Our Man in Antigua

so….the 3rd trip into the City? not, for various reasons…maybe Friday, assuming a lot of things, like the audiologist gets over being sick…o well, that’s guatemala…at least, it seems to be a go for Kimchi tomorrow, that Mayan site up by Tecpan…with what might be the last road trip with Alabama Bob….he reverts to the US next month and ‘aint sure’ if he’s coming back. The Barfly Wall of Whatever in Ocelot losses another face.

kn ow any cunning linguists? one of the side benefits of belonging to the American Legion library, next to the Jardin Bavaria on 7th ave norte, besides having over 30000 books, for 100q a year in dues, is the occasional weird bookmark…this week? it looks like a  ticket for something called the ‘T.C. Kultur VE Turizm of Bakanligi, Muze Giris Bileti, Fiyati 250 TL’..there’s a faint outline  of some landmass or maybe its a wine stain…gotta stop/retry later…either wordpress is screwed or my net connection is…

ok, once more..if you see the delightful Miss M, yes, she’s back from Israel, Spain and Italy….looking for work in A-Town. She’s doing an ‘Author’s Night’ with me next month at the Sophos Bookstore in the City, as she’s more bi-lingual than I am (don’t go even go there, ok?)

more smart thinking…another jade shop on 5th calle…the venerable (old) Panchoy Restuarant has moved to outer 3rd calle, by the hotel Santo Domingo, making it even easier for customers not to find them…as to what’s going into their old space on 6th avenida…dunno, but they’ve been ripping the guts out of the inside for a while now. Probably a travel agency, spanish school/jade store, with  t-shirts.

and now that Rich and Raul have some golf clubs, compliments of some paca somewhere, it’ll be hard to  beg off playing next week….flog is golf, spelled backwards, which describes it very well. And yes, there are hordes of visiting christians, matching t-shirts, earnest expressions of good will…if they thought about how much their airfare cost, plus food/lodging….20X$1000 or so? and just found a decent NGO? nope…gotta go Witness for the Lord’ all that pale white flesh, over-fed and over here…they march in groups, night and day….do they? ah, hell..who cares? I don’t, you  don’t.

ah! thru luck, pluck and so on….I found a wood-working shop in San Felipe who is making a proto-type shaft for the croquet mallets…the others are/were just too f%$#@! short….these will be ‘man-sized’…bigger, longer…some kind of wood called ‘bollilo?’…all the better to whack my balls with, my dear…if this process is anything like the hearing aid thing, expect news next month, in time for the rains..and again, thank you f or all the kind words about the latest epic, ‘100 miracles a year’….it’s a helluva project, that actually works, Will is a saint and so on…thank you…yeah, not Kimchi…Iximche tomorrow….breaking in a new rider/accomplice, Dr. J…hey, we warned him.