I’ve worked out how to improve my scrabble rating with the same effort. Play after about 10pm Mexican time and you end up playing Australians and Kiwis who’ve just woken up… especially good for the short games (5mins either side). I got up to 1081 last night. It came crashing down again this morning to 1050 thanks to playing the British contingent who’ve had their tea and are rearing to go… The problem is I can’t limit my playing to just that time of night so it’s just a theory. You can tell you’re playing an Aussie cos the board soon fills up with words like ute, uni, avo, dag and abo. I would be out and doing useful things but I’m waiting for Sita to ring to be picked up from the last day of her tequilathon. She’s got my camera too and I’ve been dying to take a photo of this old geezer outside the house who’s trimming the tree into the (government mandated?) cube shape. He disappeared up the inside of the tree and every now and again pops out at odd angles with his secateurs. Maybe I’ll draw a picture…

Anyroad, a couple of milestones for this mexican jaunt were reached this week. It’s the second month of drinking water from the tap with no problems whatsoever. And today I even managed to turn the correct tap in the bathroom without thinking about it. They’re labeled C and F and your natural reaction is to go for C, for cold. But you’d be wrong, it’s caliente. Anyroad, that’s a good sign I’m rapidly going native. Maybe it was the torta ahogada and tacos late last night that did it…

Great day at work yesterday- got lots done, the cashola arrived and it was a decent amount thanks to the graphic design i’ve been doing. I hung around after work to watch them recording in the booth. There was a voiceover bloke who did all kinds of versions of the upcoming radio/tv ads. I heard ‘Vamos por el primero’ about 50 times. It was fascinating stuff though. Hopefully I can learn the basics soon and do some proper recording of Jose’s propagandas. and learn a bit about ProTools. I think I’m going to suggest a deal where I teach English to the bloke who does all the editing and stuff and he can teach me how to do all that reciprocally… We’re all about win-win solutions here at AgaveWeb…