Real Life in Paradise

My meeting last night about the land didn’t turn out so bad, but the owners didn’t show up.  It was just myself and their agent.  It was good though, we talked about the details and now I just have to find a buyer.

Last night at about 9:30 at night the guy from the machinery shop called, my pressure washer was ready.  I went to Dairy Queen with some friends, we sat on La Quinta and discussed the world.  It was nice.  The blizzards there are always so good, they remind me of home.

Today was another hot day in Playa Del Carmen, my cable internet was not working when I woke up this morning.  Obviously it didn’t stay off for too long.  I picked up the pressure washer this morning early and took it over to Lomas Mariposas to test it out with Agustin, the gardener.  We played around with it for a few hours and found out all kinds of things that a pressure washer WILL NOT clean.  Pressure washers DO NOT get the bird droppings off of the white paint on the walls.  The pressure washer WILL NOT take the black stuff out of the conchuela marble tiles.  The pressure washer DOES, on the other hand, take the paint off of any surface that has been in the sun for any period of time, leave gouges in the stucco on the walls, and gets lot of small particles of paint/dirt/etc in the pool.   I am pretty happy about it anyway, it will get lots of use.

Agustin started using the potting soil today, it looks good.  He seems to have spread a fine layer of dirt over the whole lawn, he says that it is because the sand comes to the surface and the grass won’t grow properly if you don’t add more dirt.  I guess that makes sense.  The pile of dirt is getting a little smaller, its still an eyesore.

I had lunch at HC Monterrey on CTM, an order of arrachera to go.  Excellent stuff.  The order was $100 pesos but it is enough for another meal later,  the roasted potato was excellent.  I wish I could get them to come out like that on my BBQ.

I had to get a padlock for the systern at Las Olas because a few of the condo owners have repeatedly found construction workers dipping buckets into it to make cement.  That should take care of the problem.

The new “For Sale/For Rent” signs were done today, they look good but I am worried that they are a little small.  We will see if I still get the same amount of phone calls.  I used to screw the signs into the side of the building with little wooden anchors, but they tend to get blown off after 6 months or so, this time I attached them with transparent silicon, the people at the sign store said that would work better.

There is some sort of talk by a buddhist monk tonight, I am going to try to go.  I went to something like this out in SacBe a few years ago, it was very cool.  I am hoping this will be the same.  I was told that it was at the Hotel Alahambra, I am going to check into Tai Chi classes while I am there.  I will talk more about it tomorrow.

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