I wanted to put a couple of chapters of my Bernie and Them book on the web site….Come to find out I don’t have the PDF conversion on my new e machine. No. 3 son told me of a free site for a pdf conversion, I did download it and converted those chapters to Adobe pdf and when I put them on the web site a block came up with a Abode Reader note with an OK block and when you click on the ok, it will go away but no story appears. I am not enough of a computer man to know what the heck to do at this point…..If and when I do get it figured out I may put all of Bernie and Them on the web site in installments. I know you guys can hardly wait…..But, really it is a pretty good story and if you guys have some time during the day or evening to read a chapter, well, heck, its cheap, clean and funny but  probably not at all educational…..maybe one of these days I will have it available for you…Pete

We have a new governor, a female, born in El Paso, lives in Las Cruces and educated at the University of Oklahoma….Yep, I voted for her…I kinda liked the way she talked…Reading about her in Ruben Navarrette’s column this morning left me feeling a little, oh, I don’t know how to describe it…I just thought of her as an American girl running for office…He says she is a Latino….I looked in Webster’s but it did not tell me what a Latino was….So, Ruben, should I be worried…Is she not 100% American….Well, I think she is and you are just giving her a name to boost your own ego, something like  “me too” crap…Because I am English, Irish, Scotch, oh yeah, with a little Choctaw Indian, what does that make me, a Europenochotoean. There are a whole bunch of folk around here that has a blood line longer than your arm….most of them are 100 % American….That’s what I am saying Mrs. Martinez is and I would be willing to bet that she gives the Mexican Flag and Mexican Government no more than common courtesy…She has already come down on issuing drivers licenses to non-residentsof the state and I think illegal residents will be dealt with severely. When you and the press hang a name like that on our governor it is almost like putting her on a guilt trip if she votes on anything other than the way you want her to….I am glad she is of Mexican descent. She is a lovely person. She can be a good governor and I think she will be and will  represent all the residents of the state of New Mexico, even us Europenochotoeans……

A few weeks ago a friend fell and broke his hip and I guess his thigh bone as he had to have a pen down into his leg. He rehabilitated at HealthSouth. Last week, a friend of the family had a stroke and he chose HealthSouth. I visited with both of them while they were receiving therapy. HealthSouth is a good place…Friendly folks, good food and they push the patients to get on the road to recovery. No laying around for those folks and yet they seem to have the respect of all the patients there. They have the Rehabilitation Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Neuro-Psychology, Respiratory Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, Dietary and Nutritional Counseling and a Case Manager for the patient and family. We had a meal one day last week and found the food to be very good. According to the HealthSouth’s web site they have over 1800 locations. Here at Albuquerque, they have really taken good care of both of these folks…I hope you or a family member never need rehabilation , but if you do I think it would be hard to beat HealthSouth…..Pete