On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:47:09 -0600, Franz Bestuchev
<franz.bestuchev@gmail.com> wrote:

Janithor wrote:

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Franz Bestuchev wrote:

I went out and had Christmas dinner...twice...with different
branches of the same family. Then about midnight the kids came
through the street and instead of caroling, they come into your
house. There you have a little setup of a nativity scene at the
bare minimum...the whole damn bible if you're Mexico's Martha
Stewart. Then the kids sing a variety of songs to the baby jesus
in your nativity scene. Then they all head back outside again
where they dance in the street, and a kind of procession is held
with a little baby jesus. Then an angel-girl knocks over a
devil-boy. It's quite interesting and I can still hear singing so
they're still at it.

There's also been constant barrage of fireworks all day and all
night. I've never been under such sustained fireworks bombardment
- I can't help but think that if it was artillery fire I was
hearing I'd be typing this amongst ruins.

ˇFeliz Navidad!

Forgive me for being so clueless, but I must have missed it. Why
are you in Mexico? What part?

I'm here at an orphanage/boarding school/place for "dumped" old folks
(one of them is 104 years old). I'm setting up new computer
equipment in their main office. I'm going to be reworking the girl's
lab and installing Ubuntu on their machines and move them away from
a combo of Win98 and, <shudder>, WinME machines. The boy's middle
school was just setup and it needs to be organized and sorted out.
(I have some 30 mouspads for them clogging up my room). I've also
got to inventory the computers all over the whole place - and slap a
label on 'em with my handy dandy dymo label writer. "Propriedad de
Santa Maria de Our Lady Of The Silver Lace Bustier)

I'm about 40 minutes outside of the city of Queretaro, which is in
the state of Queretaro. It's a tiny village.

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