The Darkness has arrived.

Here's a typical November weather forecast along with sunrise/sunset times that are rapidly shrinking our hours of daylight:

Usch.  Yuck.  November is by far the worst month in Sweden, weather-wise.  The newest vocabulary word I've learned by hearing people talk about the weather recently is ruggig, which literally means "gruesome."  No kidding...here's hoping for some nice frozen snow to lighten and cover up the cold, sopping, cloudy, muddy mess that is Sweden at the moment.