I know it's actually tomorrow but since no one reads the board on Saturdays I thought I'd put this in now. A faint ray of light in our otherwise dreary winter days beckons, days get longer by like a minute or so. Hell by the first of the year it'll be practically daylight by 5 am . Woot. Enjoy .
Edit" Changed to reflect actual solstice today

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

oh it's the 21st? for some reason i kept thinking it was the 23rd, but now that i assign a little more thought into it i reckon you're right cuz it's the 21st that ends up being the solstice.

pity that we get the slingshot effect with june/dec 21st in that july is the hottest month and january is the coldest month. this winter has already been more annoying than all of last winter combined, so we're going to end up somewhere in between last year's mild winter and the one b4 that where we got leveled with a february blizzard that hearkened back to memories of the late 60s when royko observed that "chicago is the only city on earth where a blizzard can be revealed to have mob ties"

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Word of Advice: Don't wish someone who you are unsure of their religious standing a "Happy Winter Solstice"...that 30 minute conversation I had to have with...well, I'm not sure what the hell he is...convincing him I wasn't calling him a Pagan was awkward...

Don't waste that extra minute you'll get tomorrow. Make it count.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Yea, I'm gonna play NHL 14 all day.

I had a family trip last Sunday to the Adler Planetarium -- neither Mrs. newper or I could recall the last time we had been there -- one of the shows we saw was where everything is projected up on a dome, and they showed the path of the sun across the sky and how it changed from solstice to solstice... it was pretty interesting.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

I haven't been there since a grade school field trip, sometime in the mid 1980's.

I can't wait until my kids are old enough to appreciate places like this.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

<º)))><

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

A lot has changed since then. For instance, there's one less planet.