It’s sort of like passing away and finding yourself surrounded by spectres who want you to be happy. But they don’t know what exactly is missing. They can’t put a finger on it.
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Folks at the reception were excited to hear about the official launch of my own oDesk company at the beginning of the year. That’s good. My neighbors are using the “bargain basement” contractors. This means that they don’t really have the proper equipment to do construction work. It appears that the tools they’re using were developed at some point during the Bronze Age. My brother and sister-in-law (Kiko and Alice) decided to take us on a day-long trip to a few locations where they own some land. The first stop was the most interesting since it was the town of Antipolo. Last week was a bit hectic, since we had the obligatory birthday celebrations (yours truly and my sister-in law, Nora’s). It just occurred to me – I was born this day – 54 years ago. Just kidding. I had a great birthday dinner of crabs and mussels with a birthday cake and ice cream (party is scheduled for this Saturday). By the way, Alma gave me the perfect gift, today – the first two seasons of [...] Interestingly enough, the four-day-a-week maid that we had in our other home was disappointed that we didn’t ask her to join us in our new home (!!) We just thought that she wouldn’t want to live with us, since she was just contracted to come in for four days a week. But, evidently, her husband [...] I just wanted to make mention of the fact that a very close friend of mine’s mother recently passed away. Her name was Rita Bickel Stollon and she was 82. She had previously given no indication of illness. It was just her time to go. I think about things like that, every now and again, [...] The next place that we looked at was rather nice, albeit a tad expensive for the size. It was a bungalow-style dwelling with the owner’s home attached. The owner’s home was nicer. The “agent” and the owner kept pointing out the “maid’s room” (located downstairs), which I found rather odd. Now, I know that a [...] After the wonderful trip to squatterville, the next stop was to another interesting location that the “agent” had in store for us. This one was kind of interesting since the place, itself, was pretty spacious. However, when I mean “spacious”, I mean it in a “former warehouse Manhattan loft apartment” kind of way. Which isn’t [...] |
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