Pictures from McCain Country

April 23, 2008 at 9:00 pm (Roaming the World)
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I spent the better part of my week in Phoenix, Arizona. A beautiful place… here are some pics…

I love sunflowers!
I love sunflowers!
They have cactus in Phoenix.
They have cactus in Phoenix.
A view from my hotel. I love this.
A view from my hotel. I love this.

Did I mention they have cactus in the desert?
Did I mention they have cactus in the desert?
When are we going to see the rabbits, George?!?
When are we going to see the rabbits, George?!?
Another view from my hotel.
Another view from my hotel.

I didn't know cactus had flowers....
I didn’t know cactus had flowers….
I was fascinated by the little rabbits.
I was fascinated by the little rabbits.
Oh yeah... did I tell you they have cactus there?
Oh yeah… did I tell you they have cactus there?


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Pathfinder Lady

November 10, 2007 at 6:40 am (My So-Called Life, Roaming the World)
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There is a saying that we only use 10% of our brain. That may have been true before, but I think I may be down to about 6% now. I’ve stopped thinking. I’ve really stopped thinking.

Remember before cell phones when we actually had to remember peoples phone numbers? How long ago was that? Now the phone remembers and we hold on to it like life itself. Its kinda sad… I have more than 100 numbers in my phone and if it died, there are only 2 phone numbers I would remember. 2! How many would you remember?

You are probably wondering where all of this is coming from. Well! Let me tell you…
One of the best things about my car is the GPS system… I call it “the pathfinder lady”. (By the way, have you ever heard one with a male voice???) I appreciate the technology, but like my cell phone, ever since I got it, I’ve stopped thinking.

A while back, my cousin came to visit and asked me to give her a ride to the train station… a trip I made a million times when I lived in Baltimore. Instead of taking the time to think, I turned to the pathfinder lady. “Oh great and powerful pathfinder, take me where I want to go” In her sweet calming voice she said to me ” follow the highlighted route… then when possible, make a legal U-Turn” Great, I thought. We are on our way.

20 minutes, 15 turns, and 10 very scary downtown Baltimore streets later, I was at a train station. But not the one I wanted. AAAAAAAARRRGGGGGHHH! Pathfinder Lady brought me to the wrong place! LOL. After I finally got to the right place, my cousin (who nearly missed her train) turned to me and said ” the GPS is great, but it only works if you know where you are going“. Ent that the truth! You gotta love family! Thanks Cuz. :-)

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“You are in Buffalo Bills Country now!”

October 10, 2007 at 12:49 am (Sports)
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My friend and I made the 3-hour drive from Ithaca to Buffalo yesterday to see the Monday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Buffalo Bills. And boy was it a game.

First of all, the 3 hour drive turned into more like 5 hours as the traffic near the stadium was CRAZY! People driving in like 2 lanes at the same time, drunk people running in and out of the woods by the highway to relieve themselves. Bills fans honking, Dallas fans screaming. And an interesting team of ‘businessmen’ riding back and forth on a bike holding up a ‘I Need Tickets’ cardboard sign. (I thought it was strange that they were looking for tickets so far away from the stadium… but some one clued me in on the fact that the ‘I need tickets sign was really a ‘I have tickets to sell sign) yeah – clearly I was having a slow moment.

I realized when I got to the stadium that I didn’t know a darn thing about Buffalo football. Except that back in the 90’s they were in the Superbowl like 4 times and lost each time. Fans were wearing jerseys for players I’d never heard of. I was just like who the heck is Losman? Or Moulds? Or Marshawn Lynch (who apparently is the star of the team). I did recognize the Owens and Romo jerseys the Dallas fans were wearing, but the thing that cracked me up was how some of them looked like they were wearing jerseys from their high school years. Just tight (and I don’t mean good tight) Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith jerseys. Yikes!

Let me tell you that the Buffalo stadium .. actually called ‘Ralph Wilson Stadium’ is a pigsty! The stadium itself is not that pretty and the tailgaters left all kinds of junk in the crusty parking lot. DISGUSTING. (Someone would have to pay me to go to this stadium again.. I couldn’t even get any wings … and you know how I am about wings! :-)

The game itself was even more disgusting than the stadium. Ok, now you all know I love my Ravens, but for this night, I did sport a Dallas grey shirt. :-) Totally pretending to be a Cowboys fan. And for a fake Cowboys fan the game was brutal. Buffalo was getting the ball at all turns. Tony Romo, the Dallas quarterback, kept throwing interceptions. T.O. couldn’t catch a ball. It was the worst!! And it didn’t help that we were surrounded by drunk and crazed Bills fans who cheered loudly ever time T.O. dropped the ball. They were so loud I couldn’t tell whether they were making fun of the quarterback by yelling “homo”, “no-mo” or both.

Some guy noticed that we were cheering for the enemy and started yelling as us “You’re in Buffalo Bills country now! What did you think that you were going to come into our house and win??” “Dallas is going to be 4 and 1 baby. 4 and 1. 4 and 1″ Uhm… ok!

Seriously the Bills did play a very good game and they were totally kicking butt and winning the game… right up until the second where the game was over and they had lost. LOL. Too funny! I loved that moment when at the last second, the field goal went in (for the 2nd time) and the time was up. All I could do was scream AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I love Monday Night Football man. You just never know what is going to happen.

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