It's 4:30pm, and the sun ain't set yet. You winter people can complain about the rain and the fog and the fifty degree days and the other things that are melting and destroying your precious, precious snow. I got news for you: the days are getting noticeably longer again. The end is near.

Sure, not near enough that we won't have to suffer through a frigid couple of weeks after this annual January thaw (read: "tease") and the bleakness of February, the longest month of the year... but it's acomin'. Be sure of that.

In other news, the ever popular Mahna Mahna phenomena is actually from the soundtrack to an Italian sex travelogue of Sweden. God love the Muppets. And god love the Onion, who provided me with this particular fact.