hello pezz, today's report:
(i) could not help it, even though it is saturday, and bought more coins, this time of the usa eagle variety, figuring it should get some in the newly available again cute plastic tube container.
the funds used was what i lugged to the bank coin cash counting room, in wheelie luggage, of coconut's coin savings. she has been a voracious saver, not yet on allowance, but allowed to scanvenge from maternal and paternal grandparents' place and vacuum up excess coins from our household starting at age 2, day after night after day, weeks in and months out, as well as aggregate all the red packets directed at her from great chinese cultural tradition of giving such packets by relations and friends, near and far, for a whole lot of occasions.
(ii) could help it but didn't bother to, got measured for a navy blue sleeveless vest and a leather jacket, rated for proof against sub-machine gun fire, fire storm, water deluge, and, interestingly and more pratically, knife. delivery in a few weeks. the team that did the measuring had just done so for a few political leaders in the region. events must be turning worse than dire.
miguel info-ed that his biggest sales by unit and revenue is nearer you than i, in soon-enough-to-completely-fail mexico, beating out sales in his home country columbia.
elsewhere folks buy canned food and guns for necessity. we on freedom isle hong kong talk canned food for fun, and acquire bullet-proof vest for cocktail topic. nothing more, because, for a few hundred per month, we can easily hire usa-trained ex-commandos from the philippines, and employ uk-educated ex-rangers (gurkhas) from nepal. the gurkhas are very good and can kill using a plastic credit card and maim with a paper plate.
(iii) had three hours lunch with friends at the mandarin, talking doom, gloom, water rights, gold, platinum, farming, merit of hong kong refuge vs new zealand sanctuary, and the whereto's of america against the wherefrom's of china. all delicious, including the japanese lunch.
cheers, tj |
