today is one of my least favorite days of the year.

for the first time in roughly 8 months, my post-work commute will be in the total darkness of night, thanks to DLS fall back.

no more setting sun, or dusk, or twilight riding, just pure raw unadulterated straight-up night.

the only silver lining to all of this is that, given my start time (and chicago's location on the extreme eastern edge of its time zone), i always have plenty of daylight for my morning commutes, even on the winter solstice.

but the night rides home in winter aren't my favorite. it's not that i don't like riding in darkness, it's the combination of the darkness and chicago's crazy aggressive rush hour traffic that's less than ideal.



oh well, only 18 weeks to go until March 12th. that's only 90 night rides home from work. i can do this, just gotta take it one night at a time.