I was lying in bed at four this morning and it was too early to get up, so I let my mind take me to other places, including this one:

I am weary of seeing blogs, books, magazine articles, page-a-day calendars and the like telling me that there are “100 [fill in the blank] to [action] before you die”.
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A good friend and her partner received their monthly visiting teaching message for October. It was “coincidentally” very timely so close to the Proposition 8 vote in California:
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The weekend is fast ending!

We had brunch with Allison & Rawlin, Rob & Lee this morning at Over the Counter. Scotty bailed, but we gave him a pass because he’s got a new dog. (but that’s the last time, Scott)

I’ve spent the later afternoon updating my photoblog with images from our trip to Rome in 2006. Lots of memories sprang up. In spite of being back from Mexico only a week, I’m ready for another vacation.

I wonder if the economic issues facing the US and the rest of the world will impact us directly. These are scary times.

And writing of scary times reminds me that I think I mentioned that we early-voted on Thursday. It feels good to have that out of the way and to watch election coverage with a less-than-vested interest. My blood pressure is lower.

I guess it’s not a secret that I didn’t vote for McCain and 2012 candidate Palin.

Latest scuttlebutt is the $150k spent on new clothes to make her presentable to the common man. They could have saved money by shopping at Wal-mart.

The $22k bill for two weeks pay for her makeup artist bordered on obscene.

I remember rapid right-wingers screaming because Bill Clinton and later John Edwards had $300-400 haircuts, which made them “elitists”.

I suppose that if I had hair and money, I might spend that much to look good as well. But probably not.

Yes. This is true.

It’s been a busy week so far as I got caught up on my week’s worth of work left over from Cancún.

Early voting started here in Utah on Tuesday and my honey and I are planning on going probably tonight.

Overall, the economy is in the toilet. My 401(k) is as well. I’m now suspecting that if I stay employed, I may not be able to retire until I am 90-ish.

Oh well, life goes on.

We had dinner with my honey’s cousin and his wife last night. We had been invited to their Halloween party on Saturday, but it was cancelled last minute, so we opted for a dinner invitation instead.

The food was outstanding, the company even better. They’re really great people and it’s been a pleasure to get to know them over the last few months.

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It’s back to work today after a week’s vacation. It feels like it’s back-to-school time after the summer break.

I’m just happy to be employed.

I’ve posted a few photographs from our Cancún and Tulúm trips on my photoblog.

Click HERE to see them.

Mike left early this morning for the airport for his 8 a.m. Delta flight to Atlanta and connection to Houston. Our Houston flight on Continental leaves at 3 this afternoon. We’re checking out of the hotel around noon and heading to the airport as well. It’s nice not to be rushed.

The sun is shining today as if to taunt us. We’ve had a mixture of rainy, cloudy, sunny and very windy weather all week. Lots of beach and pool time however.

I’m anxious to get back home and especially to get Reno out of his luxury accommodations. I hope he’ll want to come home!

Yesterday we drove to Tulúm — a city about two hours south of Cancún. The Mayan ruins at Tulúm are the 3rd-most visited site in Mexico and are pretty spectacular. I anticipated a few tumbled stones covered in banyon tree roots and was quite impressed to see the layout of any entire city — many of the buildings either still standing or reconstructed from limestone blocks.

The place reminded me of Nauvoo — lots of empty blocks and areas, but key buildings holding the whole together in a cohesive semblance of a city — albeit a ghost town. The Maya are long gone.

The city overlooks cliffs which fall sharply to the beach and the crystal blue water below. Really outstanding.

I took quite a few photos. Stay tuned for some non-BOM shots.