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I Moved

Since Google, the owner of Blogger, which previously hosted this blog, provides indifferent customer service and did not respond to my request for help in resolving the problems I had in posting to Google’s supposedly new and improved beta blogger, I have migrated the blog to WordPress.
Unfortunately I am unable to import my posts from [...]

I’ve Moved

Given Googles indiferent customer support in dealing with the problems I have with it’s new and supposedly improved beta blogger I’ve moved the blog to Word Press. You can find it here.
http://expatriateruminations.wordpress.com/

Test

Having read that the length of the post may be related to the problem I’ve been having connecting to beta blogger I am testing a shorter post to see if it makes a difference.
And to try uploading a picture I have selected the photo of this cutie who was watching the November 20 parade with [...]

Sunday Excursion

Last Sunday Tere, her two sons Eduardo and Francisco, and I piled into the pickup, the youngster in the back, and drove to La Antigua, an enchanting small town a bit North of Veracruz.
The town is near the Bay of Antigua, the location of the landing of Hernando Cortes’ invasion force where he [...]

Discount Natural Health Products – DNHP

I interrupt the usual program of photos and iconoflatulece (with thanks to Verde for coning the word) to engage in badmouthing of Discount Natural Health Products – DNHP, an internet vendor with whom I have done business a few times, in hopes that those searching the internet for Discount Natural Health Products – DNHP will [...]

Meet My Spanish Teachers/English Students

From left to right, Naomi, Eduardo, and Rosio who are coming to my apartment Saturday afternoons for help in learning English and to help me learn Spanish.
Eduardo is Tere’s son and Naomi and Rosio her sisters who are living here while attending school.
All three are delightful young folks.

Google Competes With Microsoft

Google, which owns Blogger, the software I use to post here, recently required users to “upgrade” to Beta.Blogger. The problem is that Beta.Blogger wasn’t ready for release, as there have been almost nothing but problems since the upgrade.
I guess I shouldn’t complain, since the software and hosting are free, but it has been a [...]

USA Taxpayer Funded Terror In Columbia

This is the Latin American government that receives more USA government aid than any other, and which hosts Latin America’s largest USA military force to assist in its efforts to suppress popular uprisings. USA government officials tell us our troops are in Columbia as a part of “war on drugs” and that [...]

Fox News Weds O. J.

I wonder what the troglodytes who rely on the Faux News Network for their news think of Murdoch publishing and promoting O. J.’s book.

Finally I Have Home Internet Service

I reported in mid-October that I had arranged for internet service trough the local cable company, MegaCable. I was told when I subscribed that the service would be installed within ten to fifteen days. I’m still waiting, almost a month later, and most recently was told the service would be installed on the 21st of [...]

Fig Sphinx

One of the nice folks at the internet café I patronize and I were discussing the caterpillar in the photo I posted a few days ago so we did decided to try to identify it.
We came upon this website which identifies the caterpillar as a Fig Sphinx.
http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/pficus.htm

Here is a bit of information and a couple [...]

Trip To Puebla

Sunday I drove with Tere, the woman from whose store I buy produce, for about two and a half hours to a huge market near the city of Puebla. Tere wanted to check the prices at the market to see if it would make economic sense for here to buy a pickup truck to drive [...]

More Museo Photos

Part of an alter

This toy is carved completely from stone.

As are the children and the swing in this piece.

As I indicated the grounds are meticulously groomed.

I think this is a pretty wild piece.

Museo Antropologia

I’ve been settled in Xalapa going on three and a half months but it was today I visited one of the city’s foremost attractions, it’s Museo Antropologia and its outstanding collection of artifacts from the pre-Hispanic, Mesoamerican civilizations of, primarily, what are now the states of Veracruz and Tabasco. The term [...]

George Allen Departs

George Allen, who shares a contrived, phony grits political persona with George Bush, despite their patrician upbringings, will no longer be a Senator come January. Though I say good riddance, as the guy is a real prick, I must say that Allen did the right thing in conceding rather than calling for a recount.
I [...]

Another Great Encounter

I’ve been settled in Xalapa going on three and a half months but it was only today that I visited one of the city’s foremost attractions, it’s Museo Antropologia and its outstanding collection of artifacts from the pre-Hispanic, Mesoamerican civilizations of, primarily, what are now the states of Veracruz and Tabasco. I [...]

Incurious George, Rumsfeld, and Gates

Bush, in his press conference today, declared the so called “war on terror” as “amongst the most consequential” wars “in our history”. I suspect that any non-ideological historian would judge the revolutionary, civil, and WWII wars as far more consequential. Of course we all know that Incurious George didn’t pay attention in his [...]

I Wish I Lived In Texas, Temporarily Anyway

Until a couple of days ago I have never had the slightest thought that I would like to live in Texas. After listening to and interview with Kinky Friedman, though, I wish I lived in Texas so I could vote for him.

Friedman was on the Dave Letterman show the other evening. He [...]

VFW – Hijacked? It Sure Seems So

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is apparently more interested in promoting a right wing ideology than in advocating for veterans. The organization has endorsed Peter Roskam in an Illinois congressional election against Tammy Duckworth. Roskam has never served in the military while Duckworth, a major in the reserves, lost both legs in [...]