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A friend of mine up in New Mexico also has CLL. I got an e-mail from her today, and she is not doing as well as I am. So I'm going to go visit her this weekend.
Also, one of the more popular people in our CLL support group has passed away. A gentleman by the name of Kurt Grayson. This is what one lady had to say about it, and I think her observation is really accurate. Click on it and it should enlarge big enough to be readable:
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under the Seine river called Place de l'Alma. Her driver was drunk as a skunk, and she was not wearing a seat belt.
gotten up. I had the TV turned on to the BBC, and I saw the very first news report.
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Driving on I-25 from El Paso, Texas to Albuquerque, New Mexico USA just south of the Bosque del Apache wildlife refuge and Socorro, you pass a really imposing and dramatic volcanic mesa made of black rock off to the east. Nowdays it is named Contadero Mesa, but over time has gone by various names including Ciénega de Mesilla de Guinea, El Contadero, Senecú, and Black Mesa.
by the U.S. Army in the middle to late 1800's while the American Government was fighting the wars with the native inhabitants, the aboriginal Indians, which eventually resulted in their virtual elimination. It is located at N 33.63446, W-107.01293 and can be easily driven to over roughly a 5 mile very good dirt road.
protect the nearby settlements along the Rio Grande river and also to protect travelers from raids by the Indians.
In February of 1862 soldiers from Ft. Craig took part in one of the few civil war battles fought on New Mexico Territory. About five miles northeast of Ft. Craig several thousand soldiers with the Union Army and about 2,500 soldiers of the Confederate States of America fought a battle. The rebels were victorious in this battle. There were about 450 casualties in this battle.
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Anthony, New Mexico USA straddles the border between Texas and New Mexico USA. So it is natural that their car club is called the Stateliner's Car Club.
absolutely 
beautiful.
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According to a close friend of mine, Germaine Greer Ph.D supposedly once said, “Most women have no idea how much most men hate them.”
I told my friend how funny Dr. Greer is. In England she is one of the central players in a satirical comedy TV show on the BBC. She has a brilliant intellect, and a very charming personality.
Listening to the conversation of middle aged men when there are no women around, I would think that her observation is absolutely accurate. 
She and Jane Goodall are among the few beautiful older women that I can think of. I’ve never met Germaine Greer, but I have watched her so much on TV that I kind of feel like I know her. I did meet and talk with Jane Goodall a couple of years ago. Both ladies have beautiful minds, personalities, and are not displeasing to look at either.
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In 1888, about 7 years after the railroads arrived, Hiram Hadley was the founder and first president of Las Cruces College, which became the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and later New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico USA. In Las Cruces there is Hadley Hall and a Hadley Street.
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His obituatry states:
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The funeral of Honorable Hiram Hadley, founder of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, was held at Hadley Hall, Thursday afternoon, at two o'clock, the Rev. Ira H. McClymonds presiding. The funeral opened with a hymn, "Nearer My God to Thee," by a community quartette. Reverend McClymonds pronounced the scriptures, followed by a short talk by Mr. H. A. Sutherland on the life of Hiram Hadley. Prayer by Rev. HcClymonds, followed by the Hymn, "Jesus Lover of My Soul," concluded the services at Hadley Hall. The funeral procession to the grave was a mile in length. The body of President Hadley was placed to rest in the Masonic Cemetery at Las Cruces.
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Hiram Hadley was born March 17, 1833, in Clinton County, Ohio, and died December 3, 1922, in Kansas City, Mo., at the Christian Church Hospital where he underwent an operation for cancer. He came to New Mexico in 1887. He was the father of education in the state. In the fall of 1888 he opened the Las Cruces College in the old building at the northwest corner of Amador and South Alameda Streets. This later became a State institution under the name of the Agricultural College of New Mexico, and later, the New Mexico College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts. The Administration Building carries his name to this day. Besides being the founder and first president of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Hiram Hadley was one time Acting President of the University of New Mexico, at Albuquerque.
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Mr. Hadley also started the first public school in this part of the state. There were three principal items Mr. Hadley wished to see accomplished during his life, namely: National Prohibition, Woman Suffrage, and International Peace. During his life he had seen two of these accomplished, and wonderful progress toward the third. Mr. Hadley is survived by his widow and two daughters, Miss Anna Hadley of Mesilla Park, and Mrs. Allen of Chicago. The 
death of Hiram Hadley is a great blow to the College and to the people of the Mesilla Valley.
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Yesterday at the city museum in Silver City, New Mexico I saw this large mining map of suthern New Mexico painted on the wall. Just north of Deming a small mining community named Hadley is shown.
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On the eastern slopes of the Cooke's range there is a geographic feature called Hadley Draw.
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My father was born in 1914, Paris, Texas. This is only 10 miles south of Oklahoma. Paris is almost 700 miles to the east of Las Cruces, New Mexico. It is just pure supposition, but perhaps my father was named Benjamin Hadley Garland in honor of someone related to Hiram Hadley.
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On the other hand when you look in any decent world atlas for places named Hadley, you see that there are at least 20 places called that. And if you Google the phrase BIOGRAPHY HADLEY you get page after page of people named Hadley. The same when you look up HADLEY PARIS TEXAS, so probably there is no connection between my father and Hiram Hadley.
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When I walk my little black doggie out in the desert sometimes I sing to him. I used to sing “You Ain’t Nothing But a Hound dog.” But now that he has caught and killed a little cottontail bunny rabbit, I don’t sing that song to him anymore.
Elvis Aaron Presley died 30 years ago. On August 16, 1977. There isn’t much I can add to all the others who will eulogize him, but I do have a little story. Elvis was born on January 8. I was born one day earlier, on January 7. Elvis was a Capricorn, just like the carpenter from Nazareth. Me too.
Elvis had the voice, he had the moves, and he had an enormous amount of charisma.
Back in the bad old days pretty much everyone served in the military if you were called upon to do so. Not just poor folks like it is today. And when his time came, Elvis did indeed serve in the U.S. Army. He didn’t like it, but he didn’t run away and hide either. He certainly had enough money that he could have found a way to get out of serving his country, but he was from that generation which believed that your word was as good as gold, and that it was important to serve one’s country when called upon to do so. 
Elvis was stationed with the 3d Armored Division in West Germany. Of course now days there is no longer an East Germany and a West Germany, but there sure was back then. And everyone took it all very seriously. People died trying to get out of East Germany and into West Germany.
Bad analogy, but people are dying of thirst in the desert right now trying to get from Old Mexico into New Mexico.
After I graduated from university the war in Vietnam was still going on, 
and I also served with the U.S. Army’s 3d Armored Division in Frankfurt, West Germany. Elvis was older than me, so by the time I was with the Army in West Germany it was about 10 years since Elvis had been there. But there were still people who remembered him, and they still told stories about him.
Both Elvis and I had cushy jobs while we were in the Army. Even though we both got over to Germany as lowly Privates, we both worked for Colonels, and we both had been promoted up to Spec 5 when we got out. Elvis was a driver for his Colonel; and I since I had an honors degree from a University and I could type, even though my formal training in the Army was as a tank driver (the ultimate off road vehicle) I was immediately reclassified as a clerk typist. So I was basically the secretary/receptionist to my Colonel.
Supposedly one time Elvis' Colonel thought that Elvis had not washed the jeep well enough, so the next day Elvis took it into town and had it repainted. I don’t know if this really happened, but the old guy who told me the story presented it as the truth.
Yesterday waiting in the check out line I saw Angelina Jolie’s picture on a tabloid magazine. Skin and bones. Apparently she also is going into a program for substance abuse.
One thing that can be learned from Elvis and his short life. Substance abuse kills rich and famous people just as easily as it kills poor people.
Today the local water utility had a grand opening of a desalination plant which takes the city to the next bar. Large groups of people were being given tours. I was very fortunate indeed to get a one-on-one tour by the number two man in the facility.
Who is buried here? 
various countries and cultures over mankind’s history. There were aboriginal people here 8,000 - 10,000 years ago. Spain owned it, so did Mexico, and for a while Texas was an independant country.
After the Mexican-American war, in February 1848 El Paso became part of the United States of America.
