Last Week

This last week was busy! How busy can a retired person be, anyway? Well, pretty busy!

It started out with the Archaeology Cafe, a monthly informal meeting at Cafe Vicente, sponsored by the Center for Desert Archaeology. This month's talk was about Romans in Tucson, by Don Burgess. President of AAHS and ex-CEO of KUAT. Romans in Tucson was the biggest scam ever and a very interesting story. See http://thebrainpan.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/don-burgess-authorhistorian-romans-in-tucson-the-story-of-an-archaeological-hoax-lecture/ and http://www.cdarc.org/?page=shop/normal&category_id=938f37c197c9dbb42c49eb93bd1275a9&ps_session=1723cb6ab432f050d81fb586d224889c

Then Wednesday was the usual Tucson Computer Society SIG, Windows 7 and Hardware. I presented an external battery by Dexim that can charge a Blackberry, iPod or iPhone, and Tweakers, a set of very small speakers that can improve the sound of your Blackberry, laptop or anything else that has a 3.5 mm sound output socket.

Then came the Tucson Computer Society Board meeting. I'm Treasurer. See http://www.aztcs.org/.

Next the AAHS (Arizona Archaeology and Historical Society - you can see why we use AAHS!) Board meeting. I'm Ass't Treasurer. See http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aahs/index.shtml

Continuing, next was a lecture and reception for the Cassasola Photo Archives at the AZ State Museum (I volunteer there - mucho). See http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/exhibits/index.shtml.

The photo on left is one of Cassasola's photos. On the right is the Mexican Consul in Tucson, who was at the lecture and whose office sponsored the exhibition. The photos document Mexico City 1900-1940.

Next was the Mannheim Steamroller concert Sunday in Centennial Hall. If you've never heard MS, and there are few that haven't listened to their music at Christmastime, you might want to get their 25th anniversary CD. It was a marvelous concert! I never realized how many instruments are involved; most of the people play 4 or 5 instruments!Centennial Hall was full, but I understand that the evening performance was not completely sold out.

And then, to top off the list, Tucson Botanical Gardens had their annual Luminaria Nights. They decorate the Garden, of course, but the interesting part is the five performance sites around the Garden. These are amateurs, but are all accomplished performers. One of these in the past was the Tuba group, playing Christmas carols, but not this year (sob!).

So, you can see it was a busy week!