SchadeBLOG

I have two cardinal rules relating to the content of this blog;

1. Never blog about personal matters between my wife and myself.
2. Never blog about work.

What I'm about to say may border on breaking rule number 2.  But the fact of the matter is that I need a new background image for this site and one of my coworkers took an absolutely stunning image of a mountain during the course of an ongoing test.   So, considering that no copyright was issued on the image nor is it being used for anything confidential, I decided to steal the image from work and use it here.

I work as a test engineer for a DoD contractor.  One of the tests that I will be working on will take me to a small town in southeast Arizona called Safford (city motto: Our Wal-Mart is bigger  'n your Wal-Mart).  We are defintiely talking urban environment, here.  It's a farming community made up mostly of us Mormons and a few non-members.  I think the non-members make up most of my family, come to think of it.  

Anyway, Safford has a really huge mountain just south of the town called Mount Graham.  it's quite a majestic outcropping of geography, to be honest.  It's got a lot of fun things in it, too.  Skunks, mostly.  Of course, in order to think that skunks are fun, you also have to think that being pulled behind a tractor through six hundred miles of horse manure is fun.  So we have to keep things in perspective.

Fetid critters aside, Mt. Graham really is a nice mountain, and I have enjoyed many a camping excursion to this place.  And when I saw the photo taken by my colleague, I realized I had found my next SchadeBLOG background.  I don't think my colleague knows that he took such a great photo.  I don't even think he realizes he's my colleague.  But that's okay, because I don't even know what that word means, anyway.