Voting no here as well! I’m overall pretty happy with where the current offer would get me (especially compared to my last job) but I know it’s bigger than just me. It would be nice to be able to buy a house too without my wife having to work full time so she can be with our kid (and future kids) during the day. Engineers have lost a ton of buying power over the course of this current contract so there’s some catching up to do for sure.

Grass is greening up pretty well even in the Willamette Valley. Definitely at my place.

Been ready for years for our new metric time. Saskatchewan never did go along with the time change. The remaining three western provinces are now locked into DST. Who cares what Eastern Canada does. No, I won’t mind it dark until 9am. That means it won’t get dark until after 5pm. Good trade off. Although other families pulled it off, I was sick of and extra stressed switching the kids back to DST in March when it’s the start of tax season and energy lags from the annual change. The increase in car accidents and coronaries the Monday after the time change are for what purpose? Good riddance to this pointlessness.

Year long standard time is supposedly the best for the body. But wasting that hour of daylight at 4am in the summer and then losing the late sunsets would be a major kick to the testes.

Bus picked me up for middle school at like 6:50am so I was in the dark almost the whole year. And I was like one of the last kids! Chief Kanim Class of 2002 represent.