A Few Observations

ABOVE: This shot looks down Capital Blvd. Our apartment is just to the left (not in the picture), the university is to the right, and downtown is straight ahead.

ODD: BSU (Boise State University) has this huge "Taco Bell Arena" on campus for special events...but oddly, there isn't an actual Taco Bell anywhere on campus.

SAFETY: Skateboarders - There are a lot of skateboarders (both male & female) around campus...which, in and of itself is fine...but some of them are clearly new to it and have serious balance issues to work on, so those folks are a major safety hazard on the sidewalks!

EVENT: There was a "World Potato Conference" at a nearby hotel last month.

BICYCLES: People are really into biking here...and into having custom-made bikes. So there's always lots of funky looking bikes all over the place. They're also really into having big wire baskets off the back end.

FIRES: I listed the names of a few fires in Idaho in a previous post. Here are two more with interesting names: Chubby Spain Fire and the Frenchie Fire.

DR. Z: The professor (I think he's a professor) across the hall from my office on campus sounds just like Dr. Z from the commercials...identical accent...identical voice.

PRONUNCIATION: Locals pronounce the city name as boy-see not boy-zee.

FLOPPY DRIVES: The textbook for my Performance Consulting class came with a floppy disk, which contains a variety of forms and templates that I'll need for class projects. Here's the thing - floppy drives basically don't exist anymore! My AWESOME new laptop doesn't have a floppy drive. Kaz's computer doesn't have a floppy drive. My computer on campus doesn't have a floppy drive. The computers in the student labs on campus don't have floppy drives. What is one to do???

That's all for now!