Home again, home again

I got back to Albuquerque yesterday evening. Took a luxouriously high-pressure hot shower, and had the healthiest food I've eaten in weeks. (salmon, broccoli and salad) I never thought I would be so happy to have some vegetables. After dinner Elias came over for dessert, and visited with me and the folks for a little while, though I was so tired at that point that I had to rally to stay awake for the 45 minutes he stayed. Supposedly I will get a glimpse of the elusive David Kunkel this evening at the Frontier's chess night....I'll believe it when I see him. It's time to get a bunch of these updates up that I've been lagging on. Between trying to get everything done and see friends before I left Guatemala (and the difficulty of finding internet access outside of business hours) I have a lot to post now. Now I'm sitting in the hammock in the back yard at my folks house using wireless. What a difference a day makes. On a slightly unrelated note, Spanish has no word (at least that I've been able to find) for the concept of home. They have a couple of words for house, but nothing that connotes the more sentimental meanings of the word. If anyone out there knows of a word I missed let me know, but I discussed the idea with my Spanish teacher for a while, and she decided that nothing equivalent existed.