Weekend Update with Coffee and Scone

[jon_chaisson]

Sunday morning and I'm still in my jammies, watching NFL pregame talk shows and relaxing with a cup of java and a scone. The fog outside is light, lifted just enough that I can see the trees over at Lincoln Park, but I can also still hear the occasional foghorn from the passing ships coming into the Gate.

The Christmas cards and presents are out and away, the apartment's clean, and things are caught up for the time being. It's going to be a quiet week here. This is going to be the week where everyone's Out of Office, and any OMG RUSH can probably wait until after the holidays anyway. The radio stations will be playing their holiday shows and their best-of-year countdowns. The TV stations will be playing their year in reviews. The local stores will be selling like crazy before the 25th, and pushing out their stock at a deep discount the day after.

It's the start of the winter season and the end of the year, the time where we like to think about what we've done and what we'd like to do. Time to figure out what's going on, where we are, and how to go about it. Time to start over and time to bring things to an end. Time for the planet to shift its axis in relation to the sun again. Time for contemplation, time for change.

Comments

[msstacy13.livejournal.com]

Are you clammoring for ~real~ climate change?

There isn't a shift of the axis,
just from day to day,
the position of the earth in relaton to the sun changes.
The north pole is now moving from its most oblique to least oblique angle of presentation.
I think I've got that phrased correctly.