At least you can eat this one.
I am pretty convinced now that the one utility I saw in crypto, which was avoiding exchange commissions in foreign currencies, is totally ruined by the volatility in the coins. My brother used BTC because of this but lately he’s been acknowledging he’d be better off just accepting the skim from a currency trader.
Caracas, Venezuela in 1995 I sat in traffic for 4 hours from airport to hotel. Never seen that many “classic “ cars before. Gas was something like 8 or 9 cents per gallon.
Second worst was São Paulo, Highway to Rio (via Dutra).
South America has epic traffic jams.
Lol, these mental midgets ought to get rid of their hood fans and let the gas stove run even when not cooking. That’s how you get libtard tears flowing!
The other author he reminded me of in characterization was Mark Helprin, who wrote two books I really like - A Soldier in the Great War and Memoir from Antproof Case. His other work isn’t nearly as good. My opinion of course.
Finished A Gentleman in Moscow, it’s one of my top five books ever right now. Fantastic how Towles made that story work in such a small setting with great characters. The Bishop was a great antagonist.
Reading From Strength to Strength (a sort of guide to retiring) and seeing a lot of the reasons I feel like it’s time to hang it up articulate much better than I could. It is a little hokey on some of the advice but the decline in skill and liquid intelligence is real. I have seen it in other people and I’m noticing it in my career now, starting at 25 years in (I am over 27 years in now).
Feels premature (that’s what she said!) . The economic news still is mixed.
Some oversold stocks should have a decent January but I’m keeping my powder dry for now.
A lot of layoffs in homebuilders are now happening which means unemployment going to get another kick.
Not going to spoil a good SB thread but yeah the wind has been insane up and down the coast. Lots of flooding and Big Sur is pretty much cut off from the world right now.
My brother and my dad in Rio were pretty surprised by this, whereas no one was surprised by 1/6 here really.
Yeah I think this means bolzo ain’t going back. There is a lot of scar tissue around Lula but no one thinks he didn’t win the election. The surprise was that it was close.
I’m heading to TJ shortly. My wife is addicted to deez nuts. Also I am going to get that jalapeño sauce because we can’t find good salsa or even the right peppers to make it out here.
Their Swiss chocolate with hazelnuts is pretty awesome.