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Wed Nov 28 09:22:38 EST 2018
Slept somewhat restlessly from eleven-thirty to seven.
High of thirty-two today, with a chance of flurries.
Drank slightly too much last night, but not enough to feel anything but mild regret this morning.
Work:
- Backup
Done.
- Annual benefits meeting, 9:30 AM
Done.
- Pull network to Mr. H's office
Done.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Gray.
A long, tiring, but somewhat productive day.
Home:
- Go to bed not late
https://www.outsideonline.com/2353856/national-park-service-investigative-services-branch?src=longreads
> The elite special agents assigned to the ISB—the National Park Service’s homegrown equivalent to the FBI—are charged with investigating the most complex crimes committed on the more than 85 million acres of national parks, monuments, historical sites, and preserves administered by the National Park Service, from Alaska’s Noatak National Preserve to Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. They have solved homicides, tracked serial rapists hiding in the backcountry, averted kidnappings, and interdicted thousands of pounds of drugs. […] Local cops and FBI agents are sometimes baffled when Yosemite-based ISB Special Agent Kristy McGee presents her badge in the course of an investigation.
> There are more than a thousand park rangers with law enforcement training who handle most of the day-to-day trouble, but when a case gets serious, the ISB steps in. Sometimes their work is akin to that of the FBI: investigating crimes committed by some of the millions of park visitors. In other cases, the work is more like that of a small-town sheriff’s department: tips whispered at the grocery store, agents arresting people whose kids attend the same day care as theirs. “Yosemite is a small town,” ISB agent Steve Kim, who’s based in the California park, told me. “Which means it’s a minefield. And it helps knowing where the mines are.”
> ISB agents face other challenges non-park cops don’t. While an FBI investigation can draw from a force of about 35,000 special agents, intelligence analysts, IT experts, and forensic technicians, there are precisely 33 ISB agents covering the entire United States. While frontcountry criminals usually have the courtesy to break the law indoors, the ISB’s crime scenes may be at the bottom of a steep cliff or in the middle of a rushing river. The perennial underfunding of the Park Service means that while FBI agents dress in sharp suits and travel to crime scenes in huge vans stuffed with high-tech equipment, ISB agents often have to lug their not-quite-state-of-the-art gadgetry through the woods on their backs—sometimes at night, in the rain.
> Yosemite’s ISB headquarters are located in an imposing stone building nicknamed the Fort. It’s one of the few ISB offices that houses multiple agents, who work in a cluttered office down the hall from the park’s 20-bed jail. The walls are decorated with taxidermied deer heads, evidence tags dangling from their antlers; they’re souvenirs from a decade-old poaching case.
Watched some MST3K.
Servings: grains 1/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0.5/0.5
Breakfast: banana, orange, cucumber, two eggs with tomato, coffee
Lunch: apple, tomato, carrots, skim milk, toast with peanut butter, coffee
Dinner: pizza
144/80
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