Wicker Park

It’s not often that I see a movie, even one that I really like, and want to see it all over again immediately but “Wicker Park” is one of them. I just happened to get lucky and caught it by accident on TV. When I say by accident, I was channel surfing and saw this [...] [...]

Winter is Back

After being spoiled last week with temperatures in the 70’s it is obvious that today winter is back with a vengeance. It is cold! Our warm temps today were this morning and right now it is 24 degrees and windy. The sky is cloudy and it looks like it might snow. Actually I hope it [...] [...]

Los Comanches Dance

I have noticed that I have gotten numerous hits on the site by people interested in information about the Los Comanches dance done usually on New Years Day and sometimes at other times of the year in some of the Hispanic towns in northern New Mexico. So, I decided to put up a little information [...] [...]

The Rail Runner

The Rail Runner mass transit system set a daily record Saturday when (as reported in the Albuquerque Journal) it transported over 12,000 people in the Albuquerque-Santa Fe area. Some of that ridership and maybe a lot of it was due to the fact that the Mid-Region Council of Governments, who operates the Rail Runner, was [...] [...]

Bill Richardson Will No Longer Be Commerce Secretary

Looks like our governor, Bill Richardson, has withdrawn his name as Obama’s nominee for Commerce Secretary. It all has to do with the ongoing federal investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract. In 2004  CDR Financial Programs of Beverley Hills, CA got hired by the New Mexico Finance Authority to [...] [...]

1st Post Of 2009

After The Rain This isn’t much of a post but it will have to do for now. It was a beautiful day out today with very little wind and temps in the middle 60′s. Very nice for January here on the Southern High Plains. The weather forecast is for winter to return and I hope it [...] [...]