Part of the kitchen renovations recently executed in AgaveWeb’s corporate headquarters was getting rid of the rustic tilty-gallon-water-bottle-holder thing and replacing it with a cheap plastic pump. Unfortunately, they really weren’t thinking about the terrorism-obsessed foreign markets when they manufactured its packaging.

Spanish word of the week: Bomba. Pump. It also means bomb, for the record…

Other news, Ana’s taking us all to (a?) Temazcal this afternoon, for aromatic steam baths… Actually, I’m coming along for the ride and shall give the baths a wide berth and wander off into the country side with me camera. Steam baths are too far outside my comfort zone.

Also tomorrow morning, I’m doing the voiceover for the Camino Real trailer I was working on last year. Sound booths and everything. Should be a laugh. Though I can’t stand the sound of my recorded voice… Hey ho. I’ve more or less finished with a ton of translations too. It’s been a heavy few days…

In every one of the “Top 10 things you shouldn’t do with your blog” type posts you see, number 2 is usually “stop updating regularly” or “start a post with ’sorry I haven’t blogged in a while”… Anyroad, that said…

Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while. Service might return to normal on Thursday. Tengo un chingo de chamba.

Last night Sita and I dined in Pierrot (Justo Sierra 2355) which was billed as a French restaurant, and I have to say the food there is fantastic. It nudges out El Sacromonte of my top 3 Guadalajara restaurants (La Matera and La I Latina still stand). As per usual it was pretty much empty at 8 o’clockish because only gringos eat at that time on a Friday night. I saw a stack of reservations for 10 pm which is a more normal time to eat round these parts.

The prices are relatively high end, most main dishes are around the 150 peso mark, but they’re worth every centavo… There’s a good list of wines from Chile, Spain and Mexico and the menu’s in French, then Spanish then English. We ordered starters of Fromage (Quesos, Cheeses) and Jamón Serrano (”Special Ham” apparently) which were definitely specially imported. One of the cheeses was a fierce little number but there was also brie, gouda and goat cheese. Then the main dishes arrived. I went for the steak, almost ordering it Término Azul, but chickening out at the last minute and going for rojo, rare, instead, and young Sita plumped for the lomo (pork). They brought it and transferred it to the plate and then piled veggies and spuds all over it. It was probably one of the best meals I’ve had in this fair city. Sita’s was none too shabby neither.

If you come to visit us in Gwod and we don’t take you there then you can rightly take offence…

Thank you very much, Sally and Martin, for sponsoring last night’s gluttony. Extremely appreciated, many thanks…
[tags]Pierrot, restaurant, review, gluttony, steak, guadalajara, jalisco, mexico[/tags]

…like when you have your hair cut (or so I’m told). So I was in the mood for rejigging things, and thus, BEHOLD! “Un inglés en Guanatos”’s latest encarnation. It’ll probably change some more because I’m using an out of the box template (called “I feel dirty”) with some minor revisions. Anyroad, hope you like it. Since my other blog now has the agave theme I thought I’d do summink completely different with this one.

Thanks, Paul and Jesse, for weighing in on the various redesigns.

So last night I went to the Lucha Libre again with Anel, Claus and co, this time in a different arena. We travelled there in the back of someone’s pick up, which made it all the more authentic. It was pricier, mind, the cheap seats were 80 pesos a pop. Still sterling entertainment as always.

Erm… I put up some shelves in me office making use of me new hand drill. I just wanted one of these but every where I went they said they didn’t make them any more and how’s about one of these. Okay, says I and now I’m ready to make holes all over the house. The next project is a new kitchen counter and with my brawn, Daniel’s DIY know-how and my shiny new drill, we’ll be there in no time.

Tonight after deciding there’s bugger all in the cinema (Perfume, Kilometro 32, Blood Diamonds and Borat have all just come out), we’re going to stay in and watch the new episode of LOST and some more Bones… But before that, Sita’s folks are treating us to a birthday meal somewhere. So many thanks in advance, Sally & Quito.

There’s more translation stuff in the works for next week… and I want to investigate an e-commerce plug-in for wordpress. Then my parents’ grand entrance to Mexico on Saturday and our week in Tulum y ¡mucho más!

Also, I’m trying to think of a pithy description of this blog for the upper right corner “about” bit… any ideas?
[tags]lucha libre, redesign, wordpress, templates[/tags]

After making Nourishing Nutrition a fully Wordpress-generated site I thought I’d treat agaveweb.com to a “pimping” to use the vernacular… it now features all kinds of rounded corners/ reflectiony jiggery pokery and has some social aspects. I’m chuffed I got the translation calculator to survive the transition too.

Anyroad, spanish-speaking or not, I’d appreciate your thoughts… Click thee hence to: www.agaveweb.com 2.0

Nb. spanish speakers, once I work out if i’m using tú or Ud I’ll sort that out… and there’s little bits here and there to tran