Winter blues

Max Dunn — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:43:00 -0700

Has anyone noticed a significant gap in these postings? During the winter months, I hardly posted anything. I did spend a lot of time using Ruby on Rails to develop the Tri-Cities Baseball web site, but wasn’t able to write much.

I am guessing that there are two causes of this: less sun and less activity.

I am definitely affected by the lack of sun. Even in the summer, when it is cloudy all day, I get depressed. This happened even last summer when we spent a day south of Santa Cruz. Even though the day before I was feeling fine, I got more and more depressed as the day wore on when the sun refused to come out.

Another reason for these winter blues is probably also I don’t exercise much in the winter. I like outdoor sports: mountain biking and surfing especially, but these are hard to do in the winter.

Last year, I was pretty depressed during the winter months too. This was the period where I really wasn’t enjoying my job, and ending up quitting on April 1st.

Now that Spring is trying to make an appearance, I am posting a lot more. This is probably a good indicator that I am feeling better and my right brain is waking up from its slumber and starting to actually work again.

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