A feverish pace

Up in time for Dominique to head down the hill for morning mass at 9am. I did nada whatsoever except turn the chicken over that was defrosting in the fridge. Once she was back from church, we hung for a bit then decided to hit centro. We were maybe a few dozen metres past the intersection of calle Adelita and heart attack hill when I realized that, since we would look in the store where I will probably buy a bocina, I had forgotten my guitar and microphone. We almost turned back but carried on. Dominique did not think the store would be open anyways on Sunday. The first place we would have stopped at was closed on Sunday. 

We walked further down the street and were pleased to find the electronic store on Benito Juarez open. We went in and I looked at the amps once more. Then Dominique suggested I should cab it home and bring back the git and mic which I did. When I got back, Leonardo was busy with another client so we had to wait ... and wait and wait. It must have been close to 45 minutes, but we were committed to buying through him for his commission.

While we sat, it appeared as though there were people hanging out waiting for some assistance. It was very odd since, while they waited, there were unoccupied staff circulating through the store. We were puzzled about what was going on and still are.

Once Leonardo finished, he came over and uttered listo. I had my eye on two units and liked the first one I tried so there was no need to try the second. It was even better because the first was about 800 pesos cheaper than the other. I was pleased with the sound of both the guitar and mic so we bought. We cabbed home.

Ranae has offered to take pictures of me for two reasons ... first the SailFest folks want to put a note on their website about what will be my continuing support by passing on any tips I may make at a club. Secondly, she is putting together a one page ad for my gig at Zihua Bay on Thursday. She is brilliant designing and bringing stuff like this to fruition.

What with today's purchases, the list of what we will take to Zihua Bay on Thursday has a second release, with one additional item (for now):

• Epiphone electric git
• Wireless sender and transmitter fully charged
• Patch cord
• Power strip
• Capo
• Amp
• Mic with cord
• Mic stand
• Black laptop
• Black mouse with fresh battery
• Music stand
• Long music stand weight loader
• Tip jar with message about my not keeping tips (if any)
• Wear long pants / cotton shirt / pink running shoes / Panama
• 2 towels to wipe face of perspiration
• Stand for bocina

I made up the two sets I will do on Thursday with a handful of canciones español. I ran through a new one tonight about four times called Luz de Luna ... a tainted love, the breaking up of a long term couple and the metaphor of the moonlight representing what the author misses. I am going to go out on a limb that day by doing Stayin' Alive and Livin' la Vida Loca. When I did the latter at Cobo's club last spring it was very well received.

Almost forgot to mention a green and grey visitor we had today. I'm sitting in my spot in the living room when she whispers loudly that I need to come into the second bedroom. There was a two foot long iguana on a cement wall like a bench in the area outside our sliding doors. This animal must have been climbing on a palm tree branch that could not hold its weight. It fell about 20' and was lying motionless probably not far from where he landed. We snapped some photos and called Ranae to tell here and Lynn who probably would want to come down and see. I called Sigi and he and Hugo turned up about 10 minutes later, We opened the sliding doors and Sigi hopped out the window. He approached the iguana with the intent of grabbing it. This took a while what with a few tries where the beast slipped away from his reach. He eventually caught the beast in a corner and Hugo took over. Hugo must have past experience handling an iguana. One of his hands clasped the animal's throat though not enough to block its breathing passage. They left the unit and must have released the iguana back into the wild. It was quite a site ... one of the shots we took ...

Hugo commented how thin the animal was, pointing at his mid-section that is usually protruding from his body due to its being full of some recently ingested delicacies.