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Slainte39 was a great guy. Terribly knowledgeable about things lakeside and a great source of information. Most all of us who knew him, greatly miss him. I wish his son, Mike and family the best during these difficult times.

Yes and there are a few using DirecTV which has fewer channels reaching this far south than DISH. My condo up north offers DirecTV and not DISH so for a while I brought a receiver down and got some of the channels available up north. I gave it up though, especially now that there is both streaming and of course Shaw Direct. (which are both much better than DirecTV.

My Telmex infinitum went down at about 19:45 to 19:55 hours in upper, slightly West Ajijic, I'm on my backup connection with the local cable company.

I don't quite remember. It was about 7 to 9 days. It wasn't any longer. They had the hearing aid units in stock. They simply had to program them to meet my needs and bring them to lakeside from Guadalajara. I just went back today some 9 days after I got them to see if I needed any fine tuning. I didn't. Everything was and is just working fine. They were the same brand as the ones I used to use, PHONAKS. The last pair I bought were purchased at the Seattle Costco some 6 years ago and one of the two had broken and apparently, the average life of hearing aids is around 6 years. So it was suggested that I just get new ones rather than trying to get the broken on repaired.

I'm not sure. What do you think?

Just did a Bing search and here is what I discovered. The US springs forward on.......... Sunday, march 13, 2022

The number shown above has a minor error in it. The number on their business card starts with 332 not 333 as shown above. The number is 332-945-3267

The title of this topic is MX peso tanking. Well not any more. I just checked. And the peso has dropped back to 20.95 pesos per dollar, this Wednesday morning. That's still a little better than what it was, but not much. I have no idea where the value of the peso is going. But it doesn't seem to be in a hurry for a rapid change as had been suggested by the press.

I just got your PM and responded. Have a great day.

On the Yahoo financial page, instead of showing about 20.4 pesos per US dollar, this morning it was showing 21.32 pesos per dollar. EDIT: I just looked again and it has dropped a bit down to 21.29 . That's less than a peso increase as of now, but every little bit helps.

Yes Eric, I know who I am. Do you really want me to PM you, when we can do it in public right here? Please respond at your earliest convenience via hotmail or here, on line

I just got hearing aids from them. The brand they sold me are labeled PHONAK Audeu M. The Phonak brand is from Switzerland. My new hearing aids seem to be working just fine. But I am no expert. I'm just a happy user

About the only thing I can cook is a TV dinner. But by putting something in the microwave and letting it run for awhile aren't you cooking it more?

Yes, I too have had good luck there. The cross street there is Juarez.

Where in Riberas is this store? Say I, in upper Ajijic.

I live in upper Ajijic, above the last light going West (Juarez) and I am connected right now to the internet on my Telmex telephone line and just phoned Seattle using Telmex phone. Everything is working here. I hope you get your service back soon .

Thanks for the Lithium battery suggestions, GDouglas. Things sure are changing fast

I have had to replace my 6 volt deep cell batteries once and it is about to happen again within a year or so And yes if I were much younger and not in my early 80s I too would be contemplating lithium batteries.

Hey GDouglas, I was stationed in the Netherlands, just maybe 2 hours north north-east of Amsterdam, and as I remember, there were many many people there riding bikes. And I can't ever remember seeing that many cars jammed on the street like you have in the photo you posted. But maybe, I just don't remember EDIT I was stationed there in 1965-6 north of Zwolle, near Meppel.

Gosh, I love my solar panels, battery backup system, etc. Back when solar panels were new lakeside, a normal electric solar panel generated a whole lot of wattage, or so we thought My first 10 panels put out 160 watts each, and then when I upgraded, I got 12 panels that by then put out even more, 170 watts per panel . And finally, so that I could go off the grid we added 6 panels at 255 or so watts each and 8 six volt deep cell car batteries, or what ever they are now called plus an inverter, you know, something that converts DC power to AC power. Now the same sized panels are approaching 500 watts output each, and we all thought 160 watts per panel was good. Give it another 20 or so years and only God knows what will happen. I just know that I generate more than enough electricity from my 28 solar panels. And my bill is always the minimum amount, which is around $50 pesos every two months.

I am getting a little too old to like the drive between Ajijic and Costco, so I simply get everything at the local animal Shelter. I pay a little more, but my three cats and two dogs don't eat that much. 🤑 😀

I live alone, therefore when I go out to eat the price is perhaps 50% of what a pair would pay. And with tip, it is often less than $200 and occasionally slightly more, but never close to $500 pesos. I never go out at night anymore. So yes, I can go through $500 peso notes at Superlake, Ponchos, El Toritos or Costco, but I sure don't need any when eating breakfast in the morning or lunch in the afternoon, but that's just me.

Yes, I do about the same. It depends upon the change I have. But I try to give 14% to 16% after each meal. And one of the reasons I have a bank account and gave up going to ATMs was that I always felt guilty having to pay my bills with 500 peso notes. These days I almost never need or therefore get many $500 peso notes or bills when withdrawing funds from my local bank account. And as we well know, when going to an ATM, one gets most of his funds in the form of $500 peso bills.

That YOUTUBE video is scary. So what should we use, should our pets get fleas and/or ticks?

Yes, wow. I simply try to tip what is normal here. And when I eat out, I try to tip 10 to 15% and sometimes a little more, if I do not have the correct change. Everything is so economical here, compared to my home in Seattle, I have no problem tipping.