OK.

Now we're in it.

The dark season.

Time change took care of that, as did our latitude. How do you endure it, after 20 years?

I'm trying a run at mid-day, on UAF's south slope, so sun hits my face, the only skin showing. Vitamin D production? Probably not.

It's quiet, it's peaceful, it's the time you think of the name of that band that used to play in Dawson City in the summer:

"Way Too Far North."