Week 7 and Most of 8

 I apologize for this post's tardiness, I have been trying to retire early to bed and I tend not to write while I am with Steph. Stephanie has been home for the last week and a half as a result of her encounter with our front gate. She returned to work on Wednesday and seems to be managing with arrested digits, I think she has the hardest time with concerns of what her customers think might be wrong with her. People have the oddest preconceptions about the sterility, health, and well being of the people living in Mexico. Parts of downtown Portland are dirtier than anything I have encountered here in Cozumel. Her finger and palm has avoided infection nicely and she removed her stitches on Tuesday, something I am a little bummed I was not in attendance for, I would have liked to pull a thread myself as I have never had stitches.
The dual posting of this blog is also a direct result in the fact that I have not had a respite from work for the previous thirteen days. I have reached the point of where it is questionable if my mind is following my body or the reverse is true. The days were full of up and downs, rain clouds followed us around last week and I was once again let down by the lack of thunderclaps in this tropical climate. It is what I thought would be one of the additional perks on our adventure down here, tropical rain equals lightning, Zeus has let me down.

The rain cloud followed me into work and last weeks sales were miserable, this week though the sun showed its face and as the fog evaporated sales seemed to condense to my being. On Wednesday I made more in commissions in four hours than a two week pay period at my previous job could produce. It makes being here that much more enjoyable knowing that a job well done is achievable while being able to bask in paradise. My extended work schedule has been arduous and my mental capacities to put black pixels on white screen have been drained, I have been using the islands resources for contemplation and looking inward to think about what to put in these paragraphs. For it was only friday I floated in the ocean for an hour and a half contemplating this very posting.
The most pleasing of the creature comforts that has transpired from my last posting is that I have my computer up and running again. In Portland my computer screen was my television, my parents inherited that and my hard drive came with us. All of my internet connectivity has been through my iPad and has served me well to an extent. After my profitable day last week my first order of business was to buy a new computer screen. Though it is not as large as my previous screen it more than fits the bill, I bought something inexpensive, light and portable so I should be able to transport it to Alaska without incident. And those reading this blog will also benefit with pictorial representations of some of the beauty I find with the relief of not having to read a thousand words.
(Aaaah the internet has been down sense Saturday!!!)
I will wrap this blog up as I am afraid at this point I will not get this post up until next week.