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Today I discovered
... that my house, which I had always vaguely assumed was on an east-facing slope, is actually on a north-facing slope.
I found this out by installing a compass app and saying to my husband, "Hey, this compass app is broken!" Apparently it isn't. All these years, I figured that "My back window looks across San Francisco Bay to the other side" meant that I was looking east, or some variation on it. Somehow I reconciled this belief with the knowledge that on both solstices the rising sun shines in through my bedroom window, which is at a right angle to the back slope.
I can only say "Duh".
I found this out by installing a compass app and saying to my husband, "Hey, this compass app is broken!" Apparently it isn't. All these years, I figured that "My back window looks across San Francisco Bay to the other side" meant that I was looking east, or some variation on it. Somehow I reconciled this belief with the knowledge that on both solstices the rising sun shines in through my bedroom window, which is at a right angle to the back slope.
I can only say "Duh".