Welcoming the Spring

So it has been a while since I posted.  I was pretty good about doing it at first, but things got busy and I got distracted.  I heard on the radio that Spring officially starts at 7:07PM today, and I am quite pleased.  It looks like the weather will be good enough to take the bike for the rest of the week, which is the first time I'll be taking it to work since all the work.  I had a local shop check it out and they said it looks good, though, so I'm confident.

To welcome Spring, I'll share some random musings.

"It's always darkest just before the dawn" - No it's not.  That's stupid.  <<pause for effect>>  Just before the dawn, the sky is almost as bright as it is just after the dawn.  Have you actually seen the sun come up?  The sky starts to brighten long before you actually see the sun peeking up.  Unless, of course, you mean that the dawn is any time when the sky is getting brighter, but I doubt you'll claim that the dawn is a 5 hour process starting at about 2am.  Can you imagine if it actually were darkest just before the dawn?  You'd be out there trying to find the handle on your car or trying to put that worm on the stupid hook in pitch blackness, and suddenly BAM!  Lights on.  It'd be like stumbling into a bathroom in the middle of the night and flipping the light on.  I have a problem with taking something popular like "Patience is a virtue" or "The squeaky wheel gets the grease" (notice they are in contradiction) and throwing it out there as proof that your point of view is correct.  It's even worse, though, when the saying is ridiculous in the first place.  I'm gonna go around saying thing like "A bird in the hand is a rock if you smell it" and "A blue box is worth three eggs, but the Indians only lick Fritos."

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