Took a very easy and short spin on the levee this morning. The new Bill Keller Memorial" signs are up, as is the water level in the river. As I rode back, pushed along by an approaching cold front, I spotted what looked to me like a coyote out on the river batture trying to bag one of the herons feeding in the partially flooded areas. Despite the clear blue skies, the temperature stayed about the same all day and is expected to be down into the upper 30s by morning, dropping below freezing tomorrow night. Could be worse. The Daughter, up at U. Iowa, is expecting a low of around 8F tonight.
We had the guy from Data Systems in all day again today working on Irena's computer, which seems to be pretty well messed up. To make matters worse, there were major problems with Tulane's mailserver last night and mail and internet access in general was slugish at best all day today. This make two computers that they want to "restore," which is techspeak for "we don't have a clue what we or you did to screw this computer up so badly and we don't know how to fix it, but we're sure that if we throw everything out, reformat the hard drive, and reinstall everything from scratch it'll probably be better." In the old days, they called this "burning down the barn to kill the rats."
I guess I'll take a shot at riding tomorrow morning, although it'll be pretty cold and windy for sure. My calendar at work is filling up with a lot of things like office parties and actual work is already starting to slack off. The christmas tree is up, but not yet decorated, and the required chrismas gifts have yet to be purchased owing to the usual inadequate resources of time and money.
Situation normal.
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