the scarcity of sunlight parallels the light volume hmm. i just read a news article on this recently. i think pollution is responsible for dimming the light that's reaching us by something like 7-10%. solstice. hmm. doesn't that mean that we whip out the virgins for some kind of stravinskian dance? actually, i thought down on low volume was good for a turnaround back up. but up on low volume?