Sacramento, California

Posted Thu Apr 15, 2010 in Travel

Well here we are in Sacramento, California¹. We drove over the hill this morning so I could visit the Department of Safety of Dams (DOSD). I needed to find some of the engineering data on a couple of dams in eastern California for my boss. I’m glad I came early — there was a lot to go through.

In a few minutes we’ll meet a friend to go to supper. I’m looking forward to that. I’m starting to get bored here in the room. I don’t do well when I’m bored.

Tomorrow I’ll go visit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center. I’m giving a talk on bivariate probability distributions for analyzing the joint probability of concurrent flooding. It will be a two-fer; the first portion is a talk I’m recycling from a couple of other presentations. The second part will be new and technical. I’m not entirely pleased with the outcome, but it is a reasonable piece of work that was the best we could do with the allotted time and money.

There remains more work to do on the problem, but I think we pushed the problem farther down the road that it was. When I’m done, I think we’ll wander around Davis a bit. I don’t think Wife has been there. Then I’m tempted to drive north to Marysville/Yuba City, maybe spend the night there, and then drive home Saturday via SH 20. It would be interesting to see another part of the state from a very different perspective.

I’ll think about it. Now I’m getting hungry.

¹ I tried, unsuccessfully, to refrain from using the term “Peoples Republik of Kalifornia” — I tried, really.