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Friday, January 2, 2009 - Charlie's Transmission, Carlsbad NM

Leaving the Wash, Devil's Hall trail, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, January 1, 2009
Leaving the Wash, Devil's Hall trail, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, January 1, 2009

Arrangements were made and by days end LD had been dragged the 60 miles from the Guadalupe Mountains National Park visitors center parking lot to the Charlie's Transmission parking lot in Carlsbad where she and I sit awaiting Charlie's ministrations on Monday.

Night camp

Parking lot - Charlie's Transmission, Carlsbad NM

Monopoly Money

During the 1990s I knew all the dot-coms would go to hell, because when I thought about them the only images I saw were rented office space and computers that would be obsolete in two years. There wasn't anything real I could picture; the companies had no hard assets. My stockbroker asked me how I knew the two stock market crashes would happen, and I told him, "When the Monopoly play money starts jerking around the real money you're in trouble."

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