TJBlogBoy

I noticed Thursday morning there was a shortage of police directing traffic around the border. They must have been helping out at the jail.

Traffic was a mess.

As some of you know now, I live in Cacho. My building has a security guard that always greets me at night and offers to help me take out trash and carry up groceries. I don't feel totally comfortable letting him in my apartment, but he seems like a nice guy and does protect the building.

My question is, should I tip him? It's not a matter of IF I can afford to (at he knows I can)...it's more of a question of is it right? I fear that if I tip him, it almost comes across as an insult...or even that tipping implies that it's necessary for my security. I am thinking of the occasional token gift and of course nicer gift during the holidays.

The guy sees I am a well dressed American, with a nice car, in a nice area. I don't want him to tell his other security guard friends in the neighborhood that the gringa throws money around.

What do you guys think? And for those who think I should tip him...how much?

I suppose I should ask my neighbors as well what they think.

I've been paying Cablemas for internet only at approx $35 usd per month which I belive is for the minimum bandwidth (I forget how much, maybe 256kbs ?).
Anyway, this has normally been sufficient for most of my needs including voIP.
Since I've been trying to switch over from Skype (via their pc softfone or the router linked handset)
to MagicJack, the quality of the calls have often been unusably poor.
I'm wondering if others with MagicJack are experiencing this.

Perhaps the bandwidth isn't large enough ?
As I said elsewhere on the board, minor multitasking on the web while using MJ, both get interrupted.

Maybe it's your PC? Have u tried using another PC or laptop?

On thursday I signed up for the online Sentri program to add a vehicle. We will see how fast this online thing works!