Very impressive!
Thanks to you guys for your tips. Just using the skip brought me down to 7740.
Eliminating the library altogether brought it down to 7474, but introduces some flaky behavior. The sensor will stay, mostly, at 79.91 (accurate), but will jump to an absurd number very briefly then immediately back to 79.91. I'm guessing that I need to slow my sample rate of the sensor down to allow it time to reset?