Month: June 2024

I believe I’ve discussed in a recent post about our lack of rain this year.

Then, I was ecstatic because we actually had a rainfall of a some significance just after that posted.

As it turns out, France is getting all of rainfall, and not bothering to share it, or send it our way. Bother.

I’ll show you a few examples of the vegetation in the park most recently. Notice how everything is shriveled up, on the verge of dying.

So, if you have any influence at all with the Almighty, I’d really appreciate it if you’d convince Him to send more rain our way before all of His plants die of the lack of water.

Thanks in advance.

Until next time, please, stay happy, healthy, and safe. Wash, cover, and protect yourselves.

What a week for politics.

First thing, former President Donald J. Trump was found guilty of 34 undeclared, completely fictional charges, with sentencing to follow on July 11th. What a joke. The entire world is laughing at the US right now.

Then, we woke up yesterday morning to discover that Mexico had its first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, who won with over 60% of the country’s vote.

Unfortunately for me, I know nothing about her as I didn’t realize the magnitude of the election that took place. I thought it was for Governor as all of the signage was for Jefe or Jefa de Gobierna. That was a big mistake.

Anyway, that’s why we couldn’t buy any alcohol over the weekend; it was a Presidential election. Duh!

I’ll try to follow both presidencies, and let you know how either, or possibly both, go along.

Until next time, stay happy, healthy, and safe. Wash, cover, and protect yourselves.

Ivan had been having to disconnect, then reconnect, the electrical plug to our 4+ year old modem every hour for the past 2, or 3 weeks.

The other day he decided he’d had enough. He finally called our internet provider, called IZZI down here, and had them check on our connection.

Of course, they said everything looked fine, but to call back when it was acting up.

So, he did. Six times. No problems from our end, they said. He asked if they would please send someone over to exchange the modem as there had to be a more modern one in existence by now.

After the 6th call, they sent a very nice gentleman to check everything at our end. He noticed the prior service man, who had come out 1 1/2 years ago, had connected a cable incorrectly, so he fixed that, then exchanged our modem for a sleek new one. We’ve been up, and running ever since.

I can’t tell you how annoying it was to be in the middle of doing something on line, just to have the connection dropped every 65 minutes of every day. Ugh!

No longer. We’re sailing smoothly, for now.

Until next time, stay happy, healthy, and safe. Wash, cover, and protect yourselves.

Post script: the internet couldn’t be faster done here if it tried. I can upload photos to the blog in less than 10-12 seconds. And, they aren’t trying to reload, and reload, and reload, ending up with 4, or 5 of the same photo.

Lovely.

There are general elections here tomorrow, the 2nd of June

Today, as I’m typing this, it’s the Saturday, the day before said elections. It is also, as you may recall, our designated evening for drinks.

Unbeknownst to us, there is no alcohol sold, anywhere in the city, for 3 days prior to the election!

Hence, no drinks until Tuesday, if then even.

Too funny.

I say we make a note of that for the next elections down here.

Until next time, stay happy, healthy, and safe. Wash, cover, and protect yourselves.