The Redheaded Penguin

LOOK! A new toy! Okay, I gave in and did something I probably shouldn’t have done. For the past few months I’ve had my eye on getting a new smart phone. I’d been looking to combine my old PDA (an iPaq purchased about 4-5 years ago I think) with my cell phone, so I’d have one less thing to carry around, but could still take advantage of the things the PDA offered… like reminders for meetings that I tend to forget about… anyway, given that I found out this week I’ll be getting a new position/promotion next Fall, I convinced Ruth to let me go drool over new phones… since I wasn’t eligible for an upgrade to the phone, I knew I couldn’t afford to get what I wanted… but then, the salesman started wanting to make deals… when it got to the point that the cell phone was about half-off, Ruth told me I should go ahead and get it… so I did… this is a picture taken with the new phone of the box it came in… hopefully with the new phone the quality of pictures I’m posting here will go up as well… well, they will be higher resolution at least…

It’s Fiesta time! After going to Alamo Heights Night last night (the 18th) here are the medals, prize tickets, etc. from our night at the 2nd Annual Chips & Salsa Fund Raiser. Ruth kicked you know what at Texas Hold ‘Em… though we weren’t playing for real money… still she wiped out myself and another player at the table on the last hand. I did good at the beginning but then went down hill and went all in for the last hand… still, Ruth started with $1000 in chips and ended up with over $8000 in chips… we were going to venture into the salsa dancing, but never made it… maybe next year…

Oopss… to much digging on the hillside, especially with the rain we had overnight… if you go back and look at the pictures from earlier in the week, you’ll notice how close they were getting to a tree at the top of the hill. Well, with the rain last night, the tree couldn’t hold on any longer and collapsed…

Boring week… more construction photos as the dig more out of the hillside…

Just a random shot while driving down the street…

It’s tax day! But what the heck, let’s get a construction photo in for the week

Yeah, they started digging out more of the hill… not sure why, but they are…

Yes, more gas price pictures… diesel at $4…

Okay… I know they had to pick something to put in the little diagram to show the container holding something… but honestly, was this the best they could come up with?

Netflix is our friend… we’re definitely getting our money out of it these days with actual rentals and the “watch instantly” features…

The lovely and scenic staff entrance at the library where Ruth is working now