Ken (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} shadowplay2) wrote,@ 2006-01-13 22:35:00 |
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the roundabout way
I'm headed out of here first thing in the morning; there are field trips, part of the amphibian conference, scheduled near Willow Creek for half the day, which puts me halfway to Redding on Hwy 299; since Rt 101 at Confusion Hill remains open/closed/open unpredictable due to landsclides, I'm just going to keep going and take 299/5/80 to the Bay Area. It means leaving a day earlier than originally planned, but there are plenty of accumulated things to do in/near San Francisco until it's time to board the plane to Chicago on Monday morning.
The meeting today was uneven in quality, with several good solid papers, some that were okay but nothing spectacular, and one that left me asking why they had bothered to do the work, since the answers were pretty self evident. Really all they were doing was spendding tax dollars to document what we should already know, instead of asking the tougher questions that really matter. Still, other papers more than made up for that.
So tomorrow we get to play in the rain and the mud for a while before I head south. There really hasn't been enough time to prep for this trip, with the last two days solid with activities. I did manage to burn some tifs onto CDs and will start doing photoshop work on the plane, should have some product to mail out to various people from the Chicago end on Tuesday or Wednesday.
I'm headed out of here first thing in the morning; there are field trips, part of the amphibian conference, scheduled near Willow Creek for half the day, which puts me halfway to Redding on Hwy 299; since Rt 101 at Confusion Hill remains open/closed/open unpredictable due to landsclides, I'm just going to keep going and take 299/5/80 to the Bay Area. It means leaving a day earlier than originally planned, but there are plenty of accumulated things to do in/near San Francisco until it's time to board the plane to Chicago on Monday morning.
The meeting today was uneven in quality, with several good solid papers, some that were okay but nothing spectacular, and one that left me asking why they had bothered to do the work, since the answers were pretty self evident. Really all they were doing was spendding tax dollars to document what we should already know, instead of asking the tougher questions that really matter. Still, other papers more than made up for that.
So tomorrow we get to play in the rain and the mud for a while before I head south. There really hasn't been enough time to prep for this trip, with the last two days solid with activities. I did manage to burn some tifs onto CDs and will start doing photoshop work on the plane, should have some product to mail out to various people from the Chicago end on Tuesday or Wednesday.
