Lightening Strikes, Twice
Well, as you have probably figured out by my long pauses in
conversation, that the computer repairs did not go as well as
expected. Missing this and missing that from my newly reformatted hard
drive was annoying, but not fatal. It went like the time I took my
Saab in for a new exhaust system and it turned out that the loud
noises coming from the hole in my muffler actually masked the strange
sound coming from my engine. And then lightening struck (while I was
checking the satelite images for approaching storms) to add another
dimension to the confusion. I didn't know you could blow up a computer
through a DSL line and a bolt of lightening. The things I learn every
day. So, the computer had to go on the water taxi Belize City for
another week. When I got it back, they had not included the power
supply cord, and we don't have a computer store on this island of 1000
people + 300 tourists. I've learned from my mistakes though, if you
throw your ocmputer through the window in frustration, it probably
won't work right again... so don't do that.
In the meantime...
Add to the mix a ton of coca cola (packaged in 1 kilo bricks) dropped
offshore between Caye Chapel, Caye Caulker, Ambergris Caye and Xcalac
Mexico with the ensuing Police Carrying Machine Guns Unit, Special
Unit to Watch the Police Unit, The Men in Dark Sunglasses Posing as
Tourists Unit, followed by the The White Men in Polo Shirts and Dark
Pants Carrying Cell Phones Unit. I personally have not witnesses any
of the feeding frenzy going on the reef, because I don't have time to
study those people as I'm trotting around the block chasing United
Nations Baby who has suddenly decided that she's a big girl and can
take off down the road any time she wants. I feel like I'm training a
puppy.
And then...
Somewhere around July 7th I became Mrs. Bigness. The bride wore white
because her mother wasn't here to stop her.
And Speaking of Mothers...
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