Theatrical

Now that I have one month of free use of Cupid.com after doing the speed dating thing, I have just received an "eye contact" from a person. She is 599 miles from me. Here is a portion of her opening paragraph:

Thanks for having interest in me ,i will like to tell you more about myself....
I come from hills where the morning is born, where the time with the sun grows and I have felt the caress of the wind in my face... between mountains and valleys I have been born, I came from the Earth. My name is Eve smith,i was born in 7 July 1970.And i was born in Us but grew up in Spain
because my dad his from USA so after he met my mum in Spain In malaga.they both went back to California to settled.

Hmmmm. Where might this go. One shall never know.

Helping the Economy

I helped the economy this week:

Tuesday: Speed dating event, $37
Wednesday: Lunch with gang, $8
Wednesday: Dinner, (w/tip) $15
Thursday: Lunch with gang, $9
Thursday: Baseball game and eats, $20
Friday: Ditch the economy and go home.

Total: $89
All in a weeks work.

Another day

Here's a belated birthday wish to ME!

Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday dear Mighty,
Happy birthday to ME!

As of yesterday, here's to 39 years of life. May there be many more to come.

Went to a friends college graduation party last night. I ate way too much food and woke up early this morning feeling uncomfortable in the tummy. Watched a little television and then decided to drive out to watch the sun rise.





I Surely do not do this often enough.

On the way home, ran into this surprise . A small hot air balloon rally.

Unhappy computer UPS system.

New battery that goes into said UPS system.

Bottom cover of UPS system that really does not fit with new battery because new battery is just a tad bigger than old / original battery.

My frustration with getting this to work.

(insert imagination here)

Well that battery does not quite fit, but I can get the cover to squeeze in enough to hold. Plug it in and wait a day for the battery to charge. But alas, the computer will not turn ON. Wait another day. Same story after four day's. Other devices plugged into the UPS work fine. If I plug the computer into another standard outlet with an extension cord, it powers up just fine. Go figure. Pull battery today and call place I bought it to see if they can offer suggestion. No luck. Bring battery home and put it back in for fun. HERE we are folks! Weird.

Had a nice rain the other day and here is the aftermath as viewed from my mom's place. A pleasant surprise.

And we took a trip to the Cochita Lake and camped a couple of day's. More please.

The fiasco with the UPS killed about 10 day's so I'm sure my personal email is overflowing with joy. Time to check it out.

Lava

A day trip today to The Valley of the Fires park. Its got lava flow features. Here's a portion of the path.

And some lava . . .

And more lava . . .

And a close and personal view of the path . . .

And finally a treat toward the end of our stay.

Good day overall. It was about a 2.5 hour drive to get there. We stopped for a picnic lunch along the way. Not to mention dinner on the return. Temperature was nice, but was a bit windy.

Tomorrow the plan is to finally setup mom's new tent camper. Will be at mom's place a bit after the noon hour. Should be another interesting day.

Pleased ???

I've got an Alltel cell phone and I got this letter in the mail last week:

Dear Mighty:

We are pleased to announce that Verizon Wireless has purchased Alltel and work is underway to combine the operations for the two companies.

Just how can Alltel be pleased about this! You folks just got bought out. I suppose this is just attempting to put a positive light on the situation and to make you feel great about going to Verizon.

Well, brother is getting better from his sickness. He went to the doctor for meds and missed a couple day's of work. Now mom is getting the crud. Boo!

Been watching Jay Leno's opening monologue on The Tonight Show. Got started on it Monday and Wednesday nights because I get home from the gym late those nights and I'm usually eating at that time. He's got a pretty funny section lately with the plug "The economy is so bad . . ." and off he goes.

The economy is so bad, teens in Beverly Hills are driving used cars.
The economy is so bad, women have switched to duck tape for waxes.
The economy is so bad, the Eveready Bunny keeled over dead!

Went to another Dirty Thirties Event last night - Happy Hour. Was fun. Went to bed late, got up late. .. .. OK, OK, 9:30! Late for me, early for others.

Well, time for a short nap and then off to the gym. I think I'll stick with cardio today. They got this new machine in that is like a bicycle, but for your arms. I snickered at it for a while, gave it a try the other day. WOW. I'm sold.

Difficult Mighty at the Helm

Post Highlights:
- Mighty is a difficult person.
- Mighty can not keep his story straight.
- No tent camper photo's.
- My brother's got GOT a job!
- Brother became ill.

Blogger Blog (Mighty):
Initial reports are that Mighty was simply making an effort to connect a FM receiver antenna purchased at Radio Shack last weekend when he contacted the store by telephone (land line) to request technical assistance. Complications arose with [an] apparent miss communication at the start of the conversation. The statement, "I purchased a FM receiver antenna for my FM receiver" was [apparently] received as "I purchased a FM receiver from your store." The store employee who assisted Mighty notes that Mighty was being a difficult customer with an attitude issue who changed his story repeatedly throughout the conversation. The employee hung up on Mighty once, but Mighty persisted with a return call in an effort to resolve the confrontation and find a solution to his technical question. At issue, information regarding the "ohm" rating of the purchased antenna. Mighty indicates that his receiver has two options for antenna hook-up - 75 ohm and 300 ohm. This specification was not written on the product package. The root of the question was resolved and an answer was provided by said salesman. Mighty was unable to thank employee for his time due to prompt hang-up by store person.

Practice setup and closing of new tent camper at the home of Mighty's parents was put on hold for the last two weekends. Reports from the families household was that the brother of Mighty LANDED a job! Family members indicate that brother is now working as a cashier at Wal-mart. Yes, good 'ol Wal-mart. In an interview with the brother, he indicated that working weekends is the rule not the occasional occurrence. So a postponement is planned until the family can have a practice run together. Literature from the tent camper manufacture indicates that the camper is easily setup by one person. The immediate Mighty family say they would like to do it together once so that all can participate in voicing difficulties, opinions and other thoughts of the setup process. "Learn from all not from one" they say. That joint setup was scheduled for this weekend, but at press time, it has been learned that the brother has become ill with the expectation that he will miss a couple of day's of work. Mighty has learned that the sickness mostly likely came from the previous seasonal job he had just started and worked at for one week. Brother has worked this seasonal job for several years and each year became sick just after starting. Once recovered, he was fine for the remaining duration of the seasonal work.

(sorry, I've been reading way to much CNN)

Accomplishments

Tonight's accomplishments: 1) Get the bills ready for the mail tomorrow, 2)) wash the damn dishes (what the hell, I just did them Tuesday and there's already a big pile), 3))) give C. a call in Seattle (no one home, but left a message), 4)))) get the car keychain fixed, 5))))) blog (well, here we are), 6)))))) figure out what the heck I'm going to try to accomplish tomorrow night - on a Friday?

Oh yeah!, RIGHT!, like Friday's are designed to accomplish something - go figure. Perhaps in non-Western society type places.

Mom's got a new tent camper. I pulled it home last weekend. She's got me lined up to come over Saturday to set it up in the driveway. Photo's to come. I'll probably be over there all day Saturday. Sunday is planned. Laundry and get the damn taxes finished.

Went and saw the movie "Wendy and Lucy" at the local Indie theater last night. Really enjoyed it. It is depressing. This movie is a no thrills, no Hollywood budget look at one persons happenings in the moment. No real plot (except that we know where she is headed). Check it out if you can handle a movie that is a snapshot of one weary persons travels.

On the next note, ever feel like you had so much stuff to do at work that you were just not up for doing anything? -ditto

Random

Here's a new photo. I look kind of smashed but really just tired. Been tired all day.

Went to bed a little late last night after going to the gym. Maybe that was it. At 4pm today, I swore the day was over. But alas, two more hours to go. Here's Koi fish from the Botanical Gardens.





Will have to end with the desert. I really like the desert. Mostly because you can see the wide open view. Plus, it's warm in the summer. Oh Yeah. I was surprised this Sunday morning. For some reason, all the morning news magazine type shows on television where talking about Obama's plan and the stock market. I wonder why. My mom had a large sum of money in the stocks as well. She's pulling out and will spend what little remains on a couple of big ticket long term wishes. I know she will enjoy them. I hope though she will be OK financially. She's only going to have SS to hold her up now. Been watching American Idol. OK. Feels like I over ate for supper. I'm sure I'll still be hungry in the morning. Ready for WATCHMAN? It looks like a really good flick. Will have to decide to see it full price or wait for the second run spot. It feels like the day's are just going to waste for some reason. Monday and Wednesday - gym after work, evenings gone. Tuesday and Thursday - come home to some chore, wash dishes or cook. Friday - open. Sat and Sunday - swing something with the family one of those day's.

Enough drab folks, tomorrow's Wednesday!!! Hump day baby! OK, Randy's got me going.