Our Man in Antigua

in this case, when are the f….king rains gonna stop? everyone, old-timers all, said that it was s’posed to stop two weeks ago…right…why am I  wet?

‘further signs of the economic shift southward in town…Ay Robot now on 6th Ave, across from El Gato Negro, more or less…El Fotografo, who was /is in Nim Po’ts space, now in la Casa de Conde as is the high end fabric place further up on 5th norte…yeah, I’m in Casa de Conde, both books on the table…rah rah…siss boom ba, right? the November version of Our Man in Antigua up on Amazon.com today …rah rah,eh?

some ex-pats returning…or later…Ponzi Bob in January, Reid C in February (off to Colombia before) Hap and his doofus pal….off to Ecuador…Hogan!…where’s the Barb the K? she’s usually here by  now, if nothing else planning the usual Thanksgiving dinner…Frank? back to the river, to tend to his garden and animals…the ‘gold mining camp’ thing didn’t work out…

Lex and Ricardo both working at Tabacos y Vinos tonight…Ed off on a brief honeymoon before she returns to Hungary…with photos of hubby, one presumes..’and what does he do for a living?’….smuggles liquor/short-changes local proprietors, the answer…’no repeat customers’…great slogan..but true..

and what’s happened with Whisky Den? they used to have a steady stream of customers…now, it’s a ghost town..one wonders? is it the giant sucking sound from the failed ‘concept bar’ across the way or what? you tell me..I’m mystified..one last ex-pat reference: Joe Miller, waiting until after the next Stanford ‘game’…i didn’t know that Stanford has a nude mud-wrestling team…Joe would, trust me..and plans afoot, he said off-handedly, for a trip by the Fantastic Four to Gualan/Guaranja/Rio Dulce…pick up some cheap smuggled cigarettes, a night in HBT’s village, let off a few rounds at the Land Rover…HBT says the Puerto Barrios, a considered side-trip, is even worse than Puerto San Jose…worse? does that mean better? wink wink…no,even HBT is cautious about ‘Barrios…o well…we’re all just slow old gringos, so I guess we’ll follow his advice…still here? go to https://amazon.com/author/michaelsherer for the latest…Kindle will have the latest version up in a day  or so…