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Good morning, Washington. Raise your hand if you had a hard time falling asleep last night and/or waking up this morning thanks to that pesky daylight saving time switch. If our Sunday Twitter feeds were any indication, D.C. residents were generally irritated by this annual ritual, many openly questioning why we still do it all. Hopefully none of our readers fell victim to heart attacks as a result of the lost hour. Our internal clocks may be confused and our eyelids may be heavy, but let’s just concentrate on that change in time of sunset, which will be 7:15 p.m. tonight. It will still be light out by the time you get home this evening! Or at least, it would be if the sky wasn’t still so gray. So … it will still be light out by the time you get home tomorrow! Hurrah!

Pentagon Shooter’s Gun Traced: The Associated Press got the scoop over the weekend that one of the guns used by alleged Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell was once seized by Memphis police. The Memphis police department, like many other jurisdictions across the country, has a policy of selling or trading confiscated weapons as a way to earn revenue. Bedell’s gun was seized in Memphis in 2005 and later traded to a gun dealer, and it eventually showed up at a gun show in Las Vegas, where Bedell apparently bought it. The Washington Post did its best to play catch-up on this story for today.

Harry Thomas, Jr. Gets the Boot: Kwame Brown isn’t the only D.C. Council member who’s received a hefty parking fine of late. Harry Thomas, Jr. actually got the boot put on his SUV last week, The Examiner’s Michael Neibauer reports. The Ward 5 councilman owed $655 for four different unpaid tickets, but unlike Brown, he’s contesting the fines. “I should not have been ticketed,” he told Neibauer, referring to the council’s parking exemption.

Briefly Noted: Jim Graham considering emergency legislation to reinstate vehicle safety inspections … WaPo obit for former Current newspapers reporter Charlie Bermpohl … Sharon Wise is filing suit against Marion Barry, District … Catholic Charities adds new language to employee hiring letter requiring pledge not to violate church tenets … Stabbing at Rockville Metro station … Police officer collapses during St. Patrick’s Day parade.

This Day in DCist: In 2007, we got excited about the U.S. House scheduling a vote on D.C. voting rights. Sigh.