Bike and Hike

Hola!  How are things where you are?  We're good.  Yesterday we had a frisky wind out of the north, but we decided to ride anyway.  It is so painful to recover from losing fitness, we try not to let that happen.  We rode from Christopher Columbus north to see what's shaking with the sewer pipe project.  The entrance to the nice park (Silverbell Crossing) is still blockaded due to the heavy equipment in the area.  Fortunately there is another park with restrooms not much farther north.  The sewer project continues.

Note the pile of dirt sitting on the concrete.  The concrete is a water diversion channel.  When monsoon is strong, there is a lot of water flowing, quickly.  After the Rillito flooded back in the 1980s, Tucson got serious about controlling flood waters.  They've dug up the diversion channel to make the trench for the sewer pipe.  Eventually, they'll have to put the concrete back where it came from.

Today we hiked a loop we did back in 2018.  It's a nice loop, there is some up/down but there is not gruesome descending like the last loop we did.  It was cloudy, which was good for our skin, but not so good for photos.

This is a Globe Mallow.  They're pretty and grow everywhere.

This morning was veeeery stressful.  Jim was on Facebook, and his cursor rolled against something.  Suddenly a voice was saying that someone was using Jim's IP address to steal money/data/whatever, and Jim's laptop was frozen to stop the transaction.  The voice then starting telling us to call the phone number on the screen to talk to Microsoft security.  It was a really well done hack.  If this ever happens to you, turn off your laptop/pc with the power button.  That's the only thing that will be working on your computer, everything else was frozen.  After the hardware is off, let it sit for a bit, like a minute.  Don't call the phone number, they're going to scam you using social engineering.  Once you power up, the hack will be gone, and no further action is required on your part.  I hate these people.  Obviously they're smart enough to write stuff like this, so why don't they use their talents for good?

I'm tired, so I think I will stop now.  There are many disturbing articles to link to, but I'm just going to give it a rest.