The much-dreaded electric bill came in on Thursday. We changed providers (yet again) about a month ago, and this was the final bill from the previous company…which just happened to reflect the rate increase that caused us to go elsewhere. The rates jumped from 10.9 cents per kilowatt hour to 16.8! Translation: A 60% increase! [...]

46 days and counting. Soon, I’ll be walking along the Plaza and beyond, surrounded by vivid blue skies, huge white clouds, earth tones in the form of adobe and the intoxicating aroma of pinon wood and green chiles. I’ll kick back on the balcony and enjoy an afternoon thunderstorm or two, if I’m lucky. Instant [...]

holy cow wow she didn’t get to cry go ahead and stumble don’t let them see you tumble she didn’t get to cry These were the first words in my conscious mind upon awakening a little before 5:00. As I’ve said before, Freud would have a field day. :doh:

My blog broke yesterday. Ironically, it happened while I was backing it up in WordPress using one of those handy dandy plugins. It appeared to lock up right in the middle of the backup process. OK, so it warns you ahead of time that your backup will fail if you close the browser, hit stop [...]

You know it’s going to be hot when the temperature is 85 degrees at 6:00 in the morning. Yuk. Here comes the intensity of summer. The high today is predicted to be 102. I’m thinking it will probably beat that. Wondering how I’m going to manage jogging today, especially after the lazy, unhealthy week I [...]