Settled

We are as settled as we ever will be I am guessing. Yesterday we went to Mexico. We drove down separately but met up with Dave and Liz and our new neighbors Ken and Mikie from Oklahoma. Our mission was for Butch to get some dental work done. Dr. Mustre is who many, many people go to in Progreso but last year on Christmas Eve day we had to go down and get my denture repaired and Liz had a dental emergency too and we went to the one just north of Mustre and we were pleased with the work. Butch had lost a filling while we were still in Iowa so he had it repaired and the total cost was $45. He was also very pleased with how the procedure was done.

We also went down to Hector's to get some eyedrops for Marlene. Picked up a Zpak to have on hand and that was the sum total of our purchases.

We had a great lunch at Pancho's bar that is part of the El Cisco on the main drag. Butch ordered a sausage and egg breakfast taco and he received a sausage taco and an egg taco. Hmmm. I ordered Lonches. They are little bread-like loaves filled with a great mixture of veggies and meat. I knew what I was ordering and had no intention of eating the little bread thingies and I didn't. I gutted all 5 of them and had a nice salad and meat like pile of food. Very yummy. Then I asked for some sour cream to kind of bind the pile together and they brought me straight cream. Another miscommunication. We both got what we wanted just not in the form we expected! I will try again next time we venture down there.
Lonches:

We stopped in Magnolia Village on the way home and visited with Chet and Irma. Lots of changes continue in that park.

Headlight repair

Butch had an awful time trying to see through our fuzzy headlights the night we were wandering around San Antonio and not knowing where we were for sure. The GPS was our guiding light but it would have helped if the highway had been illuminated to a greater degree.
Butch had worked on our fuzzy headlights a few years ago with minimal success. Terry Linder suggested buying a kit at O'Reilly's because it works much better than what Butch had tried before. And so he did. And Terry was right. After a few hours of hard work, the results are remarkable.

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Before-

Before

Google Fi update

I switched from Verizon to Google Fi before leaving Iowa. I was a bit concerned about coverage but not enough to change my mind. The initial draw was that you only pay for what you use. The initial monthly expense is $20 with an additional $10 for each gigabyte used with a ceiling of 6 GB. Above 6 GB is unlimited data. When we are on WiFi, free or otherwise we use our phone data very little. Also, Google Fi uses 3 carriers (US Cellular, T-Mobile and Sprint) so the chance of not having coverage is minimal. and that is indeed what we have found to be true. In Jefferson, we are covered by US Cellular and in Alamo Texas, we are covered by T-Mobile and Sprint. On the trip down we had one tiny little area in the Arbuckle Mountains without coverage. It lasted at most about a mile. So that is all good. Our first bill from Google Fi was $20 and our second one was $25 and some cents.

So with Google Fi and my new phone, Pixel 3a I can make it a hotspot for the Internet at no additional cost. Yes, it will take the data above 6 GB quickly if we use it as much as we did in Iowa on Telecom. But the total cost will be even less. So not being very cognizant as to how to get all that done I started into it yesterday. Why bother? There is free WiFi in the park and it works satisfactorily in October and part of November most of the time. When everyone arrives it goes to hell. The owners of the park (Wilder) are discontinuing park-wide WiFi next July as they have found it too expensive and non-functioning most of the time. They do have an alternative with a company called CABO and it will cost the residents who choose to use it. 3 levels-$49.95-$79.95- $99.95. I would have chosen the middle one had I decided to go that way. However yesterday I was able to get the pixel_3a hotspot set up and working on my computer and the smart TV and it is wonderful!! Works every bit as smoothly as my expensive Internet connection in Jefferson. So now you know what I have been up to. The next post will be about Butch's latest project.

No matter which way

No matter which way you look at it, it takes about a week to adjust to the move. So we still have some settling in to finish up on.
We played in the first mixed couples pool event. You sign up as a couple but play with whoever draws your name. Dave and I played as partners and despite playing well enough we only won two of the 7 games. It was fun though. Butch and his partner Mikie did well coming in first tying with another couple.