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It's cold.

-4 C to be exact, which is 15 C less than where my parents live.

I am trying to take a lesson from last autumn and not presume that this is the beginning of winter (as winter came and left a half dozen times before settling in in late january) but I can still tell it's affecting my mood.

I'm just not cut out for 6 months of cold. Especially not combined with 6 months of cool.

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Aurora season has started with green hazy stuff, mostly concentrated in a ribbon perpendicular to the magnetic pole.

My brain is directionally challenged. Due to the orientation of the house I grew up in, my brain thinks north is just slightly north of east, and west is north. I have south down just fine, though, because that's where the sun is in November and February and isn't in December and January.

In other words, my brain thought the aurora ribbon ran north-south and didn't figure out its true direction (curving from northeast to west until I (after staring confusedly at the sky for a minute or two ) located the pole star.