Season of Darkness

We’re now in the season in which it is completely dark out at the time I have to wake up to get to work on time. During the summer the sun rises plenty early and the light seems to get my brain used to the idea of morning. I’ll wake up early, look at the clock and see I have plenty of sleeping time left, sleep a bit longer, and then wake up right about the time my alarm is set for. Now, in the darkness, I generally get blasted into a stunned version of awake out of some deep stage of sleep by the alarm. It’s not so pleasant. It used to be I’d get a week or two of morning sunlight when we set the clocks back, but now that the date for that has been moved later, I think it will be too late, and and it will still be dark.

The view out the window

Maybe this comparison is unfair or something, but, still, see below two photos taken out of windows at two conventions, WindyCon in a suburb of Chicago and FilkCONtinental in Germany:

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