The NARPM Conference is over, it has been a long week, and I will be happy to be home tomorrow. Phoenix is nice if you like beige, but I think the best thing it has going for it is the low humidity. The temperatures have been unseasonably high (I think), but it is low humidity, so it is not oppressive. I did, however, really like Sedona. Very nice, I liked it a lot. I assume there is a lot to like about desert life, but not sure. There is not a lot of water conservation, but there is a lot of talk about it. It is kind of an oxymoron. The image included in this post is one of the more beautiful things I have witnessed while I have been here. A lovely exterior corridor at the hotel. The hotel itself was nothing really exciting, a gathering of old buildings, badly maintained with inadequate electrical service. But there were interesting nooks and crannies, you just had to seek them out.Grok -- Noun. to understand profoundly and intuitively. Nancy read the article three times and still couldn't quite grok what the author was getting at.
Did You Know? Grok may be the only English word that derives from Martian. Yes, we do mean the language of the planet Mars. No, we're not getting spacey; we've just ventured into the realm of science fiction. Grok was introduced in Robert A Heinlein's 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. The book's main character, Valentine Michael Smith, is a Martian-raised human who comes to Earth as an adult, bringing with him words from his native tongue and a unique perspective on the strange ways of earthlings. Grok was quickly adopted by the youth culture of America and has since peppered the vernacular of those who grok it.
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