Daylight Saving Time: How can you fall back when you're bent over?

Get ready all you fellow geezers out there in Geezerdom--time to set those clocks back. Or is it forward? I never can remember. Let's see now--isn't it "spring forward, fall back? Problem for me is, I had a football coach back in high school who would always admonish us running backs when we were tackled to "fall forward". I've always remembered that. But what difference does it make anyway? Either way, for the next month, I'm going to be either an hour early or hour late to wherever I'm going. Good thing I don't need to go anywhere. I can just stay home and grouch about how silly the whole notion of daylight saving time is. Whoever came up with such a thing anyway? I'd like to shake his hand while strangling him with the other. All I know is I need to spend the next hour looking for all the user manuals to the oven clock, the bedroom alarm clock and the clock in my car. Then I'll need to find some teenager to decipher the instructions. And for what good purpose? What's the use of Daylight Saving Time anyway? Is it just so we can see when we're on our way to work instead of when we're on our way home from work? What difference does that make to a retired geezer--a very grouchy geezer?

Baseball: America's Past(bed)time

I tried watching the first game of Yanks-Phils World Series tonight and fell asleep during the 7th inning. What little of the game I was actually able to stay awake and watch was marred by cold drizzle (temperature at "new" Yankee Stadium was 51 degrees). Wonder what would the baseball gods would have done if the Rockies had made it to the WS? Sometimes I think baseball has lost its mind. Here it is October 28 and the WS is just now starting! It used to be played the first week in October. For the first time in history, there will be World Series games in November. And why can't the games start earlier so that young kids can watch the games as well as the geezer crowd. We geezers are the game's most loyal fan base and the young kids are its only hope for the future. And yet the games are scheduled at times when few from those groups can watch and enjoy them. When I was a kid, the WS games were all played in the afternoons. Sometimes we kids were even allowed to stay home from school in the afternoons and watch the games. I'll never forget watching the infamous Don Larsen perfect game in the 1956 series while home from 8th grade.
Why if Casey Stengel were managing the Yankees in this day and age, he'd probably have fallen asleep before I did tonight--in the dugout! Baseball needs to get its act together and correct this situation. Until they do, I'm going to be one grouchy old fan.

Happy Hallowchristmas

Well, here we are only in October, we haven't even gotten to Halloween, and the GG has noticed that some business establishments have already started to put out their Christmas decorations. It seems to the GG that this is happening earlier and earlier with each passing year. What the heck is going on? GG loves to watch old movies where the father and the son hitch up the horse and wagon about 2 days before Christmas and go get the Christmas tree. Then they bring it home and the whole family decorates it on Christmas eve. Whatever happened to those days? The only things that peeves your GG more than having to contend with Chirstmas in October is folks who leave their Christmas decorations up until after Easter. If it were up to me, there would be a fine assessed for each day decorations are left up beyond,say, January 1 and a surtax on the value of any decorations put out before, say, December 15. All our seasonal traditions and holidays now seem to overlap each other. Next week will be November, which judging by October and Christmas will mean it's time to start getting ready for Valentine's Day. All of this makes me very grouchy.