izzat a full Moon tonight? my expensive Antigua calendar ($150q) doesn’t mention it…the ol’ freebie from Frener did. And yes, again no price/Amazon stickers for the book…oops…hey, what’s ten days of broken promises? (typical)…
rain and snow this morning? yeah! Acatenango and San Marcos(upland) got a dusting of whiteness…the clouds moved in too quickly for me to get a glimpse of Acatenango’s snow cone but the photos from elsewhere were xlnt…and a sprinkle of rain at 6 or so?…
the alcohol consumption levels at Ocelot and elsewhere might drop a bit…Hap and Hogan outa town, to Honduras…Jason Lever of Lava back in town…’gave up on the gold mining scene in Brazil…’had to be a big difference after Siberia,no?
Town packed with tourists…cruise shippers, a ton of Guatemaltecos, a 5pm funeral down 5th calle and the Friday night brass band at the Palacio? love this town..
changes in the O’lot complex…what was the Lounge, then Braulios is gonna be some kinda Dutch crepe place…what was Pangea is now called Papatown..got the flat screen up/working, gotta big full size wall mural, hideous lighting and no other plans than ‘beer and wine’ and something outa the kitchen(remodeled)…after the failure of Ixcot as a crepe place, does…nah…don’t go there…and Whisky Den’s new look isn’t pulling in any customers. What do all the wooden shoe forms have to do with anything?
Another of the ex-Mayor’s players on the Council gave it up today….’gee, I’m really sorry…can i go home now?’ One of Antigua’s (and Guatemala) treasures, Phillip Wilson, aka Mr Ecofiltro? asked to speak at the Davos convention in Switzerland! which he did, talking about NGO’s in Guatemala…clap your hands..The Economist ran a good article on Guate/and the Prez….INGUAT is hiring a professional PR team to whip up good things about this country we all love(most of the time)…
this week, for me, it’s been getting my back whacked by some kama-kazi tuk tuk drivers: i swear that some delight in playing ‘hit the chuckhole’ and make the gringo bounce…I’m hoping that in a few minutes the ‘new and improved’ meds kick in…add a little scotchola, maybe have another and there…I go..per Rich Neel, racing season outa town…the Cofino track towards Escuintla, should be starting in March…HBT seems to have bunged/banged up the Cougar this week…more than usual, as in both sides scraped/dented…ask him how it happened. I’m told that the new Ford gas-sucker runs well and should come out the winner in any ‘bump and run’ tests…yep, got maps and a tentative ‘thumbs up’ from my publisher in the States about a ‘field trip for minerals’…comin’ next month, to a store near…no…somewhere, between Rabinal and Soloma’, per Ponzi Bob…who doesn’t remember ‘exactly where’…it’s another road trip, one way or the other..March being Norm’s last month in Antigua, we’ll drag him along for geology lesions…lessons, 1-B….yeah, that’s an Indian Love Stone….otherwise a f…..king rock…and adios to Kristen Sullivan, the daughter of old friends from Placerville, NorCal….what a kick she was…come back, anytime..y’all heah?
yeah! the races!
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