NewMexiKen in April

In April there were 49,974 visits to NewMexiKen from 35,710 different IP addresses in 120 countries, Guam and Puerto Rico.

January….25,276
February…33,781
March…….39,341
April………49,974

Last April there were 3,272 visits to NewMexiKen.

Good advice

“Pain, or damage, don’t end the world. Or despair. Or fuckin’ beatin’s. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you’ve got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.”

Deadwood’s Al Swearengen to the newspaper publisher A.W. Merrick, who has just had his press and office vandalized (Episode 19).

It’s not what you think

It’s a cell phone tower.

Here’s the story from The New York Times.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Best line of the day, so far

Shorter President Bush:

“I can’t kill Social Security right now so I’m going to change it from a program for everyone to a program for poor people, and then we can kill it ten years from now.”

Functional Ambivalent

Driving that train, high on cocaine, Casey Jones is ready, watch your speed.

Ah, the importance of worshipful friends or family in building a legend.

John Luther Jones from Cayce (pronounced Cay-see), Kentucky, famous to us through song as a brave engineer who romantically died trying to make up time. In truth, he crashed his locomotive at high speed into a freight train that was attempting to get out of the way on a siding. According to reports he failed to heed warning signals that were out. The accident took place early in the morning of April 30, 1900. Jones was the only fatality.

Jones was known for his affability and his skill in blowing a train whistle. His engine wiper, Wallace Saunders, reportedly idolized the engineer. Saunders wrote the original song.

All you might want to know can be found in this 1928 article.

Though his term began on March 4 …

George Washington took office as the first President of the United States on this date in 1789. Because neither the House nor Senate achieved a quorum until April, Washington’s unanimous election on February 4, wasn’t made official until April 14. Washington immediately departed Mount Vernon for New York to take the oath and was met along the way with parades and dinners in every little town.

As Madison noted, Washington was about the only aspect of the new government that really appealed to people.

The Pelican State

Louisiana was admitted to the Union as the 18th state on April 30, 1812.

The Louisiana state tree is the bald cypress, the state flower the magnolia and the state bird the eastern brown pelican. It’s the only state without counties, having 64 parishes instead. It’s lowest point is 8 feet below sea level (only California has a lower point); the highest elevation is 535 feet (only two states have a lower high point, Delaware and Florida).

Top Ten Signs You’ve Hired A Bad Secretary

10. Files all documents under “D” for “Document”.

9. Types 60 words a week.

8. Autopsies on her last 5 bosses show lethal amounts of wite-out.

7. “Flu attacks” suspiciously coincide with Yankees home day games.

6. Wears inappropriately short skirts, no matter how many times you tell him not to.

5. Will only dispense “petty cash” to Tom Petty or one of the Heartbreakers.

4. Instead of chatting by water cooler, goes 30 miles away to chat by reservoir.

3. You asked if anyone called–he said, “I’m not here to talk about the past, I’m here to talk about the present.”

2. Every night tries to fax self home.

1. Filed a sexual harassment lawsuit because you asked her to take dictation.

David Letterman

NewMexiKen had a secretary who — after I left — had many of the office files blow out of her car trunk in a mall parking lot.

Cheap date

“Just 72 hours after President Bush met with crown Prince Abdullah and held his hand, oil prices fell to under $50 a barrel. Boy imagine if President Bush had let him get to second base, we’d be paying like a buck-ten a gallon now.”

Jay Leno

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

NewMexiKen is home from California now so the changes to these pages can resume (because I enjoy figuring them out and this blog is my hobby).

The home page now has the most current 30 entries. At the bottom a link will take you to earlier entries — on subsequent pages links take you either forward or back. If you had a mind to, you could read the whole 175 pages of NewMexiKen (as of this entry) one page at a time.

The date of each entry is displayed with the other metadata at the bottom of the entry. Entries are no longer organized under a date header (except in the date archives).

I like the idea of petroglyphs as a logo for NewMexiKen — after all, what were many petroglyphs other than one person communicating with whomever came along, just like a blog — but I don’t like the photo I have for this purpose. So the banner will change.

We thank you for your support.

Ansel Adams with Crayolas

Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View Friday morning. That’s Bridalveil Fall on the right, El Capitan on the left, and Half Dome partially obscured in the distance.

I may need therapy

NewMexiKen pretty much takes the week off from blogging and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were the four busiest days ever around here.

I find this troubling.