Yikes! I left civilization for a few days and return to find Greenspan magic failing, leaving the crowds gasping for still more impotent magic. I find California dark fibers staying dark, mines (dare I wish that they are platinum mines?) in neighboring states shutting down, BAC trapped in its own slime, CSCO badly wounded, EMC AWOLed, and the gates of GE rammed and burnt, exposing the fertile objects of pillage within … IBM, KO, MRK, Real Estate, and the Dollar. I suppose all the folks laid off from Lucent will now go work for Nortel, so that they can buy HWP shares for the long term and speculate on JDSU scripts for the momentum flip.
I also found that uncle Greenspan has bailed me out of my Yahoo plus Put/Call straddle positions, and thus paid for the platinum watch after all.
Wife and I got back from 6 days of Lunar New Year holiday at elnidoresorts.com. Gave passing notice to Estrada’s replacement ceremony on TV while transiting the domestic Manila airport. The Philippines now has much in common with the US, with both current presidents being kid of ex-presidents, have questionable legitimacy to the office, and replacing morally bankrupt and sexually over-indulging presidents.
We scuba dived amongst giant (size of half a restaurant table) jack fish, meandered in an enormous field of sea cabbage, spotted moray eel amongst the rocks and saw one clam the size of a face basin. We also picnicked on a soulful but unpopulated beach (the hotel’s version of “Survivor” and “Castaway”; fed on steamed fish on garlic rice washed down with many mango and water melon shakes, using civilized silver and table ware whilst sitting on cultured rattan chairs. The true magic was double kayaking in a lagoon accessed through a cave opening and swam in soundless aquamarine colored water within the lagoon lined with sugar white sand.
The normal telecommunicated entertainments were missing in paradise but not missed. The 4k bits per second Internet cannot support anything except frustration, and so is better missed. Caught up on sleep after reading “Stories that scared even me” presented by Alfred Hitchcock. Interesting stories, but not nearly as scary as what could have come through the I-net had it been properly working.
Conclusion: I found the hangout place in El Nido if our vision materializes. |
