Sunny Albuquerque

I spent last week visiting my parents in beautiful, WARM, sunny New Mexico.  It was nice to get out of the rain and drab skies for a little bit and enjoy some warmth down south.  I had a nice visit (hopefully, my parents would say the same) with several visits to Mexican restaurants for my favorite burritos and sopapillas.  I also managed to get through three books on my visit although to be fair, one of them was a pretty short read.  It was Stephan Hawking's "Grand Design", which posed some interesting theories.  Not sure I can really get my head around ten dimensional space (or eleven, I can't remember exactly which - it just was a lot of dimensions).  Also, the fact that you can have single quanta objects pass through the double slit experiment and actually appear to go through both slits at the same time.  Kind of makes my head hurt and seems weird that small atomic material doesn't have to behave by the same rules large clusters of those particles have to - guess that is why I didn't become a physicist.

Anyway, since it was warmer in New Mexico their spring was further along and the cacti were blooming and I got to enjoy them while walking - we are just having our daffodils finish up - so that became the photo of the week.  Unfortunately, while the trip out was smooth as glass, the way back reminded me the fun of air travel today.  I was delayed out of Dallas on Friday night due to crew and mechanical issues and didn't get home until a little past one in the morning.  That meant the weekend was spent recovering some sleep and lazing around the house - the fact that it was grey and rainy helped provide a nap conducive environment - and I only needed four dimensions to accomplish that, leaving me 6 or 7 spares to use later.