Could this be Ground Hog Day (the movie)?

Yesterday was the shortest day of the year in Bangalore.  June 22 was the longest.  There is barely an hour and a half difference beween the two.   

 

Dec 22, 2008

Sunrise> 6:37 AM

Sunset> 5:59 PM

Hours of Daylight> 11h 21m 51s

Jun 22, 2008

Sunrise> 5:55 AM       Sunset>

6:48 PM

Hours of Daylight> 12h 53m 25s

 

In the winter we have nearly 3 more hours of light a day than in Minneapolis where the sun rose at 7:48 AM and went down at 4:34 PM on Monday.

 

Weather is similarly consistent.  Here are the averages for high temps of the day.  It got down to a record low of 54 degrees here one time!

Jan-81   Feb-86   Mar-90   Apr-93   May-91   Jun-84   Jul-82   Aug-81   Sep-82   Oct-82   Nov-80   Dec-79

 

Small talk requires a whole different skill here.  People give you a really funny look if you bring up the weather wondering why on earth it is worth mentioning when it never changes.  You hardly ever see anything about it in the paper.  Why waste ink on something that is always the same? 

 

Something that has taken me time to adjust to is when people talk about summer here they are referring to March through June, not the months I typically think of as summer.  I don't think the other 9 months have a nomenclature.  They are just "not summer" as far as I can tell.

 

 

 

Thank you to our realtor: Seth Johnson

Thanks to Seth Johnson, our house had an offer in an amazingly short period of time given the housing market.  It went on the market the beginning of Oct and the sale closed on Dec 1.  If anyone needs a great realtor I recommend Seth.  He went above and beyone to help us.  Tell him I sent you...

 

Seth H. Johnson, Coldwell Banker Burnet,  612-827-9437  direct,  612-889-7853  cell, www.cbburnet.com/seth

 

I'll save the long story about what it's like to arrange a house sale closing from across the world for another day.  Big learning... assign limited power of attorney to someone who can sign papers for you.  Overnight mail take 3-4 days each direction and costs alot!

O' Tannenbaum

Our little Christmas tree for our first holiday in India.

A snail's pace

Kind of puts futility into perspective, doesn't it?  A nights journey through the yard, across the sidewalk, up the stair, navigating the porch just to end up in a dead end corner.  I've had days like that.

Google knows...

Google knows where I am apparently.  When I search for something now days, I get references within documents originated in India primarily.  I can't quite convince Google that sometimes my point of reference really needs to be Minnesota, not Karnataka.  Could Google be "Big Brother"?  It also seems to read my email because all the links offered in the sidebar are relevent to whatever my email is about.