A double-edged sword

We love it when the sun shines but relief from the heat is welcome sometimes by a cloud cover. Today is one of those days and the cover differs by what looks like height and density. Regardless of what the sky looks like, the mercury always hovers around 30° with the humdidity pushing it to feel a few degrees warmer.

We are roughly at the ⅔ elapsed point of our journey. We are still puzzling over whether the flights here can be credited to our respective WestJet dollar accounts. There appears to be no way to find out be it on the internot or by speaking to the vendor. Nice job ... NOT! There is a place on their web site where one can enter a ticket number and get feedback as to whether the flight us eligible. The few times I have tried I get a message telling me something went wrong and I should try some other time. No indication of what to do next or anything more helpful than the lame excuse.

My girlie has a get together at 10am with a few others and then not sure of what plans we will execute for the balance of the day. I discussed the remaining Thursdays at Zihua Bay with Dominique. The week preceding Easter gets progressively more religious as the week wears on. Dominique suggested maybe I could play the Monday or Tuesday. That appears to work for Rebe.

We ran into Helen (of SailFest and Por Los Niños fame) at Cafécito yesterday. We discussed the quagmire on how the banks have told the charity they can no longer use their credit card for the account and more. The increasing restrictions are the bank's solution for some money laundering nonsense that is apparently going on. The charity is a small time player as far as banking goes so WHY!. For example, we have deposited something like 5,500 pesos in their account since I started playing at Zihua Bay. So ... a whopping $433 CAD is being laundered. If this were indeed an illegal movement of money, this paltry sum would not even come close to rewarding the individual or organization performing the act.

Such a standard solution put in place to deal with problems. The silliest is how one needs to remove shoes when traveling to or through the USA. Why you may say? Because of one (did I say one?) traveler in 2001 who tried to perform a deadly act, was caught with explosives in his footwear.

I do not have any hard data to quote here, but imagine there could have been billions of travellers. One of the sites I was on recently mentioned 1.1 billion people using air travel in 2014 alone. If this were the case, maybe the figure since something like 1950 may be in the hundreds of billions. So, one person gets caught with explosives in his footwear ... you probably know where I am going with this ... one, yes one out of 689,000,989,543 travellers and this is our solution.

It's going to be a fun week with Gail/Michael here. Tomorrow we are dining at La Tehita and there will be a special treat ... José Luis Cobo will be playing. Then Wednesday, we are off to Suspiro for Balemtimes dinner. Thursday we will grab a bite at Zihua Bay when I play and Friday we are off to Chef Palin.

Dominique's meeting this morning went well she reports. We left for Soris about shortly after she returned, and stopped at the printer store to buy a black ink cartridge. Just as we were paying for it, I remembered we had an extra at home. I installed upon our return and we still have an extra. Our stop at Soris was short and we cabbed home. We did find some Kahlua there which has been out of stock as Sam's the last few times we have been there.

No escribo esto año en español tan mucho como años pasados. Alrededor el pueblo y a nuestra casa, tengo muchas oportunidades a practicar mi español. A menudo, un hispanohablante me dice que hablo buen. En mi opinión, lo que me falta el más es vocabulario. He estudiado conjugaciones de los verbos más complicado que otro gentes. Especialmente, sé cuando utilizar el subjunctivo, por ejemplo. Cuando digo «Espero que podemos ir a la playa mañana», los nativos escuchan el presente indicativo en lugar del subjunctivo. A la misma tiempo, a veces supongo que digo «Quiero que usted quede aqui más larga», y utilizo el subjunctivo. Las pocas cosas como estos está, in mi opinión, el razon que hispanohablantes pensan que sé más que sé de veridad. 

<== Ahora, en inglés ...
I don’t write this year in Spanish as much as years gone by. Around the village and in our house, I have many opportunities to practice my Spanish. A Spanish speaker often tells me I speak well. In my opinion, what I lack the most is vocabulary. I have studied verb conjugations more complicated than other people. Especially, I know when to use the subjunctive, for example. When I say "I hope we can go to the beach tomorrow", the natives listen to the present indicative instead of the subjunctive. At the same time, sometimes I guess I say "I want you to stay here longer," and I use the subjunctive. The few things like this are, in my opinion, the reason that Spanish speakers think I know more than I do. ==>

Letty came over about 4pm to discuss some renos Dominique needs to a few dresses. I was asked for an opinion, but my suggestion on length was overruled. We are having leftover soup for dinner probably with some crunchy tortilla cups. We started watching a quirky British sitcom a few nights ago and may pick it up again after dinner.