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Today is one of those wonderful desert days that are cool AND hot. The temps are in the mid 60s and chilly but if you are in the sun I am hot because of the radiant heat--there is very little humidity in the air to block it out.

This sensation of cool heat is delicious especially on a walk through the neighborhoods with your dog--cool/hot/cool/hot as I pass through tree shadow and back into the sun. Winter flowers are beginning to throb with color; the newly seeded rye grass is very very green; and the light sparkles.

The rising wall that leads to the high desert (Mojave) 3000 feet above our low desert (Sonora); twenty miles away, appears as though it was within an arms reach--so clear.

The afternoon hour-long walk seems very short. It is shirtsleeve weather with a bite.

SUBDUED

No rants and raves today about world affairs. It all seems sort of muted and subdued somehow in view of the weather and the fact that there is not a whole lot to be done about 'things' today.

I am back to the gym this week after the layoff and have the usual aches and soreness here and there. This is a good thing. It would be a shame to be doing the work and not getting any results. All those little torn muscle fibers are working to repair themselves and will make a slightly bigger stronger bulge when the get finished healing. The layoff is having the desired effect. I am not after the bumps so much although I do not mind looking muscular at all, it is the strength I am looking for; lean and mean.

I am working on learning a bit more about the blog and how to make it jump and jive a little. The use of personal pictures is still a bit of a mystery. I have to figure out how to get a net site that the Blogger will source....the earthlink.net and Yahoo photo managers don't seem to let the Blogger in.

I spent some time catching up on reading. I am in the 6th or 7th DRAGON RIDERS OF PERN book with a whole bunch to go until I am finished.

I did polish off the NYTimes Crossword at lunch; e-z going in the early week then more difficult each day until the industrial strength Saturday grand finale. The BIG Sunday puzzle is at Thursday plus strength.

No movie today or tomorrow as half the audience-John-has other commitments.

Quiet day. Zzzzzzzzzzz.

Even supper is a sleeper; ham you don't have to heat and it is already sliced.