It’s not a big deal to many of you, I know, but it was fun to see some light snow dusting the hills on my way to UCSC this morning. I’ve been teaching here (Yes, I’m on campus now) for 5+ years, and this is a first for me. Not that it hasn’t snowed in the Santa Cruz mountains for that long, but I’ve just never hit a day when it was still there. Very lovely.

Then, getting into the city of Santa Cruz, I was greeted with the strongest methane odor I’ve ever had to deal with. Ugh! It was horrendous. It makes me wonder if perhaps I’ll run into a problem getting home; I can’t imagine this is something that doesn’t need to be dealt with, and I just hope I don’t find myself running into a road block or something. (There’s only one road from here to home that’s worth taking.)

News you can(‘t) use. 🙂