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Dana has pointed out it has been over a month since my last update. We’ve been busy, but it’s past due.

The last few weeks we’ve been spending our weekends in Mexico. We went down yesterday for some more dental work. That should be eventually coming to an end. We had breakfast with Yunuen’s parents and then later had dinner at their house. We always enjoy going down and spending time with them. They’ve been doing massive renovations to one of their homes and it’s looking great. Dr. Vargas has about 20-30 chickens in the backyard – I am very envious. We took the Passat to get an alignment and to be detailed just prior to our dental visit. Can’t beat the prices.

Last weekend we took a group from our Church down to Josue and Martha’s house across the border. Obed, Brenda, and Jacinto were there and we had a good time familiarizing ourselves with their work. We had carne asada for lunch – always my favorite. We need to do that more often.

Yun and I have been looking to buy another home for a little while now. Our hope is to buy a foreclosed home with cash, but it’s been incredibly difficult to find something we think would be a good investment. Ideally we’d like to have a few rental properties here in Tucson before retreating to our compound in the South of Mexico. Perhaps in time.

Nimbus Brewery has a new pub on Wilmot,  just south of Grant. We went their for lunch today with Ben, Lis, and Ashley. They have two private rooms for poker where they supply a designated server, cards, and chips. We have plans to meet Thursday at 8.30pm. I anticipate some big winnings.

I’ve been reading some good books lately – Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Meacham’s American Lion, and Gaffin’s book on the continental reformer’s view of the Sabbath. All good stuff. Postman’s book is for our book group – we should be meeting at some point in the next week. Meachem’s book on Andrew Jackson (the guy on the $20 bill) was a great overview for me given I had no prior knowledge of the man. Gaffin was an excellent work and a preliminary text to my next book group selection of Dennison’s The Market Day of the Soul which is the Puritan’s view of the Sabbath (and quite distinct to the continentals). Also, I read Ron Paul’s book End the Fed recently as well which was exceptional. It prompted me to buy Griffin’s massive piece on the origin of the Federal Reserve, The Creature from Jekyll Island. I am excited to get to that one. I purchased a few of Murray Rothbard’s books on economic policy in the 30s and Von Mises work on banking and inflation in the last week. So much to read, so little time.

Back to work tomorrow. Time for another glass of red.