Heart of Darkness

I don't know about you guys, but I've really been enjoying waking up to darkness over the last week or so. You can feel like you're getting up wicked early without having to actually do so. And it's felt "normal" for me temperature-wise lately here in Atlanta. The cold and morning darkness seem to go together. For Atlantans, my normal is their "too cold."



We all "Fall Back" one hour this Sunday, unless you want to wait till Monday morning and get your bonus hour on a workday. Of course, now it will get dark wicked early, which I also like. I think it's nostalgia. Or maybe it's neuralgia. Whatever it is, it makes me recall coming home in the dark after a long afternoon of bagging groceries at the Wellesley Supermarket where I used to work after school.

So, it's back to Standard Time until April. It will get dark the earliest on Dec 20, but from then on, the days get longer and longer.

ah..... you are a pit-pony and I claim my £5

ah..... you are a pit-pony and I claim my £5

Please explain.

And I'm sorry that I did not acknowledge those in the Cellar that have different celestial scenarios. I guess I was being North Americocentric.

*sighs*


here in the UK, we say we 'feel like a pit pony' as we goto work in the dark, and return from work in the dark' .... like pit-ponies, who spent all their lifes working belowground in the coalmines (the pits) in the dark......

the refererence to 'I claim my £5' comes from various advertising schemes whereby people would go round in disguise and offer a small sum to those who could identify the promoter or product....

jeez, I'm getting sadder & sadder......

Pangloss62 wrote:

So, it's back to Standard Time until April. It will get dark the earliest on Dec 20, but from then on, the days get longer and longer.

Not for me. I live in AZ. Unless you live on one of the reservations out here, the time doesn't go back or forward. :-)

I don't mind waking up in darkness--I usually wake up once or twice in the night, and peek out the window next to my bed. But I do not like having to get up in darkness. Makes me headachy, like I haven't had enough sleep, even if I've slept 8 hours.

Don't sigh Mr. McGee. You just imparted some new knowledge to a dumb Continental. We have our "pits" here too. In fact, coal is becoming all the rage; again! We just lop off the top of an entire mountain, and then dump the spoil into a nice moutain stream.:) Gotta have energy!

You ever see that "Get Carter" film?

the original with Michael Cain? One of favourites..... and yes, I appreciate the irony of the conveyors dumping the wastage into the sea...

And that theme by Roy Budd was SO COOL.
:) :)

And that scene with the dumping blew me away as I've never seen any conveyence like it. Where, exactly, was that. Not Cornwall? Yes? No?

Not sure where that bit was filmed.... those conveyors were quite common in the UK. There would have been several of them in the NorthEast UK at the time, and I know there is still at least one working in North Wales to this day.

I'm another one who hates getting up in the dark. It's so hard to drag myself out of bed when it's pitch black out.

Much easier to have it get dark in the afternoon. I love it when we change the clocks in the fall.

I get up at 3 AM, so I'm no stranger to dark mornings.

There's no DST here, so the east coast is about to be 11 hours off instead of 12.

Overall, I would prefer not to have to expose myself to sunlight, however, I have to make sacrifices for the sake of my car payment.

I'm not a fan of big dicing around with clocks. As far as I'm concerned it is a pointless exercise in social control, leading to an up-tick in illness and car accidents every spring.

Not a big fan of increased dark. My only problem with fall/winter is the associated increase in crepuscular waking hours...

Pie wrote:

...crepuscular...

Ooooooo. Had to look that one up.

I know. It was actually brought on by today's ESPoD:


These are know as crepuscular rays, and are shadows cast by the very large thunderstorms to the west of the photographer's location (in Illinois, look for the X).
One of my favorite albums is also called "Eight Crepuscular Tracks". Love that word.

My alarm goes off at 4am, dark is normal. But getting home at 3pm on an overcast day, knowing it will be dark in less than an hour, is a drag.

The worst thing about daylight savings is driving to work, directly into the Sun, when the Sun finally gets high enough for the sunvisors to help, they change the clocks and I've got to do it all over again. :(