Marc Valdez Weblog: 06/28/2020

Saturday, July 04, 2020

Two Visits to the Sacramento Zoo (June 16th and July 2nd)

The "Darth Maul" Koi.

Thick-Billed Parrot.

Giraffe.

An African Spurred Tortoise.

Orangutan.

Alligator.

Flamingoes.

Okapis.

A bench in honor of Bobbi Bader! I did not know this was here! I took ballet from Bobbi for at least six years. We all miss her - she passed away in 2006 at age 54.

Gibbon.

Gibbons.

Flying duck obscures view of flamingo.

Friday, July 03, 2020

The Short History of the Long Road (2019)

Link to map

Last updated: February 11, 2023

Link to Top-Level Menu
Link to Top-Level Map

Notes on Individual Scenes
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Pool/Foreclosed Home

Bobby Foster Rd., at bend

Cottonwood Grove

Library

Shower/Parking Lot/Store/ Home

Driving

Car Wash

Starlight Cinema, 2226 Sun Ranch Village Rd, Los Lunas, NM 87031

Bridge over Rio Grande - where? - Bernalillo?

Driving

Near mesas - Unloading - Maybe (35.376311°, -106.503456°)

Near Mike's death place? - Campsite (35.379317°, -106.511624°)

Bobby Foster Rd., straightaway & bend

Hospital

Bobby Foster/ Los Picaros, just in sight of square arch, W-bound

Roadside - Sandia Park?

MM Gas Station

Foreclosed House again

Hardware Store

Loyola's!

House again

Driving - Manzanos?

Church meeting hall

House

Camp

Nighttime view of Paseo, or EB I-40?

Welcome to NM sign

At overflow from Jemez dam (35.383139°, -106.548244°)

Hitchhiking (35.382242°, -106.541292°)

Carrizozo? 1106 East Ave., in Carrizozo

Danny Trejo's Auto Shop - Ray's Automotive, 1124 Broadway Blvd SE

View of 4th & Central, looking NW

She walks into Anodyne Bar

Mercury Bar - El Modelo

Corrales Library

Just east of the Calabacillas Arroyo culverts under Coors Blvd. NW.

Driving - Mountains

Bobby Foster at bend, EB, then WB

Cafe 66

House

Restaurant

Bill Stevens Auto Sales Inc.
4227 4th St NW
Albuquerque, NM 87107

Address 309

Bobby Foster Rd. again

Driving/Irrigation

Carrizozo - Highway 54 bend - Emporium, Roy's

Ray's Auto repair again

Driving with Blue - View of Cabezon from Jemez Dam overlook

Jemez Dam road (35.384750°, -106.538933°)

ABQ Volcanoes

Saying goodbye to Blue (35.355877°, -106.566155°)

Post Office

Gas Station - I-25?

Big Van Gathering at White Sands

Thursday, July 02, 2020

Guess The Identity of New Mexico Municipalities

John got 62% right, I got 53%, and Walt got 50%. It's freaking hard!

With the help of a map, how many of the 106 municipalities found in New Mexico can you name?

The Inexplicable Parking Lot Paving Project Looks Complete

It took about a month, but the repaving project looks complete. The State of California took a fully-functional parking lot, and transformed it into a fully-functional parking lot. There's now a curb on the north side next to the cemetery, and there are now more parking barriers, so it's harder to simply drive into the parking lot from the alley.

I've already marred the beautiful white finish on one of the newly-painted parking barriers. Clumsy parking. Pity.

Wednesday, July 01, 2020

Scariest Thing I Saw Today

Covid-19 Looming More in Sacramento

Sacramento is getting a warning on hospital capacity:

A county is considered to meet the increasing hospitalization criteria if:

1) >10% increase in the average number of confirmed COVID-19 patients hospitalized

Percent change in confirmed COVID-19 patients hospitalized: Calculated by comparing the average number of laboratory confirmed COVID-19 patients hospitalized over the past 3 days to the 3 days prior.

...A county is considered to meet the limited hospital capacity if:

1) <20% of staffed ICU beds are available OR 2) <25% of ventilators are available

Apparently we are running into limitations:

Avg # tests per day (per 100,000 population) (7 day average with a 7 day lag)
% Change in 3-day avg COVID+ hospitalized patients
% ICU beds currently available

Sacramento 141.5 28.8 13.9

The map looks interesting too. Oak Park looks much better now than two months ago. Even Rancho Cordova is beginning to clear - fewer new cases. I guess the people who were sick two months ago in those hot spots either died or got better. South Sacramento, Elk Grove, and north of Del Paso look like the hot spots now.

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Sac in the News!

We get our 15 minutes! (At the link.) Reminds me of a couple of encounters I’ve witnessed over at KFC. The problem there is too close to the hospital. People off their meds:

A woman in California learned the hard way that it doesn’t pay to use racial slurs against Black people in public – after she got punched in the face for hurling the N-word at a Black woman.

According to TMZ, the racially charged encounter took place Monday at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Sacramento.

While there appears to be some discrepancy about what started the confrontation, the white woman insisted she’d only said “Excuse me.” However, the Back woman said she heard something different, and then, as if to confirm that, the white woman dropped the N-word.