New house pix…

See what I’m reduced to whilst waiting for Sita to get home from her tequila class?

So yesterday we decided to stay another month, till the 2nd of December or thereabouts. I am very happy about this turn of events, it means we can fit in a trip to Mexico City, see the Day of the Dead properly, Sita can finish her interviewing relatively stress free and any other number of happy outcomes. ‘Cus is still slated to leave on Thursday though, and I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I’m going to miss him…

Anyway by way of a despedida for Atticus and celebration of one more month we had some good friends round and did the usual grilled arrachera and tequila thang. It was a fine afternoon. All the “‘Cus has a posse” photos are at Flickr. Here’s Sita, Ana and Jorge holding up the cake with “Felicidades, 1 mes más” on it.

Also of note is the photo of Beethoven, the enormous St. Bernard that sends Atticus into a frenzy when he’s taken on his walk by our house at around 9pm every night.

Bunnies are still the #1 searched for item, but ‘banana slugs’ have fallen 6 places to number 8, maybe cos it’s so easy to find them out in the wild this month. Sita’s googled herself 5 times… same as last month (incidentally, she’s Sita from now on, so potential employers don’t find this page). ‘Collage idle’ is a new one on me, i’m thinking that maybe some country has a “College Idol” program running (like American Idol or Pop Idol) and the audience can’t spell. bunnycam’s gained in popularity, shame it hasn’t been working for 6 months or so now. a “brit of trivia” is also a new entry. did you ever notice i spelled absorption wrong in the title of this blog? well, it’s a deliberate ploy to get traffic from other spelling-challenged internauts. Two hits for schipperke blog… and I hope the people searching for “the photos you’re not supposed to see” weren’t disappointed when they arrived on whatever page they got to. Still waiting for a googlewhack. you’d think ‘schipperke atticus’ would do it, but there’s 127 hits… Anyroad, those numbers in full:

1 20 16.53% bunnies
2 11 9.09% collage idle
3 5 4.13% s*rita gayt*n
4 4 3.31% bunnycam
5 4 3.31% serena.jpg
6 3 2.48% fisher family photos
7 2 1.65% a brit of trivia
8 2 1.65% banana slugs
9 2 1.65% blog gwyn
10 2 1.65% brit of trivia
11 2 1.65% family familia
12 2 1.65% herbivores
13 2 1.65% london pix
14 2 1.65% schipperke blog
15 2 1.65% self absorbtion
16 2 1.65% slugs
17 2 1.65% summary of the novel klepto
18 2 1.65% the photos you’re not supposed to see
19 2 1.65% valerie quandt
20 1 0.83% ‘denise dunning

and 40% of browsers use Firefox. If you’re not using it yet, you’re really missing out. I’d sooner go back to dial-up than IE. Don’t make me choose though…

I tried phoning me family in Blighty, but no-one’s home so I’ve resorted to the interweb again to spend a while catching up on the news 6000 miles or so away. Naturally, I soon got distracted and found myself on this here site: www.infinitecat.com Recursive felines, just what you need on a bright and sunny Saturday morning.

I didn’t catch all of the presidential debate last night, but in the half hour i did see I got to see Bush shouting like a spoilt child at the moderator and talking about the Internets (sic). A search on the new engine www.a9.com has a snapshot of the front page of Gwynunlimited with the bloke with the “Bush is crap” banner from the peace march in SF last year, which tickled me, probably better than the Easter Rabbits one. Anyroad, there’s no chance of me ever getting to vote in the US, but at least I managed to register to vote in Somerset in my short stay over last month.

This will take about 10 minutes if you fancy it yourself… fill in the blanks for 80s lyrics. Slightly US-centric but i’m not bitter. Can you beat 79.5? … Matt, I throw down the gauntlet…

just watched a bolivian film called American Visa review coming shortly in the right hand column… It might be time to move this computer upstairs, i’m writing far too many entries of late…

Hmmm, what did I do yesterday? Well we had a look at another furnished apartment with D & M but it was downright strange and far to pricey. Monica wasn’t overly happy with the lighting and I couldn’t deal with the weird combination of 70s lounge styling and random Catholic iconography in all its gory detail around the place. Never mind, no rush and all that. Sunny D’s still got some kind of throat infection so he’s not been able to go to Spanish classes. Bless. Anyroad, after looking at the house I survived a street hamburger and wandered round with me camera again as evidenced here :

I’m looking into taking some quick courses at the UdeG on various techy topics. PHP and advanced Flash look inviting enough and a snip at 100 quid or so for 20 hours instruction. That’s me next port of call.