If you are a Democrat (or wish to vote Democrat, I suppose), you do not need to establish a US address and file a voter registration for that state. Apparently 20 delegates have been set aside for those of us living outside the US. While we have always been able to vote in an . . . → Read More: Vote from Abroad
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 February 8, 2012, 9:42 pm
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I take obscure pride in the fact that I can pop in on the kids while they are absorbed in Legos and sing one line, “One little thing can revive a guy, and that is a piece of rhubarb pie” and they will sing every word of the rest of the jingle (serve it . . . → Read More: PHC 15km S of PdC
I also have a huge itch to see Carnaval in Cozumel. I have been wanting to attend Carnaval ever since meeting some Africans on the Alaska Marine Highway in the early 80’s. We be-friended each other, I met a different guy from California and handed the keys to my 1971 Datsun 240Z along with a Continue reading Witchy itchy A cockroach. I had a Goddamned, piece of shit, farking COCKROACH crawling on my ARM yesterday morning. It was NOT a good wake up call. I spent most of the day tearing the trailer apart, cleaning, spraying chemicals everywhere (note to self; you can probably stop with the organic shit now that you’re breathing pure poison) and removing dust and clutter. I felt quite confident it would not happen again. This morning, in the absolute WORST possible wake up call known to man or beast, I had a farking COCKROACH crawling on my fucking CHEEK (and arm). I sprayed very little in the way of chemicals in the bedroom yesterday, but you can believe me that after today, the place will be declared a Superfund site if we ever make it back to the US. Continue reading Bad neighbors Well, the great dog experiment 2008 was an awful failure. She is a WONDERFUL, smart, loving doggie but Jamie is allergic and we have suspicions that Sissy is also. It isn’t a mild allergy either, so after 2 nights here he bravely told the kids that she’d have to go back to the shelter . . . → Read More: Lonely for Luneta We’re picking up a fourteen week puppy this afternoon. We’ve been helping the local animal shelter by washing puppies (honestly, I’m not exactly certain how much help the kids are) each Saturday and have talked Jamie into a doggie. AND a kitty! Jonna and Mimi have seriously cautioned us against a puppy though, so . . . → Read More: I can haz pupeez?
Ha! Not a chance! But I was heartened to find that while I still need to perform a fine tooth combing of November and December, we spent only around $33K last year. Of course, that doesn’t include palapa costs. A quick perusal of the palapa spreadsheet shows we spent about $8200 on the palapa . . . → Read More: The year in review
Pike is still down. When the doctor came by he mentioned that he was cutting molars and I thought the guy was a little wacky as Pike has not made one mention of tooth pain and he is NOT a child to refrain from mentioning the slightest irritation he might have or had at one point in time. He also said Pike had gingivitis and gave him some wash with which to gargle. Pike’s been on three days of hard hitting antibiotics and he is still in bed and still not eating. And his gingivitis looks awful still. Jamie poked around his mouth this afternoon and found that ALL his molars seem to be erupting. That explains his reluctance to eat but I still can’t figure out why he hasn’t complained a whit about the pain. The boy confuses me. Which, I suspect, is the goal. Continue reading A and D There are so many reasons we are here in Mexico and today typifies one. Pike has had a 103F/39.2C fever for three days. He has alternately had bad headache, no appetite (getting him to drink is difficult), stomach cramps (gone after the first day) and no energy. I figured the lack of energy was related to the fact that he is barely drinking and has eaten absolutely nothing. Continue reading Sweet relief |
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Mozzies are back in force after a few days of awful weather (we didn’t see the sun for almost and entire HALF DAY). It is also getting a bit warmer and I no longer wear long pants all day long. Definitely in town though; it isn’t nearly warm enough for shorts in town.
My heart is SINGING this morning (Jody, you might want to skip this) after downing a blissbul cuppa. We had run out of the recent discovery of wonderfully roasted coffee and were subsisting on Jamie’s re-roast of Chiapas coffee we’d purchased at 
I wrote the beginning of this post in my head this morning which means it is now completely and utterly lost now that I have a moment to update the blog. Sigh. One of these days I’ll remember to write the damn thing down.