Providence
I'm here in Providence at Eric and Kate's, preparing to whip up a technology project for the New Year's Eve party.
I wish there were a lawful way to transport model rocket igniters by air, especially in carry-on baggage on airplanes. The TSA forbids model rocket igniters while permitting the equally flammable matches. A model rocket igniter is essentially a match that uses an externally-supplied electric current instead of friction to provide the heat for ignition. If only smokers used them to light cigarettes, they would certainly be allowed on aircraft.
One rare pleasure of visiting Eric and Kate is getting to drink Moxie again. "It's the drink that they serve that will build up your nerve."
I got my highest-ever-scoring Scrabble play this evening, or at least as far as I can recall. I played ALBEDOS on a triple word score, and the S turned the pre-existing word QUAD into SQUAD. Including the 50-point bonus, I scored 104 points. (The albedo of an object like a planet is the proportion of the light falling on it that it reflects; the planets in our solar system have a variety of different albedos.)
