Misc.

I keep wondering when Governor Martinez will show us a real plan for adding jobs in New Mexico.  At least she should give it some lip service.  But once again all I see are her aggressive policies aimed at school districts in the state.  It is stranger everyday.

I joke that I will go mad from the March/April winds, dust and juniper pollen, but really after seeing the death toll in North Carolina and other places in tornado alley I shouldn't be complaining.  I was looking into some websites to see what the average wind speed in Albuquerque has been annually.  It is 3 miles per hour.  I think that average if calculated down to daytimes in  March and April might be a tad higher.  Like 10 to fifteen times higher.  I think it seems a lot worse this year because of the drought.  Surprisingly, it seems there are fewer days of this misery that one thinks. We will get through it.

Three weeks from today Bobbi and I will board a plane for another cruise.  We will start in Barcelona for a couple of days, then have stops in Gibralter, Cadiz- Spain, Lisbon- Portugal, Vigo- Spain, Cherbourg- France, Brugge-Belgium and then into Dover, England.  I keep thinking about the plane ride over hoping Delta has checked for cracks and metal fatigue.  It is funny how one aircraft incident can get everyone thinking hard!