Some of the weekend plans came to fruition…

SFTLOP (Sorry For The Lack Of Posts) this week, I’ve been busy and then some. Several translations, proof readings, Santa Cruz’s latest drive to get people fit, other site updates and wooing potential clients have been keeping me out of mischief. That and the CRUSHING heat… Only 6-8 weeks or so to the rainy season and it can’t come soon enough…

I’ve watched a few more films this week, Pixar’s Cars, The Curse of the Yellow Flower, and last night, once again, Herbie- Fully Loaded. Reviews coming when I get a chance.

Further to Annelise’s comment a while back asking about the quality of Mexican desertsdesserts *edit* I blame my English teachers in Taunton School…* . They’re great. The most common type is a creme brulee type affair called flan, and a local variation on the theme called a jericalla. Delicious. Especially when made by Hugo’s wife, Patricia…

But there’s also quite a range of other cakes and stuff prepared by local pastelerias. In the interests of investigative journalism, we grabbed some on the way home from Pasteleria OK 4 blocks from our house after an Indian meal in Goa.

There’s a chance I’m doing a site for a local pasteleria too. I’ll take my payment in strawberry tarts.

Tonight we’re going to see Keane in concert. It’ll be a change and I know a fair few of their songs. I know they’re not everyone’s cup of tea but there’s a fair few of us going and it’ll be a laugh. I’m prepared for it to not be as good as mi Shakira all those months ago, but I’m ready to be surprised.

Two days to the Tapatian Photo Tour, 1pm Saturday starting in La Cava, Pino Suarez and Herrera y Cairo, details here…

I’ve added another bell/whistle to the blog. If you’re commenting for the first time (go on, you know you want to), you receive an email thanking you and inviting you back. I’m not sure if it’s working, so if you’re new to these pages or have been lurking for years without commenting, try it out and let me know if it’s operational. Thanks 🙂 I found out about the comment-relish plugin via the good people at the WordPress podcast .

Dad’s posted some great Grandma pix over at Flickr. I keep thinking of happy times with my grandparents and might just write another post on those one of these days.

And that’s all for now. I’m signing off and moving my computer to a cooler room, it’s 9:45 am and the sun’s starting to leak into my office. Even Atticus has sloped off into better ventilated rooms…

We’re in the midst of a thunderstorm right now. I’ve just unplugged the laptop and am blogging on batteries… Hopefully the phone lines won’t take a direct hit. I had a go at taking some shots of the lightning from yesterday’s storm but it was still too light, there’s a few moody shots of the barrio on flickr (click the picture).
Had a nice day working from home on a translation for a movie script and driving round with young Obdulio… he was round last night with a special surprise guest, which was grand. Back to business tomorrow though and off to the lucha again hopefully.

Here’s a weather badge that’ll tell you what the weather’s doing at the minute over here. I’d put it in the sidebar, but they don’t seem to have any tasteful/firefox compatible ones. So until I make 10 more posts, feel free to scroll down to it before it disappears for good.

Just found a few pictures hiding on me camera’s internal memory. Here’s something of a reunion for the ‘Williams’ side of the clan from round Beth’n’Ali’s wedding time… click pic for bigger and Flickry goodness.
After 24 hours of suspecting a box of kitchenware (including good knives, ceramic bowls, and ‘erbs) had either fallen off the truck unnoticed on the trip South, been nicked, or donated to the poor boys and girls by accident, it turned up at the bottom of our plastic tower of crap in the garage. Not before a thorough examination of everything else in the 95 degree heat of the garage was performed this morning, mind. But it looks like we’re more or less packed for Mexico now. I’ve got all manner of clothes left in the garage, but if I haven’t missed an item of clothing in the last 4 months of living out of a suitcase, i reckon I won’t be needing it…

Anyroad, to celebrate we went to see ‘A History of Violence’ in the cinemamovie theater. I knew it wasn’t going to be a film Sita’d be mad for, but then again, she’s a big Sopranos, Medium and Millenium fan which can be pretty unflinching at times. I should have gone with my first impression mind, as she wasn’t impressed. “Full of clichés” apparently. Anyway, it wasn’t as good as the critics are making out, but nowhere near as bad as Sita’ll tell you neither. Nuanced performances, occasional Cronenberg gore and suspense aplenty. If you could sit there with your critic friends and discuss violence, society and the voyeuristic, almost participant-observer, nature of the filmgoing experience, maybe it would be better. Not for me though. I don’t really recommend it, for the record. Wallace and Gromit’s out tomorrow…

But we won’t be going to see that just yet ‘cos we’re off to the Sunset Strip to see Devandra Banhart sing and play his little hippy socks off tomorrow evening, so hopefully that’ll be lovely. A bientot.

Lots on at work. A good thing and no mistake. This morning I did a photoshoot round the kindergarten. There’s some lovely pix but I’m hesitant to post any to flickr without a release form, so here I’ve protected their little identities with a subtle photoshop effect:

Problems with the server apparently. It’s not called the 3-dollar plan for nothing…

The photoshoot didn’t happen today, apparently El Mural has strict union rules or summink. So I’m redesigning agaveweb again, with a spanking new flash interface as practice for some flash work coming my way soonish. Right now I’m off to lunch courtesy of Ana again. Just a quick post to warn you about the intermittant service…