I'm teetering...I'm on the verge...

OMG...we're actually (gulp) shopping for family plans for cell phones. I think I'm the last gay man in Albuquerque to get one. I've been holding out for years and years...I never wanted to be that accessible.

I supposed when (not if, at this point) I get one, I'll be among the billions saying, "can you hear me now?" and "(*&(@^%*&!!!! lost the connection!" just like everyone else.

On a field trip this morning, I had to laugh. We were doing a dorm tour, tagging along with the parents whose oh-so-innocent 18 year olds will be morosely shuffling into the university system in a mere month or so. We came up the steps into one dorm, and four blonde female cheerleader-types* were all sitting on the steps, facing west, each with their own festively-colored cell phones in hand, all looking at them intently, and quite vacuously.

What an age we live in.

I guess I'm ready to join the lemmings.

But I'll bet I STILL never get a call.

* As with all universities, the summertime is prime rental of dorm facilities for cheerleader camps, band camps, christian youth camps, camp camps. Happily, my office is on the other side of campus, so I'm rarely aware of all the 16 year old running around being 16 year olds. I haven't heard of a youth square dance camp though. Hmm.

I'm teetering...I'm on the verge...

OMG...we're actually (gulp) shopping for family plans for cell phones. I think I'm the last gay man in Albuquerque to get one. I've been holding out for years and years...I never wanted to be that accessible.

I supposed when (not if, at this point) I get one, I'll be among the billions saying, "can you hear me now?" and "(*&(@^%*&!!!! lost the connection!" just like everyone else.

On a field trip this morning, I had to laugh. We were doing a dorm tour, tagging along with the parents whose oh-so-innocent 18 year olds will be morosely shuffling into the university system in a mere month or so. We came up the steps into one dorm, and four blonde female cheerleader-types* were all sitting on the steps, facing west, each with their own festively-colored cell phones in hand, all looking at them intently, and quite vacuously.

What an age we live in.

I guess I'm ready to join the lemmings.

But I'll bet I STILL never get a call.

* As with all universities, the summertime is prime rental of dorm facilities for cheerleader camps, band camps, christian youth camps, camp camps. Happily, my office is on the other side of campus, so I'm rarely aware of all the 16 year old running around being 16 year olds. I haven't heard of a youth square dance camp though. Hmm.

The monsoon continues...

Enjoying the light show and rolling thunder of another summer T'storm. It's probably 10-15 flashes a minute, but so far just a splattering of rain. What's so wonderful is that these storms cool the air from the mid 90s to the 70s pretty quickly, but it plays hell with the efficiency of the swamp coolers.

The quality of the thunder is very different now with the new insulated windows...very hollow with a tinny overtone. Before two years ago, the thunder sounded like it was right there with you.

We're just 25% below normal rainfall for the year (8 inches annual). The drought is slackening.

The monsoon continues...

Enjoying the light show and rolling thunder of another summer T'storm. It's probably 10-15 flashes a minute, but so far just a splattering of rain. What's so wonderful is that these storms cool the air from the mid 90s to the 70s pretty quickly, but it plays hell with the efficiency of the swamp coolers.

The quality of the thunder is very different now with the new insulated windows...very hollow with a tinny overtone. Before two years ago, the thunder sounded like it was right there with you.

We're just 25% below normal rainfall for the year (8 inches annual). The drought is slackening.