fortune cookie

Towards the end of the second week of working on this new thing (hardly anything close to a book, yet) I had the good luck to  eat a cheap & delicious Thai lunch with the Mister.  Do most Thai places bring fortune cookies with the bill?  This one did.  And this was my fortune:

Not bad, eh?  After feeling like I'd written certainly written thirty pages in vain, the next day I actually think there may be a dim light shining forth.  So, we returned to the scene of the first fortune and received another:

Guess what?  We are indeed crossing the great Rio Hondo for a fun weekend.  You can read about the place here, where I revealed it as one of my favorite spots in New Mexico.