Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It's Monday, August 21st.

Derek Riper here with Enosarissa, a rare afternoon pod, right? You think of day

baseball? We have morning pods usually. This is an afternoon recording, so everything looks

different if you're watching us on YouTube. Actually, nothing looks different. Maybe, maybe the

lighting in my office because of the windows is actually different. Eno looks exactly the same.

Eno, how's everything going for you on this Monday?

Good.

We're scrambling because we're putting this in between coming back from Yosemite, where we

had one of those staff development days, three-day weekends at school.

So we took advantage of that.

That's a little hack for anybody listening who wants to go to Yosemite.

If you can go after school starts and before the winter, do it.

Although what I gather is we were a little bit lucky this year.

The extra rain in the spring meant that we were still able to enjoy the river, enjoy the waterfalls.

Usually this close to fall, those things start tapering out because of the water.

But you could use this hack also maybe in May on the front end. So it just becomes kind of untenable where they're talking about

three to four hour waits in your car to get into the park during the summer during the

peak summer hours we had nothing like that we found parking spaces hiked had a great time

and we're fitting that in this in

between coming back from that and finding out from the x-rays if my older son broke his arm.

Yeah, hopefully good news coming on that front, but might be a few weeks before he's back

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