It’s 12.22 A.M. I’ve been reading for almost two hours now, and I’m still not tired. Okay, I’m exhausted, but I can’t be bothered sleeping. There, I admited it. I don’t know why, but lately midnight seems to be the time where I most want to surf the interwebs. 1 A.M tends to be the time I actually lay my head to rest, and it’s 1.30 A.M before I’m taking a ride on the sleepy train. I hope I don’t get into too much of a habit of this, because the 7 A.M University starts will completely kick me in the arse. I may have to get up super early sometime during the week just to knock me back into my proper schedule.

So, on Friday, James decided he’d take me to go and get my iMac. At the time, Dad hadn’t deposited my birthday money and monthly budget into my account, so I was about $800NZ short for my precious iMac. James said he didn’t mind paying, and I’d pay him back as soon as the money got transfered. The plan seemed fine to me, so off we went to the nearest Apple retailer, about 5 minutes drive from my apartment, about 45 minutes drive from James’s place, at which we were currently staying. We get there, but no iMac. The new ones, apparently, have been ridiculously popular, and so most of the apple retailers were sold out. Oh wells, I said. I called up the nearest Harvey Norman - they said they had available stock: So back in the car we get, driving for 40 minutes in peak hour traffic to get to the store, only to find that the Douchebag who I spoke to on the phone failed to mention that the “available stock” was actually display stock. At this point, it’s getting relatively late, and most retail stores are starting to close up. I give in, disappointed, and tell James I’ll order the iMac through the apple store instead.

Well, on Saturday I find out that Dick Smith Electronics actually has several iMac’s in stock. I was pretty pissed off, considering that one of the Dick Smith’s was closer than the Harvey Norman we went to. I was even angrier, because I’d checked the website a few days before, and the new iMacs weren’t listed as stock. Nevertheless, I tell James, saying that there should still be stock on Monday, and we’ll go and get it then when James picks me up from the train station near his house.

James has better ideas. It’s about 20 minutes before the store closes, and he rushes out to buy the entire computer for me! It’s currently sitting at his house (”Well fed and watered,” according to James) waiting for my loving attention. And the money from Dad has been deposited now, so I’ll be paying James back first thing tomorrow morning. :D Boy, am I excited. And boy, do I love that boy. :)

So, in order to Encourage the inner science geek in all my visitors, I’ve decided that I will be posting a random, but sciency, science fact once a week. Introducing *Bah bah bummm* Science Geek Weekly! This week’s science geek delight is proudly brought to you by the solar system. Yes! :)

Seasons are not a result of the Earth being closer or further away from the Sun, like most people will proudly tell you if asked (seriously, it’s been surveyed.) - It is, instead, a result of the Earth’s axial tilt of just over 20 degrees. This tilt causes the sun’s rays to hit the northern hemisphere’s surface more directly during July and the southern hemisphere’s surface more directly during January.

Additionally, the Earth is closest to the sun during the Northern Hemisphere’s winter - if the closer-to-the-sun theory for seasons were to be correct, Summer for ALL hemispheres would be during December, when the Earth is closest to the sun. Whilst it is summer for the Southern Hemisphere, it’s definetely not summer for the Northern.