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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Health / Horrors / Booze / City / ??!! / Sex / Life / Nightlife It Is 3:43 pm

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:43 PM

And it is dusk.

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I miss the long summer days Seattle gets, but they're barely consolation for walking to and from work in the dark.

Posted by Dougsf on December 6, 2011 at 3:48 PM

Time for a drink!

Posted by PapaKipChee on December 6, 2011 at 3:49 PM

The thing that amazes me is not that this happens; it's that, after several decades on this planet, it STILL surprises me when it does.

Posted by shiftyeyedog on December 6, 2011 at 3:51 PM

Pop some vitamin D, pour yourself a stiff drink and stay calm. Everything is going to be OK.

Posted by Hernandez

on December 6, 2011 at 3:51 PM

In March, maybe.

Posted by maddogm13 on December 6, 2011 at 3:56 PM

And may that hated day star think twice before returning on the morrow!

Posted by Zebes

on December 6, 2011 at 3:59 PM

When I moved to Florida temporarily the constant light year round really freaked me out for the first couple years (Miami maintains nearly a 12 hour day year round). I don't mind the early darkness, I enjoy looking at the city lights while I bike home.

Posted by lone locust on December 6, 2011 at 3:59 PM

the horrors tag was a nice touch.

Posted by AmyC on December 6, 2011 at 4:01 PM

Tis only a matter of time before the White Walkers wake from their wintry prison and march with their legions of the dead across the icy wastes in the darkness of the long night.

Posted by Ian Awesome

on December 6, 2011 at 4:05 PM

europe north of seattle at latitude 47:
all of england
amsterdam
berlin
brussels
all of scandinavia
dublin
paris
moscow

in n. america:
every city in canada

quit whinging!

Posted by Max Solomon on December 6, 2011 at 4:07 PM

Life gets so much better once you start following the 'dark outside = OK to drink' rule.

Posted by Mattini on December 6, 2011 at 4:07 PM

I hate winter. I know Seattle City Light and Puget Sound Energy get a big kick out of hoovering my dough into their coffers from December through February. Sweaters, my dawn simulator lamp, Kahlua and hot cocoa are my comforts.

Posted by Keister Button on December 6, 2011 at 4:08 PM

It was dusk when I went outside at 3:15.

Posted by SeattleBound on December 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM

Winter is coming.

Posted by Joe Szilagyi

on December 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM

I love it! Especially after it rains and the puddles reflect the city lights, you get to walk within a postcard. Plus an Islay malt tastes so much better. :-)

Posted by kim in portland

on December 6, 2011 at 4:22 PM

@10, Toronto and Montreal are well south of Seattle.

Posted by Fnarf

on December 6, 2011 at 4:28 PM

Even worse up here in Bellingham, David. Hopefully like every year, spring arrives just before I finalize my plans to move to California.

Posted by Subdued Excitement on December 6, 2011 at 4:31 PM

No, no it's not. Dusk starts after civil twilight ends. Sunset is at 4:18pm, civil twilight ends at 4:54 PM. Please use

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_One…

In the future for all of your twilight calculations.

:-D

Posted by Unregistered User on December 6, 2011 at 4:39 PM

I have an elaborate justification that keeps me from sticking my head in the oven: Every year the days grow short during the holidays. These short days encourage people to put lovely holiday lighting on their homes and businesses. The lovely holiday lighting gets us through Winter Solstice, and New Year's. Shortly after New Year's, the days start to get longer.

Therefore, if we didn't have the early sunsets in the wintertime, we wouldn't be able to enjoy the lovely holiday lighting, right?

Thank God the oven is electric......

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on December 6, 2011 at 4:59 PM

@18, and be grateful that, due to our high latitude, we actually enjoy MORE light than our southern neighbors, because our civil twilight and dawn periods are much longer. Anyone who's been to anyplace near the equator has noticed how sunset proceeds to full darkness almost immediately, because the sun is dropping straight down. We get that extra bit of semi-usable light that just goes on and on, even though our total time of sunrise-to-sunset equals theirs.

Posted by Fnarf

on December 6, 2011 at 5:07 PM

Welcome to the long dark of Moria.

Posted by Geni on December 6, 2011 at 5:08 PM

I'm getting married at sunset this weekend, which is apparently 4:20.

Posted by karion on December 6, 2011 at 5:10 PM

NYC and San Francisco are almost on the same latitude. That is why they're so Gay!

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on December 6, 2011 at 5:16 PM

Winter ales cure winter ails.

Posted by DOUG.

on December 6, 2011 at 5:35 PM

@22: Congratulations!

Posted by Paul Constant

on December 6, 2011 at 5:39 PM

Move.

Posted by seattlebikeguy on December 6, 2011 at 5:51 PM

Unfort.

Posted by Havener on December 6, 2011 at 5:56 PM

I'm eating some sill graddfil (marinated herring) on knackerbrod just to get into the whole this is Sweden and we just deal with the absence of the sun aspect of the PNW.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on December 6, 2011 at 6:24 PM

i miss africa

Posted by reverend dr dj riz on December 6, 2011 at 6:36 PM

@22 Are your guests the type to want to indulge at 4:20? Should be a well-lit wedding :-) Congratulations!

Posted by EricaP on December 6, 2011 at 6:37 PM

As it is every time of night about this time.

Is pot use really that prevalent among Stranger staff? I'm guessing (and hoping) "yes", and where do I apply?

Posted by Just Jeff