Last Friday, I hopped on a bus at the nearby Taxque�a (Tax-CANE-ya) station and headed five hours south to my old stomping grounds in Acapulco. Buses here in Mexico are excellent, and the highway from Mexico City to Acapulco is rumored to be one of the best. Since the bride to be was eager […]
English shirts are super popular here. In fact, you see shirts with English on them (vs. Spanish) at a ratio of about 7 to 3, I would say.
Today’s shirts whose owners should have hired a translator:
A middle-aged woman walking along with a shirt that says “I (deck of cards) the ladies”. […]
Today some books I ordered a couple of months ago came in! Well, yesterday, actually, but apparently customs had decided that I needed to pay some taxes in order to collect this mix of used and new theology books in English. OK, and maybe “some” is a bit of understatement. For these […]
I lost my keys on Monday - it’s a long story, but basically they came unclipped from my beltloop while getting out of a car, and when I went back to the site a few minutes later, somebody had picked them up and not dropped them off.
Let me just say that tracking down […]
Today I spent an hour driving to immigration, and then almost five more at the National Institute. Since I had the help of an excellent lawyer, making it through the lines and papers and seals and copies was quite easy, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to do all of this on my […]
In the US, bachelors drink straight out of the jug of milk. In Mexico, we drink right out of the one liter box. Glory.
I was just reading about an assassination today in Baja California, and noticed that the word for “assasin” is “sacario”. Wonder if that’s connected to the “sicarii” of old, only here carrying AK-47’s under their cloaks instead of daggers?
Here’s JewishEncyclopedia.com’s entry on the word:
Sicarii. Term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the […]
I think the entry on “translation” that I just put up on the “Mexico Musing’s” blog may actually belong here…
So you want to change the status of your visa. You get a lawyer who has experience to guide you through. You get your list of items together - rent contract, bank statements, electoral card (complete with thumbprint) of your landlord, lots of black and white photos. You are almost ready to […]
You’ll be happy to know that that obnoxious mass of wires pictured below has turned into this…
The reason for this dramatic change is that with the Boxes leaving for Texas, I have become the inheritor of all sorts of things, including the massive air filter upon which my phone stuff now sits. These “weapons grade” […]