snowmiser

having a beer at the Sao Paulo airport. this isn't how this day was supposed to go, but who's complaining -- devassa isn't the worst beer on the planet (that would be qulimes), and in the end i'm going to make it to brasilia tonight. 7 hours late, but no worse for the wear......

i overslept my flight this morning. hardly a surprise - it...
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its a lazy saturday morning in Buenos Aires. I thought i had it all planned out -- get up early, run around along the river, go to tattoo america (the concensus pick it seems) and work on my project. now its 11 am and putting on a pair of socks seems to entail a level of effort above what i have in mind.

now i'm...
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In Buenos aires. For some reason I always struggle with this city it just doesnt seem to want to cooperate. Santiago is like home for me. Like I know every little piece of it and can do whatever I want. BA seems to always be waiting to kick me in the teeth for the smallest of reasons.

Today was a work day, but tomorrow around...
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I dont write many long blogs. But yet another event in my ongoing love-hate relationship with the most dysfunctional business one can currently witness on this planet has prompted at least some level of reflection. Of course, I am talking about Air India, which if nothing else has to be considered the HBR textbook example of how to run a business into the ground, repeatedly,...
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Sunday morning in Santiago. breakfast was crushed avocados and cheese. either i am back to vegatarian healthyism or i need to work on my spanish..... lets just say i was expecting the cheese but not the avocados.....aguacate. aguacate. remember that......

its going to be a quiet day. i should go to the mountains and do some boarding, but i'm too lazy to go that far....
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tonight i am normal. kind of normal. i am actually at my own house, watching baseball on tv and drinking a beer. okay not "a" beer. several beers.

Maana me voy a Santiago, la primera parada entre muchos otros. tengo que empezar a ser chileno otra vez - no he estado en mi homelande segundo en ms de dos meses ...... Tambin tengo que averiguar...
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it's never a good idea to have a crush on a bartender. that's my observation of the day.....

you may think i'm just being a presumptuous reactionary on this issue, but believe me i speak from experience. worst case you end up a broken-hearted drunk. best case you just end up just a drunk.

wait a minute. never mind -- its fine to have a...
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well shit.....the good news is i got to stay in NYC a lot longer than i expected. it was supposed to be 18 hours on the ground, then off to buenos aires. but that's not what happened.....

what intervened instead is the stuff of legends --- drunken tomfoolery mostly by 50+ year old men, silver lampshades and screaming waiters. throughout all of this, the miracle...
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