It's been a few days. I had a test and lots of work to do for Spanish, and I waited until almost the last minute. I found out some interesting things though. One of the assignments was a report, in Spanish of course, on a selected Mexican city. Mine was Guanajuato, a city in a state of the same name. They have underground tunnels for cars, so there is virtually no traffic on the streets in the small town. Every year they hold an arts festival there, and it's gotten to be a big deal. There is also a strange phenomenon at one of their cemeteries. The graveyards there charge a yearly fee of the relatives of the departed that are 'stored' beneath the ground. Some of these people are quite poor, so they can't or won't pay for caskets. The ground has a strange composition, and it preserves the bodies so well that, after relatives quit paying the 'rent', they were dug up and put on display. The town is famous for the 'museum' they have them housed in.

Enough of that. They have fired another person at work. This makes the third since I started working. I work at only one of the sites they operate, there are around ten I believe, and it is hard to believe that within the past six months they've seen fit to let three employees go. I have lots of opinions about the whole mess, too many to put here.

I have finished a book since the last time, I think. Well, I didn't really. I was listening to The Weapon Shops of Isher by A. E. Van Vogt, but it cut off toward the end. It's not a very good recording. I will buy the book, or look for a digital copy, so I can finish it. Right now I'm into April 1864, The Month That Saved America. It's a book about the last days of the civil war. Pretty good, but it goes into a very detailed account of Lincoln's death. I can think of no other reason for the information to be in the book other than filler, to make the book longer so they can charge more for it. That's my opinion though, always cynical. Is that being cynical?

I thought I had something else to say, but now I can't remember what the hell it was. Maybe next time. It's raining. It's the last day of March in Tucson, and it's raining for the second time in as many weeks. It's supposed to rain in the spring, when the monsoon water gets dumped on us. It hardly rained at all last year, and it makes me wonder if there is anything to the 'global warming' thing. The weather right now is nice though, I wish it could be like this always......