Last day of March

Time flies. Our son, Emilio, came for a visit with his girlfriend this last week. She is a french exchange student at the University of California in San Diego whom he met while he was on an exchange there last quarter. She came to see Mexico on spring break. We have also been on vacation for the last two weeks -- Semana Santa holidays. This at least has allowed us to catch up a bit on backlogged work and watch some movies and Dr. House, an interesting tv series which manages to create the same bourgeois moral/ethical tension as the Sherlock Holmes stories. The main character is supposedly based on Alfred Conan Doyle.
This week I have to go to Mexico City and plan to also try and register to vote at the American Embassy since the US elections are always significant but especially so this time round. For years I was convinced that my vote abroad made no difference since as a popular vote without state residence, it would not effect the electoral vote. Now it seems that my vote will count electorally in the last State I resided in before leaving the USA. But alas that is Texas where I might as well vote for Nader since the Republicans are sure to take the state. Maybe once my son, Leo, gets settled in New York I can re-establish residence there -- He has joined the Democratic party -- seems that after generations of independents in my family, he and his American cousins are all joining political parties.