Our Man in Antigua

but i asked for it…for years i’ve been hearing about how great the paca is in Chimaltenango….well….it aint that great unless you’re buying 500 lb bundles of hard to tell just what the hell is inside stuff (sealed in plastic/cardboard,wire)and for the really adventurous folks, go for the big sealed cardboard boxes that read ‘misc’ on the outside…when I stopped to consider the primary source of this information and then added up the various times that he’d previously bull-shitted me…duh…i did, however, get to see the inside of the huge Mega Paca across the street: bigger, cleaner and more organized than any St Vincent/GoodWill story you’ll ever see and if you’re looking for new ski boots (WTF?)they’ve got several pair. 

Zo? i guess that this evenings rain is the official curtain on the annual canicula? you tell me…Reilly’s #3 officially opening this thursday, next to La Sala…they say that they’re gonna keep Reillly’s #2 open but from I’m hearing, that depends on the casheroo under the table to a few officials (local).

Elseweird? Nelson’s official leave-taking of Antigua is this Saturday..8 pm at Dishwater…Piano Mike is also ‘supposedly’ going to be there…I’m on the fence about it…us old guys, you know..

my local printer and I have come to terms/semi-agreement about the printing costs of a local version of ‘A Year of Driving Dangerously’…black/white…color cover, of course..it’ll keep the costs/price down to a reasonable level.

Joe Miller, running mate of HBT’s for many years and the source for more than a few outrageous events, returns to A-Town tonight…I’ve suggested to HBT that we do some evening ‘recon’ patrols, here and there..mainly there, outa town, you know..

I watched Ponzi Bob’s two ’employees’ doing the liquor scam on the owner of  13 last night…if I’d liked the guy (and I don’t) I might’ve warned him about the ‘deal’…their motto? ‘No Repeat Customers’…and very very successful….if at first you don’t succeed…suck again.