After helping my dad briefly with some tree-trimming at his house this morning, followed by a Blake’s burrito break, I came home and relaxed for a few and then headed on down to visit the library at UNM today. My main goal was to get access to books in Zimmerman Library, and to also...
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Tonight I spent the evening with my folks, and after an awesome dinner my mom made- pulled pork sandwiches with some baked beans and potato salad on the side- we played a round of Ticket to Ride, a game they seem to like enough to play with me when I ask them from time...
Read more →I am grateful tonight that for this Memorial’s Day, I was able to spend it with my family. It started at 1 PM at a Blake’s Lotaburger, because Lotaburger is New Mexico’s burger, and the bags and fry bags and sandwich wrappers are all in red, white, and blue, and there is no personal...
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In the spring, when the sky grew more blue than gray during the day and the snow in the high places began to melt and wake the water on the hillsides, little Udaya was told to watch her brother. In the early evening of the day before, Elan and Gopan had gone up into...
Read more →I’m super-pooped tonight for some reason, so tonight, snippets it is. – UCLA star and potential top pick in the NBA draft has already got a line of basketball shoes ready to sell to his fans. At $495 a pair. Talk about aiming for a target market. Not sure that one exists. I mean,...
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We went because my mom was offered some tickets from her dentist. The Albuquerque Isotopes played the Tacoma Rainiers tonight in Isotope Park. The weather was cool and lightly breezy and early springlike and perfect. It was enjoyable because my friend Brian joined us, and my Mom likes to call him Markypoo because he...
Read more →Easter Weekend was a good and mellow experience this year. I didn’t do much on Saturday, which was okay, because I had a dull headache all day- a carryover from Friday night. The Lobo baseball team played a weekend series with a good Missouri State team from Thursday through Saturday, and afer the Lobos...
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Today was a day of pleasant treats. The first was unexpected, but most enjoyable, when my sister texted around 11 AM this morning and said she was in the area, and wanted to take me up on my taco lunch request a week or so ago. The request was that she join me for...
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Tonight after work, it was a pleasure to spend the evening at my sister’s house. It was obligatory to have the NCAA championship game on the TV. None of us had a special interest in any team having to win, but we all hoped the underdog, Gonzaga, would win. Before the game, though, my...
Read more →I live my life in a fairly large sphere of silence, and I guess I make it that way. It’s not that I am not without noise and distraction around me, because I am usually busy doing something with the TV or a radio on nearby, feeding me music and talk. I just don’t...
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It’s Sunday evening, and as I look back on the weekend, I did a lot of what I often do, which is not much. I did enjoy watching two of three Lobo baseball games played against the Air Force Academy up in Colorado Springs. The scores of the three games, all won by UNM,...
Read more →Funny how many days of our lives we live, and how few specific moments come back when we try and remember things. Well, maybe that’s just my case. It’s probably different when you have a family, because you have a bunch of big moments stored away with high emotional associations. Marriages, anniversaries, children born,...
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It’s a ritual now. Every few months- long enough after the last time so that it seems like it’s been a while, but short enough for my nephew Grant to remember to request it- my mom makes chicken and noodles. Mom’s chicken and noodles is the kind that is made with thick egg noodles...
Read more →This last August, I enjoyed going to my 30th high school reunion, if nothing more than to see a bunch of faces that I, 30 years ago and some, used to see day in and day out at school- although, in much younger versions. That’s the thing about reunions- for those that go, everyone...
Read more →I’m not the best person to reach, or to even talk to for very long, on the phone. I blame that a little on doing phone support at Intuit for a little over three years. I am also a fairly solitary person in the first place, and an introvert. I’m just not a big...
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