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Condos Ixchel on Isla Mujeres – Love them or hate but…

Posted on May 22, 2009 by jackieinpdx

you can not beat the fantastic views. These are photos that I took last month from the rooftop of penthouse 501 where friends were staying.
While I don’t necessarily believe that the condos do anything at all to enhance Playa Norte or fit in with the feel of the island I loved the views. A couple of photos that I didn’t include are ones of the tar paper roofs of a couple of nearby houses that you can see from the penthouse. So you could pay $599,000 to purchase this penthouse and you can see the local style houses with the tar paper roofs and the laundry out front in the little yards. It wouldn’t bother me but then again I wouldn’t be buying a condo at Ixchel. But if I were the type of person (if there is one) that would spend that kind of money to buy a small condo on Isla it might bother me. I’m just saying…

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Seen in my yard

Posted on May 14, 2009 by jackieinpdx

: Mother’s Day gift from Tara

Mother's Day gift from Tara

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Warning! Repeat. Off to Isla

Posted on April 16, 2009 by jackieinpdx

This trip I will post updates from Isla since I am taking my mini laptop/notebook with me. It will be nice to be able to check email and the internet while sitting at a bar or restaurant, maybe even in my room. I may be able to get a wireless connection from the restaurant two doors down where I eat breakfast at least 8 0r 9 times during a two week trip.

Is it wrong to take so many electronics on vacation?

Smartphone, can check email and internet while in USA. Won’t use for voice calls unless emergencies while on Isla.
iPod
Mini laptop/notebook an Asus eeePC which I loaded up with a bunch of music from iTunes and others
Of course my digital camera

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New movie making software I purchased

Posted on April 9, 2009 by jackieinpdx

I purchased Olympus Muvee Theater software on Sunday. I used to have Comcast Photo Circle which is the same as PhotoShow. Comcast discontinued supporting the PhotoCircle so all of my shows I had saved on their site disappeared the first of April.
Tara called me last week and asked me what it meant when she got a message saying Comcast no longer supported PhotoCircle. She is not real computer/internet savvy. Tara was disappointed because she liked to watch the photoshow I made for her last January when she was recovering from her cardiac arrest episode. Tara needed something to occupy her time but not tax her brain since she was having difficulty with her short term memory and concentrating. So I found about 100 photos of friends, family, vacations, etc. and created the photoshow for her.

I recreated the photo show using the Muvee Theater software and think that it is pretty cool since I can add my own music and burn the movie to a CD. I uploaded the video to Windows Live MSN Soapbox so I can share it. The video file was too big for YouTube. Well after 20 minutes to upload the video I got a copywright violation because of the music I used. I never thought about that. Well, crap!

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Random photos

Posted on March 26, 2009 by jackieinpdx

Just some random photos I have in my photo folder not included in sub folders. Some are not even photos that I took but for some reason I downloaded them.

I do not like that I can’t add spaces between photos here so I am adding a brief note about each photo so that I can space them out.

Tara at about age three I think.

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