Programming has turned out to be right up my alley, I absolutely love it. Python was a lot of fun to learn, but I'm having much more fun with C. Although I did struggle a bit with bitwise operators. This is very low level stuff so nothing like it in Python. Basically, it's about working with the individual bits of a value. I had to google for a better online tutorial to wrap my mind around it. Still, most of C was just learning the different syntax and how to properly work with it.
The sun comes up around 10 these days if I'm not mistaken. The coming months are very nice here, more daylight and less snow, although it usually still snows in April, and some days in May too.
I don't think I'd survive in a desert. A warm summer day here rarely goes above 20 degrees celsius, at most it might go as high as 25 (roughly 77 fahrenheit). I tend to find it uncomfortable if temperatures rise above 15 (59 fahrenheit). But the 24 hour sunshine we have during summer is quite nice. I often take a stroll through the forest around midnight in the sunshine.