3:00 snapshot #668
Things at work have calmed down a bit, with some of the hospital cases soon to be resolved, some of the quarantine animals discharged. I like to recharge my pest control program in January, take stock of what's worked and what needs to be changed, and for a while it seemed like the hospital was going to be full all winter and there would be time for nothing else.
Last night while we were walking the dogs my asthma started acting up, and by the time we got back to the house I could barely breathe. I think it was the cold dry air; tonight wasn't bad at all. I never seem to have an inhaler around when I need one. I was so wiped out that I actually got into bed around 7:45, put on an episode of the Simpsons, and was asleep a little after 8. Since I've been getting up at 5:30 (about 3 years now) I've been going to bed earlier and earlier. I love sleep more than almost anything else now.
A friend of mine from high school has been posting Climate Change Denialist screeds on Facebook, and I've let it get to me. I should just ignore it, but it makes me mad to think that someone on the "wrong" side of the culture war is so close to me. He tries to engage me in exchanging sources and research, but I don't really feel like spending all my free time trying to defend the scientific consensus. (He's a conspiracy theorist/libertarian, and is convinced that Climate Change is a scam to cause governments to create Carbon Taxes.) I posted two links on my own page, that I got from Twitter: A New England Cable News
story about the weather records this year broke, and a story about scientists studying why people don't believe in anthropogenic climate change. I'm hoping the argument can take place there without my continued involvement.