On the bright side . . .
1. All the laundry is done.
2. House cleaner than usual.
3. Older daughter so bored she wants to shoot baskets with me, and I can beat her at H-O-R-S-E.
4. Air quality high. To elaborate, a map showing elevations throughout the city of Minneapolis is here. The hotter the color, the higher the elevation. If you choose the "open street" option and follow the 35W corridor south out of the downtown area, you see the numbers along the route—15A, 13, 12—getting smaller. Those are the exit numbers from the freeway. The top tail of the "1" for the second, more southerly "13" is pretty much pointing at my house. Just to the south is a splash of red, one of the highest points in south Minneapolis. If you're traveling westerly on 50th Street, you climb a hill as you approach the freeway. You keep climbing as you cross the bridge over the freeway. Then, to go to my house, you turn right at the end of the bridge. You are now toward the northerly end of the red splotch, very high, I see from the map about 910 feet, and you can look north right along the sunken freeway corridor to the downtown buildings 5 miles away. It can be a stunning sight, especially around sunset when the fading light makes the glass skyscrapers all glimmering and shimmery, but even on a cloudless day this is rare—too much haze in the air, it might as well be dully overcast. The last few times I've passed through, however, the view has been spectacular. Though it's sort of creepy how few cars are on the freeway.
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