Water and other stuff

So, the water situation has turned Alamosa into a declared "State of Emergency," which means that the National Guard is here or will be arriving. The city is flushing the water lines with a high concentration of chlorine. During this phase, people are only allowed to use the water for flushing toliets - no showering, washing dishes, drinking, etc! This could last up to two weeks; hopefully, as the weeks pass, there will be less restrictions. Alamosa City Schools shut down for the rest of this week (Tuesday - Friday). Adams State College will be closed down from Wedensday - Friday. What excitement for these students... until June when they will still have to be in school. I am thankful that we don't have the irritation of living in Alamosa and dealing with this. The only way it really affects us is that Jeremy and I won't go to the gym in the mornings because we can't shower. We'll just have to motivate ourselves to do something after work. The days have been gorgeous recently! Today it is supposed to reach 60F, and the sun is shining brightly!

The rest of our Easter was nice. We ate tons of food at Andy and Alice's, played a little h-o-r-s-e, and tossed the frisbee. I played Scrabble for the first time in forever. I even would have won had it not been for the letter "Q" worth 10 points that was in my hand at the end of the game. I drew it late, and I don't know very many Q-words. At any rate I lost, and there was a three way tie for first.

Monday at the Boutique was pretty good. There was actually a pretty steady flow of people. We made about $200! Yea! I read some articles in last week's Newsweek (3/24/08). The articles about General Petraeus's army were interesting to me. He is pushing for different - less "guns-a'blazin'" tactics. I still don't agree with all of his ideas, but it seems better than "bomb 'em til they are dead." I also read in National Geographic about savannah chimps that are now fashioning spears to kill the bush babies sleeping in trees for their food. Some scientists are noting the similarities to the time when human evolved from chimps. I am waiting to see the type of humans that evolve from these ones! I can't understand why they can't just give credit to the Creator of everything. Also, why can't they just find the fact that weapons for hunting are an amazingly interesting thing, but not necessarily anything that connects chimps to people. After all, we may have 95% similar genes with chimps, but we also share 40% of our genes with lettuce... when do you think the lettuce will start fighting back ... or becoming human??? :) Nuff said.

I don't have PALS today - no school = no PALS. Annie and I will plan for what it to come, which will be good. Otherwise, no big news. I am number 3 in our pool for NCAA men's basketball bracket. I have a shot at winning it all... or not. Go Kansas Jayhawks!