The commute in was interesting because of smoke. Actually, the commute home last night was, too, for the same reason. I just forgot to note it here.

A few miles south of San Jose there's been a fire burning for about 4 days now. It's in a remote area and difficult to get to but not far at all from the city. Because of the relative lack of winds (which is normally a good thing for a fire, right?) there hasn't been much of a chance to douse it with helicopters and cargo planes made for this purpose. This, because they couldn't see through the smoke.

The other night (Tuesday?) the authorities said it'd be only a matter of hours before it was under control. Uh huh.

Anyway, yesterday and today the sea breezes weren't around to push the smoke away from San Jose and, instead, an inversion layer set in. The smoke settled throughout SJ as a result. I live south of San Jose and about 5-6 miles from the fire and the smoke was pretty bad last night. They canceled my daughter's field hockey game as well.

Anyway, another interesting event in the chronicles of a bike-commuter. It wasn't so bad as to stop my commute but it was different.