Olivia is my youngest granddaughter. The other day on my daughter’s blog, my daughter wrote about a conversation she and Olivia had. Olivia is four to put the conversation in perspective. I was just rereading it and I could almost see the cogs in Olivia’s mind turning.
Olivia: Mom, sometimes people fall down. Mom: That’s true, they do. Olivia: Sometimes when people fall down they get blood. Mom: Yes, that happens sometimes. We have to be careful don’t we. Olivia: -ponders- Olivia: Mom? Mom: Yes, baby? Olivia: When someone gets blood, they shouldn’t jump up and down. Mom: Because it will make their owie hurt? Olivia: No, silly. Because it will drip blood all over the floor and then you have to clean it up.
As my daughter said in her blog, it is always good to think ahead.
It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me. “Is that a dog you got back there?” he asked.
“It sure is,” I replied.
Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, “What’d he do?”
Panama is changing its law and is going to start charging 25% tax on new cars. This new tax will go into effect in July. If you are planning on buying a car, you might need to speed up your thinking process.
UPDATE:The Panama News posted the Spanish text for Martinelli’s tax reform. I assume buried within this document is the answer to the whether cars are going to have a tax of 25% or not. Being Spanish legalese, it is beyond my ability to understand it.
Dear Wardens: Please disseminate this message to U.S. citizens in your area. Thank you.
The U.S. Embassy has been informed that the Panamanian National Police (PNP) have been instructed to keep streets open should SUNTRACS, a union representing construction workers, attempt to close traffic. Protests led by SUNTRACS are taking place today, Tuesday, March 16, 2010, and may occur at any time. The protests are often targeted for locations near construction sites, especially along Balboa Ave in Panama City, although construction sites near the U.S. Embassy in Panama are also possible locations for protests. There is a strong possibility that there may be confrontations between the police and protestors at any time.
On Tuesday, March 16, 2010, police confronted protestors in the Balboa Avenue area. Protestors were throwing bricks from rooftops and police deployed water cannons to disperse protestors. Protestors also blocked Tumba Muerte near the El Dorado neighborhood and were confronting police. Embassy personal were directed on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, to avoid the area of Balboa Ave from Parque Urraca towards Central Ave. Continue Reading »
While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my uniform, she asked, “Are you a cop?”
“Yes,” I answered and continued writing the report. “My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?”
“Yes, that’s right,” I told her.
“Well, then,” she said as she extended her foot toward me, “would you please tie my shoe?”
This morning as I was listening to Pandora. “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” came on sung by Israel Kamakawiwo.
Israel was an artist that was loved by all of Hawaii and mourned by the world when he died. His memory lives on through his music and his music seems to always fit the world as I see it looking out of my window in Panama.
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I have been using VPN for a couple months now. The company I am using is ACEVPN. For the most part I am pleased, but it has not been perfect and I am not sure if the times I have performance problems are related to my specific VPN or to Cable Onda or to the sites I have been trying to access. If you have no idea what a VPN is or why you might want it, go back and read this previous post.
As I mentioned in another post, the primary reason I started this experiment was to access NetFlix for movies, which requires having a US IP address.
To this point, I haven’t felt that I consistently have performance that was good enough to sign up for NetFlix. Most of my testing has been using the HULU site, which has may TV programs and some movies. Sometimes it works well and sometimes it has buffering interruptions that would be intolerable if I were watching a NetFlix movie. Continue Reading »
A little boy got lost at the YWCA and found himself in the women’s locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, “What’s the matter, haven’t you ever seen a little boy before?”
Olivia is my youngest granddaughter. The other day on my daughter’s blog, my daughter wrote about a conversation she and Olivia had. Olivia is four to put the conversation in perspective. I was just rereading it and I could almost see the cogs in Olivia’s mind turning.
