life is a soap opera
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City traffic is no picnic ground but in Barranquilla it’s more like a battle zone. In most cities of some size there’s traffic congestion, noise and the occassional accident. In Barranquilla, however, traffic is just one big circus full of clowns. Here, rules and curtesy do not exist. Buses and taxis make up the majority of city traffic and pretty much do whatever they want on the road. Here is what happens when the two major road bullies meet on a busy road. Pure karma.
1st day of vacation
One of the nice things about teaching, other than the heavy work load and the ever increasing classroom size, is the month off we get for Christmas. Woot! Today is day one of 30 days off.
To keep it light, my wife and I took the afternoon to go X-mas shopping downtown. Very crowded but we found a few deals to wrap up at home.
December’s Here at Last
Before moving to the Caribbean I would never have dreamed of looking so forward to December. This year the Easterlies hit barranquilla on the nose -that is to say on the first of December. We had so much rain this summer and fall I thought the dry season would never come. But right on queue the sun came out with blue skies and dry cool winds. Woot!
If you’re planning on coming south, do it now. The weather is perfect.
The trouble with Sundays
I love waking up on Sundays with nothing to do but lie around all day and do nothing. Unfortunately, there always seems to be stuff piled up on the ‘to do’ list. Fortunately I’m a class A procrastinator. I should be able to get absolutely nothing done today but relaxing. Come to think of it, even relaxing sounds like too much work.
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Pearson int immegration a nightmare
A fucking nightmare. I’m left very disalussioned by my experience chaparoning my Colombian wife and step-son.
Travellen News
Finally we’re heading back to Canada to see the old man. It was real touch and go there for a while with the little woman’s paper work. In the end, she and our son got their traveling papers. Woot! Off to see the wizard.
Spiral knights: not just for kids
Bored, I stumbled across a new MMPORG game called Spiral Knights while skimming through Steam’s library. It’s cutesie, easy to play and has an almost limitless variety of dungeon levels since the game maps are constantly changing. I mentioned cute since the toons or avatars you play are miniature knights with rounded features, huge heads, and bright eyes. The enemy bots you play against are also cute. I haven’t done all the levels, but so far I haven’t run across anything that doesn’t want to make me reach out and squeeze it to death. The games biggest plus is that it’s completely free to play online. True, you cannot play endlessly unless you wish to pay for that priviledge, but free is free. Overall, I found the game to be somewhat challenging, safe enough for my 8 year old son to join me online to play and because of the finiteness of play time, it curbs addictive play.
Not my favorite place
Went to the dentist today to deal with a serious pain located in my upper right molar -2nd to last. I made an emergency appointment after suffering through two sleepless nights. I get to the dentist, explain my situation, am attended to promptly and then they clean my teeth, take an x-ray and send me on my way. Hey! But I’m tellen you my upper jaw feels like someone just jabbed a six inch blade in there and is hammering on the hilt to make sure it stays there. Can’t you help me? More x-rays, more jabs with sharp steely hook thingies and well, you’ll have to come back another time to see the specialist ’cause your tooth looks fine.
Question? What century is this anyway? Don’t they have medicine for toothaches? I mean, I see people rub cocaine on their gums in the movies all the time. I live in Colombia for goodness sakes. What do they give teething babies here -lollipos, hard candy, what?
