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As part of the long Thanksgiving Mexican party, we went to Cambridge, MA last Saturday to celebrate el_oso’s birthday. We had great pozole and cochinita made by the birthday boy, who turned 27 (and he’s the youngest of our class!) On Sunday we went to a three-story Chinese restaurant for a dim sum buffet, with Joel’s guidance because he knows the food (whe had no idea what most of it was). The only sad thing was the post-holiday traffic on the way back: it took 3:30 to get to New Haven, instead of the usual 2:15.

This week we had the Second Northeastern Mexican National Meeting in New Haven. Our friends Sergio (from OH), Juan, Yeriley, Joel, and el_oso (MA) came for Fabiola’s famous pavo adobado. Don’t miss the pictures!

I just set up this blog two days ago and I’m already receiving blog spam!. Today I got about two dozen “comments” with links to dubious casinos…

As a result, and thanks to the links provided by Alán, I decided to install a Captcha system to try to detract the spambots. Sorry for the inconvenience.

NPR : A San Francisco Bookshop Shows Its Colors

A sandwich with the image of the Virgin was auctioned for $28,000. Just imagine how much you could get for the tiles from the Hidalgo subway station in Mexico City!

Six months ago, our license plate was stolen. Today, we found out that it has been recovered!

After our license plate was stolen, we went to the DMV and obtained a new one. The problem was that last week we started getting parking tickets in the mail for the new happy owner of our old license plate. We had to get a copy of the original police report to prove that those tickets are not ours. To our surprise, we were told that shortly after the tickets were issued, the car that had our license plate got towed and the police found out that the license plate was stolen!

Not that it helps us much, because we have a new license plate anyway.

Kudos to the NHPD. Now if only the DMV talked to the Parking and Transit office to tell them when license plates are cancelled, so that they don’t send tickets to the former owner…

Well, this is my first post. Seems to be working…