Checking in

Hello from sunny and sometimes smokey Albuquerque. So far I have discovered two awesome things about the southwest:

1. Chihuahua-sized sombreros. I want to bring a crate of these home:


2. My hair is amazing. It is digging the low humidity:


And for your viewing pleasure, the two combined:


I've taken some real photos too but they are stuck on my camera since genius me started shooting in raw and the laptop I have with me doesn't have a program to open the files. Whoopsie. Yesterday was a loooong day of travel followed by an underwhelming look at Old Town. The most remarkable (and probably carcinogenic) thing was the amount of smoke blowing in from the Arizona wildfires. It was unbelievable. I think we're a few hundred miles from the fire and yet smoke and ash filled the sky last night. Crazy.

My training/conference starts today and I'm really looking forward to it. So far the organization of the event and the accommodations have pretty much sucked, but the topics and speakers should make up for it, I hope.