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Date Posted: 10:31:09 09/28/07 Fri
Author: DW
Author Host/IP: 67-54-145-118.cust.wildblue.net / 67.54.145.118
Subject: sometimes there is humidity
In reply to: Kristen 's message, "Re: You even got the spelling right" on 09:16:05 09/28/07 Fri

Mostly it's in Albuquerque and other communities along the Rio Grande, but when it rains we get it in the hills. The west side of my property and some places under some trees has mold and moss. (Last spring had unusual amounts of rain and the siding on the west side of my house (older double wide actually) started swelling and some of the trim rotted off. It's all cheap particle board type stuff, but still.

Of course anything over 15% humidity seems uncomfortable to me. Over 20% and it can make it hard for me to breath although some of that is probably psychological.

We have a fair number of foggy mornings up here. Sometime is more a case of the clouds clearing the Sandia Mountains (10,000 feet)to the West then they crash down and flow around the other little hills and mountains. It's very pretty at times but hardly what you'd expect in an arid climate.

Sometimes we get tired of all the stupidity, corruption, and general incompetence that characterizes this state but it's so darn pretty it makes up for it for the most part. (Schools suck, crime is high, traffic is worse than it should be, the politics are very, very corrupt to the point it's funny. Like last week a lady running for Albuquerque's city council was found to have listed a BA and an MBA that she had 'brought' from an online diploma mill that is so bogus you can buy your dog a degree from the same place. When confronted with it she said 'where I got my degrees from is not the issue' and then she went on to say something about how her opponent was lacking in integrity. Right after I got here the superintendent of the Albuquerque school district was killed in a car crash on a remote county road. He was standing on the seat with his head out the sun roof and his pants around his ankles. The other people in the car were combination of former students (now adult) and friends of those former students and most of them had criminal histories and all of them were male. Then the family puts on an outraged act saying this was all perfectly normal and he just liked to stay in touch with his former students so he could mentor them.

It's just nuts here. I think it's just what we needed. In Colorado there was a surplus of qualified people ...so much so that employers could dispose of anyone for any reason and find an equivalent person with no trouble. It's a little harder to find people with a clue in New Mexico. Things aren't perfect but they can't throw away their workers quite so easily because the replacements waiting to be hired can't read or think very well. (That's actually part of why my company has troubles. The hire people who do things as a joke because they are too stupid to know we will have to cause us to throw out tens of thousands of dollars worth of product because of their 'joke'. The company is finally testing people for literacy and comprehension and won't promote them to team leaders unless they pass the tests. I guess that is a good start ...pitiful it is needed, but good.)

Well, we don't live in Albuquerque where the problems are more obvious. We live out in the boonies that has other problems but many of the people are decent and want the area to stay that way too ... I'm hopefull that will hold the creeps at bay. I don't want to have to be under siege like we were in Northwest Denver.

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