Cain Manor

Things I’ve done too much of -

Worn the same two changes of clothes over and over again

Sniffed my clothes to see if I can wear them again. More often than not, I ended up with a plaque clearing, head shaking “woah.”

Eaten dinner alone. ( I wonder if it’s related to wearing the same clothes over and over again. )

Watched bad, mindless TV in my hotel room. I knew it was time to go when I came across a Fran Drescher (The Beautician and the Beast) movie, and I WATCHED IT!!

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Kind of late on the update, but here they are…

I woke early in San Cristobal in an effort to get a few pictures before it got too late in the day. I was out and shooting by 7:30 A.M., which is pretty early for me. I don’t have many pictures of San Cristobal, since there wasn’t anything to grab me. Very few nice pics, but I was glad to spend a little bit of time in the city.
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I have finally extracted myself from Oaxaca. I’m pretty glad to be back on the road. One thing I found in Oaxaca that makes me happy (but most of you won’t understand) is VI for windows. That means I can write this using VI!! VI, those of you not in the know ask, what is vi? It’s a Unix text editor. Anybody remember Word Perfect back in the day when you didn’t have a mouse. It’s kind of like that, but more primitive. What I like about it is that it’s fast, fast, fast, and I know it better than any text editor I know of. As a System Administrator, it’s very important to know as it’s on every system ever made, and it’ll always work, unless something is really, really wrong. If there any any emacs people out there, I say - get a life. To Summarize.. I’m a geek.
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OK - here are the pictures

I’m finally getting ready to leave Oaxaca, probably Sunday morning. This will probably be my last post for a while, so Enjoy.

My next destination is going to be San Cristobal de las Casas, which is supposed to be a wonderful town. From there, I’ll go to Palenque, (which is supposed to be fantastic) and on to Guatemala. Between San Cristobal and the border, there is a town called Las Margaritas. I’m gonna have to check that out. If it’s what I hope it is, I may never leave. What are the chances it’s the magical land of Margaritas, where all the women are barmaids, and the drinks are free. I was certainly disappointed in Casa de Peyote.
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The biggest fear I had about this trip was getting screwed on unemployment insurance. I’ve collected on since I left Wireless, except for one week I forgot to claim, and the week after (because it’s a hassle getting it started back up again.) Generally it’s a piece of cake, unless you get called in for a “Job Search Review.” What that means is that you have to go in person to the unemployment office, and they go over your last three job searches (which is one weeks worth.) If you miss that appointment, you have to go in and review all the weeks you missed, or else give back all the money they’ve given you. On the second of August, I got a notice in the mail that I was selected for a job search review, and the review was on the 17th of August. Peggy picked up my mail a day or two after I was supposed to be at the unemployment office. What does all this mean? I don’t know. Since I haven’t gotten unemployment insurance in the month of August, I should be OK, but that’s not the way the government works. It probably could mean a bunch of different things, none of them good. I currently don’t know what to do. Pay the money back. It’s 4 - 6K, which is a lot of money. Add to that I still have to get my front porch fixed, and it’s starting to look like this trip is going to turn into a race to South America. This is exactly my worse case scenario.

With that in mind, I think I’m going to spend more time driving, and less time trying to learn Spanish. I still think I’ll hole up on a beach in Costa Rica somewhere.