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A very happy Solstice everyone. I hope it finds you well. Feast with your loved ones and take in as much daylight as possible. As of today, the Dark gets stronger again.

Today is rainy. It's a nice rain because it isn't cold. Being a tour guide in the rain sucks only because my people complain, and blame the rain on me. I tell them that our rain is why I look so young, and that they look like they could use a little of it anyway.

Our pub server last night was having it rough. She was not getting her food from the kitchen very quickly. Not her fault, but the tourists on the patio were livid. She was running to the kitchen to ask where the hell her food was, not knowing that the bathroom was flooded into the hall. She slipped and fell into about an inch of poo water, had to rinse it off with her clothes still on, and go back to work. Her patio table yelled at her while she was wringing out her clothes, and scrawled a fat zero on her bill, and she had to work in soaking clothes for the rest of the night. We know her well, and she sat with us for a while to calm down. When we left, we wrote a big zero on her bill, then left fifteen bucks American on the table for a fifteen dollar bill. Wouldn't you?

We've all had nights at least nearly that bad.

A woman lost it on me once because I couldn't give her American change. I mean lost it. Screaming. "I just don't understand why you don't use American dollars here. It would be so much better." Then went into, "I hope you know, I'm never coming back here. They don't even let you smoke anywhere!!"

"Have a nice trip." was all I said.