'No real news from the Pacific Ocean today. Fog and low clouds all day, fairly limited visibility. We are in the nutrient rich Humbolt Current, so I wasn't surprised that we passed a few sea lions today, even though we're probably 100 miles off shore, and quite a few birds. Peruvian boobies are quite common, and I think I saw a few more of the Inca tern. Unfortunately, the poor visibility made it hard to get decent sitings on the newcomers. I think shearwaters (lots), a couple of skua, and an albatross, but I wasn't able to get more specific. The albatross was sitting on the water right in front of the ship when I was up on the bridge this afternoon. It was facing away from us, but kept glancing over its shoulder (if birds have shoulders) and giving us a really disdainful look. Finally flew when we were about 50 yards from it.
"Got an email from Alice reporting that the new chapter shipped from Lima arrived safely. Otherwise, I'm grading, writing a midterm exam, and mapping out editing plans for the first few chapters of the 2e. I really think this revision is going to go relatively quickly. Logistics (keeping track of what's been moved where, what's been changed about homework problems, etc.) is going to be the biggest headache.
"OK, got to run off to dinner before astronomy. Should have some pre-Valparaiso info by tomorrow."
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