Gnomonics, and its future effects on vegetation

Today was certainly the longest day we have ever had upon Earth. It took forfuckingever for the clocks to get to five, and actually i did not even wait until five, because it was taking too long, and my boss was out sick anyway, so i left at four-thirty, which was still excrutiating. Today was the longest day ever.

And not just because of cosmological reasonings, like how the Moon is drifting farther away and how astronomical equilibrium is obliged to compensate by making the planet rotate in a slower sort of way, meaning that yes, scientifically today ranks as one of the longest days in the history of the planet. It was also the longest day ever because i am getting too lazy to play on the internet, or while away my time in any sort of way other than staring into space. And not the interesting sort of space, far away, but the boring sort of space, within two or three feet of my eyeballs.

Maybe i should think twice before complaining, since in 4.5 billion years, the average workday will suck in the worst sort of way, mostly since a workday will be a month long, and also because the Sun will have become a red giant and its jackass flames will be twenty feet above your head, making your hair all melty, and you will be getting a new skin cancer every 3.6 seconds. Plus it will be dang hot.

This all means that it will be impossible to go to work and not bitch about how slowly work is going by, because it will take about 600 hours to finish out the workday, and the conditions would be less than ideal for the duration.

Also, what this means is that lift bridge operators will constantly be asleep on the job, because 600 hours is a long time to stay awake, and so the bigger boats will be delayed over and over again as they travel along the Erie Canal, and this will cause an economic decline in Western New York, causing it to become bereft of profitability.

That is the only effect that i can foresee, at this time. I am not a Kreskin or anything though.

The good news would be that when you get out of work, you would not have to go back for almost a month. Maybe that would make it all worthwhile.

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Also, a gnomon is the upright part of a sundial, and since the gnomon shadow will move at a godawful slow pace in 4.5 billion years, it will be a lousy idea to plant flowers around your sundial.

Except that the sun will only be twenty feet off of the ground, so i guess shadows will not be able to exist anyways, so it will probably be fine. I can't believe i totally just refuted myself.