This time, it's for leave. And I should have almost constant access to the internet. If I have the time from runnin all over the city visiting ppl.

Mike, I'm headin that way in the next day or two. Most likely Monday night. I'm gonna try and call ya through the week, since the kids are gonna be in their car seats for about 5-6 hours by the time I roll in to the Valley.

In short, see ya in the next week, Mike.

Woo hoo vacation time. Enjoy and drive safe.

Have a safe drive and I'll be here! If I dont answer when you call I may be in work (no reception in the building as its built in the side of a mountain). Just leave a Vmail and I'll get it when im out of work and call ya back.

Mike, check yer voicemail.

Well, we're back. Got to cruise by the new Phx Cards Stadium. Dude, that onion skin is UGLY. yet another reason to hate the team.

Sorry we missed ya, Mike. Think it woulda been great to catch up with ya, but it just wasnt in the cards.

The one reason to go to Phx this time was to do the 10-year reunion thing. No one was aval at the eleventh-hour. Went and caught the final half by myself. The final was...28 to 14...Buckeye. Buckeye was the visiting team. Not cool.

Got to visit the London Bridge in Lake Havasu, AZ. The one bit of trivia that I hadnt known about this bridge that once spanned the Thames was that the street lights are made from GEN Napoleon Bonaparte's cannons. Once seized, the cannons were melted down and turned into street lights for the American Southwest. I think I would be insulted if I were Bonaparte.

Anyway, we be back in that dustbowl known as the Tularosa Basin/Mesilla Valley. Word.

Glad to see you had fun. And I bet it's nice to be home again.

Yessir, it is.