Observations of a New Jersey transplant to the land of cactus and dry heat who then moves to Arkansas.
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Stumping for Trump - Tucson Rally 3/19/2016
It was a raucous event but not a rowdy crowd of Trump supporters. Glad I got to be part of an historic election year in America.
One thing you notice as soon as you start driving around Tucson is the many beige-colored metal boxes you see sitting on the roofs of houses all over town. Some look pretty neglected and rusted out. At first glance, you might mistake them for air conditioning units, and they are, sort of. They are often referred to as “Swamp Boxes” by the locals. A Swamp Box is what the heating and cooling industry calls an Evaporative Cooler. It works much like a home humidifier. The cooler contains a basin of water and a rotating drum with a foam pad. Air is blown over the wet pad and into the house to produce cool moist air. With an A/C unit, humidity is sucked out of the interior air in the cooling process, whereas with a swamp cooler humidity is blown into the interior air. Since Tucson is a desert climate with very little humidity, for most of the warm season, an A/C unit is of little use. The locals who have lived...
Not long after settling into our new place in Tucson, I discovered a garden center just down the street that specialized in native plants. Great! I could now start learning how to identify and name all the local desert flora. As I browsed the aisles and started noting names on the tags of the most interesting plants, I found my way over to the fruit tree section. Just beyond the lemons, oranges, and grapefruit trees, I spotted an aisle of trees that looked surprisingly familiar. Could they be? Was it possible? Was I really seeing rows of fig trees? Yes! They were truly fig trees. I had never expected to find fig trees growing in Tucson. It was early September, and the figs were just beginning to ripen. Unfortunately, some trees were infested with fig beetles. Fig beetles are gigantic iridescent purplish black things the size of a cockroach. When they begin to feast on a fig, they swarm on that one precious fig until the...
Get on board the blockchain train! I just read about this in a one of the local free magazines. I am so very excited to learn that AR is stepping up to be a leader in this space. Consider how your company can benefit from blockchain technology from improving inventory efficiencies and and lowering your overall cost of operations. Blockchain is much more than Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining.
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