And more importantly, so is the house!
Did some rocking and rolling this afternoon when we experienced an earthquake that registered 4.9 on the Richter scale. Yeah, no big deal but something different. I grew up in Southern California and we’d get these several times a year, but it’s been a while since I took an Earth ride. It’s quite the helpless feeling waiting and wondering what happens next. Gives you time to reflect on the quality of construction standards here in the Philippines. Ha Ha! I used standards and Philippines in the same sentence!
Anyway, I’ve been reliving my experiences as a tourist here in Barretto from two years ago courtesy of Facebook memories. It was a good trip! And now that I live here I can’t wait for all the tourists to get the fuck out! Well, summer is right around the corner, that will motivate the Swedes to go back home where they belong. I’m kidding of course. Mostly I like the visitors, many of whom come for several months each year. It’s also been a trip seeing the boyfriend/sponsors of the bargirls. I mean, good for them that they’ve found a guy willing to send some money all year round for a couple of months of pleasure while they are here. It’s just so weird for me seeing a hot gal in her early 20s loving up on an old cripple who looks like her grandfather. Only in the Philippines!
Also on the horizon is a trip to the U.S. Embassy in Manila next week. I’ll likely go down on Wednesday as my appointment is Thursday morning. Plan as of now is to return home on Saturday. I’m going to have a Power of Attorney form notarized so we can finalize the sale of my parent’s house.
And I’m completing the final preparations for my travel to Palawan on March 6. That’s a trip I’m actually looking forward to making. Who knows, maybe there will actually be something interesting to read here at LTG. Hey, it could happen!
I may be too late in leaving this comment, but good luck with the tourney! I hope your house doesn’t have any cracks in it (or any crack in it, for that matter).
Well, I saw this during the tourney, but alas, it was not to be. Some fuckin’ tourist won. I hate when that happens. Especially now that I aren’t one….
How’d you place? Top three?
No, didn’t make it to the money rounds. Very disappointing in that I had a decent partner too. Well, she’s a good darter when sober, but…
Anyway, it’s on me. In both of our losses I had a shot at the winning dart and missed. No getting around that. What’s irksome is losing to teams who were more lucky than good. But that’s the way the arrows fly sometimes.
And it’s only a game! 🙂