Hola from Honduras

[Mike Puckett]

Well, I figured that if the tropical breezes weren't going to come to me I'd go to them. It's toasty warm down here. Actually I'm here to help out our local rep in San Pedro Sula with some training on doing repairs and our new stepper motor controller and then I´ll be back home Sat. Fortunately they put me on the executive floor of the brand new Holiday Inn and I have a computer terminal right outside my room in the atrium. These Spanish keyboards have a real strange layout with all sorts of extra keys. Needless to say I haven´t seen any SC´s but I did see a titanium SC when I was here 7 years ago. So I hope y'all don't freeze your bazoonies up there in the frigid north. Now if I can just get one of these beautiful señoritas to come spend the night with me I'll be all set. Oh well, I guess I'll have to settle for a beer in the bar.

[fast Ed]

Admit it Mike, you headed south because you couldn't handle a little ice storm at home. :p

Have fun!!


cheers,
Ed N.

[Rob Noth]

These Spanish keyboards have a real strange layout with all sorts of extra keys. Tell me about it... I just got back from a couple weeks in Argentina, and at the internet cafe in Ushuaia, they had lots of extra keys but no @ symbol! (fairly useful symbol if you want to send email...) :p Turns out you have to enter it using Alt+key code, they had a sign on the wall...

[SCme]

Mike, you wimp. Just cause Hotlanta got a litte ice, you had to jump ship. :D Just like the weather in the S.E. Atlanta got more ice then we did up here in Chattanooga, and I had a friend in the Smokies that weekend, and he said all they got was rain.

Bottle some of the warm weather and bring it with you....

[Mike Puckett]

I see the weather today in Atlanta was 33 and rain with sunshine for the weekend so I picked a good week to be gone. And these Spanish keyboards are a real trip. They take a real getting used to. The @ sign is at the bottom of the letter Q. I finally hit enough combinations of keys that I figured it out. The left hand shift key is out of place and I keep hitting the < key trying to shift to upper case because it's out of place, too. Plus, all I can think about here is my ex-Honduran wife who left me and driving my race car which I can't until I get back home. Well, at least I helped my local rep get an order for 50 motors so I paid for the trip. Actually it's not too bad here. It's not as dirty and third worldly as it used to be. One time when I was here 10 years ago, a dead horse lay on the side of the road the whole week I was here. And if you think they drive bad where you're at they drive absolutely insanely here. I told my driver that if you drive like this back in the states you'll get shot at. It's routine to cut people off. Plus you constantly have to dodge horse drawn wagons and little bity motor cycles. The air pollution rivals anything you'll see anywhere in the states or Canada. Ah, but the señoritas are so beautiful and their eyes follow me wherever I go in the factories but I'm not going there again. Been there, done that, and all I have to show for it is a broken heart.