Saturday November 24, 2012

Saturday November 24/12  update #295

Last night Bella told me that Raoul suggested we come to a security meeting at 8pm at the local community center and that he would help translate so we went.   However Raoul was nowhere to be seen so I called him and he said something unexpected had arisen and he couldn’t make it.  We stayed through most of the meeting and tried to garner as much information as we could with our rudimentary Spanish.  It sounds like the Governments and Etapa are going to install a Panic system in the whole neighborhood via underground fiber optic cables and that the cost should be about $200 for installation but that it will only cost everyone a pittance.  Time will tell.  Hopefully Raoul will get the story from some of the other locals and relay it to us.

I keep crossing my fingers that my temporary fix for my computer problem keeps holding off the nuisance “hang times”.  When it is working, my computer is now as fast as when it was new.  So far, so good.  

I had intended to work on the many photos from our trip and to process them in a decent way today but I was just too exhausted.   I got up, washed clothes, did my chores then collapsed into bed until lunchtime.   After lunch I went right back to bed. 

On my way to Joe’s I stopped to watch Jorge Beltran play volleyball but he wasn’t there yet.  One of the fellows phoned him and he came down rather quickly.   We had a good chat while the others played and I got a chance to try some more Spanish.  Somehow we manage to understand each other.

Joe’s was having a shrimp fricasee dish tonight so Bella is staying away.  We met another Canadian tonight named Louise Lewis who lives on a boat in the Toronto Harbour.  There were four at our table and most of the conversation centered on American politics so I stayed out of most of it.

That was today’s excitement.   Hugs to all.    Please see all photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/