You know I'd love at least for once ...

[punkrulesok]

9.40 am .. same shite .. quite dark, lead sky, cold, windy and looks like
it's going to rain any minute.

This coming year I am fucking going to take some more time in Italy
possibly in Summer ( the REAL one ) when we have around 40 C there.

My best time spent there is when I wake up in the morning and then I
can take a walk ( in the sun ) and go to the bar and get an espresso

It makes a whole world of difference, with only 80 euro cents

Speaking in terms of weather I think this year been one of the worst I
ever spent in my life, crap, absolutely crap, totally utter crap

i thought that many times this year too, and besides the fact that this is simply the worst weather i have ever known, maybe we could suffer with some kind of S.A.D disorder? .

[sirenbrian]

I've been lucky this year, and last year. I live in South Florida and it's the end of hurricane season; the threat is gone for another six months. While the rest of the USA is getting hit with snowstorms and hurricane-force winds, we're having bright, sunny, breezy days in the upper 70s (mid twenties, I think). We're entering what locals call "season", when the rich northerners escape the cold weather and move here for 3-4 months; gloriously nice weather.

Oh, and I can see the Space Shuttle's flame when it launches, from my desk window I am, indeed, a lucky, lucky bastard.

It makes up for our house getting crumped by two Category 4 hurricanes in 2004, for which we JUST received our insurance money.

[gilesgoat]

9.40 am .. same shite .. quite dark, lead sky, cold, windy and looks like
it's going to rain any minute.

This coming year I am fucking going to take some more time in Italy
possibly in Summer ( the REAL one ) when we have around 40 C there.

My best time spent there is when I wake up in the morning and then I
can take a walk ( in the sun ) and go to the bar and get an espresso

It makes a whole world of difference, with only 80 euro cents

Speaking in terms of weather I think this year been one of the worst I
ever spent in my life, crap, absolutely crap, totally utter crap

i thought that many times this year too, and besides the fact that this is simply the worst weather i have ever known, maybe we could suffer with some kind of S.A.D disorder? .

I am simply Italian and NOT British ( and I'll NEVER be ), I was born in
a place where there's the sun, there's hot, and rain yes it's an event
but not SO common.

This year we completely missed summer and the weather been an
absolute shite with the exception of April that was absolutely OK.

BUT FFS this coming new year I am going to take more time in Italy, when
there's sun ...

SUN I *NEED* SUN, SUN and MORE SUN !

[Kon-Tiki]

I had that with my job too. Gradually wake up at 5:45am, leave at 7am, see the sun rise about an hour after I arrive at work, leave work at a bit past 5pm and drive home through the pitchdark too. One time I left earlier (servers were down, so instead of doing the usual hour overtime, I did a quarter of an hour) and was able to drive back home in the sun. I wasn't half as tired when I arrived home and was in a far better mood, simply because I had the chance of going out into the sun for a change. It's also far less tiresome to the eyes too, because otherwise, you've got all those people in the opposite direction with their headlights on, and for some reason, all their lights seem to be set too bright, making your eyes useless by the time you get home.

[asr4096]

Hey folks,

i can only agree that this minimal sunlight these days is lowering my mood too, and i'm not italian but german, so i'm not used to have sunny weather all the time. But essentially the shortage of daylight that makes me feel bad, not sunny weather/summer/etc. As long there is some light it's better than this darkness all the time. Of course summer would be killer.

I have to kick myself to get out as long there is ANY sunlight, if i do something else in my place for too long it's dark again.
This is shite, shite, shite.
Those lights for waking up seem to be really working, i should get one of these.

But it feels good i'm not the only one who's suffering. To lift my mood up again i had pasta + red pesto mixed with an unholy amount of garlic + a few nice cold beers (NCB). Cheers YakYakkers!

[piku]

At Uni when finishing my final project, I'd arrive in the darkness then spend 8 hours sat in a window-less room in front of a PC, then go home in the darkness.

I did this for a week before going a bit strange.

I was writing SQL and Perl/CGI at the time, so I think the going strange part helped.

[gilesgoat]

At Uni when finishing my final project, I'd arrive in the darkness then spend 8 hours sat in a window-less room in front of a PC, then go home in the darkness.

I did this for a week before going a bit strange.

I was writing SQL and Perl/CGI at the time, so I think the going strange part helped.

"Worst" ( but the same kind quite interesting ) kind of "sun cycle deprivation"
experience I ever had been during my army service time.

I spent 5 months aboard, the ship was a small one but military so totally
shielded with no communication to the external, it's really a bit like
to be in a submarine only that you are in a boat.

So 24h/24h artificial lights and no idea about what's going outside plus
very long working/etc. hours ( about 20 hours/day when in the sea ).

What happends after a while is .. odd .. all your time perception gets
totally distorted and someway your spatial perception as well.

You don't really perceive "morning" and "evening", even the hours on
the clock have poor meaning and your tireness/ok feelings are all .. distorted.

Include the fact that even when sleeping you were NOT in the dark but
in places lit with red lights ( security reasons, can't be NEVER dark
on a boat - inside - ).

It was very odd ... it really puts you "out of this world".

[Kronos]

I would say book a cheap flight to Turkey or Cyprus (I think last week it was still 20 something degrees Celsius). I lived there for over a year a long time ago and got sick to bloody death of almost year round Blue skies and sunshine, less than fortnights worth of overcast/rainy weather for the whole year.

Think it's just not cricket without stodgy fish n chips, rain lashing at your window and a hot cup of tea IMO, it's good to be rooted back here again TFFT

[gilesgoat]

... fucking stupid day .. absolutely fucking stupid ..

I am starting to get seriously sick about this winter weather, I feel it's
all the year is "like this".

Is it Saturday today ? Does it change anything compared to Mon-Fri ?

No, it just makes me think maybe I should return back to work and
feel busy so I would have less to think about the day.

16:49 and if it would be midnight there would be absolutely zero
difference except that maybe I'd be more tired.

I begin even myself to feel a bit nuts to be nearly 24h/24h here in
this very room in front of this PC.

The first day of sun is going to happen no matter what I am calling it off
and spending all of it watching the sun from sunrise to sunset.

I hate winter, I really hate it and I can't stand Xmas well myself too
just all this crappy stuff of cold, snow, tingles and crap ..

I never liked it much really.

Fucking crap of winter, give me summer all the time anytime, I don't care
if they say in California "the weather is always the same", I prefer the
other same that this British same.

</rant>

[Yak]

We were supposed to have 10 days in the sun over Xmas. It was one of the things that kept me going, given the sheer amount of work and stress to release the game, and the fact that we had no summer weather at all this year. At least we'd be guaranteed a few days over xmas. After all, by goat we'd've earned it.

But no. All we have to look forward to is a dark, cold, wet xmas, and just a fuckload more work to do.

[Kamineko]

I did warn you about this over IRC, Giles!