AHA!!
THAT explains it !! 
It's a sun-thing then, huh?!
That's a really convenient one, but I havn't actually had any problems about the sun. Going up to FL200 and higher on a regular basis, we see it often enough.
In this case there's a simpler explanation for me... I'd just gotten through postiing some stuff about the pilot friend of mine whose funeral I attended, there wasn't much that was going to get me to crack a smile at that point. Just still regretted my timing, as I had set aside a week to go see him and he died the week before... I could tell that it'd normally be funny, but it's not really hard to keep from laughing when you are in a somber mood.
Side note: today Galena and downriver got rain on top of their snow etc with temps just around freezing (about 1-2 degrees C) . Basically it's like landing and taxiing and walking on a skating rink. Anyway, I managed to not fall down once on that stuff. Where did I fall down? First thing in the morning on our ramp in Fairbanks where we didn't get rain.
I've got some Danner winter boots, and apparently Danner never considered that if you're wearing cold weather boots you might be dealing with *snow* or *ice* and left boots that just around have horrible traction... asking around it seems that most winter boots are like that, you have to go to less insulated boots to get the good traction...
