Pico Diary - 15 to 22 June 2025 - Happy Father's Day, Weldon J. Taylor

Above: Weldon J. Taylor, 1908 to 2000. Dean BYU College of Business, 1960 to 1975.
Happy Father's Day. 15 June 2025.
Edit on Dad's memoirs is 90% complete. Very grateful to hyper excellent editor Elayne Wells Hamer. Hope to finish and publish before year end.

Above: LSDM Walkers. Park City, UT. 16 June 2025.
All pictured here are ardent skiers.

Above: Salt Lake City, UT. 17 June 2025.
View from Morin Eye Center, University of Utah.

Drooping eyelid, giving rise to occasional watery eyes or eye lid soreness. Solution? Get a surgical touch in July.

Above: WY SW Corner Monument. Chalk Creek, UT/Yellow Creek, WY. 18 June 2025.
Out and about on the Duc.
Saluki rides a BMW 1200 GS. Saluki is the only rider I ride with who is taller than I am. He's 6'10".

Above: Cotton Bottom Inn, Holladay, UT. 18 June 2025.
Freddie always draws a crowd.
We've been talking about stopping here for years. Finally did. Both of us ordered BLT's which were excellent. Hot. 95 degrees in the shade.

Above: Loma Restaurant, Park City, UT. 19 June 2025.
Fabulous hostess. Restaurant lucky to have her!

Above: Friday LSDM AM Colloquium. Wasatch Bagel 20 June 2025.

Topics du Jour:

Harriet Hageman, WY, US Congresswoman at large, LSDM talk impressive, but she ducked on the US Fordow bombing decision.
Bomb, bomb, bomb... bomb, bomb Iran?
Robert Gehrke, SL Tribune. Roger KPCW interview today. "Deteriorating political discourse in Utah."
Park City elections. Eight candidates for two council seats. Wild election coming up.
To Jack: Make sure you have a message on both sides of your campaign signs.
Air India Dreamliner crash. Dell: Copilot used wrong control. Pilot seats slide back.
Other air crash stories. See Theo note and download below.
It shouldn't be hard to refloat Social Security: change in retirement age; means test; tax rate etc. Why doesn't it get done?
AI topics: LLMs get dumber over time? Garbage in, garbage out? Do users get dumber over time? Looming productivity benefits or looming social problems.
Shooting victim at "No Kings" rally in SLC. What went wrong? Credentialing of peacekeepers?

Above: Iron Canyon. Central Asian Yellow Rose Bush. 20 June 2025.
Short bloom of less than two weeks. Two- or three-day peak bloom captured here.

Above: Roy, Grrr, and Koessler. Salt Lake City, UT. 21 June 2025.

Above: Wanship, UT. 22 June 2025.
Standoff. Freddie low growl. Horses nicker.

Addendum:

I agree with Apple Store. Great knowing you and Margaret.
Nathans,
Orlando, FL

Steve –

It pleases me to no end to see you and these other old geezers take on a trip like this one, and it absolutely blows me away to see you pull it off. I only wish I could join you in such an activity, but my balance is absolutely crap these days, and half of my joints aren't my joints anymore. Artificial knees, hips, and shoulders and fused backs sort of work OK for basic getting around, but they aren't as good as the originals were for anything that approaches athleticism. My motorcycling days are all behind me.

I'll have to finish my cruising days on 4-wheeled vehicles. To that end, I've recently picked up a couple of beauties - a 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 and a 1968 MGBGT with a Wankel 13a rotary engine. What the DeLorean lacks in zip (it's essentially a beautiful, but gutless, rolling piece of art with some brilliant design features), the rotary-engined MGB more than makes up for. It's an absolute rocket. The little rotary engine has incredible torque.

Life in Washington continues to go well for Carolyn and me. Send my regards to the LSDM crew in PC. We still have our 1/4-share at the Grand Summit at the Canyons, and I look forward on some future visit to Utah to making it down the Wasatch Bagels one of these mornings to say "Hi" to you all. I miss those morning meetings.

Dave, Port Townsend, WA