Each year, dozens of Visiting Work Groups come to Taos to build homes, bond with one another, and bask in the beauty that is northern New Mexico. This video was made by the fantastic University of Connecticut who came last week. Watch and see what the experience meant to them. Enjoy!

Oh, and you can meet my awesome coworkers!

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This is kind of a follow-up to THIS POLL I WOULD STILL LOVE FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE. It's a public entry, so you can even have friends do it ( Read more... )

Poll Ring Bell (or Just Bellow) for Service

Unsurprisingly, I have thoughts on this issue.  You may read them in the comments. And, yes, I do realize that things are different in different regions or cultures, for example, encountering an empty store in Boston would be different than in Taos. 

OMG! So I'm at work and slowly going insane. Seriously. Our Sirius XM station, Prime Country, is now Prime Country Christmas: All Country. All Christmas. All the Time.Eeek ( Read more... )

So, last night this woman got all snotty about the lack of Pepsi products.  Seriously, she was really irate.  I tried to politely explain that Coke was our supplier and was doing a fine job.  On the other hand, Pepsi seemed to have not the slightest interest in getting back to us, etc.  She just looked at me and said, "Pepsi is not Coke!"

I nodded ( Read more... )

So this (possibly kind of crazy) woman comes into the store today.  She looks at me up and down, pauses for a moment and then says, "So you're a goddess, too... And very powerful!"  Then she smiles and asks, "But where are your bracelets?"  I'd neglected to wear any today so she pulled off one of hers (a very pretty hand-painted bangle) and gave it ( Read more... )

Is the devil really in the details. Or is he (I'll go with the masculine here, just because) in the absence of them? Do you over-explain or under-explain? And which is worse? Or how does intuition figure in here?

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Howdy, y'all!

Welcome to Friday which, functionally and as far as work is concerned, is my Monday. Another week lies ahead, but that's okay. Oddly, I rather enjoy having Friday as my Monday. Why? Because, back in the day when I worked in an office or even taught high school, Mondays sucked. Seriously. Everyone seemed to have "a case of the Mondays." ( Read more... )

1) We had yet another snowstorm yesterday. We got several inches down here and this morning looked like proverbial winter wonderland but, considering this is northern New Mexico, all the south-facing bits are melting. The north-facing patches, however, may stay for weeks and weeks and weeks. That's the way it goes here. The days are sunny and warm ( Read more... )

Yesterday was NOT a good rodent day, apparently. (Well, technically, my second animal encounter was not a rodent, but many people think they're rodents, so I'll go ahead with it for comedic effect.) After the mouse incident, there came an incident with another animal. And this one could have been far more disastrous, not to mention added another ( Read more... )