TGIF!

Yay! I survived the week!

Today is Friday...obviously. I started the morning a little slow since apparently the 1 pint of beer I had last night was of high alcohol content. 1 pint! And it felt like 3. Maybe it was 10% alc, I don't know. Anyway, so I hit up the gym before class and was relieved to find that Friday mornings are a good time to be in the gym. On the other week days, every single squat bar in the place is taken within 5 minutes of opening, which is somewhat surprising. Obviously the world is evolving from the "bench press" phase. I can't argue with the logic of that one. Squat away my friends.

After the gym I had Pre-Calculus. In last year's Algebra class, we used a Pre-Calculus textbook, which made me somewhat suspicious. No matter though, because in this class, 63% of what we're going to cover, I learned last year in my Algebra class. Seriously. No kidding. And I got an A in that class.

Does that give me reason to slack off? No ma'am. I'm just working ahead and getting assignments done early to take the load off of my other classes. I am definitely cool with this.

So lectures have been boring. That's ok, I have coffee and an active imagination.

After Pre-Calc I went out into the field with my lab mates (fire weather lab) to take some samples of our live fuels to submit live fuel moistures. We're not seeing the new growth that is generally happening about this time. We did just get our first rain the other day, but only got about a tenth of an inch. It's going to be a crazy dry year. It was nice getting outside and into the brush, and it was even nicer that the work was easy. Just walking around with a pair of clippers, clipping off samples of chemise into my little cans to be dried in the oven back at the lab.

When we got them back into the lab, we weighed them and stuck them in the oven. They cook for 24 hours and are then removed for a second weighing. The difference in weights is how much moisture is out in the live fuels.

I went home with every intention of getting some studying done. I got home and had lunch, and then tried to take a nap on the couch. It was quite restless and didn't help with my motivation at all. So I've just been boppin' around the house for the past 5 hours.

I'm going to the Breakfast Ride (14 miles) tomorrow with my new cycling club. It says it's a leisurely ride and to bring a few dollars for pancakes and coffee at the halfway point. SOLD. I need a nice easy ride as I've got a 14 mile run due on Sunday. Yikes!

So I'm on Strava...which so far I do not see the hype, but that's probably because I'm not frequenting my club's board since I don't have any recent rides GPS'd. Strava is an athlete tracking/social website type of thing. You upload your runs and rides to Strava from your GPS, smartphone or whatever other device you have with GPS capabilities. It compares you to others who have run your route, compares your runs with your last ones, displays leader boards for certain routes and then makes suggestions on who you should "follow" (or stalk). Kinda interesting, so I'm going to see what happens when I add a Strava Widget to this blog. I have no idea, so it'll be interesting.

Well, I should get this closed out and maybe get a little Meteorology reading in tonight...we'll see. Gotta get rested up for the Breakfast Ride tomorrow!