Things that make me go hmmmm...

I have a goodly number of pagan (of one flavour or another) friends who observe winter solstice with an all night vigil for sun-return, where they keep a light through the longest night, until the sun returns. I've also observed a certain overlap between the goth and the pagan community -- so I was wondering, why don't the goth pagans celebrate summer solstice by holding a vigil for the return of the darkness, where they keep one (or more) pieces of darkness (perhaps sealed inside a box) dark throughout the longest day in order to assure the return of darkness through this longest of days? (Of course, you can't open your box of darkness to check to make sure the darkness is still in there, you just have to take it on faith that the darkness is still there.)

(OT: and that's LJ caught up. Tomorrow I go to work on my comics back-log.)

Back climbing at Coyote again

My regular partner canceled at almost the last minute (5:30pm, rather than 6:59pm), so I went expecting to boulder, which I did for a while, then climbed with another guy there who didn't have a belay partner, but who I'd previously met. Did a 5.10a overhang that I hadn't thought I'd be capable of, also discovered that a couple climbs I'd done that had been unrated for a while were actually a 5.10a and 5.10c (I had thought 5.9 and 5.10a or so), so I've actually climbed my first 5.10c without realizing it.