misc. ramblings
This post is called misc. ramblings because I really don't have much interesting to say. However, I'll ramble on for a while and hopefully it will not be too boring.
I played around with the template for the blog over the weekend. I really liked the first format, but it bugged me that it only used part of the screen. At least, that's the way it appeared on my computer. Maybe that's not the case on other computers. So I went looking for something that used the whole screen, which this new format does. But the letters seem huge. So I can't decide whether or not I like it. I'd welcome comments on the new format. Keep the new one or go back to the old one?
It's hard to believe, but my time in Venezuela is half over, today. I'm amazed how quickly and how slowly the time has gone. I've never been away from my home for this long. It's strange. I've never thought of myself as a person who gets homesick. When I was a kid I thought girl scout camp was great and I would have been happy to stay there the whole summer. I rarely went home on the weekends when I was in college. But it was daunting to think about living in another country for ten months. Now it just is - it's what I'm doing and sometimes when I try to envision my life back in Albuquerque I have a hard time. Of course, the fact that I sold my house, packed up all my belongings, and gave away the cats has something to do with that. The dog I get back at least - once I find a place to live. Life would be way better here if I had a pet. I miss my pets almost as much as I miss my friends. I tried to convince my landlord he should rent me a dog or cat along with the apartment, but he didn't think too much of that idea. He tried to tell me animals were not allowed in the building, which I know isn't true because I've seen a number of pets, including in the the apartment of the conserje.
Things are settling down here after the World Social Forum that was held in Caracas last week. I did not have an opportunity to attend any of the events, unfortunately, but it seems that they were well attended and there were tens of thousands of people here from all over the world. I saw a good number of them walking around downtown last week. I talked with a man on the metro who is with one of the TV stations here, and he thought the forum was going very well.
Today was a beautiful day - warm (29 or 20c) and sunny. The weather in Caracas really is good, even though I complained a lot about the heat when I first got here. I was used to nice cool desert nights and had trouble sleeping in the warmer temps of Caracas. But I've discovered that winter here means cooler nights. I do miss snow however.
I posted another photo of El Hatillo because I like to see photos. I used the "Blog this" button in Picassa, which worked pretty well, but it looks like I now have a link to Picassa on my blog. It's a good program for organizing and working with digital photographs, and it's free, but I hadn't intended to be an advertising vehicle. Oh well.
Communication is always welcome.
Hasta luego.
I played around with the template for the blog over the weekend. I really liked the first format, but it bugged me that it only used part of the screen. At least, that's the way it appeared on my computer. Maybe that's not the case on other computers. So I went looking for something that used the whole screen, which this new format does. But the letters seem huge. So I can't decide whether or not I like it. I'd welcome comments on the new format. Keep the new one or go back to the old one?
It's hard to believe, but my time in Venezuela is half over, today. I'm amazed how quickly and how slowly the time has gone. I've never been away from my home for this long. It's strange. I've never thought of myself as a person who gets homesick. When I was a kid I thought girl scout camp was great and I would have been happy to stay there the whole summer. I rarely went home on the weekends when I was in college. But it was daunting to think about living in another country for ten months. Now it just is - it's what I'm doing and sometimes when I try to envision my life back in Albuquerque I have a hard time. Of course, the fact that I sold my house, packed up all my belongings, and gave away the cats has something to do with that. The dog I get back at least - once I find a place to live. Life would be way better here if I had a pet. I miss my pets almost as much as I miss my friends. I tried to convince my landlord he should rent me a dog or cat along with the apartment, but he didn't think too much of that idea. He tried to tell me animals were not allowed in the building, which I know isn't true because I've seen a number of pets, including in the the apartment of the conserje.
Things are settling down here after the World Social Forum that was held in Caracas last week. I did not have an opportunity to attend any of the events, unfortunately, but it seems that they were well attended and there were tens of thousands of people here from all over the world. I saw a good number of them walking around downtown last week. I talked with a man on the metro who is with one of the TV stations here, and he thought the forum was going very well.
Today was a beautiful day - warm (29 or 20c) and sunny. The weather in Caracas really is good, even though I complained a lot about the heat when I first got here. I was used to nice cool desert nights and had trouble sleeping in the warmer temps of Caracas. But I've discovered that winter here means cooler nights. I do miss snow however.
I posted another photo of El Hatillo because I like to see photos. I used the "Blog this" button in Picassa, which worked pretty well, but it looks like I now have a link to Picassa on my blog. It's a good program for organizing and working with digital photographs, and it's free, but I hadn't intended to be an advertising vehicle. Oh well.
Communication is always welcome.
Hasta luego.
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