changes. I've hated them for years. It's not quite so bad in the autumn, but in the spring we go an hour forwards and I end up jet-lagged for most of the subsequent week. It may well have made sense in the days when lighting was not too good, but these days it really doesn't matter; the extra daylight during waking hours doesn't justify the inconvenience caused. Especially since the world as a whole doesn't do it in synch, and I believe some places don't do it at all (including, I believe I'm right in saying, the state of Nevada).
Oh well. They get to explore my small but moderately fiendish cave system next week; and, right now, I'm off to church. I may not make it this time next week, though I'll obviously do my best. The clocks will have changed...
