Found another pocket of ok air, it was rated Unhealthy For Sensitive Groups, so I figured for an hour I'd be fine.  Glad I did as I really tuned out a lot of stuff while I swam.  

I've been noticing how life over the months has become focused on monitoring things: Air quality, particulates, acres burned, people evacuated, wind direction, how darn hot is it going to be today, conserve electricity...  Every day, multiple times a day, particularly the air quality.  Covid figures in there too, but mentally has been lower down the list of my daily worries than the is-air-breathable-today-or-not reality since August. 

93ºF. 


The thing floating in the pool is monitoring water temperature.