May 11, 2008
Happy Mother's Day
......to all who are or have them.
Phone calls were received...as were presents of the Coach and Webkinz variety...;-D
I played all day; didn't get dressed until after noon sometime, which is why we may end up with weird food for dinner. I didn't go out to get any and we all know how difficult it is to call in for food.
As far as Home is concerned:
Roomba#1 is sick - he doesn't seem to want to hold a charge so he just comes out to vacuum then dies. Hrumph. Roomba #2 does well as long as we go over and start him up. I really got used to having the carpet relatively cat hair free.
Oh yeah, we got home from New Mexico just fine...no red-eyes but it still takes days to recover from all that frivolity. The Temptations put on a great show - well that is until they announced they were going to take us way back in time to 1968 - ahem...I was a freshman in College for Pete's sake! A growed- up even!
The grass is very green here too - I may just have to get the lawnmower out and get it cranked up for the season. Fortunately the moss is greening up as well so there isn't as much grass in the lawn in some place. Hell no I'm not going to kill the moss - it's green isn't it?
I got the snow tires removed from the cars...Yes! back to those good old wide gummy tires - wee one with the road. I do still love to drive especially if there is no one else on the road. and no one with a blue light on their roof either and I'm not talking K-mart here ya know.
Nothing else much new around here.....make yourself a fine week all.
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April 29, 2008
Albuquerque
Foraged for breakfast items at Wal-Mart.
The four Amigos out loose. Finding the rental car in the parking lot was the first big challenge - much laughter.
Drove 20 minutes in the wrong direction before we noticed...better scenery on that part of the journey so it certainly wasn't a wasted trip.
Made it to Old Town...ate lunch shopped - tried to distinguish real Native American stuff from Asian imports.
Dinner and good times for 400 at El Pinto Met with good margaritas which were tasty - did someone say each drink was the equivalent of 3 drinks at this altitude?? Hmmmm......... Anyway - excellent food, salsa dancing - our(conference)in-house customer from the CRU in New Haven taught the instructor a thing or two about Salsa dancing...it was awesome and HGJ was so proud! He claimed they were all from the Fred Astaire salsa dance school! Hehehehehe.........Anyway, there were more margaritas, and food and a chili cook-off and chili roasting and cigar rolling.
Today we (four amigos) are starting off the day at the spa - sure hope we don't get kicked out of the serenity room. Nature walk down by the Rio Grande which by the way we saw yesterday and it looked more like the Rio Notsogrande. Later on it will be an excursion off to Santa Fe for looking around and dinner - much smaller group this time...
Have a fine day all.
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April 28, 2008
New Mexico...
So here we are in Sunny New Mexico....Typical resort but what the heck are you going to do with 400 people - not like they are going to be satisfied with a burger at Mickey D's.
Here's the lovely view from our room's patio. The sky is beautiful but the temperature range reminds me we are in the desert....as if all the brown doesn't. It was very pleasant sitting out in the sun catching up with the once a year "friends" but alas..I've got a good farmer tan/sunburn going on...actually my arms and nose especially look rather raw. .....either that or appears I've got massive hypertension going on and someone is likely to call the paramedics.
Sunscreen is applied.
We arrived on time...got our charter ride off to the resort - of course the shuttle was filled with other conference consultants. A good time was had by all. The evening reception was started with a traditional greeting of friendship and good wishes from local tribe women and men brandishing multicolored corn strung necklaces. There was some fresh baked (outdoor oven) breads with jams and spicy butters...yum and a welcoming dance with drummers etc...the 3 year old apprentice was cute as a button. Camera was left in the room of course.
Food and drink commenced after...the sun went down, the cold set in and we moved inside to the bar area...pool tables, air hockey and dart boards...yeah well *I* only needed one more 15 to win the dart game...thank god Vicky finally got it - it was destined to be the longest dart game in history especially when the tips were bent and wouldn't stick in the dart board even if we DID get it close.
Oh yeah...wildlife; besides the human form. Seems the caution sign on our sliding glass door reminds us to keep it closed at night and while we are gone due to "the high desert environment" Hmmm...so far I have seen bunnies and a fox which I'm told really were desert hares and a coyote. Ok..I'll believe.
Guess I'll try to round up my cronies and check out the nature trail - maybe I'll apply more sunscreen.
Have a good day all
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