Gwod Panorama

I wasn’t expecting to be moving house today, but we’re about half way there. I took a few poor quality photos of the garden, living room, kitchen and garage. Once we’re moved in i’ll try and do it better justice. Really is a nice house you know…

And I managed to install Mandrakelinux too… not too shabby for a saturday.

Here’s the latest thing keeping me from blogging, the design of it, not their services… Last night I met up with Chiva for a few pints to see how things were going. Lovely bloke, and nice to catch up. I also got recognised on the bus. “¿Eres inglés?” someone asked me and it turned out he was one of the Portico regulars from 8 yrs ago (since closed down) I was getting off the bus so I gave him my card. I hope he gets in touch because apparently he still knows Adriana and Raul from there and it’d be grand to see them again.

I’m going to find a meme to post just for the sake of posting summink… The traffic through the blog was at an all time low yesterday, must be a glitch in the matrix. Mememos…

Last Road Trip– That’ll be the adventure that was Los Angeles to Guadalajara via Arizona, Guaymas, and Mazatlan. With no air conditioning. Lovely though, recommend it to anyone who has the funds to pay for luxurious toll roads.

Last Bad Advice– When I was experiencing my gastric unpleasantness, Jose (kindly, and with the best will in the world) offered the following recipe:

Fill a normal sized glass with 1/3 soy sauce (best quality available, so that it really does have soya in it, Kikoman for example), and 2/3 of mineral water. Stir, and drink the whole thing down in small gulps. It will clean your stomach and always works very well

Maybe it would have worked but I’m going to consider it bad advice since instinctively it sounds like an unholy thing to drink while sick or otherwise.

Last Movie I Saw in a Theater Cinema, dammit… Anyroad, it was X-Men 3 and despite the critical panning it’s received is top notch entertainment. You will believe a man can make Strontium claws come out of his wrists…

Last TV Show Watched Probably Dr.Phil through no fault of my own… or The Surreal Life.

Last TV Show I Enjoyed Watching Lost. Lostity lost. Lost. LOST. LOOOOOOST…

Last Book I Tried to Read Tried? As in tried but was too tired, or didn’t speak the language or found the book too full of half-baked symbology and Opus Deity to perservere with? Right now I’m reading the Kite Runner and it’s dead good. An Afghan rite of passage. Santa Cruz just got a mention to top it all.

Last Thing I Left Home Without My keys 2 days ago. I got home and banged the door, rang the landline, the cell phone and screamed up a storm but it appeared Sita wasn’t home. So I broke in and half an hour later, Sita saunters down the stairs…

Last Take Out Meal BigMac and a vanilla millshake. The two cornerstones of the nutrition pyramid. My lame excuse? I had to break a 500 peso note. And I like big macs…

Last Celebration Mexico’s win last Sunday. Hopefully to be repeated tomorrow.

Last Item Loaned Out and Haven’t Gotten Back The only thing that springs to mind is my Day Today videos. About 5 years ago. To Stuart. Ya git. Generally I don’t expect things back and just give them away. Such is my nomadic lifestyle.

Last New Word Added to Vocabulary Fulguration- “The act or process of flashing like lightning”. I’m all about the vocabulary. www.kith.org/journals/neology/ is a grand site to subscribe to if you’re up for it.

Last New Word of a Foreign Language Learned Good question. Aside from hairdressing terms, none spring to mind from the last few days. I looked up the origin of “anfitrion” the other day, though. It means ‘host’ and seemed such an odd word for a common word that it might have an interesting description, sure enough it comes from a king of Thebes who was famous for his hospitality. Good to know… Ooh, here’s one: “Sabadazo” from the word for Saturday “Sabado”, it’s when you get arrested and put in a cell, but because it’s the weekend there’s no judge so you have to wait 48 hrs instead of 24. Courtesy of Jose again…

Last T-Shirt Acquired We won one at the music quiz t’other week, but Sita’s adopted it. So before that my Pocilga Beat one that Fernando gave me.

Last Package Received Probably Homeland Security sending back my application for Parole or somesuch because they changed the photo regulations without telling anyone. Or that book I won t’other day.

Last Web Site Visited www.divinesalon.com.mx, for all your Mexican beauty product needs…

Last Injury Overzealous scratching of mozzie bites led to my foot looking like the bloke’s skin in V for Venganza. Other than that I’m unbreakable.

Last Run In with the Law Getting pulled over by the Mexican police when Jose was driving, and having to bribe our way out of it.

Last Place I’d Want to Live Bridgwater, Somerset, UK.

Last Physical Fight Does getting punched outside Henry’s 12 yrs ago count? Yes? Then that one.

Last Magazine Read Q (UK music magazine) thoughfully imported by Sarah. Thanks again.

Last Thing I Broke Honestly can’t remember. Our car’s air conditioning?

Last Thing I Fixed Sita’s pedometer. Briefly. Before it breaking again…

Last Thing That Made Me Laugh This from the Onion “Devastated By U.S. World Cup Team’s First-Round Loss, Nation Grinds To Halt“

…sounds a lot like Lilly Allen, but that´s not necessarily a bad thing:

Speak Spanish? Looking for affordable, quality daycare / primary education for your offspring. …and live near Plaza del Sol in Guadalajara? Well you may want to check out Centro Educativa Nueva Era’s spanking new site. Another fine product from the offices of plaza bonita.

If you thought getting domain names and hosting sorted out is easy, you’d be right. However, just you try it if your domain ends with .MX (the mexican .uk). I’ve made more phonecalls in the last 2 days than in all my time here… You can either pay with PayPal (I hate PayPal) or in a bank and then fax the receipts in to the hosting service. Sometimes Mexico is right up there at the cutting edge of it all, and other times it’s like some Kafkaesque third-world state. Mind you, so’s the UK. Still all appears to be v.well now.

Came across an interesting (somewhat subjective, but hey ho) site this morning with animal noises in different languages (on the University of Adelaide’s Engineering page (¿?)) This bloke didn’t get all the English noises right, “lap lap” is the noise a drinking dog makes apparently, so there may be a fair few mistakes. But it features the classic Cock-a-doodle-doo versus ki-kiri-ki cockeral noise conundrum so I’m happy. Neither really do justice to what is self-evidently “rackalackaooey”, to coin a word.

Alright back to work. My mouse forgot itself at me at home I forgot to bring my mouse to work and now I have to spend 7 hours fiddling around with a touchpad. Arse. NOT good for graphic design, even with the nimblest of fingers…

I was listening to The Adam and Joe Show on XFM which I burnt for myself off of YouKayNova.com and it got me all homesick again. They were talking about telly and countdown and the new series of ‘look around you’ and there were adverts that were vaguely amusing and they played proper pop songs and stuff I hadn’t heard before but wanted to know more about and had irreverent conversations about things that don’t matter and the prices were all in quid and and and and. anyroad i’m missing Somerset’s green and pleasant charms. {{popup kingstonarialview.jpg kingstonarialview 390×267}}Here’s an aerial view of me village about 5100 miles from here…
& had a tough day at work… to top it all off.
moan, moan, moan. Here’s a fun link to reward you for reading all that rubbish. Guess the dictator or sit-com character. It took about 20 questions to work out I was Daisy from Spaced then 15 to divine that I was Generalisimo Francisco Franco. The days simply fly by…