Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 22nd, 2005
Well it is December 22, 2005 and I haven’t sent out any Christmas Greetings. That being the case, I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone that reads this blog the happiest holiday season ever. I hope you can all spend a wonderful time with family or friends. Lets all hope that 2006 brings [...]
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Posted in Music, Panama Journal on Dec 21st, 2005
One of the things I sometimes miss is listening to good ole country and western music. Once in a while the local radio station will play music in English, but even when they do they seem to always have disk jockeys that want to talk over the music.
If I am at home I usually get [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal, Recipes on Dec 21st, 2005
I really get a kick out of surfing for blogs on the Internet. One of my favorites is Disarranging Mine. Marie has always been the source of new sites for me to sample. Her post on Five food blogs hit upon two of my interests – food and cooking.
Now the first blog she [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 21st, 2005
When it comes to the ability to have a car serviced in Panama, it appears that the Japanese cars are the way to go. The Ricardo Perez, S.A. dealership is the largest and best equipped with parts in Panama.
General Motors appears to be moving into second place as the largest manufacture of cars in the [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 20th, 2005
I receive an email message from Panda Software usually everyday. I started receiving these messages when I downloaded the Panda software to try as my virus software. It was this software that corrupted my PC and caused me a have to rebuild it. While I would never use this software again, I have kept the [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 20th, 2005
Here is a link to a map showing the distribution of gasoline prices throughout Panama as of December 15, 2005. You can see that the farther west you go in Panama, the price increases. This price difference has to be because of the extra expense of trucking it to the west.
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Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 18th, 2005
Today was the day for Club Soroptimista International de David to host their party for the children of Parroquia de San Felix – Las Lajas. Around 8:00 am this morning the members of Club Soroptimista International de David met at Café Ejecutivo in David.
Four vehicles headed out for San Felix. This pickup was loaded with [...]
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Posted in Software on Dec 17th, 2005
A new rumor is rapidly spreading around the Internet, that Google is looking at the browser Opera as a possible acquisition. I know that Opera has done a lot of work to be the browser of choice for mobile phones and maybe that is what Google is looking for.
I like Opera. It is a clean [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 16th, 2005
In my sixty some years on this planet, I have, with only a few exceptions, always had a dog. I have had eleven dogs. The breeds I have owned include four terriers (a Scottish terrier - Scotty, a Manchester terrier - Fritz, a Silky terrier - Taca, and a mixed terrier - Skippy), a Pekinese [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Dec 16th, 2005
Obviously Chiriqui Chatter is a new blog with a specific niche of interest and doesn’t have much history or many readers. While I started the original Chiriqui Chatter in September of 2003, I just brought it back online the middle of last September.
It has always been interesting to me to see from where the readers [...]
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