Dan's last day

It's Dan's last day of work at the Dept of Finance, after 7.5 years! I hope they give him a good send-off.

Two Picasso paintings were stolen from his granddaughter's house in Paris. These thefts of major art works are mysterious to me. What is the motivation to steal a painting you will never be able to sell or display publicly? Did the thief just want to hang it on his bedroom wall?

The rain seems to be ending for a few days at least, which will be nice to be able to spend some time outdoors again (although it is cold; it was 32 this morning). The mountains got a ton of snow. It came down as low as Auburn. Truckee got 5 feet between Thursday and yesterday.