There hasn't been a lot to post lately, so here are some micro-posts to fill in the week:
- Nice MTB ride last Sunday. Bugs were vicious, so there are no pictures. Got 27 miles in.
- Looks like the Morganza Spillway may not be opened after all. link at nola
- Attended a colloquium today about the 50,000+ year old cypress tree stumps on the bottom of the Gulf off of Alabama. Nothing really new that wasn't blogged about here last year. The speaker btw, DeLong, is one of the diver/scientists in the video at the link. Again, nothing new, but I did get to hold a piece of recovered wood. How often do you get to hold something from a current investigation that's about 10x older than the Egyptian pyramids? So that part was cool.
- Speaking of cool, we had a little front blow through yesterday. Days are still hot, but this morning the house thermometer read 67F on the back porch. That's a cold, dry arctic blast by June standards.
- Looks like rain this weekend though.
- Still plugging away at #3 in John Ringo's Black Tide Rising zombie novel series. Probably won't bother reviewing here beyond saying that they're a glorious waste of time, completely indefensible as works of literature, and are compulsive page turners. Just when I'm sick of the improbable action and am leaning toward swearing off the series, an interesting twist happens and I'm down for the next installment. Trapped like a rat.
More later. I'm not going anywhere, but there may be a little bit of summer slowdown.
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