My OperaIt's Thoroughly Beautiful Out
Sunday, October 10, 2010 11:11:00 PM
It's thoroughly beautiful out and I'm not going to get to enjoy much of it. It rained all day yesterday, and I still had to run my errands. I rarely drive on the weekends, preferring to ride my Surly instead.
It's not that I mind running errands and grocery shopping by bicycle in the rain, because I don't, and I rather enjoy the looks I sometimes get from people that says, "You have three heads." It's that I woke up at 2:30 PM local time and have a TON of other stuff to do today, which was to include going down to the farmers market and buying produce. Not today! I still haven't gotten dressed, let alone finish my first cup of coffee. Bah! I was hoping to fit in an hour and a half yoga class today, too. I don't have the time now.
No, the point is that a solid 65% of the daylight is gone now. It's getting dark by 7:00 PM these days. On Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year so-to-speak (I mean, it's still 24 hours long), it's dark at 4:30 PM here.
Shit, shit, shit! I'm so over swing shifts for pay that's not enough to get by on most of the time. (My resume is here, for those that live in a less economically depressed area of the world.)
It's not that I mind running errands and grocery shopping by bicycle in the rain, because I don't, and I rather enjoy the looks I sometimes get from people that says, "You have three heads." It's that I woke up at 2:30 PM local time and have a TON of other stuff to do today, which was to include going down to the farmers market and buying produce. Not today! I still haven't gotten dressed, let alone finish my first cup of coffee. Bah! I was hoping to fit in an hour and a half yoga class today, too. I don't have the time now.
No, the point is that a solid 65% of the daylight is gone now. It's getting dark by 7:00 PM these days. On Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year so-to-speak (I mean, it's still 24 hours long), it's dark at 4:30 PM here.
Shit, shit, shit! I'm so over swing shifts for pay that's not enough to get by on most of the time. (My resume is here, for those that live in a less economically depressed area of the world.)
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slackwrdave # Monday, October 11, 2010 12:06:09 AM
I know what you mean about the swing shifts. I do them sometimes, and every once in awhile, third. Ugh.
0x29a # Monday, October 11, 2010 12:19:38 AM
Originally posted by slackwrdave:
I used to do that when I was working at a local community college. If I hadn't smoked back then, I'd have never made it outside to see the sun in the winter.
In another month I'll be on my way to work just in time to watch the sun go down for a while.
[And I fixed the link to me resume. Oops.]