Rebooting

I have to go go to work soon, but I must say I'm feeling fatigued, unglued and a bit down. And we are the lucky ones so I feel guilty to be feeling all of the above...
--text from a neighbor

I couldn't have said it better. I don't think it is possible to spend four days at the heightened adrenalin levels we did without feeling the effects. I came upon John and Ozzie surveying the scene from our upper terrace. A fire engine raced up Los Alamos Road behind us  as we walked down the field to our back gate so we sat in the sun for awhile, anxiously scanning the horizon for smoke and/or helicopters.
None materialized, so we eventually returned to the house.

The clocks went back to Pacific Standard Time this morning occasioning the semi annual discussion about the whole practice. It seems that over 70% of Americans would like to stop having to change their clocks and mess with their circadian rhythms twice a year. But which way? More light in the morning? or more light in the evening? There is no agreement on that. 

I think the government has more important things to do .For the past three years other states and countries around the world have looked to California as setting the gold standard against Trump administration efforts to dismantle legislation designed to combat climate change. While wildfires raged across the state and many of us sat in the freezing darkness without power, the Trump administration ruled that California cannot set a higher standard for controlling tailpipe emissions than the ones just rolled back by the Federal government.


We're waging war against the most destructive fires in our state's history, and Trump is conducting a full-on assault against the antidote. 
-- Gavin Newsom, Governor of California

California's leaders support destructive policies and have not done enough to manage wildfire risks. California should focus on its own affairs rather than trying to regulate the other 49 states with it's big government policies. 
--Judd Deere, White House Spokesman.

No wonder we're all exhausted.