rDay Eight-Hundred-Thirty-Five

Another scorcher.  Forecast was for 99 F., didn’t get an actual reading.

The big news of the day was old friend & ex-colleague Zach (and Nikon shooter, along with his wife!) took a break from working his new hosting/security consulting/IT management company to come over and meet Charlie.  Actually, what he did was to help fix my suddenly broken computer network.  And he showed me pics of his two-month-old daughter.

Zach

rDay Eight-Hundred-Thirty-One

Heat wave. Up early to escape the worst. Campus sprinkling at 8am, downtown Fourth of July preparations in evidence, just getting through.  Back to the basement …

rDay Eight-Hundred-Twenty-Eight

Massively hot.  Today we check on the school construction progress, and notice the presence of an unusual number of Idaho license plates at the site (is the local labor pool so insufficient that out-of-state workers must be imported?).  Then we walk past GRH, consider how crazy it would be to hike up Deal Canyon on a day like this, and see the mundane sights on the way back home.

rDay Eight-Hundred-Twenty-Six

A visit to the dentist today, regaled with travel tales by my dental hygienist about her recent Bora Bora trip (iPhone videos included of swimming with sharks and sting rays), and a bit of just walking around the old work site neighborhood.