i have figured out some way to keep spamming robots from commenting on my site--i will try to implement it soon. i have somehow forgotten to mention that nick and i recently purchased two fabulous goldfish. our tank has been running, empty, for over a month now and we we actually kinda digging the whole zen feeling of an empty fish tank in our room but finally decided to put the thing to the purpose for which it is intended. thusly----fish. they are only babies at the moment but soon they'll be gawky teenagers and then full-blown fishy adults. they're the brainiac fish (as i call them)--you know--the kinds with the really big brain looking things on the outside of their heads (very martian looking). we haven't decided what to name them yet but we're contemplating naming the very golden one mariko-san after our favourite character in Shogun (a great book, incidentally) and the brown one admiral boots. we'll keep you updated. i'm up very early for a saturday morning but i'm off to go to training for horse rescuing. more on that later.....
alex--if you don't start a blog before you leave i will come down to mexico, find you, and punch you.
(love you)