JohnF13

Ohhh, lookie here. The refuge of the cowardly......Anonymous negative feedback for critisizing ning. Guess there are a few trolls around.....

I'm so glad I don't look at Ning anymore. I have no idea what this is about, but, please keep the secret, because I have absolutely no interest.

Permanent.

Funny, I agreed to adopt her yesterday.

Thanks for the info on that. I went down there today and signed up for 4 Meg's, cost $47/month mas o memos. One word of caution, there is no English spoken there, so put your best Spanish game face on! 6 Meg's is $82, it goes up to 9 Meg's for $133 or so. Total cost for the new contract was $142, that includes the first month, install and I believe, equipment.,

I have flown with COPA a couple of times. Nothing bu good things to say about them. Real metal knives and forks? Just one of the good things about them.

My turn I guess. Anyone else having netflix problems? I am using blockless vpn with an address in the U.S. Starting a week ago I could not get some programs and for the past two days nothing. The screen tells me that it cannot connect to netflix. I just installed a new range extender hard wired to my router, but these problems started before that install. My internet is fine, Youtube works great.

Thanks for the explanation, Mark. Made it easy for me to understand.

I talked to Marion a couple of days ago and without getting into specifics, she is recovering well. She recently got her car out of the garage and renewed her drivers licence. That has given her a lot more mobility - the day after I was talking to her I saw her again at Los Establos.

Well, We didnt make it that far. Went in for lunch one day, was told what we could eat with no exceptions so we got up and left.

Good news for everyone - except maybe the Southern U.S.......

Got some from Carla. Great resource, thanks.

Looking for someone who can re-upholster a couple of old sofas and a chair.

Bud, that amount is suspiciously high. My costs used to be around $40 a month, I put in a big hot tub and the bill only went up about $15. Highest bill I have ever had was just over $60, and that was a month I was doing a lot of heavy welding.

Maybe current drivers licenses, plates and insurance? Sometimes, a traffic stop is just, well, a traffic stop.

Thanks Keith. Really good to hear about positive things the youngsters are doing instead of concentrating on the one or two percent that are bad.

That road is long overdue, it would make the movement of goods much easier for the farmers. Yes, it would give a new route to the thieves, but they seem to make it to where they want to go anyway.

As someone who is not a resident of Boquete, I have to Ask, what is the point? Having a sticker is not going to stop people from driving without licenses or insurance. If the intent is to keep people like me from spending my money in Boquete, then that's fine....

I would want to know their credentials before considering this.

The hotel diez was nice, but had absolutely no sound deadening. We could hear the people in the next room as soon as they turned on the tv. We were on the third floor, so it should have been quiet, but it wasnt.

Bonnie, of course you can collect, just go back to the US, accept the higher cost of living and pay sales taxes. You can't really expect the US government to pay medical bills in every Country of the World can you? It is the same for the rest of us, we need to buy insurance at a substantial cost. I pay taxes in Canada but would have to return for 90 days before I would qualify for "free" medical.

Yup, but apparently they are not, so I guess we will have to do it ourselves. Sad though, I was hoping for more.

In a lot of the recent cases we are speculating and guessing. What, I think, needs to be done is prepare a list of common questions and interview each victim to see if there are any commonalities. Questions could include location, security (window bars etc), does the person live alone (or were they alone at the time) did they just come from the bank with cash, do they have a description and what happened. That way we could all see if there is a modus operandi and if so, what can be done to disrupt the cycle. One person with a balanced mix of empathy and forcefulness (probably the wrong word) should do that so that the results would have a common baseline free of individual biases. This would not be a quick study as victims may not want to talk about their experiences immediately after the fact.

I am all for lmmidiate reporting with details to follow. While there is a chance of more accidental false reporting that way, it does alert people and, quite frankly, we all do need to be more alert. Speculation on the size of gun is likely not of much use, while a large calibre weapon will cause a bigger hole a .22 can cause much more damage due to the characteristics of the bullets. It really depends on the make-up of the bullet and getting into a technical discussion on that would just send most people to sleep. I think the big thing here, as has been demonstrated previously, is that these gang members have absolutely no fear of shooting someone. That is the scarey part and the one thing that most Expats still don't believe will happen. We have to get past the notion that if we are submissive then all that will happen is the maleantes will steal money and goods. As others have said, we, as individuals, are responsible for our own safety. I read a good line on another venue yesterday - " when seconds count, the police are only minutes away".

Looking for water lilies or other types of water plants for a new garden feature I am building.