Our Man in Antigua

was it the rain or just the time of the year? September/October are kind of the low tide time of year here, with few tourists (other than the Mormon kids)and why are they always in a hurry and don’t smile/make eye contact? take a lesson from some of the charismatic folks, do some miracles and take the credit ($$$).
so? there was a birthday party for Hilary, HBT’s daughter, now 13…a short dozen showed up at La Taverna, Auri the ever delicious, had balloons…and the Edge Inn, across the street, had their ‘real’ grand opening…a few were there, especially the ever tasty Maite Morjan…god..aside from those little gatherings, only the old ‘Hector’s had any diners…was it the rain, the middle of the week blahs? Tuesdays/Wednesdays aren’t exactly raging events here..
and yes, the new Tropicana Hostal? serving food 3X a day, with a bar, pool and 57 beds…yikes! they’ve just sucked the air out of any other hostals in town, not that many are left…Monica’s Jungle Party has the 2nd place spot, with the same concept of serving(capturing)all the business in-house.
Casa Fuentes old computer/internet site? move to outer 4th calle, near Mr Sushi…good..glad to know where the real computer experts are..and within that Casa Fuentes complex, they come and they go…the art store is now a jade store! wow…great idea(not)
kind of like the rip-off of Blake’s BBQ spot…now, on 3rd calle, between 5th/6th ave, is a Texas BBQ place, as with Door #11 on 1st calle..and Shauns back at the helm of Ocelot…refreshed from a great vacation and ready to…who knows? all I know for sure is that my umbrella, the 15 or 20q model, is now in it’s 3rd year of operation…paid for/amortized and with 3 ribs sticking out, a dangerous weapon on the streets..and yes, I’ll be writing (sic)about last weeks FUBAR events in Salama..now that I’ve gotten over my depression/anger, etc..I should’ve known, etc but as Ronald Reagan used to say..’with all that horseshit, there must be a pony in there’….wrong, RR, as usual..I’ll light my evening fire, and as Tono says, ‘drink about it’…may the farce be with you..