Muchacho Polaco

Paying bills here is done by wiring money. It’s a painful process. There is an extremely long line and I’ve never done this before by myself. Yun wrote a note for me to bring along in the event I run into trouble.

We hired a new employee this week which has required getting up at 5:30 each day. It has been a tough transition,  but coffee helps a lot. Mexican coffee is great.

We made lasagna for dinner and I made a movie to memorialize the event.

I bought a small camera to mount on the dash months ago. I used it for the first time the other day and thought I would upload the video. The camera was rather inexpensive, but the quality isn’t bad proportionate to the cost.

I am at the dentist for a cleaning. Not my favorite place to be. It has been over a year since my last cleaning which means this is probably going to hurt.

The cost for cleaning here is 200 pesos, or $16 US. That’s pretty cheap.

We had a great weekend up Mt Lemmon in Tucson with Matt and Dana and Jeff and Beth. We left to return home yesterday at 3pm, just in time to hit some heavy rains. Driving in Mexico is bad enough dry, it’s much worse when it rains. Even so, we had some great views.

Just arrived to Tucson. Picking up some things before heading up to Mt. Lemmon.

I took this photo tonight as a representation of typical customer service in Mexico. As can be seen in the photo,  we are quite the inconvenience to this “worker’s” phone time. Understandably, she has some important things to text to her friends.

I’m still surprised to see this in expensive stores (like this one) as it indicates the management just doesn’t care.  Owners here are absolutely incapable of making the connection between good service and more earnings.  Yet somehow these people still make money. That’s good news for me. It means I should have little to no competition here.

Last weekend we made the trip back to Tucson to visit Matt and Dana. It had been about three weeks since we were in the US, so it was nice to do some shopping and eat some good food.

We played poker Saturday night and I won. It’s been a while, so that was nice.  We had plenty of good wine and cigars.

We are on our way back this Friday for our first annual Tres Parejas reunion up Mt. Lemmon. Looking forward to it.

I dominated tonight.  I am the poker master.  We are spending the weekend with Matt and Dana. Good times!