Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 04, 2023

I block sunlight on all my bedroom windows. Sensible.

The thing that I love most about using a CPAP machine, is that I can pull the covers up over my head and not have to worry about the sun.

They should lock her in her room and feed her through a hole in the door.

“If at first you don’t succeed, yank a little harder” is a perfectly natural behavior, but as a long-time shoe (un)tier, I can assure you that it’s not always a GOOD behavior. Apparently window shades are like that too.

That scream probably just melted a few more icebergs and glaciers.

That’s what great about daylight savings time. Less sun in the morning and more in the evening, when you want to be out and about.

Kate takes after her father. Danae takes after Genghis Khan.

All the way to the South Pole – impressive

I love the sun. It energizes me when I wake.

Wow, I can’t remember the last time I slept that late. I don’t need to get up at 5:30, it just happens.

Should move to Indiana. Thanks to Mitch Daniel’s time (DST) and the state being in the Eastern time zone, clock time is almost 2 hours ahead of sun time.

The farther north you go, the earlier the sun rises in summer. Here at 45 degrees, as of today, sunrise is 5:30. In another three weeks, at the solstice, it’ll be closer to 5AM (and it will begin to get light at 4:30 or so). Sunset will be near 9:20PM and it will stay usable daylight until about 10PM. You learn to ignore the sun while sleeping when the sun comes up that early.

Sunrise here in northernmost Maine is 4:40, but it is already light at 4. Thankfully DST makes it so it isn’t 3 AM daylight.

I heard of the shot heard around the world… but GAAH!

This is why I will never buy those blasted roller shades – too many less-than-fond childhood memories of shades that snapped up, and shades that fell off the window.

I get a feeling Danae is something less than happy.

I think when people say calm down, what they really mean is quiet down. It’s not that they expect you to get better, they just don’t want everyone to hear about it.

I wear eye masks, live half way up to the top of Michigan. Sleep till ten sometimes. Luckily, can then stay up at night until it gets dark!

I don’t get it. What’s with the penguins?

I feel your pain, Danae. I am not a morning person either, which is why my comment is #543 or whatever.

If it’s light in the Northern Hemisphere, shouldn’t it be dark in the Southern Hemisphere? It’s winter down there.

Most kids don’t get to that stage until teenage.

7:45? Poor thing. More like 4:30 on the East coast atm…

People have been using time since, well, the beginning of time. Or at least the beginning of communities. They used nature’s schedule for planting and harvesting, etc. because their survival depended on what and when nature did.They based their calendars on three natural cycles: the solar day, marked by the successive periods of light and darkness as the earth rotates on its axis; the lunar month, following the phases of the moon as it orbits the earth; and the solar year, defined by the changing seasons that accompany our planet’s revolution around the sun.

Before artificial light, the moon had great social impact. For those living near the equator, its waxing and waning was more conspicuous than the passing of the seasons. So their calendars were influenced more by the lunar cycle than by the solar year. In more northern climes, however, seasonal agriculture was important and the solar year became more crucial.

The Egyptians and Babylonians began to measure time at least 5,000 years ago, introducing calendars to to predict and plan planting and harvesting and to organize and coordinate communal activities and public events, and to schedule the shipment of goods. Because their community and religious events were centered around the success of the harvest.

The first time-keeping devices were “Shadow Clocks”, developed by the ancient Egyptians. They divided the day into 12-hour periods and used some of their enormous obelisks to track the movement of the sun. The Egyptians also developed the water clock [Amenhotep III, 1415 – 1380 BCE]. Water clocks [clepsydra] were later adopted by the Ancient Greeks. The Zhou Dynasty also developed their own versions around the same time.

Calendars and clocks were invented as a tool to help people know nature’s time when things should or could be done. We now allow time to dictate when to do things in spite of nature. The tool has become the master.

I still feel a little panicky when I wake up and it’s already daylight.

Get Danae a sleep mask

Eyeshades, Danae, eyeshades.

Rise and Shine, Danae.

I can sleep through sunrise, but that darned robin who starts VERY loud twittering at 4:00 am……………………………

Just this morning I was counting the days until daylight hours decrease again.

When I was a little panda, first light meant …

All Pandas on Deck

Sleep in and waste a Summer day? Not likely.

Corn flakes and Today with Dave Garroway, then off on my way. Got to check the frog pond, see if any of the guys are at the ballpark et C. Busy days are happy days.

I understand, June 21st day light does get less.

Don’t anyone tell Danae that it’s 7:45 – PM.

Had that problem when working shifts. Solution was to install blackout curtains larger than windows. Now, in Arizona, I welcome sunrise, signalling the coolest part of the day,

Maybe she’d be better off sleeping in a coffin

Summer as a kid was awesome. I never could sleep in with windows open and my friends gearing up for the day.

Where did she get that bedside lamp? I think I want one!

Why didn’t she shut the shade all the way before she went to sleep? That would have kept most of the light out.

I’m with Danae on the morning-sunlight thing.

Only 17 more days to the start of Summer at the solstice.

Finally, a good one…

I’m with Danae on this one.

(admires art of this cartoon)

Danae, some friendly advice. Blackout curtains are your friend.

Since they live in Maine and the penguins should be in Antarctica, wouldn’t all of the North Eastern USA be deaf now?

7:45? I’d be ecstatic to make it to 4:00!

Our family took a Yellowstone and Grand Teton vacation in the fall of 1987. At about that time, a company near Salt Lake City was testing the new engine for the Space Shuttle. I asked my step dad if we would be able to hear the test and he said, “Not if it’s successful.”

Danae must have strict parents. I never got up before 10 AM during summer vacation.

hated getting up early for school but was up at 5am every day of summer break. NES would not play itself.

Summer Camp. Better known as “Danae Savings Time”

You nailed it :-)

7:45 is not stinkin’ early. I am retired. By then I should be showered and getting dressed for breakfast.