agoodwinsmith | Happy Solstice.

So, here it has already been Solstice, but it appears that it is not Solstice until later elsewhere, but I thought it crossed the meridian at one particular moment and didn't spend time hopping back to do it again. But someone whose birthday was today in the UK did not actually have a Solsticey birthday, and they would have if their birthday had been celebrated here. I think my brain hurts.
http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/2011.html

In other news I shopped my face off and I am bagged, pooped and exhausted. Lots of little things here there and elsewhere, which meant for tricky bus connecting in ways that the people who designed the system probably never thought anyone would want to do. Every now and then I miss my car, if for no other reason than that one doesn't have to carry one's shopping every bloody where. On the other hand, I didn't have to try and find a place to park even once, and that is a gift that nobody can give you. :)

Strangely enough, I can't find Christmas tree garland anywhere. We got a new artificial tree last year, and it turned out to be a lot bigger that I expected, so my little dribs and drabs of garland are seriously not going to cut it, so: new garland it is. It seems like no one is carrying it at all. There is none to be purchased, but usually, if there had been any, there would be an empty spot on the shelf, or one badly damaged and pathetic package, or something. But not one twinkle of the tinsel boa anywhere. I will search one more day - and that's it.

I must say that I do like sleeping in.