Merry Gay Christmas!!!

All I Want For Christmas...

Merry Christmas!!!

MyTunes Monday: Zat You, Santa Claus?

The Winds of Winter

I have made my disdain for Winter fairly obvious. Like the people of Westeros, I pray for a Summer without end (although that would technically bring environmental devastation). Winter means less sunlight, less warmth, less green outside, and fewer fit lads running outside shirtless (the ones that do are probably not too bright). Since the coming cold is inevitable, I'm forced to find some positives:

1) Fewer bugs. I hate bugs. Luckily the cold kills them off.

2) Snow. I don't like it nearly as much as a kid. It's hard to get around in. That's great when you want a snow day off of school, but it tends to not give you snow days off of work (unless you're a teach). At least it's pretty to look at and makes for some great photos.

3) I can really work layers of clothing.
4) After the Winter Solistice, days start getting longer again. It makes it easier for me to deal with the cold, the lack of colour, and all that other stuff Winter brings. I may or may not have S.A.D. to some extent, but just knowing the days are steadily getting longer helps to deal with my tendency towards Winter depression (or whatever it is I have, assuming I have something since I've never actually been diagnosed).

As I'm writing this, the wind is howling outside for the second day and tomorrow will bring a third day of similar weather. It will probably keep me up late into the night. Whenever I do fall asleep, hopefully the night brings me a dream of Spring.

THE END OF THE WORLD!!!

Seriously though, I doubt anything will happen other than people getting drunk at end of the world parties.

MyTunes Monday: Snow (from "White Christmas")

Humour Files: This Week's Forecast

Can You Turn A Straight Guy Gay? (NSFW)

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Early Christmas Present (You're Welcome)

A Drinking Game of Thrones

MyTunes Monday: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

I Turn My Camera On

From another picture outing

Since I was off on Monday, I decided to head out this afternoon about an hour before Sunset to get some pictures. I've been compiling pictures of sunsets over the past few months. I'm not exactly sure what I'll end up doing with them, that is yet to be decided. Anyway, I rode my bike out about a mile and a half from home for some shots. I went around midtown, rode out a bit further to a pond and got some more shots, rode out even further to some farm land, and then rode all the way home (which was two, two and a half miles or so).

While I have been getting a lot of still photos, I also got some film as well. I have yet to check that out, but there were some ducks by the pond and horses on the farms, a few pans across the clouds, some planes leaving trails in the sky, etc. I didn't have a rig or a tripod or anything like that, just my hands. Hopefully the footage isn't too shaky, and hopefully what I got is usable.

Meanwhile, as I was out and about, there were a lot of other people taking photos as well. It was a very photogenic sunset.

I really should check this stuff out soon.

MyTunes Monday: Waltz of the Snowflakes