Sunday, April 27, 2008 - Albuquerque NM
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New Mexico hasn't seen the last of this guy
New Mexico has a firm hold on my heart - I'll be back come next fall. This is one beautiful, friendly state I want to spend more time exploring. Once I get my affairs in order back in Red Rock I'll be headed back to New Mexico for next winter, hopefully in time for the Albuquerque Balloon festival in October. A sizable contingent of Lazy Daze folks gather there each year and I'd like very much to join them.
First stop - the Apple Computer store in Albuquerque
My trusty iBook laptop is showing its age and I'm beginning to think about an upgrade. It works splendidly but with all the pictures I've been taking out here I'm running out of hard drive capacity. Plus it might be nice to have a faster chip and a bit more screen real estate. Unfortunately for my pocketbook I've discovered Apple has equipped its MacBook successors to the iBook with glossy screens. The screens offer a beautiful, crisp image but unless room lighting is carefully controlled reflected glare spoils it completely. Alas I fear that would be a big problem in the RV with it's big windows. I may be forced up to a MacBook Pro model where anti-glare screens are offered as an option - but, other than whacking my budget, that might not be a bad idea. The processors are faster, hard drives are bigger, and bigger screens are available too. We'll see....
Night camp
Wal-Mart Parking Lot in Albuquerque NM
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Albuquerque NM
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #835, 400 Eubank Blvd Ne, Albuquerque, NM 87123 - (505) 293-8878
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service- Very good
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - Very good
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
That's the Point of Emotions: Survival
That's the point of emotions: survival. Normal emotions are essential to staying alive and well. ... To most people this doesn't make sense. We humans tend to think of emotions as dangerous forces that need to be strictly controlled by reason and logic. But that's not how the brain works. In the brain logic and reason are never separate from emotion. Nothing is neutral. That's what you have to remember. ... A lot of people's emotional life is unconscious a lot of the time, especially when you're calmly thinking something through. You feel like you're just using logic, but you're actually using logic guided by emotion. You just aren't aware of the emotion. ... I recommend Descartes' Error to anyone who's interested in emotions, intuition, and decision making. ... Nature seems to have tried to wire animals and people to have useful emotions, useful meaning emotions that keep us alive long enough to reproduce. Emotions keep us alive by letting us make good predictions about the future, and good predictions let us make good decisions about what comes next.