every so often i remember what it was like to live in the heart of the internet….and now, I’m at the end of the of line, access-wise…the companies suck…tigo, moviestar, claro…welcome to the 3rd world..
it was a quiet night…slight mist in the air, power(electricity)flickering off and on…and the quietest evening in Antigua i can remember…streets empty, bars quiet, restaurants dead….Tacodiscontento empty, Chez C empty, Tartines closed…its as if the air has been let out of the balloon…O-lot about the only place doing biz…Shawn has his notarized copy of the business license hung on the back wall, authorizing an 11 pm closing…semi-hot news….another business opening in that space…a whiskey bar, masquerading…is that a word?…a coffee/retail outlet during the day for one of the best NGO’s around…As Green as it Gets, now with some 400 coffee farmers…doing a coffee shop in the day and a scotch/irish whisky outlet at night…Go Laphoaig! …
one of the wilder ones
JohnH/Cath D off to Paris for two months…great idea…El Muro…John W, eyes at half-mast, swilling some kind of green concoction in a martini glass..creme de menthe and vodka? worst hangover ever experienced, based on a mixture of creme de menthe and tequila…tonight, Tuesday…ocelot…going away bash for keith and amber..Nelson! returns Friday night to play after Ron the Sax Dude…back for a week…Karla must’ve done something good…’wish them both very well…thursday night, 8 pm, Pangea…’welcome back jack to neil’…Da Vinci…all three Claudias working…and no business…except for me and i’m a cheap date.
so…i show up at El Muro per DM and Duanes mention of a poker game…nada, zip and zilch…only Carla and Max, John and another dude at the bar…fine…keep my massive stash of quetzals intact…Max seems to have the local police under his thumb and a good thing..ah, the night rains are here…so.. tonight, ocelot for the keith/amber thing, PV wednesday night for the bad sangria and another art exhibition, thursday night, ‘welcome back, neil’ and friday…more music at ocelot…christ, another bar in that location?…note to self…get liver transplant..
Our Man in Antigua 
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