Another fine day in Albuquerque. We had lunch at Lucky Boy, a local Chinese hamburger stand (Chinese hamburgers?), and then took the tram to the top of the Sandia mountains. It was pretty breezy up there but a great view indeed. Shelly had class that afternoon so Bill and I spent much of the day walking the University of New Mexico campus, visiting various and sundry computer workrooms so that I could put the finishing touches on BRETTnews #12. We didn't manage to accomplish much but I got a thorough tour of UNM that I hadn't bargained for. It's a nice campus but certainly not a traditional one. If I were a student there,it would take me awhile to get my bearings. The buildings all tend to look alike, constructed as they are of stucco and adobe. There's not an ivy-covered, multi-columned traditional brick structure to be found.

That evening, we went to the dollar movies at an old movie theatre right there on old 66, Central Avenue. We saw White Sands - Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and the self-absorbed Mickey Rourke (leave it to the French to adore this weasel). It's not a bad flick, certainly worth a dollar. It's one of those thrillers whose plot I couldn't recount if my life depended on it, but it kept my interest (well, Mary Elizabeth kept my interest). We called it an early night and headed home right after the show. Shelly and Bill hit the sack, but I kept my nose to the issue #12 grindstone well into the wee hours and you'd darn well better appreciate it.

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