Longest Day Ever

Everyone else will tell you that yesterday was the shortest day of the year. They are incorrect on two accounts. First today December 22 is one minute shorter as the sun rose today at 10:59 a.m. versus yesterday when the sun rose at 10:58 a.m. Second today is not the shortest day of the year but the looonnget ever. The day just goes on and on, dragging on for miles upon miles of darkness. To top it off the clouds hung around for most of the day, no white stuff to cheer us but instead only gray skies above.

You go to work in the dark, you come home in the dark, when you look at the clock the time could be morning, it could be evening one is hard pressed to tell the difference. As we enter the 13 days of our mandatory winter break, as the university is closed, we enter that time when we will get up with the sun and stay up till the wee hours of the morning trying to pretend that out world is not dark and cold.

Good music and delicious food will fill our days with delight as we try with all our might to ignore the deep of winter that we find ourselves partaking of.

December 22, 2008
Sunrise 10:59 a.m.
Sunset 2:41 p.m.
Altimeter 2992
Temperature 5 F
Dewpoint 0 F

Found a new song I like today, I have not listened to the entire album but this song shows promise.

You'll be loved
Someday you will be loved
Like you have never been loved before.

Someday You Will be Loved by Death Cab for Cutie on their album Plans.

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