From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Monday, May 26, 2014 2:51:58 PM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   > In article <0cf8d03c-7747-4754-b7b9-b5b3b6e1eb9f@googlegroups.com>,   
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   > J.Pascal  wrote:   
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   > >No one ever comes to Bubonicon.  You all should come to Bubonicon in   
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   > >Albuquerque.   
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   > /e googles Albuquerque altitude   
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   > 5,312 feet.  Nope, sorry, I couldn't go there.  I don't take high   
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   > altitudes well, not since I spent the last day of a convention in   
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   > Denver helping to disassemble the art show (the people supposed   
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   > to be doing it had disappeared) and, essentially, collapsed.  I   
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   > didn't recover till our train got us out of the Rockies, over the   
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   > Sierras, and down into the near-sea-level Central Valley.  Sorry   
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   > about that.   
      
      
   We actually live at about 7000 ft. which isn't too bad compared to some.  I   
   can tell when we hike to 8000.  There seems to be something about 8000 feet   
   because I've talked to other people who say they can tell when they're above   
   or below it.  Being above    
   doesn't bother me, but I can tell.  My sister started to get really sick and   
   anxious when we took her to the peak (10-ish K) and my youngest is excused   
   forever from going up there because she had a panic attack.   
      
   But yes.  People don't think of it, but altitude makes a difference.    
       
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   > By the way, why the name?  Is plague epizootic there?   
      
   Yes.  Also, our mascot is a rat.   
      
   :)   
      
   -Julie   
      
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