Autumn Days

It seems we have turned the corner down here.

Nights are finally cool, and the daytime temps have dropped ten degrees. Today's high is still supposed to get to 80. But tomorrow and Friday are looking 60's low 70's.

Actually wore a sweatshirt this morning. In fact still am wearing a sweatshirt.

Fall is the only season worth a damn around here.

Summer ended badly for us because the central air died on us two weeks ago. This was after having it refilled. It ran for another two weeks, and then I guess the compressor just went kaput. We need a new system, but can't begin to afford one. I guess if we save and I work a bunch of overtime this winter we might have enough to replace the system in the spring. Hopefully the furnace itself will hang in there.

Other than that, things are okay.

UC plays at Miami tonight. Memories of long ago. I remember you taking me to that big ravine near campus. I remember how bright the sun was. I just remember a lot of glare.

Survivorman

Hey Diane:

Have you guys seen Survivorman? I assume you have.

We just watched the one where's he's dropped in the Arctic.

Now we're watching the Canadian Rockies one.

Neat stuff.

ABQ

I always liked Albuquerque. Nice museum if I remember correctly.

It was on my list when I left the Army, but no jobs came together. Bummer.

The chow of course was stellar.

H's recovery has been slow. She's been an absolute bear. Or maybe even a bear cat. grin.

Finally today she's really starting to perk up. Maybe back to school tomorrow, but I think Thursday is more likely. It's taken a lot out of her.

Her appetite is coming back though. She actually ASKED for dinner tonight.

now i'm in albuquerque

at a Mickey D's waiting for marion's hubby to pick me up in the mini van. i felt energetic, so i decided to ride straight on through to ABQ. just after going over the bridge over the rio grande, it simultaneously started to rain torrentially AND i ran over a 10 penny nail that gave me an instant flat. luckily i was right next to the hispanic heritage center, which has lots of public space with overhangs. instead of fixing it, i called Marion, who said she'd send Dan (her hubby) over to pick me and my bike up. so a lame end to an otherwise great bike trip (ok, there were a few other mishaps, but maybe i'll tell ya about them later).

that quebradas ride is a killer!

(yeah, i know, you couldn't be bothered to click on the link to look at it.)

anyway, you are aware that blogger has a setting where all new posts will be sent to you as emails, aren't you? that way you don't ever have to "check" the blog (if it didn't have that setting, i would have given up long ago).

so why quebradas? it was the last really good mountain bike ride i went on, back in, i think, november 1998 (did a few after that, but they were short and not memorable). after that, the job at sierra vista became monstrous, and working on the house starting dominating all my free time.

i'm back in belen right now; i'll ride on to Los Lunas and spend the night, then ride to ABQ tomorrow, stash the bike, and fly to Seattle Saturday for a day of Bumbershoot. then home on sunday.