Just booked a flight for mid-April to spend 3 weeks with my mom in Albuquerque, NM. Looking forward to seeing her, it's been a year and a half and I've missed her. Can't wait to see how she decorated her new house and meet her delinquent puppy.

Mother Nature is teasing us Valley folks with a week of 75 degree weather before she dumps more rain on us next weekend. It was simply beautiful here today. Had all the windows and screen doors open for most of the day. Hope this doesn't spell disaster for the orchards with trees budding earlier then normal followed by more rain storms.

In case you haven't heard, Google has silently introduced a new thing called Orkut. It's a combination message board and popularity contest for expanding one's social and business networks. If you'd like an invitation to look around(it's by invitation only), let me know and I'll send one. So far it is getting mixed reviews. People say it is much better then similar sites like it and others are sending up red flags about privacy issues