Tonight Daylight Saving Time ends and we enter the (to me) very trying wintry months of fewer sunlit afternoon and evening hours, as we have every last October Sunday since 1966. However, as of next year DST will last 3 weeks longer (beginning the second Sunday in March and ending the first Sunday of November). It’s weird to remember that time as we’ve been experiencing it for several months is actually an hour ahead of “real,” standard time, because if we left our clocks an hour behind it would stay light until like 11 o’clock at night in the summertime. CRAZY. I don’t know why we don’t just make DST year-round. I’d rather have it be dark at 9 a.m and light until 5 p.m. in December, considering that as it is Seattle starts to get dark at like 3 in the afternoon around winter solstice. Not that the sun comes out before that, grumble grumble.

Wow, what a boring post. I look foward to that extra hour of sleep tonight. . .SO tired.

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