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[emily_in_nc]

I feel your pain, Crankin. I am not a fan of the power going out. In the place we stayed here in Playa last winter, that happened with some frequency. For some reason it was often just our half block. I think there must have been some flaky piece of equipment. I hated it. We have only had it out for a couple of minutes since we got back down here (and are in a different unit) this time.

More first world problems here, though: today we had no hot water and half our cable stations were out. So, I had to text our building maintenance guy (who only speaks Spanish) twice on the water situation. I had google translate going on my laptop and was texting him in the other hand on my phone (not easy b/c it's a dumb phone). He did fix it, but it was inconvenient b/c it took hours, and we had laundry in the machine half-filled with water when we figured out that we had no hot water, so it kinda delayed that a bit!

The cable problem, I was able to do an online chat for and even requested and got English speakers two out of three times, but NONE of them helped with the problem! I finally got an answer from a local expat forum; it required putting in a "secret" code to reset the box back to factory defaults, and all the channels came back. So, trying to straighten that out took several hours.

It's always something!

[Pax]

We're going to our first Halloween costume party in years tonight. We decided to dress up as tourists, seemed appropriate as we are FL newbies.

[Catrin]

I hear you Crankin, it's a pain when the power goes out! One HOPES that it isn't too cold when it happens, but still...ugh!

Have fun Pax! Let us know how it goes

Emily - glad to hear you were able to work that out. Convoluted at best, but glad to hear it was resolved.

[Blueberry]

I hear you Crankin, it's a pain when the power goes out! One HOPES that it isn't too cold when it happens, but still...ugh!

Personally, I'd rather cold than hot (but then I live in a relatively moderate climate). I hate, hate, hate being hot and sticky with no way to cool down (and having to pitch the fridge/freezer stuff).

2 more exams to go - one clinical and one final for our hem/onc block. Will be so glad for Wednesday afternoon!

[emily_in_nc]

We're going to our first Halloween costume party in years tonight. We decided to dress up as tourists, seemed appropriate as we are FL newbies.

Have fun, Pax! We haven't dressed up or been to a Halloween party in years. Lots of people do dress up here and walk the main tourist drag, so we'll probably see some interesting sights if they're out when we're walking Paisley. And this weekend into early next week is all the Day of the Dead celebrations here in Mexico too, so it could be a noisy few nights!