For the second time in my career I have to pack up a computer and send it back for repair. I paid for on-site next day service, but bought the computer from a small company and the people they had for service went bankrupt. Luckily, I have a 6 year-old laptop that will run the seismic reflection interpretation software that I use much of the time..I have not upgraded that software in a year or 2, which is fortunate. The problem is that something failed with the graphics so I can't use the second monitor. Trying to digitally interpret seismic reflection data involves comparing one profile to another and to a base map. Hard to do that on one screen.
Well, heartland wife and heartland daughter have been travelling separately from me so I have not seen them since July 6...and I don't know anyone well here...so I'm talking to youse all (and myself...mutter mutter). They are getting back from France, that evil anti-American Commie country. I've been watching the Tour de France regularly for the first time ever...man, what a sick sport...no wonder they do drugs....its purely endurance and pain threshold. But, what pretty areas they are cycling through...I'll have to do a road trip through the Montpellier-Pyrenees-SW France where I have never been (I got married in Provence...yum...wild thyme..in a perched village surrounded by vinyards.).

Well...better get back to remapping the area around the intersection of the offshore Santa Monica-Dume fault and the Malibu Coast fault...SW of Pt. Dume.....faults and top Miocene (5 million years) and top volcanics (16 million years). Much digital data are now available: we did it a few years ago with paper prints of less data...but came up with some interesting results (Journal Geophysical Research, Nov. 2006).
Chris