So I am living here for the summer, working with the University of Florida. Interning really. So far my job consists of riding an ATV on the beach for 5 hours a night, under beautifully clear skies looking for turtle crawls. The season has been slow so far, I have spent most nights sitting in the back of the old blue S10, or laying across the quad staring at the stars and getting to know the milky-way. The bugs can get bad, they bother me most when I get one in the eye as I’m driving down the beach. Even still they do not disrupt the beauty of Cape San Blas.
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Quick little update. If you are a nerd but also care about the environment like we are here at Bored Mind you probably struggle with wanting to have cool tech toys but using too much energy. This little app for your computer will help with this issue.

It’s called LocalCooling and you run it on your machine. It is very light weight, not intrusive at all, just sits in the tray. From what I gathered it will help to effectively power down parts of your machine when you aren’t using them for a period of time. It also gives stats on how much energy, how many trees you saved and so on. Check it out. Pretty cool! I’m using it on my much under used, but always needs to be on, work desktop.