Sunday scenes.

That last post was kind of long-winded.  The pictures starting from here might do a better idea of describing this day.  Well, ok, so there are a few captions.  But none of them are over a paragraph.  I promise.
Stuff I did that’s not in the pictures:

Walk to The Contemporary Jewish Museum to see Intersections:  Reading [...]

Morning mountains, middafternoon’s museums.

Inspired by last week’s too-short trip to the region, I went back.  There were people I could/should/would have contacted while there, but without much advance notice and at this time of year, it felt like it would be at best a rude interruption of other people’s holiday seasons. 
I missed my early morning flight but [...]

Tookie talked.

A few days before his execution, Tookie Williams gave a cell phone interview.  I read it the day before he was executed.  It was the first time I read the names of the people he was convicted of killing.
Williams, 51, a cofounder of the notorious Crips street gang, has for
24 years maintained his innocence in [...]

TypePad’s technical difficulties.

When TypePad had some technical difficulties last week that temporarily erased a couple of recent posts, it hit me that it might be a sign from the web lords to not post garbage like that.  Then I decided to ignore that sign.

On to Oakland.

It’s not going to be another Albuquerque.  I’m actually going to Oakland in a few hours, for just a few hours.  That last part kind of sucks.  I’ll be running around in a rental car for a good portion of the day, I think.  Not really the way I like to spend my time in [...]

In which Guava is graceless, grating.

First and foremost, he said he had low expectations.That it was something he learned in business.Therefore, he said, it took a lot to get him excited.And that he was romantic.  I wondered how romantic itcould feel to be asked out by a guywith low expectations?
By romantic maybe he meanthis preferences in dining room ambience.He chuckled [...]

Arriving in Albuquerque.

I’ll be arriving in Albuquerque sometime later today and then leaving again tomorrow.  It’s for work but hopefully there will be time to look around too.  Santa Fe, it seems, is just about an hour away, though it might have to wait for another trip.
It will be too early to see luminarias, I think.    [...]

Comfort and consolation.

Leroy and Lisa Woods and their three young sons "were driving north on
Central approaching 55th Street," Mr. Stearney said. "They’d just been
to a McDonald’s, and they had some food in the car." Joshua, Mr.
Stearney said, was singing to the radio when his father heard a roar
and thought a plane was taking off. The next instant [...]

Pwned!

The judge said it was unacceptable that preventable deaths continued in the 168,000-inmate system. He also told Schwarzenegger he should find money for emergency fixes "the same way you find the money to build a tent to smoke cigars" in the Capitol. The governor, a cigar lover, occasionally lights up in a tent outside [...]