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| Not coming out until you humans make up your mind on what time it is! |
When I was younger, I resented the hell out of daylight savings time - losing an entire hour of sleep in the spring frustrated me, and in the fall, it just hastened the amount of time I spent going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark. There are a lot of things to love about Portland, but winter daylight is not one of them. Winter solstice, we get 8 hours, 42 minutes of daylight - and when I was working in cubicle-land without a window, I saw none of it. When DST ends, we go from sundown at 5:52 to sunset at 4:54 - and my last chance of seeing the sun disappears until springs rolls around.
Of course, the other side of that is that in June, you get 15 hours, 41 minutes of sunshine - long, lazy summer afternoons that last until after 9:00 pm. There's something about a summer late afternoon - you can sit on the back porch and I swear you smell that sweet new mown grass aroma even when there's no grass within 5 city blocks of you. Maybe it's worth it... nah. Still hate DST.
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