Dec 28, 08
Lets begin with the final sunset of the Winter Solstice '08. This begins the longest night of the year. Tomorrow will begin 6 months of ever lengthening days.
A couple pals are coming down to dive for a week or two and Blanquita reserved the apartment with that round table on the patio on the left, above. Sorry, the renters refuse to leave so my pals get the Taj Mahal apartment painted orange above the pool. Lucky guys.
Ever try to get the absolute last dab of mayonnaise out of a jar. In Mexico it's available in a plastic pouch you can squeeze to the last drop. These people are so primitive.
Can you imagine driving a VW with the pride of a Benz owner?
Hey Solomon, pretty sophisticated paint scheme, don't you think?
In 1954 I was 12 years old and the hormones were on a rampage. My imagination was pretty much unbridled too so when I came home from seeing the pivotal SiFi horror movie "Them", I began several weeks of nightmares. If you go to and read that link, note the actors. Talk about casting against type, James Arness and Fess Parker ??
Now, what brought that to mind?
Blanquita's is pretty bug free and with screens on all my windows it's not often I find something crawling or flying around my place. While working at my table one evening, something fluttered down from inside my glasses frame. I brushed it off my cheek and a moment later something stung me on the wrist that immediately raised a welt the size of a dime (and hurt like hell). As this critter tumbled to the floor its wings came off and it turned out to be an ant.
Notice the spike on it's back above the stinger part. Below, it's jaws are open. Probably a pregnant princess looking for a new colony location. How would you like to meet something like this if it were the size of a dog?
On the 26th we got to help celebrate a 9 month anniversary in NA and a 3 year birthday in AA. I should have taken a picture of the cake.
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On the way home I stopped in at a local tailors shop to have him look at a torn pocket seam on a shirt I was wearing. He re-sewed it on the spot for a buck on his old foot treadle machine.
I've been walking past this thing for years on my way to the Mission grill and I can always imagine it on the top deck of a powerboat, giving it the appearance of a cruise ship or tug boat. Or, for Bill and Brain's benefit, it might be the keel of a 16' American.
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. . . . and just down the block I'm reminded of the popular advice to tourists: "Watch your step in Mexico". They aren't talking about 'get rich quick' schemes, they are talking about the treacherous sidewalk geography.
Further on I heard a little voice calling from a trash heap: "I wish I'd called DK first about my hair transplant".
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I've been on foot since I got here in hopes I could cut a deal on a Triciclo from the police impound lot but it's not looking good. As a back-up I stopped by a bike shop I've done business with in years past to start negotiations on a rental or buy-sell deal. The owner phoned her daughter to help because of her excellent English. Here is the lanyard on her phone. It's a zipper without the cloth, just a monofilament running through the teeth. Quite unique.
During my Hippy years, one of our cultures bugaboos was PCB's used as a transformer oil up high on power poles. It still drives me nuts to see the mess a leaking transformer makes on the sidewalk here. I'm sure the only risk is overheating the transformer itself,
but still. . .
I don't know about you but for me it's Sunday and we have an excellent 9am AA meeting under a palapa in the Barracuda Hotel back yard.
(Hi, girls)
-Home-