Panama and Mexico
The 'girls' are coming over for lunch. When that happens I'll retire to the upstairs office to call the repair shop and ask again about the car. This morning the guy on the phone talked for about two minutes without me understanding a word except that I was to call back in a couple of hours. This beautiful ignorance I've found not to be such a burden for the most part, as only stressed points seem to get through, those of which turn out to be what's important in the conversation. All the bs and other extraneous stuff goes away without needing me to make the decision.
At 2 I have a massage scheduled by a new girl at the salon. There's something about getting naked in front of a strange (take that any way you want) woman in a small room for the first time that appeals to me. I went to dinner at a friend's house the other night where my friend 'Johnny' gave me a sidelong glance and told me to take a gander in the other room. Not knowing what to expect I wound up staring at this hot chica sitting on the bed with a big smile on her face. Later in the evening, as I watched her look at her own profile in the mirror adjusting her low-rise slacks with self-approval, Johnny told me with a grin she was the new masseuse and had already made an appointment.
I need to buy tickets to Panama for tomorrow before the day's out. I've had to delay my travel to the States and thus need to get out of Dodge for a couple of days to renew my visa. I was planning to go north to Managua but all of a sudden I can't get the image of the canal scene from Team America out of my mind. I don't know if seeing it for real will change it or reinforce it. I'll let you know.
As I've made the unofficial decision to post a new picture every day I'm trying to decide which one for today. Wait a minute while I browse across my amazing mac network-ahhh. Here we go.
Without looking back at what I posted before I seem to remember promising pictures of Mexico City and never having done so. I took pictures of the pyramids outside the city also but they'll have to wait. The first shot is just a modified wide-angle shot outside of my hotel room window. The next is just one of a building that I kinda like, and the next is of a street urchin hawking Chiclets that I scared the hell out of. I wound up buying most of her tray and letting her keep it all except for a couple packets of gum in order to get her to keep still for a moment.
Now I have to resize, upload and post. See you later.
