http://larryc.com Laid off in 2002, under-employed in 2003, retired in 2004... Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:18:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There should be a new gold-medal sport awarded... watching the NBC coverage of the Olympics! If there was ever a more soul-deadening experience, I can't think what it is. The nightly Olympic marathon on NBC runs (locally here in New Mexico) from 7:00 PM until 11:00 PM. Thats 4 hours ... http://larryc.com/2008/08/13/worse-than-running-a-marathon Every year I live in the desert, we have some new plague, or unusual happening. These little critters started showing up last week. At first, we saw one or 2 while we out walking. Then they started appearing in greater numbers. Now, I am over-run with them. We had friends ... http://larryc.com/2008/08/08/good-grief-its-always-something Have you ever used Tripadvisor.com.  I don't remember who told me about it, but it is a great resource if you are traveling and looking for a hotel, or restaurant. I used it on our recent California driving trip. A thousand miles is a bit longer than I care to ... http://larryc.com/2008/08/04/tripadvisorcom I've finally uploaded photos from our trip. they are in my galleries in an album called "California Nev trip, June-July 2008. You can go to my gallery pages by clicking on the link on the left, clicking on any photo on the right, or by clicking on he image I ... http://larryc.com/2008/07/20/pictures-from-a-trip Well, we're back in New Mexico. It was a great, fun, exhausting trip. It was great because we had a chance to see just about everybody I wanted to see on this trip. We spent good quality time with Sarah, and surprisingly Diane, whom we haven't seen in almost 5 ... http://larryc.com/2008/07/14/back-home-again-in-nm As we were driving through Western Nevada on Hiway 93, the air seemed very hazy. In fact in Hawthorne, it was so bad I could barely make out the mountains just a couple of miles west of town. When we got to Fallon, I mentioned it to the locals and ... http://larryc.com/2008/06/27/smoke-everywhere-will-california-please-stop-smoking We are in Fallon Nevada today. The trip from Las Cruces was pretty easy. Stopped over in Vegas Tuesday night before moving on to Fallon on Wednesday. We head on to San Jose tomorrow .ShareThis http://larryc.com/2008/06/26/on-the-road-again I think I found the photographer of that photo. Here is a link to a site with more photos: More Organ Mountains Fire Photos.ShareThis http://larryc.com/2008/06/19/update-more-fire-photos Well, I wasn't going to post this photo until I found out who took it. But, so far I have been unable to track down the photographer, and it has been sent to me by multiple people. So here it is: I do not know who took this picture, but from ... http://larryc.com/2008/06/19/organ-mountains-fire-ii As I write this, the Weatherunderground gizmo says the 'official' temperature in Las Cruces is 102! The thermometer at my house reads 100! Needless to say, it is hot. It is also dry. The humidity  has been in single digits, and never above 20%.  Of course my swamp coolers are ... http://larryc.com/2008/06/18/ogan-mountains-fire