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2010.11.07 03:53

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Daylight Saving Time - 이한중



        "Is there anything that I can do
        to make myself enlightened?"
        "As little as you can do
        to make the sun rise in the morning."
        "Then of what use are the spiritual
        exercises you prescribe?"
        "To make sure you are not asleep
        when the sun begins to rise."

        ㅡ Zen master to his disciple


      Today, November 7,
      the first day Daylight Saving Time starts or ends.
      The first thing I did when I woke up at 7 AM
      was to move the time back one hour
      on all the clocks in the house.

      There were some 7 of them, and two of them
      had dead batteries I didn't know about.
      Fortuanately I had all the spare batteries I need.
      One of them is radio-controlled by the atomic clock
      in Colorado, I believe, which automatically corrects
      the time. I found out the battery was dead.
      After changing the battery, then I found out
      it is the Pacific Time so that I had to change
      it to Eastern Standard Time.
      Another clock at my bedside which is connected
      to the phone can only be corrected
      by calling my phone with another phone
      like my cell phone.
      To make the story short,
      the task to move the clock to the Daylight Saving
      Time was not a small task for an old fellow like me.
      When I was done with every clock,
      including the one in the oven in the kitchen,
      my wife was proud of me for the good job I did.
      And for a second I felt proud too.

      Yesterday my two golfing buddies called me
      for playing golf today. My Sukjoo will join also
      so that four of us agreed to tee off at noon
      according to the Daylight Saving Time.
      When I woke up, it was 29 degree F outside.
      Although the sun is shinning,
      the temperature is only 38 degree now at
      10:40 AM.
      Sukjoo and I figure it should be mid-forties
      before we should venture going out to play.
      We are going to bring home our golf bags
      today after playing.
      We figure the golf season in Michigan is
      probably over after today.
      So this is the way once again our golf season
      here in Michigan may be ending.
      I must say Sukjoo and I will have some fond
      memories, though.

      Like the Zen master is saying,
      I seem to be getting myself ready and awake
      to catch the rare natural commodities, i.e.
      the sun light and the right temperature
      to play golf and have fun to the last day
      of the vanishing golf season in Michigan.
      Perhaps this is how I can make myself
      happy in my life.



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