i've brought some corn

well they spent yesterday just gathering up the leaves in big piles; today they will scoop them up, and cart them off. or so i hope. because it is time, you know? i mean, leaves, come on. am i right?

the snow that is falling will make the ride home interesting. "interesting" as in "potentially dangerous". at least that 12-mph wind will be at my back. but there was already a slippery quality to the roads that will only become more so, with more snow. i made a test skid in the parking lot and it was way too easy. slicks, dontcha know.



today i am going to spend some more time rewriting my particle tracking program. the main change is implementing a more robust scheme for determining which grid cell the particle is in (which will in turn to a better job of keeping particles from wandering offshore), but i am also generally upgrading to a fortran 90/95 standard, using dynamic array allocation and other cool things like that. it may be too much to hope for to get this thing finished today, but i will try.