It’s Holy Week, and in this Catholic country, a lot of people take it very seriously. The bigger churches hold processions, which look very exotic to my English eyes. It’s not so that they take the obviously-heavy statues along the street. It’s the costumes. They remind me of the KLu Klux Klan. This is unfair, because the costumes concerned are far older than the KKK. They ensure anonimity, but it’s…
If you’re very fit, you can see the Caldera national park on a one-day hike. But it’s 27 km of rough going, (from the Los Brecitos viewpoint, via the campsite, to the Barranco de las Angustias) and I wouldn’t dare try it myself these days. The alternative is to spend a night or two at the campsite in the centre of the park, right by the river. This makes it…
With all the computer troubles, I forgot to mention that “What’s a Few Tentacles Among Friends?” has been accepted for the anthology Cross Genre Cthulu, which will be published by Permuted Press “probably in late 2008”. Bless them, they’ve already paid me.
Soon after the last post, I started scanning the computer for spyware prior to online shopping. The anti-root kit scan came up with loads of suspicious files, which I deleted. And now the dang thing won’t boot. It’s not just missing one file. I really messed it up. So yesterday afternoon I scanned the laptop, and eventually did my shopping. And my husband removed the data disk from the main…
I just came back from a three-day excursion into the Caldera. I got halfway through a post and the computer died. Normal service should resume soon!
I just got back from taking 14 kids into the Caldera. Well, their teacher was in charge, but they needed a second adult along. Now most such school trips have to stay in the campsite, which means carrying tents in, but we were seriously lucky. The teacher, Miguel Angel, is friends with the man in charge of looking after the irrigation canals inside the Caldera, so we could stay in…