Celebrating - Along With Some Other Things

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Our new mode of grocery shopping.  We order online and then pull on the day and time we have designated.  They call you on your cell phone if something isn't available or to see if you may want a substitute.  We may just do this forever.  Imagine rving and two days before your arrival to a city you may pass you place your order.  Then when you get there it's ready.

It was a different kind of teacher's day.  I'm retired now, Juan still has this semester to finish online.  It's been a roller coaster as high school students can use a cell phone but are not well-learned on Microsoft Office products.  Working on an online platform requires a minimum, a tablet, and an internet connection.  Those that don't have an internet connection at home can no longer just walk down the street to a cybercafe because of COVID.

We celebrated by sleeping in until 6 a.m.  I watched the news, did my 10K, and then headed to the bank to make my contribution payment to social security.  One more year and then I will receive that pension.  Bank lines are long and I can only make the government payment at one bank, no other option.   BTW, I never did receive my stimulus check and I am still prepared to donate half of it.

Dinner tonight is a delicious ribeye, salad, and Edgar Allen Poetatos.  We aren't using the Weber.  In all the "goings through" we came across an old portable grill, we used for years.  It comes in a small box and you put the charcoal tray on the legs and then the grill.  We found some charcoal in the shed and decided to use it up.  A good wine to go with it, of course!

Negative news about AMLO earns bomb threat for Reforma newspaper

You may have thought I was being paranoid or inventing information but here is an interesting article.  Crime has soared in Mexico with the bad guys.  This article spells it out.  It wasn't more than six weeks ago that Presidente Dingus made a visit to Chapo Guzman's mother and told her he would do what he could to help her son.  Now, the bad guys are aligning with Dingus and are attacking what the president calls conservative newspaper and threatening them that if they should talk bad about the president they will suffer the consequences.  It's real folks, we are headed down the path of Venezuela.  The money being paid to poor families is only to create an alliance with Presidente Dingus' party which now has the majority of the senate.  He is preparing them for the vote for the next election.  All of this is part of what Chavez, Maduro, Morales, and Castro have done.  Mexico, as part of the T-MEC, will be disqualified as the rules stipulate certain Democratic rules that have to be followed.  If that were to happen, Mexico will become a failed state.  Sad, but very true.  You don't need to be political, just a good reader to find any and all of this information. 

As much as I love my life here and all that it represents, I guess it is true that nothing lasts forever.