Summer TIME

Summer is here, the days are getting SHORTER! I know, that’s not the traditional line of thought this time of year. Summer Solstice is upon us and this is the time of year that everyone is heard saying “the days are getting so long!” Well, I beg to differ – on a couple of levels.

First of all, face it guys, the days are NOT getting longer, there are still 24 hours in a day, no matter what time of year it is or what hemisphere you live in. The days are not longer, only the daylight is longer and that’s what leads to my theory that the days are getting shorter.

Okay, right – still only 24 hours in a day, but the problem I have identified is that because there is so much more daylight in a day, I have less time to get my usual stuff done. I was feeling like a real slacker until I figured this out; as it turns out it’s not my fault (it never is!) You see, my usual stuff is all indoor stuff (balanceing my check book, reading, blogging, cleaning the house, playing in the dark room) and most of the new-found daylight is during the hours that I have available to do my usual stuff. After all, I sleep at night and I work from 8 to 5 (roughly) so that leaves me 5 to 11-ish to do my stuff and it doesn’t get dark now until almost 10:00.

So there you have it – in the summer when the daylight gets longer, my available time to be productive is reduced to about an hour and a half before bed (but by then I’ve had a couple beers and . . . .) See what I mean – not my fault!