[01:02] <ColonelPanik> que pasa?
[15:41] <n0wje> good morning
[16:00] <ColonelPanik> Hey.
[16:02] <n0wje> How are you?
[16:02] <ColonelPanik> Good, always good.
[16:02] <n0wje> great it is cold today!
[16:03] <ColonelPanik> Yes, we need to go to Grants but many roads are closed.  Maybe Sunday?
[16:04] <n0wje> Are they closed? I haven't been watching the news.
[16:06] <ColonelPanik> Parts of I25 and I40 for sure.  US60 mostly closed.  http://nmroads.com
[16:07] <n0wje> yes went to it, but the website is different.
[16:08] <n0wje> looks like a mobile app.
[16:10] <ColonelPanik> http://m.nmroads.com/site.html?RoadConditions
[16:10] <mneptok> nmroads.com versus m.nmroads.com
[16:10] <ColonelPanik> Or you can just drive out and see for yourself?
[16:11] <mneptok> or stay in and not think about it ;)
[16:11] <n0wje> ha ha! no I rather stay nice and safe here in the house.
[16:12] <ColonelPanik> Got places to go and things to do, my dear wife has taken a new job in Grants and we need to get her set up there.  Starts first week in Jan.
[16:15] <mneptok> will the homestead be moved, as well?
[16:15] <mneptok> too nosy?
[16:15] <n0wje> congrats
[16:16] <ColonelPanik> Well, I am still working on our present house, finish and sell is the plan.  Mrs. Panik will get something cheap to start and then............?
[16:17] <ColonelPanik> If anyone would like to purchase a small house in Portales, Gnu Mexico just drop em a line.
[16:19] <ColonelPanik> I also have a nice Louisiana acre of prime swamp land with a mobile home, 40 miles from NO.  Cheap, very cheap.  Did I mention CHEAP?
[16:23] <mneptok> it's above water at LEAST 4 months per year!
[16:24] <mneptok> ColonelPanik: for both Portland and ABQ moves, woowoo and i rented before buying. get Mrs. Panik into a nice apartment with a 6 month lease, and start watching the market in Grants.
[16:24] <mneptok> or rent a house.
[16:24] <ColonelPanik> Little soft part of the year, yeah.
[16:25] <ColonelPanik> mneptok, yes and we have not done that and the job ends and we are stuck with property/mortgage.
[16:26] <ColonelPanik> Thinking about a camper at a place that charges $120/month.
[16:26] <mneptok> oh. i thought this career change was a known permanent deal
[16:28] <ColonelPanik> Lad, so did we but ENMU does not play nice (they are dumping tenured profs)  think Wal-Mart, a few bosses and tons of part timers.  I would not want my degree to be from Wal-School.
[16:29] <ColonelPanik> Where Nancy is going now should be her last deployment.  Should.
[17:04] <n0wje> have a great Christmas and a good new year I got to take care of things outside.
[17:04] <ColonelPanik> You too.
[17:50] <mneptok> ColonelPanik: tenure was always more of a guarantee of intellectual freedoms than a job. but the two go hand-in-hand so closely ...
[17:51] <mneptok> at least in my mind it was. they couldn't fire you if they didn't like what you said. big deal being a Buddhist at The Catholic University Of America. ;)
[17:51] <mneptok> actually, i realized i was a Buddhist while at CUA. says a lot for the the U as well as protection of academic freedoms.
[19:28] <ColonelPanik> "Protection of Academic Freedoms"  Thats a great concept but not in this country.