10s, 10s, 10s across the Board

Today's air quality lists at "10+". The ranking only goes up to 10, so. Literally off the chart, etc. For the second year in a row we've exceeded the imagination of the designers of the air quality scale.

That sounds like a 99% Invisible episode.

(We're at 179 on the other scale.)

We are hundreds of miles away from the worst fires, which are mostly on the interior plateaus, though there are some bad ones up-island.

My flight home from my parents' was cancelled because of the smoke, so a friend and I spent the full day on Monday making our way back -- we had some good conversations / brainstorming along the way, though.

I haven't gone outside yet today, but my house smells like a campfire. Tomorrow it's supposed to go down to 5, so I'm excitedly looking forward to "moderate risk" air quality.

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