What did everyone do this weekend?¿

[Frank X. Morris]

Howdy All,
I had 4 days off and so did everybody at work. Since nobody was at the airport I took the dogs out there to run jackrabbits. The dogs are in the middle of their competitive running season so we haven't run the local jacks for about a month so I figured there would be a bunch. I was right. And I'm still right. Those buggers are quick, elusive and fast. On Thur. both dogs had run a few jacks before Chime kicked one up and gave it fits for a while. The jack got about 50+ yards ahead. Then at about a half mile Chime was closing in and got to about 20 feet or less and she got tired and JR started pulling away. If she hadn't run so many of them critters earlier she would have had a special Thanksgiving feast. The other 3 days had some short to medium runs. A good weekend for all.

[kerry]

Since we also had 4 days, I thought it might be a good time to introduce my 10 yr old daughter to US nuclear history. Checked the website at the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos last week and they were open on Friday. Great. We could drive to NM on Wednesday, spend Thursday in Taos, and get an early start to Los Alamos on Friday and have a stimulating time learning nuclear physics and discussing the ethics of nuclear bombs. So, after having driven about 425 miles we arrived in Los Alamos only to learn that since we checked the web last week, they had changed their mind and the museum was closed! 850 miles round trip and nothing to show for it except for breakfast at Mcdonalds in Los Alamos.

[KirkVining]

I used to live in Los Alamos. You should have checked out the Anazai Indian ruins at Bandelier National Monument nearby - that's pretty cool, or driven into the Jemez Caldera, known locally as the "Valle Grande" - a tremendous sight. All kinds of cool stuff up in there, especially if you are into geology.

Altho this isn't the time of year for it, if your a golfer and you find yourself out that way, make sure you play golf at the public course. The feds shower grant money on the city of Los Alamos to make up for lost property tax revenues from the Lab, and they try to provide amenities to keep the local population of geniuses happy, so they have a stunning federally financed public course that rivals many top-notch private courses, and you can play it for around $20 bucks.

My Thanksgiving weekend was spent at home, but I got called into work unexpectedly on Friday, and that pretty much ruined my plans for the rest of the weekend.

[Kuan]

I had duck for dinner on Thanksgiving day. On Friday I drove to the Florissant fossil beds west of Colorado Springs to check out the petrified redwoods. Saturday morning was spent at the University of Denver interviewing a faculty member. Spent that afternoon at a luthier's shop. Sunday was breakfast with Kerry

Well, I've been working, and fighting a severe cold at the same time. Oh well. It's not like I have any family down here to spend the time with anyway.

[rickg]

Thursday was spent with my kookie relatives Had a lotta laughs.
Friday saw an old school buddy I hadn't seen in about 9 years.
Saturday just spent the day with the wife shopping and buying more paint for the house.
Then sunday. Helped the neighbor lady move. My back still hurts. I'm just not as old as I used to be