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And possibly caffeine too… Anyroad, so as I mention above I didn’t sleep well last night again, whether it was Scrabble on the PDA whilst I half watched Clear and Present Danger or the afternoon coffee in Plaza Terranova or the book I’m reading that I don’t want to like but actually do, who knows? All I know is that after waking up with a mosquito in my ear far too many times I stumbled into the bathroom sprayed my head with repellent, shoved some earplugs in and put my head under the pillow and the persistant little bugger still kept coming at me. Enough of that… anyroad the lack of sleep and relative inaction today led me to to something to wake myself up a bit and that means getting the gee-tar out. I was recording stuff in Audacity then overdubbing and I thought, sod it, i’ll video it and sing and everything, and, though I’m regretting this already, here’s me YouTubed doing my battleworn rendition of Jarabe de Palo’s La Flaca, all about some slim young lady who boozes it up in La Habana without putting on the pounds… All mistakes in lyrics, pronunciation, chords and general appearence are entirely deliberate…

Available for weddings, quinceaeras, bah-mitvahs, etc… I’m here all week, folks…

First off, the web designery is picking up nicely. You wait for 6 months then 3 come along at once, just as you’re about to leave the country for a bit… Not complaining though.

Last night, thanks to the magic of bittorrentary, we watched the first episode of the BBC’s latest flagship documentary Planet Earth. Now that’s what nature documentaries should look like. None of this half-arsed french/dubbed penguin rubbish. They’ve got their hands on some new fangled military technology that probably wasn’t originally designed for sneaking up on packs of coyotes and following them chasing their lunch. Great photography, understated but informative narration, and packing in the locations like nobody’s business… even Space… what’s not to like. I’m can’t decide which was the best bit, either the chase scene or the baby teddy polar bear cubs learning to walk. Or was it the killer whale leaping from the sea with a seal in its mouth in 40x slow motion. All interspersed with beautifully-rendered time-lapse photography over 3 years. Quite a start. I’m guessing there was a fair bit of hype surrounding it in the UK, but it came as a wonderful surprise here in Mejico. Looking forward to catching the rest of the series and am extremely glad to have something to watch between Lostathons.

Just to follow 10 days of a common cold and a bang on the head on Sunday, last night I experienced one of the worst gastrointestinal traumas I’ve ever had. Truly, truly grim. I’ve been on the Pedialyte (fruit flavoured electrolyte and water concoction) all day and been trying to catch up on sleep, but it was a real shock to the system. The only thing I ate yesterday was tacos from a popular local stand that I trust implicitly, but I’ll not be going back for a while.

I didn’t feel up to working today so I finished season 1 of Arrested Development and watched Nacho Libre properly in between naps. I think I’ll be up all night finishing some fairly urgent projects tonight though…

Other stuff accomplished: I booked me flights to Blighty for December. I was feeling right homesick today, not just for friends and family, but real bread, Ribena/ Robinson’s Black Currant and Apple Juice and the NHS… I also made a fair dent in Neil Gaiman’s ‘Anansi Boys’ between crawling to the bathroom and back a hundred times. Looks like our Morrissey tickets have been purchased for November and also a plan is forming to see Julieta Venegas next week or the week after. Good times…

Let’s see if this link works… It’s CaliforniaCoastline.org’s aerial views of the CA coast, the link should take you to Santa Cruz. Our house is about 4 blocks out of sight… and it turns out Atticus and I were were at Shark Tooth Beach, among other places yesterday.