So apologies for my prosaic hiatus. The company I worked for in Costa Rica that kept me in Canada shut down. So I packed up my apartment in Toronto and moved all my stuff into Laura's parents house, tripped down to San Jose, Costa Rica said goodbye to some friends and packed packed my chattels into four suitcases, flew back to Toronto and helped Laura pack up her apartment. The available ground floor space in Laura's parents house has been reduced by 50% and their lounge reduced to an assault course of our bags and boxes. We left three apartments in the space of three weeks and flew to the UK to say hello to the family and then on to Spain where my friend Ken has very kindly put us up while I look for my next job.



Ken is working on Laura's health issues and has her taking Vitamin C every eight hours, CoQ10, Evening Primrose Oil, ginseng and Silibinin. The current train of thought is that the root cause to Laura's vast array of medical issues is liver malfunction. Although what caused this is unknown. These supplements seem to improved Laura's thyroid function. When Laura and I first met she used to get heart palpitations and shake when she was tired, which I recognised as a calcium deficiency due to her diet. When we applied the SCD diet and and started her on increased Vitamin C and Calcium amongst a general vitamin and mineral regime. This sorted out her heart palpitations, shakes and showed some improvement in intestinal problems. Her thyroid seemed to improve a little and her Doctor suggested a decrease in her thyroid supplement from 180mg per day to 120mg. This left her tired and listless but she was OK on 150mg. After being on the Ken regime for two weeks Laura has been able to reduce her thyroid supplement to 60mg per day, with no ill effects so there are some definite improvements. We hold out hope for a complete cure.

Anyway, we are in sunny Spain and taking day trips out to various places of interest. We recently visited a Moroccan festival at a town in the hills near Monda. The street lights were all turned off and the town was lit by candles every few inches along the sides of the road and lining the balconies. The town squares were filled with stalls selling all sorts and there was a magical air about the who affair.

We have tripped out to see Seville, Ronda, Gibraltar, Castellar de la Frontera and other nearby sights. I had a couple of interviews last week, but no news yet and I am still being courted by a start-up in Canada that still don't have the money to run the project. So we'll hang out here a little longer. If nothing has turned up in Spain by the end of October, I'll renounce gaming and go back to IT contracting for financial services companies in London. The gaming world pays well enough to keep us in a warm country with a low cost of living. But if we go back to the UK then I'll go back to the far more lucrative world of banking.