Backsliding

Woke up at around 9:45am this morning. Clearly backsliding on the jetlag. I didn't do much today. Did a load of laundry and dried it on the drying rack in the guest room. This load included the bed sheets. Everything is dry now and back in its place. I guess this will be sustainable for a while. It may be tough if/when we have visitors in that guest room where the drying rack is currently located.

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I've been having fun gathering raw GPS data from my phone and doing analysis on it. The past couple of days I've been obsessing over noise in the signal and attempting to quantify its effect. I've been reading about low pass filtering and discrete Fourier transforms. At the same time, I've been doing the analysis in python and becoming comfortable with the jupyter environment, the pandas and numpy libraries, and visualization with matplotlib. All of this should be useful when I return to teaching next year.

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I went out for a walk this evening, both for exercise and to collect more GPS data, haha. For the first time, I walked along the river the night before instead of the morning after. There were large groups of people partying even a 8pm as I walked through. The beverage of choice seems to be the 40oz beer (or the metric equivalent). Pretty much a one-to-one correspondence between bottles and people.

The streets were generally busy this evening. Along San Jacinto someone was selling these LED figures/toys:

They were kind of pretty all arrange in the waning light.