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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
aaaah I need to go shovel.
Go! Steamshovel Zodi! For Great Justice! Shovel every snow.
...Actually, have you ever made a snow fort?
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
I've never made a snow fort because I don't like the cold very much.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
I've never made a snow fort because I don't like the cold very much.
*Looks at Zodiac's location.*
Hmm. Maybe you should move...
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
Aedilred
*Looks at Zodiac's location.*
Hmm. Maybe you should move...
This seems like a sensible solution if not for the fact that I kinda don't WANT to leave, since aside from the winter it's pretty great up here.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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LaZodiac
aaaah I need to go shovel.
Or you could just scatter salt all over it, and laugh at all the poor recruits who have to clean and re-polish their freshly polished boots to get past the personnel inspection coming up that afternoon!
But really, apparently salt works fine for that kind of thing. Dunno, I always lucked out of snow watch.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
Pheehelm
Or you could just scatter salt all over it, and laugh at all the poor recruits who have to clean and re-polish their freshly polished boots to get past the personnel inspection coming up that afternoon!
But really, apparently salt works fine for that kind of thing. Dunno, I always lucked out of snow watch.
It only works so much. Also I don't know where the shovels are aaaagh.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
It only works so much. Also I don't know where the shovels are aaaagh.
Where's it usually kept? The garage? Toolshed? Basement? By the front door in the umbrella/cane/tool bin?
Actually, if it's that snowy, how did the rest of the family get out of the house? :smallconfused::smalleek:
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
Where's it usually kept? The garage? Toolshed? Basement? By the front door in the umbrella/cane/tool bin?
Actually, if it's that snowy, how did the rest of the family get out of the house? :smallconfused::smalleek:
I have no idea. And it's not that it's that snowy, I just want to get it done NOW so it doesn't like, settle in.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
Gah, the only bad thing about disappearing for a day or two is that I miss six pages of conversation.
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LaZodiac
This seems like a sensible solution if not for the fact that I kinda don't WANT to leave, since aside from the winter it's pretty great up here.
True that. Canada (at least the parts of Ontario and Quebec that I was in) is wonderful in the summer.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
I've never made a snow fort because I don't like the cold very much.
Come to Australia! It's much warmer here.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
Rawhide
Come to Australia! It's much warmer here.
Or, you know, anywhere else closer to the Equator than Canada. Which is most of the world, I think.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
I think just closer to the border would avoid most of the walls of ice and snow, even.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Rawhide
Come to Australia! It's much warmer here.
I think that may be TOO hot for me, unfortunately.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
I think just closer to the border would avoid most of the walls of ice and snow, even.
But the marauding moose bands raid there! You cannot go near the border while they linger with their ravenous marauding ways.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
This seems like a sensible solution if not for the fact that I kinda don't WANT to leave, since aside from the winter it's pretty great up here.
In that case, take my advice and move the entire town south:smalltongue:
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Mercenary Pen
In that case, take my advice and move the entire town south:smalltongue:
Unfortunately I can't do that for numerous reasons.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
LaZodiac
Unfortunately I can't do that for numerous reasons.
I guarantee, with a little bit of heavy machinery, you can move the entire town. I suppose it depends on the size of some buildings (you probably can't move a block of apartment buildings or an industrial warehouse), but towns are mobile, when looked at correctly. :smalltongue:
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I'm not saying it's not physicaly possible, I'm just saying there's a lot of logistical stuff.
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Plus it's less expensive to just rebuild the town and only move certain plant-life that can't simply be planted and grown from seed or saplings.
Or at least, the only time that I recall anyone has actually relocated a town, that's what they did because the other options were too expensive. Relative to purchasing the land and rebuilding an entire town somewhere else.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Rawhide
Fixed that for you.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
Kiruna, Sweden's northest city, has moved from time to time, and is about to do so again, all due to the world's largest iron mine that happens to lie more or less directly under the town. It's controversial, but since the whole existence of the town is based upon said mine, the inhabitants aren't really in a position to fight it...
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Teddy
Absolutely! How could someone that's absolutely "normal" (I'm not very fond of that word myself. It puts a stigma on deviance and originality) be in the bottom 2%?
LOGICNESS
ION: WOke up at 1:20. In the afternoon. Brain no worky. Three day weekends man, three day weekends.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Mutant Sheep
... *expects Myn to break down your door any minute now* :smalltongue:
Knee why'd you have to go and show that? I have this uncontrollable "go watch youtube urge" now, and I JUST finished watching the first season of Gargoyles. I SHOULDN'T BE DOING ANYMORE TONIGHT, I'LL OVERLOAD! :smalleek::smallbiggrin:
Oh, Coid... PICK AN AVATAR ALREADY! :smallmad::smallamused:
Ah, Gargoyles... why didst thou ever leave us? Even though the Latin is abysmal, I love that show so dearly. I wish I could gay-marry Xanatos.
I have not re-watched Roger Rabbit in ages. Perhaps I shall do so as well.
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Elemental
In other, not at all related news: I just clicked on the link in your signature Kneenibble! Combined with the music I'm listening to, I now know exactly how I want my funeral to be!
I just need to get a weather control device and construct a mausoleum/funerary temple and hire the Tallis Scholars...
No... I'm not being morbid. I'm happy I know what I want to do with my death.
What music?
This music?
edit Oh, the Tallis Scholars are a musical group. I imagined you meant some kind of monastic order who practice embalming. Why is that the first thing my mind assumed?!
That rain generator is so wonderful -- the help it gives me concentrating at work and study is invaluable.
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Coidzor
I think just closer to the border would avoid most of the walls of ice and snow, even.
Alas no... I live some 100 km from the border, and experience the greatest temperature extreme of major cities in the world. There have been blizzards here that buried bungalows to the eaves. The three rivers freeze solid enough to drive snowploughs on.
It's a dry cold, which makes it more bearable -- but my hands and lips turn to scales, and I rail in the endless gobbling darkness like a withered queen, smashing mirrors and draining peasants for some recourse.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
MoonCat
LOGICNESS
ION: WOke up at 1:20. In the afternoon. Brain no worky. Three day weekends man, three day weekends.
Have fun Moony. Just remember to wake up enough to post and stuff, I miss you :smallwink:
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
MoonCat
LOGICNESS
ION: WOke up at 1:20. In the afternoon. Brain no worky. Three day weekends man, three day weekends.
Yeah. My favorite part is the Sunday/monday nights though. Scrambling to do homework as inevitiably some distant relations come over and you have to say hi awkwardly. What fun. :smallbiggrin:
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Kneenibble
Ah, Gargoyles... why didst thou ever leave us? Even though the Latin is abysmal, I love that show so dearly. I wish I could gay-marry Xanatos.
I have not re-watched Roger Rabbit in ages. Perhaps I shall do so as well.
Alas no... I live some 100 km from the border, and experience the greatest temperature extreme of major cities in the world. There have been blizzards here that buried bungalows to the eaves. The three rivers freeze solid enough to drive snowploughs on.
It's a dry cold, which makes it more bearable -- but my hands and lips turn to scales, and I rail in the endless gobbling darkness like a withered queen, smashing mirrors and draining peasants for some recourse.
I THOUGHT the Latin made no sense, but there werent subtitles and the verbs were... Decent, but to be honest I dunno how spell incantations work anyway. English always rhymes, so... I assume thats a constant?:smallconfused:
I have NEVER SEEN ROGER RABBIT BWHAHAHA.
Booo. You cant say "temperature extremes" and ONLY speak of the cold. Unless you go over... The celsius equivilant of 95 I say you're just Arctic.:smallwink:
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MoonCat
LOGICNESS
It's the tool of my trade and my weapon of choice, my panacea for problems and my virgin's tears for solutions. :smallwink:
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Originally Posted by
Kneenibble
Alas no... I live some 100 km from the border, and experience the greatest temperature extreme of major cities in the world. There have been blizzards here that buried bungalows to the eaves. The three rivers freeze solid enough to drive snowploughs on.
Ahh, this reminds me of the winters when I was little, and they used to plough up a road across the lake on the way to mum's job. The improvised ice-road presented a great shortcut to mum, and even though I only ever was with her once or twice when she took that road, it's an image strongly imprinted on my mind.
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Kneenibble
It's a dry cold, which makes it more bearable -- but my hands and lips turn to scales, and I rail in the endless gobbling darkness like a withered queen, smashing mirrors and draining peasants for some recourse.
I still haven't found a good remedy for scaly lips (it's a problem for me all around the year, but even worse in the winter), but I know a cure for the darkness: Buy yourself one of those electric light strands you hang in the Christmas tree (it should be the small kind, not the large kind that pretends to be real candles, and make sure that it's certified for outdoor use), wrap it around a bush or other object of choice in your garden (preferably somewhere that's highly visible from inside your house) and link it up to a timer that lights it in the morning and evening. I don't care that it isn't christmas, the cosiness factor is simply too high to not be worth it.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Mutant Sheep
I THOUGHT the Latin made no sense, but there werent subtitles and the verbs were... Decent, but to be honest I dunno how spell incantations work anyway. English always rhymes, so... I assume thats a constant?:smallconfused:
I have NEVER SEEN ROGER RABBIT BWHAHAHA.
Booo. You cant say "temperature extremes" and ONLY speak of the cold. Unless you go over... The celsius equivilant of 95 I say you're just Arctic.:smallwink:
I can't remember any specific examples, but the last time I watched it through a few years ago I thought to myself, "You're lucky you are awesome, Gargoyles, or else this would really bother me." & as for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it was one of my favourite movies as a child -- unique and campy and fantastic.
Yes okay, on the other hand our heat waves in July go over 100 F, and we have more sunny hours in summer than some cities in California. One of my professors came from Ontario, who had also travelled to central Africa: and remarked that the summer sun here felt the same as there.
So in Fahrenheit, that is a temperature range of -40 -- 100. -40 to 40 in Celsius. We don't get as hot as more equatorial locales, certainly, but we sure experience a broad range of climate.
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Teddy
Ahh, this reminds me of the winters when I was little, and they used to plough up a road across the lake on the way to mum's job. The improvised ice-road presented a great shortcut to mum, and even though I only ever was with her once or twice when she took that road, it's an image strongly imprinted on my mind.
How lovely. It must have been peaceful to be driving out on a lake.
The rivers here are ploughed for miles of walking and skating paths, with little huts and evergreen trees set up along the way.
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I still haven't found a good remedy for scaly lips (it's a problem for me all around the year, but even worse in the winter), but I know a cure for the darkness: Buy yourself one of those electric light strands you hang in the Christmas tree (it should be the small kind, not the large kind that pretends to be real candles, and make sure that it's certified for outdoor use), wrap it around a bush or other object of choice in your garden (preferably somewhere that's highly visible from inside your house) and link it up to a timer that lights it in the morning and evening. I don't care that it isn't christmas, the cosiness factor is simply too high to not be worth it.
You know, that is a great idea. I love Christmas lights and the cozy atmosphere they provide. I'm especially fond of the LED strands and the intense colours they shine. I'm going to do just that.
I keep a dish of clarified butter in the winter and kiss it every time I go out or come in from the cold, but even the relief of that becomes but nominal in the rimy depths of the beast.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
Kneenibble
I can't remember any specific examples, but the last time I watched it through a few years ago I thought to myself, "You're lucky you are awesome, Gargoyles, or else this would really bother me." & as for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it was one of my favourite movies as a child -- unique and campy and fantastic.
Yes okay, on the other hand our heat waves in July go over 100 F, and we have more sunny hours in summer than some cities in California. One of my professors came from Ontario, who had also travelled to central Africa: and remarked that the summer sun here felt the same as there.
So in Fahrenheit, that is a temperature range of -40 -- 100. -40 to 40 in Celsius. We don't get as hot as more equatorial locales, certainly, but we sure experience a broad range of climate.
The archmagus(or... Whatever Hudson siad. I dunno, i only started two nights ago. Xd) had the verb... Be appropriate to the situation. But Xanatos... Yeah, I couldn't. He's a bit too awesome. You know, a couple billion degrees too hot. :smallwink:
Like, the USUAL heatwaves or... This summer? *shivers in fear even though talking about heat*. So damned hot, i did nothing but hide with the fans and thie air and the cold cold beverages.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
Mutant Sheep
Yeah. My favorite part is the Sunday/monday nights though. Scrambling to do homework as inevitiably some distant relations come over and you have to say hi awkwardly. What fun. :smallbiggrin:
That's what Friday afternoon after club meetings was for in my book.
Granted, that was because Friday night and Saturday night were usually given over to some kind of girlfriend fun time. :smalltongue:
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Originally Posted by
Mutant Sheep
I have NEVER SEEN ROGER RABBIT BWHAHAHA.
Hop to it then, laddy-buck. :smalltongue:
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Originally Posted by
Mutant Sheep
Booo. You cant say "temperature extremes" and ONLY speak of the cold. Unless you go over... The celsius equivilant of 95 I say you're just Arctic.:smallwink:
You mean 35 degrees Celsius to 95 degrees Fahrenheit? Honestly, if I didn't have this beer gut and layer of fur, I'd love hot temperatures again, just like when I was a boy. Granted, I think children are more efficient about cooling themselves since there's less core to retain heat and much, much, much, much, much less fur.
Can't stand the feeling of my joints not working properly because of the cold air though. Creeps me right the heck out. :smalleek:
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Teddy
It's the tool of my trade and my weapon of choice, my panacea for problems and my virgin's tears for solutions. :smallwink:
Hey now, don't make Moonie cry with your logic so that you can drink her tears. That's just mean. :smalltongue: *mumblemumblemumble*
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Teddy
I still haven't found a good remedy for scaly lips (it's a problem for me all around the year, but even worse in the winter), but I know a cure for the darkness: Buy yourself one of those electric light strands you hang in the Christmas tree (it should be the small kind, not the large kind that pretends to be real candles, and make sure that it's certified for outdoor use), wrap it around a bush or other object of choice in your garden (preferably somewhere that's highly visible from inside your house) and link it up to a timer that lights it in the morning and evening. I don't care that it isn't christmas, the cosiness factor is simply too high to not be worth it.
A quick fix if I'm recalling correctly can be acquired by being willing to rub your nose oils on your lips or being enough of a weirdo and having an S/O willing to play along with you kissing them on the nose. Or just making out regularly in general caused a marked difference between how bad my lips got in the winter. Or having an S/O. Honestly I'm not sure the exact cause there, ok. :smalltongue:
Light solution is a good one. They also have desk or floor lamps that have bulbs that produce "daylight" which are supposedly able to help people who are feeling blue because they're not getting enough sunlight in their lives. Helped keep me in better spirits when I had mine, but that could have been placebo too, haha.
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Re: Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183
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Originally Posted by
Mutant Sheep
The archmagus(or... Whatever Hudson siad. I dunno, i only started two nights ago. Xd) had the verb... Be appropriate to the situation. But Xanatos... Yeah, I couldn't. He's a bit too awesome. You know, a couple billion degrees too hot. :smallwink:
Tee hee, but he is also a bad-ass gentleman in addition to his wealthses' [can I say zis? Wealthses'?]. Not some entitled effete.
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Like, the USUAL heatwaves or... This summer? *shivers in fear even though talking about heat*. So damned hot, i did nothing but hide with the fans and thie air and the cold cold beverages.
*hugs* Were you not sheared properly this summer?!
We did not get much hotter than usual this year, fortunately; the heat waves were longer and drier, that's all.
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Ooh, apropos of that, the wonderful hot season allowed me to grow this prize watermelon:
It was delicious.
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
A quick fix if I'm recalling correctly can be acquired by being willing to rub your nose oils on your lips or being enough of a weirdo and having an S/O willing to play along with you kissing them on the nose. Or just making out regularly in general caused a marked difference between how bad my lips got in the winter. Or having an S/O. Honestly I'm not sure the exact cause there, ok. :smalltongue:
Light solution is a good one. They also have desk or floor lamps that have bulbs that produce "daylight" which are supposedly able to help people who are feeling blue because they're not getting enough sunlight in their lives. Helped keep me in better spirits when I had mine, but that could have been placebo too, haha.
Nose oils? That's just crazy enough to work, except that those, too, flake away like old leather, leaving stingy kleenex-scoured stucco in their stead.
Fortunately this city also benefits from a rather unusual amount of sunlit hours in the winter too, so vitamin D deficiency & SAD are not as intense as in, say, Vancouver or Seattle.