Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of April 6th — April 12th:

April 6th: Annoying photos of “Lola, la la la la Lola…”* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/catzilla

April 7th: Lunar eclipse sequence with the Blood Moon — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/monday-bloody-monday

April 8th: Colorful dawn — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/morning-layers

April 9th: Flowers with more annoying cat photos* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/flora-kitty-fauna

April 10th: Lady Banks — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/ladies-first

April 11th: Very NM — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/red-green

April 12th: And yet another annoying cat photo* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/inside-looking-up

*There are people who find blog posts with photos of cats to be extremely annoying, so I’m giving fair warning that the post contains cat photos.

Red Hot Wheels

January 29, 2015 Timothy Price19 Comments

Red hot wheels in Downtown Albuquerque — red Porsche 911 Carrera and red Audi R8.

Climb Sixteen Floors, What Do You Get?

January 17, 2015January 17, 2015 Timothy Price36 Comments

Another day older and 320 steps
Saint Peter ain’t a callin’ cuz he knows I can’t go
My legs are like jelly and terribly sore

If you are not familiar with Tennessee Ernie Ford’s hit song “Sixteen Tons” a version from 1956 can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joo90ZWrUkU

A modern version by Jeff Beck and ZZ Top with the 1956 film above playing in the background can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2aqvKY6zLc

Laurie’s parents gave us Fitbits® for Christmas. These little devices track your steps, how many floors you climb, calories burned, active minutes, total miles, and log your sleep among other things. Laurie and I have gone a little nuts with daily goals and challenging each other. She’s been climbing the stairs in the buildings at UNM between classes to get stair climbing in, leaving me in the dust on the floors. So today, I talked Bruski into walking over to the New Mexico Bank building and climbing the stairs with me. There are sixteen floors, but my Fitbit logged 18 floors because there are two flights of stairs from the lobby to the first floor. We got in 6 active minutes from the lobby to the 16th floor, according to the Fitbit, and it about did me in. Brusk said he could feel it in his legs. Climbing sixteen floors also gave us a nice view to the west above downtown Albuquerque.

The Eve Of Construction: A Groundbreaking Experience

January 14, 2015 Timothy Price16 Comments

Over two years ago they said “Give up your parking spaces, a grocery store is at hand!” And the city took out the bumpers, fenced the lot, and the lot sat empty. And yet no grocery store. A year went by, and they used it for a staging area to finish the multi-colored apartments across the street. And yet no grocery store. With the apartments finished, the fences came down, “No Parking” signs went up, and yet no grocery store. People started parking on the periphery and then in the still empty lot. And yet no grocery store. The “No Parking” signs disappeared, more parked cars, movie studios set up staging one day and disappear the next. Another year gone by, and yet no grocery store. Then came Monday’s announcement of the ground breaking for the new grocery store on Tuesday. Yesterday was gloomy and cold as the people gathered and the politicians and business representatives gave their speeches. Shovels ready, cameras rolling, the grocery store is at hand. Hooray! Let the destruction begin.