Vampire Solstice

As redevelopment of the reworked Wilbur v19.4 continues, there are bound to be some changes and adjustments. In conjunction with the extreme seasons here, I have now entered the Vampire Solstice phase.

Bedtime has now slipped to 4 am, and as always happens with vampirism, wakeup call is only slightly shifted to 9:30. Do the math. What happened to the nightly 8?

Obviously there are lots of logical reasons for the shift. There's the new space, with lots of organizing and unpacking and purging and expansion. New digs are new digs. There's work and industry and the ongoing need of the self-employed to never say no, even while their lives are dissolving. Of course I can always use the money. There's the season and the reason, but I don't give a crap about that.

Then again, there are the less obvious emotional and psychological causes of vampirism. Who wants to go to bed when you just lay there and continue to process a thousand threads of pain that all point to the void.

Thank god there are seasons, each one has its place. Tonight is solstice, in fact, the actual turn of the season is in just 50 minutes from now! The darkening is over, we have hit rock bottom! That is such good news 'cause there's only one way to go now. Bring on the light!

49 minutes and counting. Have I reached rock bottom? Will I feel the turn? Right.