Last weekend I hiked the Montara Trail - it was lovely going up through a tree lined gorge (well, not by Ithaca standards, but I am in California now) and then the chaparral. The week before we hiked the "steep ravine" of Mount Tam. These hikes are all courtesy of my friend Laura, who is getting ready for a hiking vacation in Scotland.
Work continues to be great. The people are awesome, and it's great to get my hands dirty coding again. For the geeks out there, I'm sorta amazed to be one of the "leaders" in the group practicing test-driven development, but I guess that's one of the reasons they hired me. On Monday there was a "Bastille Day" lunch. The highlight was definitely driving the cupcake. We had a lot of fun chasing after cyclists, but the best reactions were definitely from the troops of kids at Stanford for sports camps or whatever. Now they'll want to go to Stanford so they can drive cupcakes! (Though they have nothing to do with Stanford, of course.)
My cats continue to thrill me, of course, but I won't bore you with it. Well, okay, ONE thing. I finally got a laser pointer. Delilah seems uninterested, but of course Shindy is nuts for it. The only trick is to keep it in her line of sight: furniture (and even her own head) can block the ray, so I have to aim carefully. Well, I recently discovered that she's just as entertained when the laser is pointed at the ceiling! And guess what - there's no furniture up there to block it!
The fires you're hearing about in the news are not near me, though some people are having some issues with allergies/irritation. I can't smell smoke at all, and the skies look clear to me. Not so for folks in Sacramento and many other places.
Let's end on a happier note. How about an E-flat?
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