Cuadrangular

Blue skies this morning, like, all blue skies. Ran the same play as yesterday and started knocking some trees off the list by 9:30am. Got bored waiting for Tinny on our commute there so I ate my plantain chips, bad call. Good thing I had extra omelet-y sandwiches today. Pretty sure my per diem egg consumption is at a lifetime high down here.

At least eggs made the cut of a Men’s Health article that listed seven foods that grow muscle. Got to see Amanda for a brief moment this morning after a long stint of conflicting schedules. Had to really do a solid search for clean socks this morning, luckily, I was successful and added ‘do laundry’ to the afternoon to-dos.

Finished our 72 trees a little after 2:00pm and just as we felt our first rain drops; good timing. Other good news about today is that those 72 complete my second (out of three) hectare of measurements. A bullet ant got me on the shoulder today, under my t-shirt, that killed for about four hours. A little bit of rechecking in the next two days and then only 464 to go in a primary forest plot! I can taste it.

Lately I’ve have crazy travel plans running through my mind for early August including how kick butt it would be to go to Panama City/Canal. Set another record today by getting back to the lab in 27:40 a solid improvement over yesterday (digital watch stop watches are handy). Got together the laundry and waited about six hours for a free washer, just got it in at 8:30pm.

Good thing I have a fresh episode of Entourage I can watch four times until it’s time to fold the clothes (jk) (well, maybe three times). Took my own solo coffee break at 5:00pm to fuel up and finish End of Poverty. This book ended with the best RFK quote ever, pretty inspiring stuff. Planning to read White Man’s Burden, the response to Sachs when I get back to CT. Next book is A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (also of Walk in the Woods).

Watched some of the Home Run Derby before the lounge got commandeered for music night (mandolins, violas, guitars, violas galore). Wow, All-Star uniforms are ugly again, when can we go back to wearing team unis? Looks like I’ll get to bed by 10:00pm or so, lots of data to get ready for tomorrow. Later dudes!

BP