snowmiser

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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monday morning in Bangkok and i'm ready to hit it hard. its a long ride back to NYC. 28 hours from now the gopher will come back out of its hole........the sad part is i will only be home for 24 hours. less than that actually. then its southbound and down.........

sunday morning in bangkok and i don't feel like doing a damn thing. been sitting here putzing about, searching for increasingly obscure things in a feeble attempt to avoid getting dressed and doing something. i know i have to get some work done today as i am out of options. i could have done it yesterday, but after two johnnie blacks on the flight from...
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ok im in japan now. and i'm drunk. no wait a minute -- i meant to say i'm drunk now and in japan.

no, what i meant to say was -- oh never mind.........