Today got up to 80 degrees but it’s now dropped down to 77 degrees as thas progressed under partly cloudy skies with a lot of high clouds around. Should be a nice evening for heading down to the park in a bit.

Construction is well underway on the 787, so traffic is moving slowly tonight. But I’m sure I’ll eventually make it home. Kind of tired this evening. Just a lot of silly stuff going on. I worry a bit too much at times.

I was watching traffic on the bus tonight as was noticing how many people are playing on their phones in traffic. I never touch my phone when I’m driving except to report a cop or accident, and only a pinky tap or two with it in the cradle. I do use Waze constantly to check my speed, and have it set so apps and messages automatically pop up in the screen without further prompting. Sometimes I get important messages while driving. Email is 24/7 with work these days. If I need to reply back, I pull over in a safe location and put my truck in park.

I don’t know why that’s hard, when the cellphone cradles are like $15 at Walmart and keep the phone in your visible range for hands free use in the line of sight of the road. I don’t like the campaign against texting while driving, as briefly tapping a phone shouldn’t be a crime, but people shouldn’t be holding a phone while driving or engaging in extensive interactions with their phones while driving.

Pretty sure which camp stove I’m going to buy but I will wait until the weekend to pick it up. Not sure if I’m going out of town this weekend but I want to test it out before heading out for the five day trip next Tuesday. It should be a nice week.