Congratulations on landing the job and finding a place to live in a choice location.  

3/2 and booties sounds great.  Living in Florida makes you cold sensitive, but today it was fun watching the northern tourists skinning it.  Locals are starting to do likewise, or at least shorties.

Over on NPNR, I linked to a new book on kelp forests, if you're fascinated enough.  

There's an ancient photo of me as a little kid with a monster redwood at Big Basin north of Santa Cruz.  That area also has some interesting (at least to vegetation ecologists) "barrens."  

I was on hand for a shark nibble (worth several days in the hospital) a year or so ago in Vero.  

Looks like we are spammed.

Update:  it was an odd incident, quickly cleaned up.  

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no spam ... just a change of handle since the old ones seem to be unrecoverable.