Beer run
$5 buys 4 liters water, 2 pints rum and 4 cans pineapple juice.
Meanwhile on the home front
Morning snack: Palabok
How will we survive the 2 hours till lunch??
From gold-leaf splendor to Stark modernism
Today I transferred to the Ciudad Christhia 9 Waves resort where I will spend all week, part conference center and part water park. My room is large and has modern furnishings, but is completely devoid of any decoration or extra amenities whatsoever. Tonight the pool is open till 4 AM because many people here like to swim at night when it’s cooler, but during the week (as if Sunday night wasn’t a school night) it’s only open till 11 PM.
Siri seems to want to capitalize Stark: is it Tony Stark, or is she thinking about some sort of pirated knockoff of Philippe Starck?
Dawn breaks over Manila
After slightly more than a day’s journey I’m safely ensconced in an airport hotel on the other side of the world.
Maybe airport hotels are a little bit like wine, mostly more or less the same but the more you know about them the more you can detect and appreciate small nuances from one to the next. This one has lots of people employed, heavy security, and a faint smell of smoke in the air…
Today I transfer to the meeting site and then spend all next week talking about terminology.
This cute elephant decorates the David Dubé Memorial at the Brattleboro Retreat. It would take an elephant’s memory to remember why they erected a Memorial to the Controller from 1939-1953. Maybe he was in charge of the Memorials budget.
The Estey Organ Company was one of Brattleboro’s biggest industries in the heyday period of the late 19th century. I got to see this one up in the top floor chapel in the Retreat’s Admin Building. Don’t know if it still plays…
Our local thrift shop benefits a hospice care service. They have a big problem with people dumping their donations off in the middle of the night, and so by morning there is often stuff scattered all over outside the store, and in many cases it’s stuff they wouldn’t have taken anyway, as not possible to resell.
Today’s offering was particularly poignant, a copy of a free tabloid called “Parent Express” and a scattering of discarded kids toys.
Obviously, somebody tried as hard as they could…
Running along the Retreat Trails yesterday, I came across this spectacular orange fungus.
In Brattleboro, it’s okay to display your entire collection of black duct tape on your car.
Peeking into the Brooks House, which is nearly done. It doesn’t look like it from this picture, but they say they will be occupied next month. It will be a huge positive step for Brattleboro to get its anchor building back online, and I am truly impressed with the investment group that found $25 million to pump into an $8 million building… Maybe this is some sort of waste of tax dollars, but I’m happy they came here instead of going somewhere else.
Brattleboro Adventure – the Auckland Edition 