Week 3, Fall 2025 - complete TLF draft to DJ

I finished a ~9000 word manuscript (plus 8 figures) about the earthquake geology of the Thousand Lake fault this week/end and emailed it off to David Johnson (2nd coauthor) for initial editing before sending it to the whole coauthor group. 

Need to decide what’s next on the agenda and whether to accept a manuscript review for GSA Bulletin tomorrow. I think I’ll try to finish a long overdue San Andres Fault MS or I’ll begin working on the second chapter of the GIS course textbook. 

Had a pretty poor showing on the bike this AM. I think it was due to two pretty emotionally heavy days after Tori’s visit to the oncologist on Friday. The gist is that her cancer is a type that probably had some roots embedded in otherwise healthy tissue and thus it will likely come back. Because the cancer cells were grade III, it could have spread too and if it does come back it will likely spread. So we had them do X-rays, sonogram, blood work, and lymph node biopsy on Friday. The point was to check for spread so we know how much time we have with her. If it hasn’t spread there are invasive options (leg removal, further surgery, radiation and/or chemo). We don’t like any of these, especially because right now she is absolutely fine and happy. So we are leaning towards doing nothing and enjoying the time we have with her. But we’ll see what all those tests say before we make any real decisions. Hard to imagine she might be gone in a year, or hobbling around on three legs, or maybe she’ll be just the way she is if we are really lucky and go that route.