Random Thoughts

1) There is a billboard for a hospital on the way from our hotel to the worksite here in South Dakota which says: "Cancer.  I don't have time for this!" advertising for nearby prostate cancer treatments.  I understand the point, and that there are many cancers nowadays that are fairly well understood and treatable, but this still seems rather callous to people battling life-threatening / untreatable cancers.

2) I swear tic-tacs used to be the "1 1/2 calorie mint".  Bought some today and they're 1.9 calories.  So...  Did they change?  Were their tests wrong before?  Did the government change their rules on how you could round calorie values?  Also, I would not be surprised if I ate the entire box of them tonight.  Oh well.  It was better than many of the alternatives.  After spending all day outside kneeling on a gravel road and taking hundreds of measurements, I knew I needed something candy-like to munch on.  Candy while traveling is a serious weakness of mine.

3) I went to DQ this afternoon and had a mini blizzard since it was an incredibly frustrating / tedious / painful afternoon.  Even a mini blizzard has almost 400 calories.  Hello, Subway for dinner.  I don't mind really... I like Subway.

4)  I flew from Denver to Pierre in a 19-seat plane: two seats across with an aisle, no bathroom, no electronics allowed at any time (silly me, I only had my Kindle so I just had to look out the windows the whole time), and the "door" between us and the cockpit was open half the time so I could see out the front of the plane.  It was pretty awesome.

Oh, and this photo that I found?  Taken at the airport in Grand Junction, Colorado, which I surveyed last summer for work.  I recognized the mesa in the background!  It must be an old picture, a charter, or an unscheduled stop; Great Lakes no longer flies to Grand Junction.

5)  I need a haircut. I'm home for one day between this trip and my next one, and I don't think I'm gonna have time for a haircut.  Go long bangs go!