Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM

Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM, January 18, 2008

It's gone

My Verizon BroadbandAccess service that is, the service I so enjoyed here last year. This is being written later, Friday actually, during a rare moment when access suddenly appeared out of the ether.

This could be a problem. I have some work I want to do updating this site. And more importantly I have some banking and bill paying that need to get done in the next few days. I may have to move on. i hope not - this is a nice park and I'd like to drop anchor here for a while. I've been on the move since I left Twiltley Branch Campground, Collinsville MS way back on December 15th and I need a break. Besides, New Mexico was my destination for the winter and here I am!

Night camp

Site 7 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM

Verizon cell phone service - good signal
Verizon EVDO service - very good signal and access speed ( I have to qualify this - during my January 2008 visit the signal and access speed was excellent - in January 2009 it was practically non-existent during the day and slow at night with unpredictable short periods of excellent access)
Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park website
Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park on my Nightcamps map
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Give it, Give it All, Give it Now

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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