Telgua is the national phone company– they're the only game in town. So, when you complain to them that they never answer their customer service number, they really don't care. Just one advantage of being a monopoly I guess. Anyway, we tried to get the representative helping us to give us his cell phone number in case we had any problems with our service in the future. In Guatemala, it's pretty common for a salesperson, bank teller, dry cleaner or whatever to give you their personal cell number instead of their company's land-line. Anyway, dude said they weren't allowed to do that, ...

When it rains, it pours. On the brighter side, rainy season typically ends in November.

Plenty of topes on the way to La Mesilla.

With all the time changes sometimes the light just disappears so you have to create your own.

I spent an hour with ATT&T's international department today, 877-707-9208 (and a lovely exchange it was, quite unexpectedly) and worked out all my anxieties about data access from the road

Not sure I necessary agree, but "the key ingredient in the attention game is relevancy" and since this was relevant I did read until the end:http://www.zmogo.com/web/is-the-attention-economy-the-new-currency

"Mexican immigrants living in the United States. On the eve of President Obama's visit to Mexico, this profile reveals that a record 12.7 million Mexican immigrants lived in the U.S. in 2008, a 17-fold increase since 1970.Mexicans now account for 32% of all U.S. immigrants and more than one-in-ten of all persons born in Mexico now reside in the U.S.http://pewhispanic.org/factsheets/factsheet.php?FactsheetID=47 No other country in the world has as many total immigrants from all ...

Sometimes sleeping less feels better these days. I missed church/zendo this morning when my eyes opened shutters around noon. I pored over the SF Chron and NY Times while chowing down on oatmeal pancakes and Brad avoided large chunks of food now that his wisdom teeth are gone. Then it was mad dash to clear the inbox and continue the moment on CabbieTalk by responding to some cabbies who had emailed me. Check out the posts, particularly the one of my conversation with ...

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