This year's ACTEC meeting was in Phoenix. I took advantage of the opportunity to get a little exercise and see a bit of the desert. Thursday afternoon, I joined a group for a bike ride out to Camelback then around a loop. The two and a half hour ride about did me in!
That evening, we had a dinner with centerpieces shown below. The card struck me as a whole new level of PC.
For Saturday, I had signed up for a hike in a desert preserve in Scottsdale. Another fun desert experience -- and more needed exercise! The temperature was a bit on the warm side -- mid-80s -- while I was there, so I drank a lot of water.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain
The true theory of our Constitution is surly the wisest and best ... [for] when all government ... shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as ... oppressive as the government from which we separated.
Thomas Jefferson
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
James Madison
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
6 comments:
Nice work on the exercise. We'll have you in shape in no time. And I prefer green to brown, too.
Fun times.
Its a good thing you beat the AZ summer temperatures. That would have been deadly!
You are a plucky lad! And you have been a busy blogger.
Arizona is just like Hawaii, at least the part near the Kona airport. Where you live, not so much.
This was a nice string of adventures.
D.
Way to get out there! I concur about the green. That's what I miss.
I'm so impressed! I need to follow your example and start moving!
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