Black and white of snow under dawn’s dark light turns to snow black and white under a dark street light.
Cranes fly into darkness in the sun’s waning light.
Clouds break up over the Rio Grande and the snow-covered Sandias.
Mama Owl and Daddy Owl perched in a different tree.
Crows fly in the final light of dusk.
The pTerodactyl reflects in the darkness.
The railroad crossing arms came down about 6:45 am.
I sat there waiting for the train.
And sat there. Cars started backing up from the other direction.
After sitting, waiting about 3 or 4 minutes for the train to go by, the arms started to rise.
The ghost train had gone by and we were free to continue on our way.
Wishful thinking for Downtown Albuquerque.
No moon this morning. It was hiding behind the clouds at dawn.
I attended a meeting about a conservation project in north Corrales where runoff and treated wastewater from Rio Rancho dumps into the Rio Grande. The Nature Conservancy is working with various agencies to use the runoff and wastewater to retore the area into a wetland. Therefore, I did not get out to say hi to the owls and cranes tonight.
We have a real mystery on our hands with the mess left at the back door of the office. I’ll put the blame on La Llorona since there is an old acequia that runs under the parking lot about 50 feet from this mess.
“Don’t look at me! I didn’t eat no stinking human!”
78.9% Waning Gibbous. 6:15 am February 1, 2021.
This Bud’s a Sissy
I didn’t have my new Bazooka when I drove by this gang doing a photoshoot with a 1960 Chevrolet Impala in Downtown Albuquerque on my way home tonight.
…throw it all in the recycle bin.
In preparation for moving, I’m purging prehistoric software. Some of it goes back to the 1980s, most of it the 1990s. Either way, it’s like several million years old in cyber-time.
I couldn’t get Windows 98 to the recycle bin before it crashed — chaos reigns within.
Chaos reigned within the sbliminal, bit/byte backmasking in these old Microsft CDs.
Chaos reigned within the grocery store when a pigeon perched above the pickles.
If you spin these CDs backwards you see “Bill Gates is Lord! Chaos Reigns Within!”
Chaos reigned within the “sneaker net”. Networking was optional. No cat videos on the Internet.
Microsoft Office 4.2.1 on 33 install disks. Chaos reigned within installing that sucker.
Our office manager thought she had killed the shredder when it stopped working mid-shred yesterday afternoon. I told her she had probably tripped the thermal breaker and that it would reset at some point. When I got into the office early this morning, I plugged in the shredder and turned it on. It showed slight signs of life but did not startup. I took it apart and cleaned all the paper shreds out of the shredding teeth, put it back together, plugged it in again, turned it on, and voilà, it started up. I looked up the manual online to see if it had instructions for maintenance and lubrication. What I found were warnings about NOT USING the shredder to
Cut your nails
Shred children
Shred ties or loose clothing
Cut your hair
Shred aerosol products
I’m was really happy I found the manual since I had an urge to use the shredder to cut my nails, shed some old super-wide 70s ties, and cut my hair. I had not thought of shredding children or spray cans, but it’s good to know I’m not supposed to shred them, either.
Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Off Center & Not Even 