INSIDE SCOOPS

-- compiled by the Daily Pilot staff

We don’t know about you, but we were certainly devastated upon

realizing that we’d missed the clocks changing time at a Fashion Island

jewelry store.

According to a press release, the store’s dozen white-gloved employees

spent all Friday and Saturday “meticulously changing the hands on

thousands of timepieces in preparation for the end of Daylight Saving

Time.”

Apparently, our white-gloved friends have gone through this procedure

for quite a while.

What we want to know is this: Do the gloves keep them from getting

blisters on their fingers? Or would the sweat produced by hours of

pushing clock hands back an hour do some kind of harm to the things?

Well, we’ll ask next time we stop by Fashion Island. Until then, we

hope you enjoyed the extra hour of sleep just as much as we did. And, if

you still don’t have a clue what we’re talking about, the clocks went

back one hour in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

MOVE OVER, FOOTBALL FANS

Sporting events are the common television eye-grabbers at many

restaurants, but Skosh Monahan’s is different.

Owner Gary Monahan, who is also Costa Mesa’s mayor, is excitedly

anticipating one of the restaurant’s biggest television-watching evenings

Nov. 7.

Starting at about 7 p.m., the restaurant will run “play-by-play”

election results on its three screens: one for the city race, one for the

national race and one focused on regional races.

Two City Council candidates, Tom Sutro and William Perkins, have

already reserved seats at Skosh to watch the “scores,” according to the

mayor.

BEWARE WHEN IT’S BROWN

They say when there are rain storms you should stay out of the ocean

for 72 hours. But when it just drizzles, do you need to stay out?

Well, you can always follow what the lifeguards call the brown water

alert, said Monica Mazur, an environmental specialist for the Orange

County Health Care Agency.

“If the water looks brown,” she advised, “you might not want to go in

it.”