How about this (I learned it [but don't use it] from my Texas neighbors):
"Howdy, y'all?"
John Arnold
Public Information Officer
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
1801 Mountain Road NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104
505.841.2826
[log in to unmask]
"Sometimes the light's all shining on me. Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been."