We got up at 3:30 this morning and Lorena dropped me off at PDX to catch the 7 AM flight to Boston. Just another day in the commuter life. I found the JetBlue routes to Boston only run for five months per year so next month I will probably have to fly from Seattle which is generally way more hassle in terms of traffic. This trip, I am actually doing my first academic classwork for my PhD. Troy recommended I start with a book titled “Introduction to Open Channel Flow” by Glenn E. Moglen. I am just a few pages in, but it looks tractable but a little bit dry (no pun intended). I am going to see if I can work through the problems at the end of the chapter to keep a record of what I am doing.