It Finally Happened

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It's not what you may think but it is certainly good news.  The rains have come and the temperatures are dropping.  I don't expect the heat to stay away for long but we will see a gradual decrease over the next few weeks.

Coming off the road after some hectic weeks and trips.   Oh the stories I could tell about almost having to turn Saturday night's flight around because of a drunk guy who locked himself in the bathroom, people listening to videos on their cell phones without using headphones,  kids running up and own the aisles (I guess if you are a grandparent that may sound cute), people attempting to stuff an oversized (supposed) carry on and being told it just won't fit and raising a stink and then almost breaking the compartment door clasp.  Oh and I didn't mention the flight delays that they continue to blame on the Mexican president's plane landing at the CDMX airport.   Not true, there are large posters in the airport dispelling the myth and showing a pie chart of the actual reasons.  The most common is that discount airlines have very few or no extra equipment so that when one is taken out of service unexpectedly, it throws the rest of their system off.  

So the drought has been broken or at least for now.   The lake is slowly filling and we seem to always make the right decisions sometimes at the last minute but right on time.   I was never happy with the gutters we had on the front of the house.  First off, they were ugly PVC gutter material and second the water came off the roof and over the gutters.  I found a great place that makes all aluminum gutters and they installed them on Friday.  As we say, "justo a tiempo".   The downpour lasted three hours and the gutters did the job.   They came back today to do some touchup and adjustments.   It rained again this evening and all is well.  Imagine, they brought a one-piece 15 meter gutter all the way from the northside of Monterrey.

Looks like I may be moving on from the school.   It appears they are not going for a bilingual program based on the demographics in the area.   Not a bad thing but I worked very hard to get where we are today and there have been some amazing advancements.  If the board decides to change its strategy I always have other things to do for the next year.  One is a course I am writing for the U.S. Embassy.  I'm just getting started and the pay is great.   The university publisher keeps me busy enough as it is and as December rolls around I think we will be rving much more.  

That's it for now.  I could go on but . . .