Unexpected Holiday

I didn't realize that Debbie had today off until last Friday when she said something about not working on Monday. I knew she had some sort of doctor appointment, so I figured its was going to be long enough that she was just taking a day off. But noooooo; AAA is closed on MLK Day or Diversity Day or Black Monday or whatever the heck they call it these days. Seems to be a strange day to be closed for what is essentially a retail operation, but what do I know. I'm just a 44 year old unemployed dishwasher/college student.

Yesterday, there was a meeting of Prescott bloggers at Casa Sanchez. About a dozen of the 40+ Prescott-area bloggers were there. It was nice to put faces to some of the people I've bumped into on the net. We are going to shoot for the second Sunday of every month so everyone will be in the RealWorld at least once a month. Once my on-line classes kick in next week, it will probably be the only RealWorld contact I have until mid-May.

Not much else going on. It was quiet around town while eveyone sat inside glued to the boob tube to see if the Cardinals would be in the Superbowl. We've been sitting around watching Battlestar Galactica, Monk, and Pretender on Hulu the entire weekend. We may do some cleaning and/or hang our new artwork, or if we get really ambitious we may walk downtown and hit the new exhibit at Arts Prescott. Or just sit around watching more Battlestar Galactica, Monk and Pretender. It just feels like one of those weekends. Which we've had a pretty impressive streak of.

Speaking of Prescott area bloggers, I'm going to build a new section over on the right just for those. Many of the blogs are about the persons art or craft, but a lot are pretty much what you find here. Anyone who wants a cross-section of Prescott, you could do worse than running through the list.

When I worked at Volkswagen, several of us in the geek... er... IT department noticed that there was a high correlation between geek and photography, model railroads, and aquariums. Nearly every one of the 100+ people in IT had at least one, and usually two or three, of those interests. And it wasn't a casual interest, it was all-out mega-bucks hobby. The exceptions were the women, who just looked at the men like they had just grown a second head whenever the lunch conversation inevitably turned to building saltwater filtration systems or some such. The reason I bring this up is that the blogger meeting was essentially a photography geek-fest, so it will be interesting to see how many of the rest of the Prescott bloggers are heavy into their photography. Or model railroads, or aquariums.

Anyway, need to get typing.