Time to spring forward if you'll be on Daylight Saving Time

[agate]

It's that weekend when people lose an hour for Daylight Saving Time.

Spring forward! At least the hour is given back in the fall.

[jingle]

Thank you, agate, I have several radar wall clocks and, thank goodness, they will change themselves. And I have several regular clocks and I changed them, plus the clock on the kitchen range and the microwave. My car is in the repair shop and I won't get it back for 2 or 3 weeks (Yikes!!!) but the clock in my rental car will change itself. All I have left to do is my wristwatch. Whew.

[agate]

I love clocks that change themselves. I still wear a wristwatch and will need to set it--as well as the clock on the stove. The others all set themselves, or I hope they will.

[Virginia]

Must change 4 clocks - microwave, kitchen stove, alarm clock and one in living room.

[agate]

I am so easily rattled by just about any change that I've made some really stupid mistakes lately. Does anyone else have the impression that the world is just too complex now that we have so many technological devices?

You used to just buy a toothbrush. Now you're told that a power toothbrush is advised. OK, I got used to power toothbrushes some time ago. But when mine failed recently, I found that the only near-equivalent of it was a new and improved marvel of technology that does far more than the old one.

This one doesn't just stop after 2 minutes. It beeps for every quadrant of your mouth.

And that isn't all. It has not one but two lights on it, and each one means something different depending on whether it's flashing green or amber and whether it's blinking or steadily glowing.

There are beeps too. One beep means one thing, two short beeps mean something else, and so on.

I need to consult the instruction manual often, and I'll probably be wearing that instruction manual into a ragged and faded state because I can't ever remember all that.

And that's just the toothbrush. Add in the smartphone, the captioning phone, the personal emergency response system, and the television.

At least I got rid of the microwave. That was another one with too much to remember about it.

[Virginia]

Agate, I had an electric tooth brush kind of like you are talking about. It let me know when I needed to change from one section of my mouth to the other. It gave out and I bought another one that just cuts off after two minutes. It brushes just as we!!. I have Phillips. Sonicare. I just read in NY Times that another one (popular brand name but I have brain fog) is just as good and cheaper because the replacement brushes do not cost as much.

[agate]

I've had a Philips Sonicare for quite a while, and this must be my third one, but it is a different version and has features that the others didn't have. If it beeps three times going up the scale, that means one thing. If it beeps three times going down the scale, it means something else. There are other signals a person has to learn as well but I doubt that I'll ever remember them.

This is my newest Sonicare toothbrush--not cheap but others were even pricier:

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