Sun Still Showing Its Face and Other Bits and Pieces

 

 When I got up this morning, I was thinking

Sunshine on a cloudy day

  

 I had a meeting at Rep. Cissna's office.  In the interest

of openness and transparency, I should say that sometime

after she was elected, she decided to take graduate 

public administration classes and was in some of the

classes I taught at UAA.  Here she's talking to staffer

Mike Coumbe.

I stopped in to see a couple more people and then 

headed to the State Office Building (affectionately? 

known as the SOB).  But I decided to stop in the Juneau 

Douglas City Museum which sits between the Capitol 

and the SOB.  I'd passed it a number of times and 

thought I should take a peek.

 

It's not a big museum, but it has good stuff and I'll

post more about what I saw inside.  Plus I want to

go back. 

  

 This building sits on the edge of a hill.  On this side

I walk up the steps from the street and enter on the

seventh or eighth floor.

  

 In the SOB is the State Library where I can sit in peace

and quiet, plug in my macbook, and use their wifi. 

  

Yesterday (Wednesday) I got a library card and 

immediately  recognized the similarity of the scene  

with a picture I took Sunday. I guess this is 

one of the iconic Juneau images. 

 

 I got up the previous post (security breach) and was 

working on a security alert for my accounts when the 

power went out in the building.  My backup battery was 

fine,  but the wifi quit.  Some back up lights were on. 

(I heard later that electric companytree trimmers 

dropped a  tree on a power line and blacked out the 

whole city and borough.)  I did discover that the self 

flushing urinals work  in a black out. Must be on the 

generators.   So after an hour I headed home.  But I also 

noted that the gloomy grey from this morning had 

evaporated and that the sun was shining high up on 

Mt. Roberts. From the SOB.  If you look

closely, you can see the tram high up the mountain.

 

 And as I got home, the snowy peak of Mt. Roberts, seen 

from a different angle, was aglow in sunlight.

  

A Juneau reader had invited me to a Mudstock, a 

gathering of Mudpuppies - loyal readers and commenters

at the popular Alaska blog Mudflats. So I headed down
to the Silverbow.  They all brought  their little mooses
with them.  They allowed the picture on the condition that
no one was identifiable.  This was at the Silverbow.
I met some interesting folks.