It’s Midsummer’s Day.

The summer solstice was today, up here on the Northern hemisphere; and, as is my wont, I don’t go out or do anything tonight. Not that I believe in the Fae, of course. This is the 21st Century AD; such things clearly don’t exist. However, as Terry Pratchett might note, there’s always the chance that nobody told them that they don’t exist, and there’s always takeout if I’m feeling hungry.

Moe Lane

Happy Summer Solstice! (For three-quarters of the country)

It’s a little complicated: for me, the solstice is tomorrow, because it’ll happen at 12:24 AM Eastern Time. But for the rest of you, it’ll be today, because of time zones.  The point is that, in about seven and a half hours, the sun will stop its northerly movement in the northern sky, and start to move southerly. Because that’s what ‘solstice’ means : ‘sun-stop.’

[pause]

Did they teach us any of this stuff in school?  I’m forced to admit that I was zoning out for a lot of the boring stuff, because I had a good ear for what was going to be on actual tests and a not-unwarranted good opinion of my ability to cram/learn things at the last minute. So maybe I’m the only one who never heard anything about this, and the rest of you are going Geez, Moe, like everybody knows about how the solstice works! It wouldn’t be the first time, is what I’m saying.