Sol 3: Salt Water

Sleep: 8am Saturday morning - 5pm Saturday afternoon
Awake: 5pm Saturday afternoon - 1pm Sunday afternoon (I'll be up a little extra for frisbee practice)
Sleep: 1pm Sunday afternoon - 10pm Sunday night

I woke up in time to spend a relaxed Saturday evening with Grant, cooking, reading, chatting, punning. Once he turned in, (and I'd turned the last page of my book) I headed out into the welcoming night....

Baker Beach

...and pedaled over to Baker Beach: a classic San Francisco spot that I had never seen. You wouldn't believe the crowds; there were none. Pretty sweet place: waves crashing, soft sand, touch of moonlight, and the golden gate looking majestically electrified. Let's see how this picture does...

I then wrote a big message in the sand, which didn't come out at all in the pictures, oh well.

What did turn out well was the collection of salt water. Only my feet got wet, and I bottled all I needed to try some desalination.

Solar Desalinator

So it has always seemed to me that to desalinate water, you could just put it in the sun to evaporate and have it condense back into a different container. Maybe they already do that on boats, but it seems like cities should do it on a huge scale. Instead of spending the few seconds to google for the answer, I decided to make a little desalinator. It was eerily easy, but it hasn't worked yet, so I'll hold my tongue. The setup is a large glass bowl holding salt water, a smaller glass in the middle (empty for now), saran wrap over the top, and a small weight to direct the condensation drops (ocean themed because why-the-shell-not?). I put it outside, and we'll sea what happens. 

Systems Report

All good. Woke up feeling great again. No head-aches today. A little sleepy but nothing abnormal. I have been eating one or two big meals and then usually about 3 other smaller meals of leftovers. Seems to work just fine. 

	Sol 1 Thus 11:45pm (15 hours awake)	Sol 2 Sat 4:52am (16 hours awake)	Sol 3 Sunday 6:25 am (13.5 hours awake)
Reaction Time Avg	283	279	304
Reaction Time Best	250	266	290
Spacial Memory Score	27447	18601	26234
Numerical Memory	10	11	12
Verbal	58	32	63

For Whom it May Concern

While biking around this sol, I was thinking about when people may benefit from trying a dark week. 

Teams of people who need to have 24/7 coverage, like Emergency Room workers or police. People who have to work during low traffic times, like highway maintenance people, but still want to have normal(ish) weekends. Hikers in Iceland's summer-of-constant-light. Vigilantes. Or anyone that has trouble falling asleep, but no trouble staying asleep. 

Also, in the middle of the night, traffic is great, and Wifi is fast.