Biking and Friends

This morning we biked out the county road we walked earlier by the airport. We had seen signs pointing to an RV park and Breckenridge, so we decided to explore further. The RV park turned out to be a small place in the woods, populated by only long-term renters in small travel trailers. We watched a couple of planes take off from the airport.

Breckenridge on the other hand was quite intriguing. An assemblage of newer brick buildings, flanked by a swimming pool, greenhouses, and RV park, it sparked our curiosity. When we got home we looked it up on Google and found that it is a church sponsored facility for those with "mild to moderate intellectual disabilities."

Later we went over to Dick and Carol's. Ken worked on a video of Dick reading his award winning poem, "Red Cannas," at a meeting of the local poetry society. The video started out upside down, so it needed to be rotated. Then some difficulties arose when we tried to email the video: it arrived as a jpeg instead of a video. Ken managed to clear all of the problems up.

Carol fixed salmon for dinner. Dick went to church, where he was scheduled to lector, and Carol took us to the Tyler Civic Theater production of Wait Until Dark. Unfortunately it was less of a thriller than we hoped; we agreed to leave after the first act. That was disappointing, especially since the Christie play, "The Unexpected Guest," that we saw here last year was so good. In fact, we've seen several entertaining performances in Tyler over the years. I guess that means our percentage is very good.

Tonight we watched an episode of Nova Science Now that we had recorded. It was on the topic of what makes us human, which has been explored on other programs recently. One segment dealt with research examining the hypothesis that precision tool making was related to the development of language. Both apparently engage Broca's area. Interesting stuff.

This year's series is hosted by David Pogue. We really enjoyed Neil deGrasse Tyson, who hosted the series for several years.