May 22, 2025 - SCEC SWOT and Rate of Progress Check (D21)

Today, was a being 'on' recovery day, after 3.5 days of meeting fun. I had a solid road ride, collecting a couple of PRs and top 10s. Overall fitness has taken a hit over the past two weeks, but it should be easily recovered. 

Work wise, I spent 30 minutes contributing via a survey form to the Statewide California Earthquake Center's SWOT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis. Having not attended the annual meeting in two years, it was a bit challenging, but certainly important given this time of rapidly draining support for federal science agencies including the USGS and the NSF which are the primary two support mechanisms for the SCEC center. There are private partners (e.g., PG and E, and cities, etc.), but certainly there is a major current orange threat sabotaging America's scientific and emergency response enterprise from within. All to make everyone more dependent on oligarchs. It's disgusting. I gave it my best response. The reality is that most all that SCEC and associated agencies do is highly efficient and world class, but change is required just to manage the problems imposed from the current administration.

I also finally was able to get the logistics accomplished, giving access to two Incomplete Grade canvas courses and a sent a few emails on similar sorts of projects. 

Work today was only about 1.5 hours. 

In the first three weeks since the semester ended I have worked a total of: 72 hours 

72/15 = ~ 5 hours per business day. 

The reality is that it was more pulsed with a lot of 3 hour days and some 6-10 hour days and some 1-2 hour days. 

This feels like the ideal work/life balance ratio and seems like the goal that I will have throughout the sabbatical. 

At this point I am ready to dive into the Thousand Lake Fault work, but I will be busy this weekend and it's not too likely that I'll make a lot of progress until later next week.