I finally caught a six-day weather streak in the wild:

In other news, we moved to a new apartment that has an impressive gutter tree:

It's hard to pick out in the picture—look right above the downspout.

I'm here in Honolulu, and the weather is relatively constant. I've been trying to catch the weather thing giving the same forecast for the entire week. I haven't seen it yet, but here are some close ones:

Next year I'm moving to Hawai‘i to go get a Ph.D. (or at least give it my best shot). I heard once that when the space ship went to the moon, the guy who stayed on board the landing craft while the other two went out and walked around was the loneliest human in the galaxy, if you go by distance to all other people (you could measure by root-mean-square or something). Hawai‘i ranks pretty high by that metric.