October 06, 2007 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
Unfortunately, high winds kept the Evening Glow from happening Saturday at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, but we were able to watch the fireworks.
Month: October 2007
Darth Vader at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
Taken on October 06, 2007.
We knew that my young nephew was really looking forward to the Darth Vader balloon. As we walked down to the field from the parking lot for the mass ascension, we saw the Darth Vader balloon take off. My nephew started to cry: he had evidently expected to take a ride in the balloon, and couldn’t understand why it was leaving without him. It took a while for his Mom to console him.
An American Hero
The obituary for my father-in-law, John Heneghan, appeared in the Washington Post yesterday. Although I knew he had been been involved in promoting civil rights in the south in the sixties, I had never realized he had been part of the Freedom Summer in 1964.
Beautiful
I saw this wedding photo, taken in 1952, of my mother-in-law and father-in-law for the first time at Johnnie’s wake.
Arbitron
Jack signed us up to participate to keep diaries of our radio listening for a week for Arbitron. We start tomorrow. At first, I didn’t think I would be able to contribute anything but empty sheets, but Jack told me that he thought Pandora Radio qualified as Internet Radio. Pandora is rather odd since one creates one’s own channels by rating music as it is presented. I usually listen to Pandora at work when I am not on the telephone or talking to anyone.
Book Burro Firefox Add-on
I think we have books in every room of the house except for the bathrooms and kitchen. We would probably have books there if space was not at a premium. So I have been trying to minimize book purchases, not just because of cost, but because there is no space left for new book shelves, and our current shelves are full.
I have been trying to use the library in lieu of buying books. We have a wonderful library system, the Pikes Peak Library District, which allows us to reserve books on-line. I recently discovered that the Firefox add-on Book Burro can search the Pikes Peak Library District catalog system, when it sees me looking up a book on Amazon.com. It makes it relatively trivial to reserve the book, without having to re-enter the search parameters in Sirsi, the application which maintains the catalog. The add-on will also provide prices for a book from various on-line providers, but I am trying to avoid them, since we don’t need more books.