Yo vivo aqui in Merida (or something like that).
Well, I've been here in Merida for about a week now and the place is really nice. Not the typical border town people think of when they think of Mexico. Merida has about 1 million people and it is a very metropolitan city. There is a zoo and many museums here, as well as an American library.
However this is still Mexico so I have to tell some tales...
We started working to get the power and E-1s set up a couple of weeks before we even came down here, but once in town the realization hit that pretty much nothing had been done yet. In Mexico only the owner of the company can sign the paperwork to get anything done. I mean anything. I can't even get cable installed in the building without the president (Tony) providing paperwork of who he is, that he really is the owner of the company and one other piece of paperwork. It can be very frustrating. So on Friday we spent the day running around town to find the right TelMex (phone company) office to get the E-1's installed. Well, that wasn't so bad. We finished in the TelMex office at 9PM and it will only take 30-45 days to get the fiber that is in the office turned on. Unless of course we want to spend $4500 to expedite it down to 10 days. I can tell you we weren't thrilled about that.
Then of course we have no electricity yet. We do have a generator and that allows the workers to finish remodeling and cleaning up the building, but isn't enough to run AC and power the server room yet. Getting electricity here is also an interesting affair. First we discovered that the building has both a 110 and a 220 run going into it. Whats wrong with this you say? Well...only one can be active at a time and the building has to have 220 to run everything. The landlord had the 220 turned off and 110 installed when the last tenant left. In order to get 220 running we have to go to the electric company and request the bill. Then the NEXT day we go back to get it and pay that bill. Then we can have them upgrade the 110 service to 220. We paid the bill yesterday. Today we were supposed to get the electricity, supposed to. One thing about Mexico, no one seems to be in a hurry to make an appointment.
On to our next hurdle. We decided that since it will take TelMex so long to get in our E-1s that we would use cable internet for the interim time period. They advertise that it can be installed the next day here, even business class. Well, let me just say that it probably can BE installed the next day, but it won't be. 
So we signed the contract and I agreed to wait at the building from 9-2pm the next day. Did I mention that we have no electricity yet? Did I mention that this is the hot and humid season of the year? Well, I kinda cheated, I stayed across the street from our building at a little outdoor cafe and worked on my laptop. Here is me working: 
I know this doesn't look so bad, but I waited and waited and waited. Did I mention that people here don't necessarily keep appointments? It turns out our order hadn't even gone through yet. But hey, it was a nice cafe and now I have a place to go when my office gets stuffy.
So maybe tomorrow we'll get electricity or cable or both, or neither. Those are the options. I'm really not sure which way I am leaning on this one.
On Sunday I decided I wanted to go exploring. I really like getting a map and walking around a new town to check things out. Merida is a big town so I focused on walking to a couple of grocery stores to compare prices of things against the prices back home as well as just walking around and looking for places to rent a house. I decided to go to the Mega store and to Super Walmart as they are popular grocery stores here. The prices were about the same as in Dallas, but I've been informed of a couple of other stores that have much lower prices so I'll go check them out this weekend.
Here are the pictures of the town I took on my travels. One of the pics shows a sign on a wall for a vet. I thought it was odd to advertise artificial insemination for dogs, but that is just me, I had a laugh at that. While I was out I also stopped for a bite to eat. I had a HAMburger. Seriously, it was a burger with a piece of ham on it. I love this place!!! And then when I went into Walmart a guy stopped me and showed me that I had to check my backpack. hehe I got a claim ticket for my backpack at Walmart. It just strikes me as odd. Oh yeah, I have to explain the bump pictures. My wife found a site yucatanliving.com that mentions the speed bumps and how they just appear out of nowhere. So I took a series of pictures showing the Bump warning sign that is usually about 30-60ft in front of the bumps. Then a pic of the sign that is right above the bumps telling you there are bumps on the road, and finally a pic of the bumps.
So in all, I signed on for an adventure here and it is living up to my expectations. I am really enjoying the city and the people here and I would highly recommend the place. Just remember that everything here happens on its own special schedule, unfortunately we may never know what that schedule really is. 
Adios y via con Dios,
Robba