Times aren't all a-changin'

The time changes this weekend. I think we spring forward which brings up all sorts of mathematical nightmares for me. I will have to remember to add only one hour to my alarm clock figuring instead of two.

My alarm clock has limited time-setting abilities. Because one button doesn't function properly, I can't change the hour, only the minutes. I find it easier do just do math, add or subtract the number of hours to decipher what time it really is.

I don't think this is really so odd. Man has used all sorts of devices through the years to tell time. They've used stones and mountains and sun dials. A broken alarm clock isn't really so strange.

I have a new alarm clock, but I'm attached to the old one. I'd rather do math than send it on its way. I have learned that this is a sure sign of geezerdom.

But, by the time you read this in print, I could be sitting on a beach somewhere with little concern of time changes or whacky clocks. The Mega- Millions jackpot is over $200 million and I can see myself collecting that jackpot and heading for sunnier skies.

In fact, that $1 spent on a lottery ticket is some of the best entertainment money can buy. What would I do with Mega Millions?

I sure would make a lot of folks happy. Unlike Bernie Madoff who believed in taking from the rich to make himself rich, I would share the wealth. What fun it would be to make dreams come true or solve a few problems for people who are in need.

Speaking of Madoff, he and his wife believe they should be able to keep their $7 million New York apartment and over $60 million in assets that are held in the wife's name. Perhaps Madoff and his wife forget that all of that booty was bought with money scammed from clients. It wasn't his to begin with and he and his family sure shouldn't be benefitting from it now.

While Madoff could be the poster child for income equality, I don't think he's who the Democrats are pointing at as they move forward with their new budget and other spending bills. A financial analyst on the morning news spoke about the measures that the Obama administration was using to balance incomes across the classes. Education and healthcare reform and a healthy dose of higher taxes for any household earning more than $250,000 a year.

I'm not sure what it will do to bring higher incomes to anyone, but I can see it sure costing a lot of people, if not all, at least part of their income. Too bad.