Yesterday Was Kind Of A Disappointing One…

for me as far as being a tourist in Albuquerque, New Mexico is concerned.

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The motorhome is still parked at the VFW Post #401 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

We took the Bronco and headed out. First stop was at the National Hispanic Cultural Center where the previous evening we saw a very entertaining Nocho de Oro…Night of Gold performance. Yesterday morning’s visit to their Art Museum was to me very disappointing. First of all, no photography was allowed and secondly there wasn’t anything there worth taking a picture of. Have I finally seen too many Hispanic artifacts?

Second visit was to their Mundos De Mestizaje: A vision of History through Fresco by Francisco Vigil. According to their brochure…

He spent close to a decade on this monumental 4,000 square foot work. Over 3,000 years of Hispanic history are depicted  in the broadest sense, from Europe to Mesoamerica and into the American southwest, illustrating the complexities and diversity of the Hispanic experience.

I realize that I am not very sophisticated when it comes to Art and I found his work almost too complicated to enjoy. Also you have to look straight up over your head to see his work…within about 15 seconds I had a sore neck! There are no windows or lights in the building…the only illumination inside comes from a rather small opening in the ceiling and even with a brilliant sunny day…the lighting was poor. Once again…no photography allowed. Boo on them! Here’s their website link to this Fresco…
http://www.nationalhispaniccenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=139

Then it was on to Old Town. The church and plaza both were rather uninspiring…

The only other thing(s) there are 150 gift stores and galleries…get the picture? This place screams TOURIST! However one shop had some interesting hot sauces…

They actually had Marie Sharp’s from Belize which both Mary and I really like…at somewhat exorbitant prices. We bought two bottles anyways.

This place is now a restaurant and art gallery…get the picture???

We decided to try to salvage the day by driving along the old (pre-1937) Route 66 looking for old buildings. Nope…nothing of any significance to be found.

Oh well…if every day I wrote up stunning reports of our travels…you wouldn’t believe me any more. One thing you can be sure of…is when you read one of my Blog entries…you are getting the truth! At least in my humble opinion.

Like the old saying…”Some days are diamonds and some days are dust”…fortunately for us about 99 out of 100 days are diamonds!

All original material Copyright – Jim Jaillet 2012
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A Pesty Electronic Glitch Mysteriously Disappears…

A few Blog entries back I wrote about how I was experiencing a pesty electronic interface between our new Pantech UML290 Modem and our new CounterPoint Router. Specifically…once I disconnected my computer from our Verizon Wireless Internet signal…it would load the cpu up to 100% and make my Firefox carry on like it was drunk…and I could not re-connect to the Internet without re-booting my computer…it was a genuine pain in the you know where!

After about a week of this I contacted the 3G Store customer technical support…from whom I purchased the router…and they advised to try to connect to the signal with a different computer. So I dug Mary’s computer out of the hall closet…loaded in the Verizon Access Manager Program…connected and disconnected from the Verizon Wireless Internet signal and it worked just fine.

Now for the big test…back to my computer…and all a of a sudden…no more disconnect/reconnect problems! I’ve waited about another week before I found the courage to tell you this story for fear that electronic glitch would once again re-appear…but no…all appears well. Knock on wood! (As I tap myself on the head.  )

When I told my life-partner Mary this story…I added… the moral to this story is that I no longer function properly unless she is nearby me. Awwwww…kinda brings a tear to your eye…doesn’t it?

Electronics…who can explain…why they do what they do?

All original material Copyright – Jim Jaillet 2011
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