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[javacat]

Scottsdale was a lot of fun. Things done: 

• Taliesen West desert walk that included a good view of lots of the student structures (bonus!).
• Author event at the Arizona Biltmore, at which I wandered all over the hotel, found all the pools and jacuzzis and sat by them for awhile, etc. Room service is delivered by guys on fat-tire bikes specially retrofitted with big flat trays on the front!  The famous Frank Lloyd Wright "Saguro" window is 3-D, not 2-D; many of the vertical lines are wide pieces of glass turned sideways, so they stick out from the flat plane of the stained glass.
• Arcosanti is way the heck out in nowhere, I can't imagine living there. It's an alternative community, I  knew, but seeing it, good grief, no way.
• Cottonwood's western mountains were topped with snow. The river was pretty big, high water grasses trapped about 4 feet up from the surface.
• Went to Cave Creek twice. The excrutiating pain in my foot 1/2 through the 2-hour hike might have been me discovering first-hand what plantar fasiacitis is. Boy howdy did it hurt. Found a small but wonderful botanical garden filled with birds. Fabulous.
• I got together with a childhood acquaintance that I'd reconnected with via Facebook about 2 weeks before I left for AZ. That was pretty cool. 
• A few hours, a couple of days, lying by the pool IN THE SUN, ahh. Plus soaking in the jacuzzi at night. It was a nice place.

It's SUCH a drag to be back at work. SUCH.

I always get depressed when I come home from a trip, looking around at all the house projects to do that I'm not doing. It's nice to be back with the cats, though. 

Refrain #1, for the 1,257 time: I really have to get a home computer.