Sat in our office after lunch, maybe 12.30, 1pm and there was a sound like a guy dropping a ton of bricks on the roof; twice. My first thought was an earthquake except that it came from the top down, not the ground up. Later on someone worked out that it was the double sonic boom of the space shuttle as it came back to earth over California. Cool.

Mother Nature was having some fun with us yesterday. In the afternoon we had a series of a 10 or so little tremors, nothing really worth talking about, biggest was a 2.7. Then overnight the temperature got down to at least 25F - isn’t this supposed to be the desert?! Back up to 60F right now, though. Looks like we are going to have sub-zero temps overnight for much of this week.

[25F is -4C for those lucky readers using a metric system]