If your Windows PC failed to change from DST

 Daylight Saving Time ends on Nov. 1 each year. Your smart devices should have moved back an hour, but if your Windows 10 PC did not, then the time server it's set to may be down.

To fix it, open Control Panel and click on Date and Time, then the Internet Time tab. Click on Change Settings. Most likely it's set to time.windows.com, which at midday on Nov. 1, 2020 was not working. Switch to another choice, such as time.nist.gov, and that should fix the problem.

American Dirt is a Riveting Tale of Our Times

Few novels have kept me awake late into the night, but this book did. It's a fascinating story that pulls the reader right in. You are there.

American Dirt is an American tragedy, a mother and her young son fleeing a Mexican drug cartel that killed 16 members of their extended family. They survived because they were able to hide and now they must flee, leaving their life and possessions behind.

Their flight becomes the migrant's story, a gritty journey by foot and atop freight trains while avoiding the watchful eyes of the cartel.

What sets this book apart is the writing. Author Jeanine Cummins makes the reader part of the story. You are there and you see the places, feel the fear, witness the atrocities and find good people willing to  help. And above all, you feel this mother's love as she tries to shelter her son.

American Dirt is an international story of our times and well worth reading.

The publisher is FlatIron Books, an imprint of Macmillan Books.

Will Congress Make Us Less Free?

Watching the Senate impeachment trial, it's becoming evident that if the Senate refuses to call witnesses and dismisses the House articles, then the President's instructions to his administration to defy House subpoenas will stand.

If that happens, the Congress will have ceded power to the Executive branch, which means the branches will no longer be equal. That opens the door to Trump or any other future tyrant to do whatever he/she wants - the very definition of tyranny.

In effect, the Congress will have made Donald Trump king, abdicated its responsibilities and made the United States less free.