Albuquerque a2k roundup, May 14-19, 2008

Eva, getting lost in abq happens to the sharpest.

(She was following me at the time)

which time?

I admit to galloping confusion - Seriously, perspectives vary.

Oh.

Well, that explains a lot.

:wink:

But wait, I was in the passenger seat. Ye'er so all so easy,,,,

Please explain that snort.

And it was me who was following Roger, whose verbal directions were a disgrace to his gender but his radar and navigation were spot on. We got where we wanted to go without any backing up and turning around. Right on, Roger. But, as you can imagine, I was by then totally disoriented. Actually, Dys gave me directions home, as did Osso, and Osso's were by far the superior.

I snorted at the thought of you, Ms. Self-Sufficient, ever truly being lost or helpless. You're one of the LEAST helpless people I've ever met.

G'night, sweetie.

Good night to you, too, hon.

Did the last several posts remind anyone of one of the Pink Panther movies? It was a fine, fun time, wasn't it?

And then there's Mame.

Eva wrote:



Then Mame asks Eva, slyly, why she snorted.
Snort.

Now say goodnight Gracie. I fell asleep an hour ago and it usually makes my posts deteriorate pretty badly.

Okay how are things going?

Here, today, it rained a lot. We could do with some of that NM weather.

I just remembered, long after my post, that I WAS supposed to be following Roger. I'd forgotten about that episode. He was right, dammit.

Osso, how were you following from the passenger seat? wouldn't that be more of an accompaniment?

That was another traffic situation I was thinking of.. I'd forgotten about this one. In this one we were all dragging our cars to Johnboy's hotel. I followed Roger, Eva followed me. I was busy yabbering to Johnboy and forgot to cross over to Rio Grande. The hotel was not on Fourth. Thus a tour of Mountain Road for Eva, who, from later word, knew where we were and wasn't worried. (I shoulda turned at Griegos..)

From the sounds of it, we were lucky this gathering was in Albuquerque. God only knows what would have happened if we'd decided to meet in a city the size of, say, Boston or NYC. Some of us would probably still be there.

Uh, I've met batches of folk in NYC, no problemo, except trying to cell call Paola from a highrise lobby. No matter, we walked outside.

We zipped around SF in taxis (shared cost, though different people picked it up) like some comedic movie, those of us piling into different taxis having different stories of delight. Except for one, with the Weirdo who seemed to hate all of us.

In SF - Dys and the driver going on with Firesign theater repartee (I wasn't in that taxi) and JJorge and the driver going on about russian poetry with the driver then giving us a Bullitt experience on the hills...

Abq, on the other hand, is forsaken re transportation/pedestrian culture and will fail from it, she says, forebodingly.

JFK once hosted a dinner for Nobel laureates. He made the comment that never had there been a greater collection of intelligence in one room since Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
We may have been directionally challanged, but I did enjoy listening to Dys talk about Native American culture, BBB about urban planning, Osso about art and landscape architecture, Walter about Euopean politics and on and on.
I asked the kid about whether she preferred the cake or the frosting. She had an opinion. I can't remember what it was, though.
(Thanks, McTag...for telling us about the weather in NW England).

I'll be polite here and say landscape architecture includes urban and regional planning. My license - hard to come by then, only 9% passed the whole national thing the first time - includes that, and urban planning is one of my main interests. Why else did I have some zillion threads on a2k on related subjects, early on. However, I get that people figure I do gardening, however well or badly. Not to be snotty, but to perhaps correct a misconception.

McTag, the weather now is really hot, making the garden, even my xeriscape garden, look down in the dumps and dehydrated. Please send us some of your rain and i promise to send you some of our sunshine.

RealJohnBoy, thanks for bringing up JFK's remark about Jefferson. It's been a long time. I enjoyed being reminded.

It also brought to mind FDR's welcome at a national meeting of the the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) shortly after they refused to accept black women into the organization even though many had ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War. His statement was, "Welcome my fellow immigrants." The requirement for membership in that venerable organization is to have an ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War. (I think that's correct.)

Osso wrote:



Sad, but most likely true, unless we can get a mayor who doesn't think a panda at the zoo (which will cost a million dollars a year), will bring in hundreds of tourists. Sigh...

Well.. if they would put people like me on display..

shewolf


There would be a line four blocks long waiting to see you. Hot stuff!

BBB