Note: I wrote this last night, Sunday, August 17th.

Smoke filtering in from the wildfires along the western slope shrouded the mountains as Dad and I charged up Floyd Hill in the Jeep.

While this semester has been one hell of a challenge, it’s almost over and I’ll survive the semester with passing grades, at the very least. 

Note: Last Tuesday was somethin’ else… This is also a very rough draft, even for a blog. 

For this entire semester (and probably for subsequent semesters), I’ve been zeroed-in on the idea of “scientific communication”: the act of clearly communicating science to people.