July 27, 2013 - Governors Island, NYC

Welcome to Governors Island! 

July 19-23, 2013 - NY Memory Lane

We went to New York together: Marybeth, Huub and I. Mom had said she really wanted to visit Jimmy's grave, and he is buried on Long Island near First Prebyterian Church in Babylon, where the family lived when Marybeth was in highschool (PS 138, she'd say). Albert Leininger was pastor at the church from 1940 to 1970, and today a plaque hangs on the rear wall that reads "Preacher, Builder, Counselor with a consistent life." Mom was touched at how personal and apropos it was." [I wish I could paste the photo I took -- with the Samsung camera-tablet --- but I get the message "format incompatible"]. We met two couples in their 80's, the caretaker (also about that age), and two aldermen in their 50's. Rob Laing said he'd been baptized by Reverend Leininger, and Teufel (a little older) said he'd been confirmed by Opa. Teufel remembered Opa in one of his sermons bemoaning people preferring to mow their lawns on Sunday rather than come to church. "Let the weeds grow!" He'd said. "They're green , living things too!" That resonated with Teufel, a boy who disliked his garden chores.

July 26, 2013 - Samsung Galaxy Tab 3

Now I am working on a tablet only, a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3. Ah! Already I prefer the fact that there's more punctuation on the keyboard! (So you don't have to hold a key for the !?,. to appear)

July 18, 2013 - Samsung Galaxy Epiphany

I am testing a Samsung Galaxy Camera EKGC110, with 21x optical zoom AND tablet functiinlity; pretty cool, eh? Ok, now that I've downloaded blogger and started a post (typing is do-able, similar to a Blackberry though hopefully my touchscreen aim will improve quickly), how do I insert a photo?

Ah, ok. I have now spotted the camera icon on the post "preview" page. And I selected a photo from dropbox to upload, one I just took with this very camera. Hmm, I get a message "file format not supported." wtf?

Ok. Instead I took another photo and uploaded it directly to blogger. Here it is:

So why has alignment shifted to center now??

It's a bit of a pain that, with the space the keyboard takes up, and the photo above in portrait (and without it in landscape), I can only see a few lines of text as I write. 

Mar 31 - Preparations for Palm Sunday

Preparing the sawdust for the 'alfombra' (literally: carpet) that the Escuela Sevilla will lay down in the street in front of the school tomorrow, Palm Sunday.

Dye is dissolved in a bucket of water, and is then poured over raw (wood-colored) sawdust. This then needs to be mixed by hand to disperse the color throughout the whole pile of sawdust.

Many hands make light work.

Teachers and students all pitch in.

Mar 30 - Return to Antigua

The welcome home sunset in Antigua was hazy yet  beautiful-as-ever, coming after a few drops of rain. Here viewed from the rooftop terrace at El Mirador 

12.31 Cancun soundtrack

The background sound-track to my time in Cancun is

 'Tonight's Gonna Be a Good Night' remixed by DJ David Guetta,

along with LMFAO's 'I'm Sexy and I Know It' (hilarious) -- check out the video on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQVD5dnP3dk&feature=related

There's a parody of it, but you've gotta wonder how this could be more of a parody than it already is.