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  1. When you compare time differences between Canada and the US, remember that there are 3 or 4 time zones in the US. For example, Seattle is now only one hour different than the time here lakeside. It was two hours until today, when the changed their clocks by one hour.
  2. Using a 40 foot in diameter satellite dish I'm getting an OK signal. But nothing special.
  3. Trouble is, my solar panels are on strike and not generating enough electricity. Now if we could only get it to rain at night and have the sun out in the day. .
  4. I just opened my back door and noticed that the outdoor concrete entrance was slightly wet and when I walked upside, I could feel a very light rain hitting my forehead. I was shock, came here online and saw that I wasn't the only one experiencing this rain. I hope we get a little more. The lake level sure could use a little to quite a bit of rain. I just hope we don't get too much. May we all have a wet night, outdoors that is. Please check for any window or door that should be closed. I'm in upper Ajijic and just checked the Ajijic weather station webpage. They don't show any rain as of today. Have a good night Pete. .
  5. be careful. Shaw is upgrading to better focused satellites with their signals focused on Canada. The old satellites' which used to reach Mexico are being replaced by these new satellites which do not reach Mexico. So, within a month or three, no more Shaw Direct signals will be teaching Mexico. Time to consider streaming over the internet.
  6. I too go to ajijicweather.com several times per day and have not had any problems reaching them in many days, or maybe months. I just don't remember having any problems as long as I could get online.
  7. I'm just checking. I have had no activity. And want to create at least one post
  8. I got my latest Pfizer Covid shot and the latest flue shot, along with some shot for something called KPR or something like that, 10 days ago in Seattle and am feeling just great. No, I didn't get Covid any time after a Covid shot, although I did catch it several years ago after flying from Guad to Seattle and being exposed to many passengers. Who knows, maybe I was just lucky or maybe the quality of my shots was better. Who knows.
  9. What I found interesting was that when I used to bring my US born dog down in the 90s, about how scared he became during the firecracker season. Yet today my Mexican born rescue dogs don't seem to be scared at all. I wonder how common that is. What has your experience been?
  10. I bet you could stream it over the high-speed internet.
  11. Thanks for sharing, say I from sunny Seattle for a few more days, (yes, I know, it's almost never sunny in Seattle in the winter). Let's hope that the US dollar continues to get stronger. I would love to see 20 to 1 again.
  12. Remember that Shaw Direct has announced that we will be losing the last of their signals by about March. They have invested in lower powered and better focused satellites that still provide a strong signal to Canada but will not be losing energy letting signals leak as far south as Mexico. one techy suggested, with a smile on his face, that we could probably still get the signal with a 30 foot satellite dish. So I guess Shaw Direct will soon no longer be an option in Mexico.
  13. The only nonstop flight between GDL and Seattle was and perhaps still is, Volaris. So, I tried them several years ago. It was not an enjoyable experience.
  14. Thanks for sharing. Beautiful.
  15. Yes, happy holidays to you all. let's hope the weather stays as good or better than the last few days.
  16. After leaving El Torito at about 10 AM or a few minutes later I headed West toward the Ajijic Pemex gas station for a refill. At the same time some twenty black police trucks raced by heading West. Soon thereafter I too tried to go West, but the traffic was blocked off by some of the Police trucks with lights blinking, on the Carretera, at about the point where Colon crosses the street, you know, near the intersection. Wanting to get home, I turned north few blocks and worked my way past Colon and to the top of Juarez where I live. I have no idea what was happening. I just know that I cannot ever remember that many police vehicles heading past me with sirens screeching on the way to a perhaps crime scene in my life. When I got home, my gardener said that he heard what appeared to be numerous gunshots fired by perhaps one gun in what he thought might be lower Ajijic, near the square, a few minutes before he heard the many sirens from many vehicles passing by toward the general area of where he thought the gunshots might have been coming from.
  17. One of my neighbors up north, said, of course, you will be able to get the signal from the new Satellite, Trouble is you will need a forty-foot dish in. I wonder how big a dish you would really need . Perhaps even larger than 40 feet in diameter.
  18. I'm in upper Ajijic at the top of Juarez Street. I have a thermometer on a covered porch on the second floor about 10 feet from the wall of my unheated house. As of 16:15 it reads 59.9F It has a small battery in it and sends a signal showing the temperature to the inside receiver, which displays the temperature once every minute.
  19. Don't forget that soon the older satellites that Shaw Direct have been using will be taken out of service and replaced with new Satellites that can better focus their signals on Canada, therefore requiring less power to run them and still give good coverage to Canada. The last time I checked my 600 series receivers no longer picks up anything from up north. And only my 800 series receiver picked up a few channels from Canada. And none not even CNN from the US were available. I have converted to streaming the channels that I want to watch from up north via the internet. It's taking a while to get used to but soon I will be totally satisfied with streaming my TV programs, be they from Germany, the US or Canada. Apparently, TV stations from most any country are available via streaming.
  20. Me to. Using a slow internet connection, 10 down by 1 up, sometimes I have to wait maybe 30 seconds, going from post to post. More often it is closer to 5 seconds
  21. Hearing aid specialists come to the LCS. Tel 332 945 3267 Email: chapala@clinicasob.com www.clinicasob.com
  22. I to was down in upper Ajijic early this morning. But everything was OK the next time I checked at about 11Am this morning.
  23. Three or four weeks ago a Telmex repair man was at the house and suggested I go to fiber as there is no cost involved and my speed would improve. I was told they would be able to do it in a week or so. And like I said above, we are going on four weeks and still no word. No problem. When it happens, it happens. I already have pretty good speed for copper. I'm usually getting a download speed of 35 to 50 Mb/sec and an upload speed right around 1.6 on some days and between 8 and 10 on other days. Yes, I do find it weird that my upload speed varies by so much.
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