Hi, I'm back. That was an interesting 2-week hiatus.
My fancy-shmancy Nexus 7 woke up dead the morning we went to Guadalajara, which is about 2-3 weeks ago. I thought it might be in a coma, but now I'm pretty sure it's stone dead. Either the charging-thing inside the machine is hooped, or all the magic drained out of one of the slots overnight. That puts us down to one machine, and Deb is hooked on a new game..... grrr. The Nexus is still on warranty, so no worries. It quickly became apparent that I was going to have to call (on the telephone) to get anything started on a replacement. That's always fun for me, but with just one hearing aid it's absolute bliss. Eventually I got Omar from Iran, who is the warranty guy for the Chinese tablet sold by an American company to a hapless Canadian. After I finished explaining my situation to Omar he said 'no worries, just give me the serial number off the box that the tablet was shipped in.' Hmnnn. Apparently this guy thinks I pack my shipping boxes along when I go to Mexico! Maybe they do that in Iran, or else the boxes get stolen.... Once that option was discarded, he came back with 'OK then, just turn the machine on and go to "settings"..... Double hmnnn. Omar, if I could turn the freaking thing on, I wouldn't be talking to you! Much discussion ensued, and at the end Omar assured me that Asus would be happy to fix it off warranty for me. In other words, drop dead you infidel. The good news; I'm pretty sure I HAVE the box at home as I am profoundly suspicious of anything that runs on magic, and it will still be on warranty until July. So I'll just have to drag it along with me until we get home.
Deb had mentioned to me back in December that our friend Dorothy in Manzanillo had just purchased a new Asus Transformer, which is a really cool machine. I had actually been lobbying to buy Deb one for this trip, but being the cheap little thing that she is (I love that in a woman) she declined and we went with our two existing machines. The Transformer is a 10" Android tablet with good guts and good software, it runs 10 hours on a charge. It has a high-quality detachable keyboard that makes it into a netbook, and the keyboard gives the tablet an extra 5 hours of battery life. Very cool machine. Apparently the Asus was giving Dorothy worms as she's not an Android Person and the whole experience was just different than she was used to, so we dropped in for a visit a few days after returning from Guadalajara, and I'm now the proud owner of a shiny new (to me) Transformer! After the mandatory 2 days of mutual butt-sniffing we are good to go, so I thought it was time to get back working on the blog. The Posterous folks, bless their little souls, haven't got around to porting their site for Android. Rats! That means I'm back to Deb's machine for blogging, and here I am.
Many things have taken place over the past 2 weeks. The hearing aid got fixed, I bussed to-and-from Guadalajara to pick it up, it works perfectly, and I am now marginally aware of people yelling at me and large vehicles bearing down on me. But that's all for later. I'll start my next post where I left off, on our trip to Guadalajara. Love you all.
