Now that just about half of the HossTheBoss.com audience is in some country other than the United States, I guess it’s important for me to remind people that our dang show schedule may be an hour off now. Because the U.S. government insists on continuing the insane tradition of asking all citizens to change their dang clocks twice a year, and, because George W. Bush decided a couple of years ago that it would be fun for the U.S. to change its clocks on different days than most other countries, the HTB show schedule might be confusing now.

And my math skills aren’t good enough get you through the dang confusion reliably.

This might help, but I’m not even sure it’s accurate: my Saturday live show begins at 2 p.m. U.S. Central Time. The  clocks at my house and on my computers jumped ahead this week, so now — unless you’re clocks jumped ahead too, which they probably didn’t — you should think of my show as beginning at 1 p.m. U.S. Central Time. When/if your clocks finally end up springing forward, we’ll be back on track.  Am I right? I hope so. Geez. This is confusing.

Our Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, caused many people in our state to question his sanity a few months back when he began seriously suggesting (albiet very mildly) that Texas should succeed from the United States and try its hand at being its own country again. (Not sure if the world realizes that, back in the 1840s, Texas actually was its own nation for a decade or so.) Anyway, Mr. Perry, I am one of those who thinks you — along with most politicians in general — are hopelessly insane. But I do like one part of this secession talk: if you will promise to pull Texas out of America’s ridiculous Daylight Savings Time system entirely, I will vote for you 20 times in November.

Feel free to post Daylight Savings Time horror stories here. Anyone have trouble with an international flight (or anything else) this week?  What, dang time is it where you live?! (No quoting that dang Chicago song, dang it! I’ve heard that song on just about every television news channel since Saturday. No more Please!)