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Albuquerque is dry. The weather has been nice, but I guess I’m a sucker for that old humidity. I miss my wife. I miss my dogs. I miss my house. I don’t mind the occassional work travel, but this trip just wasn’t as productive as I’d have liked.

Snarky. yes. It’s still okay to laugh. This picture from Jazz Fest this past weekend was taken by a friend of a friend and forwarded to me

“That is why we need to go back is to have a conversation about what to do -rebuild it, tear it down, you know, whatever it is,” McCain Said What a MORON. Hey Johnnie, how about you do some research and get back to us. You can start with today’s latimes editorial by John Barry […]

So at work I’ve been talking to $unnamed_vendor about their product that we’ve been purchasing in relatively small numbers up to this point. I work for a company with a couple of large scale data centers, one here in the area and the other in Little Rock as well as some smaller sites. From an […]

So we’ve had a couple of the wife’s relatives in for visits the past few weeks and had a good time all around. We took brother-in-law #1 to Jacques Imo’s for dinner where he had a stuffed pork chop roughly the size of his head. Per his own request, we took him on the devastation […]

Seems those crime cameras aren’t so effective. But at least they make people “feel secure.” Now if they could just figure out how to get them to generate revenue….

So Ms. Skenazy let her kid take an independent ride on the Subway and lots of parents are just up in arms at the idea. I seem to remember having a lot more latitude than kids have today. Now, I’m not a parent, but it seems like today more and more parents just want to […]

Dr. Ashley Morris passed away yesterday unexpectedly in Florida. I never had the opportunity to meet him in person but I am nonetheless stunned and saddened. He was loud, proud, funny and one of our city’s most passionate advocates. I read his postings nearly every day and regret never having met him in person. His […]

Celcus tipped me to this post by Karen Gadbois.  She’s been up in D.C with several other locals and they gave it to Donald Powell. I’ve said it before that I wish we had at least one local or state official with enough backbone to tell Mr. Powell that he is no longer welcome in […]

So today is our 3rd wedding anniversary. It’s an unfortunate reality that our wedding anniversary will be closely associated with the Katrinaversary, falling just one week later. That first anniversary we were shell-shocked, evacuated in Jackson, MS. We had had reservations at Bella Luna, the place where we had tied the knot. The property Bella […]