PLAY BALL!
135 days without rain here in Phoenix. The longest stretch in recorded history. I got about 12 drops on my windshield on the way home from work the other day, but nothing measurable yet.
The baseball off-season has come and gone since it rained and the Diamondbacks started off spring training by beating up on the White Sox who won the World Series last year.
Northern Arizona has gotten the least amount of snow in recorded history and is expected to have the worst fire season .. in recorded history. If only they recorded forever I wouldn't have to say that at the end =).
So Lori and I took a trip to San Diego this weekend to see the Zoo and Sea World. It was a ton of fun, and I have some pictures to upload as soon as I get off my lazy butt. On the way back in to the Valley I saw a huge glow off in the distance as we approached Gila Bend. Meaning we were still well over an hour away and you could see the lights from Phoenix. This city is so enormous it's just amazing. It was a dark night, but still.
As we got closer to Maricopa on I-8 there was a fire on the side of the road. I've seen the after effects of wildfires, and even entire valleys covered in their smoke up north, but never actually seen something burning. It was immediately on the side of the freeway, probably sparked by someone throwing a cigarette out the window. It had grown to a few hundred yard and covered the freeway in smoke. An interesting sight to be seen.
Anyways, back to the trip. At Sea World we got to see polar bears fight under water through glass from about 10 feet away, and at the zoo a bird eat a rabbit about 8 feet through a mesh net. Up close and personal nature. Can't beat that. I thought it was a pretty good time to go to both places, not as busy as I'm sure it is during the summer, and the weather was right up my alley.
Lori did a great job, considering she's pregnant, and the only time she had an issue was on the way over she had to sleep. It was pretty exciting though because I got to smuggle her through a border patrol checkpoint. She was asleep in the backseat, and I drove through without them seeing her. I am now officially a human smuggler. You can call me Coyote Mike.
Elsewhere in life, work is ridiculously busy, but I have managed to hire a new employee to help out with the load. It still won't be easy, but I can maybe get back to being a manager rather than just an engineer. I started my next class last week in school titled "Organizational Behavior". I ended up getting a B in the last class, just as an update since I don't think I ever mentioned that.
I'm sure I'm missing three hundred different things, but that's what comes to mind at the moment.