Our Man in Antigua

a giant tip of the panama to G&G Visual clinic..a few months ago I thought that the Cosmo’s were getting to me….nah, as the doc explained, our eyes have a bunch of lubricating glands (not glans) and like the windshield washer on your car, they get plugged up..

so…I now have a ‘personal shopper’…if you hang out in the central park long enough, you’ll run into Francisco or Sergio sooner or later. Both dispense items of sometimes ‘dubious provenance or quality’ and Sergio has recently struck pay-dirt by selling used leather jackets to the gringos…Comandante Bill suggested, after I said i was looking for a white dress shirt, that I have Sergio do the footwork…yes! S has my sizes, preference and so on..let him navigate the paca…and bring it to me in the park..Mike D….you bought some fake coins from Francisco yesterday…I know who might buy them but I gotta get a commission..

and yes, I missed the ‘Oktoberfest yesterday…a great venue but a month later than any Oktoberfest I’ve ever known: maybe it’s just the manana attitude in Guatemala…Allan G is reportedly in Panama, under ‘a cloud’ as people say (and not up in the cloud zone)…Hogan’s in Cambodia, Reid is in Colombia but they both swear to be back in Antigua by January..Hogan without Hap is like Laurel without Hardy.

Nido Antigua, Fusion’s mini-mall, is 100% rented again (big sigh from Alex) Sobremese oddly empty last night but the other Alex is in Argentina…WTF? and the 1/2 one week only sale of ‘A Year of Driving Dangerously’ is almost over….go to http://www.amazon.com/author/michaelsherer for the details…free Kindle downloads and tomorrow, the 18th, a one week 1/2 promotion also for the November version of “Our Man in Antigua.’….buy a few hundred, I don’t care..

Da Vinci! doing a mini-crowd last night: big smile on Luis Miguel’s face…there’s been some lean times in town, especially in October..maybe the worm has turned, judging from the amount of gringo tourists in town.and lastly, HBT, with the new wrist support(and he won’t go to the doctor)swears that he can drive ok…would you ride with him, with one hand incapacitated?

I have my personal doubts but it looks like the new season of ‘driving dangerously’ is about to begin again…pass the bottle, please.