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Hola, loyal reader! When last we left Bruce and Mary they had just moved into their home, a huge casa on Calle 47 in Mérida, the capital of Yucatan. Now the holidays have come and gone and there is trouble in Paradise. Bruce’s gym has closed and Mary no longer works on the beach in Progreso. Sure, with the house sitting gig, overhead is low but not non-existent. And Bruce and Mary are a little too young for spend down, not that they have anything to spend down. Join them on their way to MELO night, the monthly Mérida English Library mixer where they always meet some interesting people.

 

 

 

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, me, Mary, and my mother Margaret, who is visiting, are just to the door of the library when who emerges but my friend from the NAFTA party, Manuel Sarkisyanz. I inquire as to why he is leaving so soon and he quickly responds that it is quite crowded and he has another event to attend. He quickly walks away. I am always amazed that this octogenarian body moves better than mine does, as does his brain.

 

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We buy our drink tickets from the volunteer at the front desk and make our way to the gardens. It is wall to wall people as there is a poetry reading going on as well. I greet many friends and introduce them to mom and then I work my way through the crowd to get us drinks.

 

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I see our friends from the beach town of Progreso, Carl and Joni, and they wave me over. I’ve lost Mary and mom is talking to a young woman who is leading a foreign exchange group from DePaul U. Making my way through the crowd I bump, literally, into my Irish Canadian friend, Loman. I tell him that we’re hosting a cocktail party soon and that I was thinking of inviting him but I wasn’t so sure, because our Brit friend, Dave will be there. I said, “I’d be worried about a battle.” In his Irish lilt he responds, “And there would be, to the last man!”

 

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I finally get to Carl and Joni’s table and Carl leaves his seat to get a drink so naturally I steal it. I start quizzing Joni about their new jobs that I’d heard about through mutual friends. Joni explains that she is a “moderator” for a company that contracts with companies such as the CBC, Canadian Broadcast Corp, to moderate, in this case, the reader commentary to news stories. They are charged with making sure that comments containing racism, hate speech, and just plain old profanity are not posted. Then Joni explains the irony of Carl working for them as Ken, the founder of the company used to work for Carl and when he struck off he asked Carl to work for him. Carl’s good natured response was, “Ken, you can’t afford me.” That was then and now Carl and Joni are early retired to the beach in Progreso and finding that just sitting by the pool sipping Margaritas does not fill the day, prompting Joni to tell Carl, “Give Ken a call, I bet he can afford you now.” We both laugh, Carl is always fair game. I get the email address for Ken from Carl and Joni as they take their leave to catch the last bus for Progreso. Who Framed Roger Rabbit buy

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The crowd is thinning and it’s time for us to leave. On the walk home I get Mary and mom up to speed about the moderation jobs. We wonder if we can actually make a living, working part-time on our computers from poolside (sorry but that is the best place for wifi in our monster house). It sounds a little bit too good to be true. But we’ll have our apps in tomorrow. Could this be the long term solution to the escape to México equation?

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Thanks for visiting gentle reader. Stay tuned as Bruce and Mary check out this “moderation” thing. Does sound a little too good to be true, doesn’t it? But actually the next post will be a short one concerning “medical tourism”. Hasta pronto. Lake City the movie

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At this point in Bruce and Mary’s tale of escaping to México they have faced reality and given up their quest for a B & B and Bruce has forged a deal with Phillip a young Floridian, to train clients in his Mérida gym. Next is the networking to find gringo clients so Bruce and Mary are about to check out the “Nafta” party at La Hach bar in the Fiesta Americana, the finest hotel in Mérida.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’re at the Nafta party and we are the first ones there, anxious to get our bearings. We belly up to the beautiful, polished wood, circular bar in this classic French Colonial hotel. We nurse our beers as we wait for the first gringos to arrive and finally we see a thin mustachioed 50-something American, we think, approach the bar and rattle off some questions for the barkeep, in Espanol. His manner is rather brash I think, but when he turns my way and I introduce ourselves we find him to be quite friendly if very glib. Larry quickly tells us that he is expecting three of his students to arrive to practice their Ingles. He runs a TESL school out of his house and when Mary asks of teaching opportunities for herself, he quickly names several schools that he is sure are looking for help.

 

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Larry tells us he is particularly happy to be out of the house this evening as his wife is downstairs with her lover and he has been sleeping upstairs with their four year old while their two teenage boys have the run of the house. I like this guy.

 

We grab some botanas, pretzels, peanuts, some cheese coated onion rings, and cubes of cheese (they love cheese down here) and ham, and we grab a table as the place is starting to fill up. Larry seems pleased that we have asked him to join us. An elderly gentleman who looks remarkably like Lawrence Olivier enters the bar and Larry says, “Allow me to introduce you to the most fascinating person you will meet here tonight.” Then he pops up and leads Dr. Manuel Sarkisyanz to our table. This man has got to be in his 80s yet he moves like a teenager. After introductions I ask Dr. Manuel, who quickly disabuses me of the Doctor moniker, about his background and he responds with, “By asking of my background do you mean to ask where I was born and raised or where I acquired my English, or what my career is?” “Well, all of the above, I guess.” I lamely answer. But he is a very engaging man and although he doesn’t tell much about himself, choosing rather to ask about me, I later google him to find that this Persian is a noted historian. He has authored dozens of books over the years. Somehow the conversation turns to baseball and he seems to enjoy my Satchel Paigeisms, laughing out loud at, “Never look behind you, they might be gaining.” Duplicity movie download

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A balding 60ish man joins our table and Lawrence introduces us to Terry, a retired anthropology professor from New York. Little did I know then, how this association would change our lives in Mérida.

 

The bar is filling up with gringos and other expats and people are circulating. The next thing we know, we find ourselves on the bar’s veranda overlooking beautiful Paseo de Montejo, the Champs de Elys of México. I’m chatting with Jim, a genial man from our home state of Minnesota when I feel a tap on my shoulder. I whirl around to see a 50ish, slender and attractive woman, dressed as many women are, in an evening gown. Mary and I are quite underdressed. As this woman opens her mouth to speak, I say, “You must be Elizabeth, Phillip’s mother.” Phillip had told me earlier this afternoon that he would be calling his folks to put them on the look for me at this party. She closes her mouth and confirms that she is indeed Elizabeth and she grabs me by the hand to lead me to their table inside the bar. I look over my shoulder to holler at Jim that I’ll catch up with him later. He just smiles and raises his drink to me.

 

I am introduced to Herman, her older, German-born husband and their circle of friends. Mary is still on the deck and we are both finding ourselves to be the darlings of the ball, and I think it is only because of our relative youth. We are the only ones there, it seems, who are not retired.

 

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Mary, brilliant as usual, brought our digital camera and is snapping pix of all our new friends and asking them their email addresses for these pictures. The social currents of this party finally return her to me and she takes pix of my new friends and by the end of the evening we have made over a dozen new friends, handed out a bunch of gym brochures, and Mary has found a number of opportunities for her TESL training. 

 

But probably the most entertaining moment of the evening is when Veronica, our rail thin, shapeless, cigarette smoking neighbor, makes the scene like a Belle of the old south. Suddenly a couple old lounge lizards creep out of the woodwork to fawn over Veronica and her magical, miracle bra induced cleavage.

 

With the party winding down, we take our leave and grab a taxi. Back home, even though it is midnight and very late for us, we are so buzzed by our networking experience that we sit on our patio fronting the always busy Calle 59 and have a nightcap. Soon we are joined by a very schnockered Veronica. She asks me, “Dahling, would you be a good boy and fetch me a drink?” I get her a tequila on the rocks, that should do it. We compare notes and she is so smoked that she actually allows me to talk now and again. But when she informs us that she has been celibate for a year, “But that’s going to change soon!”, I bolt and leave Mary to her own devices. It’s 1:30, by far the latest I’ve been up, down here in México. The Stone Killer divx

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Thanks for visiting gentle reader. Please check back soon to see how Bruce and Mary employ their newfound network, in their quest to make their escape to México permanent. As usual Bruce appreciates all commentary; to do so, click on the post title and scroll down. Hasta Pronto!

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