Improvements

Well, has it been busy around the old hacienda!  

Nancy and Kirk went off to see the vet.  She recognized the young vet from when they were both volunteering at JEEP.  While he does not speak much English, he is very good at what he does.  He declined to express Kirk's glands, gave him an antibiotic shot in both back legs, and two different types of pills to take, and charged the grand sum of $200 Mxn or about $14 Cdn.  Kirk was still listless and subdued when they came home, a very un-Kirk-like state of affairs.  He perked up later in the evening, and managed to finish off his days rations before he went to bed.  He is improved this morning, still not his usual self, but on the road to recovery.  His appetite has returned, along with his usual good humour. 

Martin did show up yesterday with a crew, and washed and wiped down the Brave in just over an hour.  He says he'll be back to wax it on Monday; we shall see.  Our neighbour hooked up our coax to his setup, I adjusted the wiring setup in the front of El Valiente, and we now have TV! 

We picked up some pollo asado for an early supper, and had just finished when Eric the internet guy showed up with his tech, apprentice tech, and girlfriend/office administrator.  They bolted an antenna to one of our front deck poles in short order, then ran a cable under the Brave, into a bay, and into the interior via the bolt hole that formerly held the door chair in place (which we removed when we installed the new recliner).  

They unboxed and plugged in a new wireless N router, asked what we wanted for a password, set it up, and presto! our own 3Mb pipe, unlimited data internet!!  

2.37 Mbps running through a California VPN is good enough for me

I immediately had to try a Facetime session to my cousin, just to try it out.  Ta da!!  No more struggling with shitty Wi-fi.  We had an orgy of viewing last night, including catching up on some Game of Thrones from a memory stick, CBC news, then switched to Netflix to browse about.  Ah, roughing it!  Now if I could only figure out how to output the smart TV sound to the Bose Soundlink bluetooth speaker...

With the rig finally washed, today we completed our site setup.  First, I soaked down the CRV tow hitch with silicon spray (to stave off the effects of the inevitable seaside salt spray) before I put the cover over it.  

Then we set up our 10 X 10 canopy on the back deck, extended the Brave's awning, put the tire UV covers on, and attached the side and front sun/privacy screens.  Nancy then installed the black sun blockers on the windshield and front windows, on the windshield wipers, and put the tennis balls under the wiper arms to take the tension off of the wiper blades.  I still have to drill and screw down the canopy feet to the front deck to secure them, but we have to leave something for tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the weathers been good, and there were Dolphins jumping in the bay today.