Found out

Damn! FunctionalAmbivalent has published NewMexiKen’s photo.

Actually not really. THIS is me at about that age.

Why bother?

Donna, official friend of NewMexiKen, doesn’t want me to blog about the election. (And for that matter Obama only looks good any more because McCain is so god awful — in other words it’s turning into a typical election.)

Jill and Emily, official daughters of NewMexiKen, don’t want me to blog about the Olympics for fear I may reveal another winner in real time. (But it is a sporting event you know, not a TV program, whatever NBC thinks.)

Ephraim doesn’t want me to blog about climate warming for fear science will over react and freeze the planet.

I don’t want to blog about birthdays.

And the only best line I’ve seen was at Sideline Chatter that the Chinese women’s gymnastics team tested positive for Desitin. (It’s for diaper rash — ‘cuz they look so young — sort of adapted from Dick Vitale.)

Blogging got me better service from Comcast, otherwise . . .

Wanderlust

NewMexiKen has three travel ideas. For now they are just ideas. I need sponsors and/or companions.

1. Around the world, say in 80 days (why not?). Kind of do the Matt Harding thing without the silly dance.

2. Another 80 days just in Europe; I’ve been to Europe a half-dozen times but never done the grand tour.

3, The Atlantic Coast from Newfoundland to the Florida Keys.

What do you think? I could take the laptop and the camera and fill the blog with wise, whimsical and witty things every day. Properly marketed it could bring in lots of readers (I mean more than the ususal seven) and be supported by lots of ads.

Who can help me make these ideas into plans — and then into reality? I can leave Monday.

For the record I have already been to:

São Paulo
Montevideo
Buenos Aires
Lisbon
Madrid
Geneva
Cologne (airport only)
Bonn
Frankfurt (airport only)
Tokyo
Beijing
Hong Kong
Macau
St. Petersburg
Helsinki
Stockholm
Ankara
Istanbul
Nicosia
Athens
Yaounde
Douala
Lagos
Zurich (airport only)
Paris
Havana
Warsaw
Moscow
Alma Ata
Prague (airport only)
Bratislava
Vienna

All 50 states, Canada and Mexico.

Places to go, Sweeties to hug

NewMexiKen will be away for the next few days, hanging-out with three of The Sweeties®, sight-seeing, playing Chutes and Ladders. I will try and blog when I can, but instead of the usual half-wisdom, half-whimsy, half-wit you get around here, it may only be one-eighth.

While I am gone Hannibal Lecter will be house-sitting at Casa NewMexiKen, along with my pit bulls, Attila and Genghis. The recent rains (big-time last night) have raised havoc with the rattlesnakes in the backyard. I think they have moved inside and resettled among the wires and cables behind the computer, television and surround sound.

Blogging

I took yesterday off. It was the fifth anniversary of NewMexiKen. No one ever asked how I voted.

I liked taking the day off so much, I took off much of today too. It took Comcast to get me riled enough to need an outlet.