Zipah de doo dah

We headed out to Zihua Bay about 6:15. Rebe said it has been very slow as of late, not surprising in April after the exodus of so many gringos. I was pumped, as usual, finishing setup by about 6:40. A group of five passed by the restaurant and commented that maybe they should eat there since there was going to be live music. There was one other table occupied by a couple as well as mi chica.

The table of five seemed to love my material and were kind enough to leave 200 pesos going to the Por Los Niños charity. The take for the night was 500 pesos for the cherubs of Zihua. I spoke with the table of five and they were from Vancouver and more, so we reminisced about my two years living there from 1969-71. More than ¾ of the way through my second set Wanda and John appeared so I immediately did two Marshall Tucker Band numbers, knowing they were one of Wanda's favs. When I did Heard it in a Love Song, instead of saying the title of the song every time it came up I said Heard it in a Mug song. That is a nickname I use for her, with approval of course.

We will deposit about 800 pesos on the chatity account next week, bringing the total of contributions during my playing at Zihua Bay to close to 6,000 pesos. Helen Walsh, one of the organizers or many fund-raising events in Z, mentioned to Dominique there was party of sorts for many SailFest people next Friday at Cassanova's if were interested in going. We made arrangements to have dinner with Hugo a week tomorrow, the Saturday evening before we leave Z. We will go to Tatas or Arcadia then Porteña for a bite. Wanda mentioned the service there was terrible when they were there before coming to Zihua Bay. That is very odd and out of character for that establishment so who knows what was going on.

I packed up all the stuff that I use when I gig. I really do not have a lot more to do for our departure. That's one of many advantages of having a place full time ... no need to schlep so much crap back and forth. If we end up linking Chapala and can find a nice small place for no more than 16,000 MXN (about $1,329 CAD) a month, maybe we can do a yearly rental. In a few days the place will look like we are about to leave. Sigi, in his true Sigi modus operandi, dropped in yesterday to give us the details on a taxi that we will need the day we leave at 5:15am. The flight to Mexico City leaves about 7:15. It will be there that we need to check in with immigration, a common requirement when expats leave the country. We may get a piece of paper from them that we give to the airline as we check in.

We are meeting Wanda and John at Miramar down the hill at 5pm. My hip has been bothering me for a while but today is the first day in some time that I need not steady myself a bit when I stand up. We will stay parked here until we go down to meet the kids.

I sent an email to NEXUS asking for some clarification on whether Dominique can do the US portion of her interview. The reason I asked is because the web pages I viewed that "supposedly" answered my inquiry did everything but that. These documents are obviously written by someone suffering from IMS ... internot misinformation syndrome. People with this disorder are trained to do everything BUT give valuable information to readers. These people are incapable of putting themselves in the shoes of people who consume their services. So I get a response from NEXUS which contained the text from one of the many documents I read that DID NOT answer my question. 

Time surfing for answer  ...  1h15m
Time contacting NEXUS    ...    11m
Total time               ...  1h26m

So, 1h26m later, I have got nothing resembling an answer. Every time I use this stupid high tech engine, I am reminded of where my term internot came from. I am not anywhere close to getting any question answered.