“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” - James Dean
Posted in Cars, Car Dealers and Car Service on Dec 31st, 2005
On November 5th, I wrote that I needed to have a car’s front end aligned. I originally wanted to go to MARCONELA AUTOSERVICIOS, but it was closed. I went to SERVICENTRO ROBINSON as a substitute. As it turns out, I should have waited and gone to my first choice. After less than 4000 miles the [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 31st, 2005
While I was looking up the reason that eating 12 grapes as the clock strikes midnight was customary in Panama, I found a couple of interesting sites that provide some insight into many New Year’s Customs.
This first site provides a chronology of events leading to the first of the year celebrations, which I had not [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 30th, 2005
Posted in Earthquake/Seismic, Panama Journal on Dec 30th, 2005
At around 1:27 PM, we had a pretty good temblor/earthquake. I have read that we have had a couple of others recently, but this is the first I have felt. I have a couple pendulum clocks that both stopped when it happened.
I haven’t found it on the Internet yet so it will probably be [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 30th, 2005
Firefox has a current news section in its browser, which uses the BBC feed as its provider. Today I was curious what the BBC news search would yield if I put in Panama. The top three URLs follow:
Country profile: Panama
Timeline: Panama
News of the Americas
As an extra, here is the Panama National Anthem.
Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 29th, 2005
Plaza El Terronal was scheduled to open around December 15, 2005. Obviously that date has come and gone. However, that is not that uncommon for construction in Panama. A house completing within three months of the scheduled date, is pretty good. For a construction such as Plaza El Terronal, it will probably take more. Since [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 28th, 2005
I don’t know about you, but I hate spending time going through multiple menus on the telephone to get to speak to a human. Living in Panama, it is even worse if you need to call a company in the US, because the 800 numbers are not valid. While some credit card companies allow you [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 27th, 2005
I had a wonderful invitation to spend Christmas in Panama. It was an experience I hadn’t expected and one that was most enjoyable Christmases I have spent in some time. Of course Christmas is for kids and my host’s two children were anxious for Santa to arrive.
In Panama City, the Christmas celebration begins at the [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 27th, 2005
Thanks for out to Chef Melissa (the cooking diva) for a great holiday recipe combining what I think of as Pumpkin pie with cheesecake. Thanks also goes out to one of Chiriqui Chatter’s readers for providing the pumpkin. I had given up finding it in the stores in David. The recipe called for 16 oz [...]
Posted in Web Host Related on Dec 24th, 2005
I need to say thanks to VistaPages for correcting the problem I had in my Photo Album software. When I had done the last upgrade, it didn’t take and VistaPages had to restore to the previous version. After I gave them the information they needed the correction was in place in about an hour’s time. [...]
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