Dave’s Midlife Blog

Yes, it’s been an awfully long time since I’ve posted here. Sorry.

It’s the first day of December when I write this, and I’m feeling blah. SAD? Well, maybe just a little. (I recently heard a wag somewhere point out that when we whine about SAD, we’re really just talking about the bloody WINTER!)

It gets dark so early nowadays–at least in the northern hemisphere. It is the very lowest point in the baseball year, as well. The World Series finished over a month ago, and the winter meetings have not yet begun. Spring training is still many weeks away.

My Nationals did make a trade with Florida for a couple of decent players. Scott Willingham will swing a decent bat and probably play outfield (left?) for the Nats. Scott Olsen may well be the Nats de facto pitching ace now. If he can stay out of trouble (the kind of thing everyone was saying about Elijah Dukes last year), he’ll be good.

I have a new desktop/screen saver on my iBook laptop which is reminding me that it’s winter. It’s called EarthDesk. It shows a more-or-less real time image of the earth, centered on whatever spot you want, and showing the world map in whatever projection you choose. It also shows the sunlight and the darkness–which has made me very aware of the difference between winter (in the north right now) and summer (in the south).

It’s a bit depressing to see how short the days are in North America right now. But looking at the very long days down in southern Argentina and Chile reminds me that summer will come once again.