I just dethroned fellow bus rider Colleen as mayor of the CDTA Park and Ride this morning. It took 80 check-ins every morning I walked down there at the Park and Ride. Much needed rain continues to come down, wetting down the landscape and helping to keep things turning green on this Earth Day. As I write this, the bus is departing the station.

As a practical matter I probably shouldn’t have walked down to the bus stop in the rain. But it not raining that hard, but the lighter rain is more likely to absorb into the ground rather than run off.

Today is Earth Day. I don’t have any real plans for it but as its raining and I need to return a library book, I’ll probably go down to the library after work. Today in 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated.

Memorial Day Weekend gets underway in five weeks. Now that things are greening up in the city, I can envision nicer weather going forward.

Traffic this morning is somewhat backed up going downtown but still moving decently. I’m not driving and are in no rush to get to work. There is a lane closure and a lot of tapping of brakes as people navigate the merge.

Staying I town this weekend but I will do some fishing and some short local hikes and obviously packing and getting my gear ready so I can have my truck all ready when I get out of work on Tuesday, hopefully before 5.

Back today in 1977, Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic. Fiber optic cable is the primary way that phone traffic and Internet traffic moves today. Also on the telecommunications front in 1993, the Mosaic Browser 1.0 was released. It would become Netscape and Firefox later on.