Ohio Addendum

I talked to Jane and Dan this morning, and this morning when they got up it was 18 degrees outside 67 inside. And they'd let the fire go out at ten the previous night.

I just got back from breakfast, and it was 43 degrees out on my deck, and 57 in my house.

Wonder who has the better-built, better-insulated home...


Almost finished the book, "The World Without Us". A good quote that I read this morning at breakfast:

"Humans are going extinct eventually. Everything has, so far. It's like death: there's no reason to think we're any different. But life will continue. It may be microbial life at first, Or centipedes running around. Then life will get better and go on, whether we're here or not. I figure it's interesting to be here now. I'm not going to get all upset about it."

-Doug Erwin, paleobiology curator, Smithsonian Natonal Museum of Natural History