Musings from the Caribbean
Posted by Mamahops on Sep 28 2008
I think I fried the CPU on my laptop. It has been running hot for a while and I’d hoped I could stay its death sentence with Arctic Silver, but alas, it seems to have died an honorable death. I have frequently backed up the files and programs and I’m hoping I’ll be able to [...]
Posted by Mamahops on Sep 23 2008
We’re so incredibly black humoured. Jamie and I have been sitting on our collective hands (not literally – that would just be weird) doing nothing about his ass thing and about my head thing. So today I took him to the doctor. We went to the general doc ($28USD) who said, “hey you have a [...]
Posted by Mamahops on Sep 19 2008
ARRRRR! I have been so fracking sick I can’t even believe it. I’ve been a wantin to stick my head in a bung hold and cover it with grog. (and that will have to do for my pirate talk) I must have either picked up something at the cenote (with all the birds pooping in [...]
Posted by Mamahops on Sep 17 2008
I’ll keep typing as long as I can feel my fingers but I can’t be held responsible for typos as I’m typing from a FREEZER. Jamie and Pike keep the A/C set to “FROZEN” and when i’m in the trailer it works as Ellen and I simply load up the sleeping bags and wool [...]
Posted by Mamahops on Sep 14 2008
Jonna and I have had a couple discussions on the fact that although we live in Mexico it is a different Mexico from much of the rest of the country. She is quick to correct me that while it is Real® Mexico, it is a Real®Tourist Mexico. And she is right. But the other day [...]
Posted by Mamahops on Sep 13 2008
I’ve just upgraded to 2.6.2 – let me know if you have any problems.
Posted by Mamahops on Sep 12 2008
This morning was the first time in 3 days that we are out of the bands of Ike. Yesterday we had roaring seas and wicked winds. My heart is breaking for my friend Jody, and I can only hope that she experiences a miracle.
Galveston radar
Mississippi pleads with hard-headed Galveston residents
Cuban 5-story building [...]
Posted by Mamahops on Sep 09 2008
What do you do when the southern bands of a hurricane start flowing over your sky? You go snorkeling, of course! We headed out for Tuesday Tea Time this morning but it was so hot and sticky and still and the still calm waters called to us so much that we threw on [...]
Posted by Mamahops on Sep 07 2008
Suckerpunch Number One
Way back in the Spring, or sometime in the past, honestly, my memory for non-numerical items has never been anything more than decent, I was made aware of the Randy Pausch Last Lecture. Since our internet is satellite, we cannot download anything, even a 2-minute YouTube video, without getting our bandwidth spanked and [...]
Posted by Mamahops on Sep 02 2008
Yup, they’re a little crowded, but that is One hurricane, Two tropical storms and One invest. Oh, and Gustavo. For some reason this year, all the storms are tracking north, over the Antilles. I tried asking on Dr. M’s blog why (and I know that later in the season storms track more south) but so [...]
