More Living
Well, I'm still living; that's always a plus. Things have been pretty normal in summary. Yesterday I did the Loma Mar ride, and stopped at the little store there and bought a candy bar (something called a "PayDay", it was extremely good but yes, loaded with trans-fats). The store in Loma Mar is just about the most hilarious thing I have seen for a long time. It is really small and really run down, and in the words of dad, "it makes the Pioneer market look like Costco." Only a few select people will fully understand that. At this store, all of the refridgerators were from the 1950s and the whole place looked as if it were about to fall over: pretty cool, I know. And then Julien came over (bless his soul!) and we tinkered with my message forum and helped build dad's computer. He got a video card!! It's big news. Now he has 64MB of video RAM instead of 32, and his graphics processor is way faster. (I shall not mention anything about my video card at this point, lest it make the reader cry, laugh, or have some other uncontrollable emotional response) So he is happy, although he tried to get one with 128MB of RAM, but no such luck.
Apparently blogging in esperanto is not very popular (in fact I would describe it as being unpopular). But seeing as I have no other place to dispose of my short-story translations I'm still going to publish them here, but just post excerpts on this page and have a link to the full version. Apparently the amount of space that the translations were taking up was a real problem.
So that's my state of being for the day and yesterday. I have doubled the size of the notifications list by adding addresses of people I know from the recipient list from those junky mass-mailings that people like to forward. Maybe I can beef up readership that way... We'll see. ¡Por ahora: Adiós!
today is my birthday :)
Just read your comments about your visit to the store in Loma Mar on July 23rd, 2003. Actually friends and family are working there now, I hope we are talking about the same store (There is only one in the actual town of Loma Mar). Sorry if you felt like you just visited something from "Deadwood", but it is just a small store which tries to carry what ever the traveler or camper needs when they forgot to bring up from the "Big Cities". You will find them to be "real" people not there to rip you off. There is a small group of 5 dogs who hang out there just to greet good people. Not saying at all you are not "good people", but give them a break. Many trial and tribulations going on there including one of the group of the dogs might have cancer. Just give them another chance.