Update

The software package arrived Thursday.

No sign of the neighborhood phantom Thursday evening, but we had an evening-long series of thunderstorms that may have dampened his plans.

What a light and thunder show, eh Albuquerqueans?

With all that rain I was thinking of my neighbor. He collects water from the canales (known elsewhere as gutters) and uses it to water his plants. I find that pretty impressive. I mostly use the water from my roof to splash down and wash soil from the yard into the street.

I’ve been seeing a roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) from time-to-time in the backyard. Beep-beep. No snakes or rodents when they’re around.

That scream you may have heard earlier this morning was when I bent over to adjust the rug under my desk chair and seriously screwed up the disc-nerve arrangement in my spine. And they had been getting along so well. I don’t know if I cried out more from the pain or from the sudden realization that it will be several hours-days-weeks before I can move easily again.

Here’s an item about TV news that I posted a year ago today — Live, local, trivial.