It’s that time of year again, when the sun isn’t up before I get to work. This bothers some people, but not me. At any given point on the globe, you will receive the same amount of daytime hours as any other point (ie. half) The distribution of those hours varies quite widely. Some places (see the equator) get 12 hours a day, every day, all year. Some places have periods where it’s day for more than 24 hours, with counterbalancing periods where it’s night for more than 24 hours.

What I’m getting at, is that if it was daylight when I got to work every day, I would be working entirely during daylight hours all year long. Ie. for every hour that the sun is still down while I’m at work, that means there’s one more hour that it will be up when I’m not. Make any sort of sense? I mean, yeah, if I were rich, we could afford to travel to the Southern Hemisphere during the Northern winter, and vice versa, but the fact remains that I can’t afford that sort of lifestyle (and actually wouldn’t want it.) The end result is that the payback for it being dark out while I’m at work, is that the sun doesn’t set until very very late at night during the Summer.

Maybe it’s those GE Reveal full spectrum lights that we’ve got in our house that gives me a perspective like this. It’s kind of like the whole “Yin and Yang” balance thing. I choose to view the existence of the dark as a reminder of the light.

At least it’s been pretty warm lately :-)

Simpson’s quote of the day: “hmmm. . . eternal happiness for one dollar? I’d rather keep the dollar.” - Mr. Burns