Merry Christmas !

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Posted By: Jaime Leiderman

Merry Christmas to all on the board!

Jaime

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Posted By: runscott

and for all the great discussions

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Posted By: David

And in the festivity and brotherhood of the time, I have made up 2002 New Years resolutions for each of you. They will be emailed promptly. If the download time for the attachment (microsoft word) seems excesive, consider it insentive to try harder before 2003.

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Posted By: Lee Behrens

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Let us not forget Sept. 11, 2001!!

Best Regards to everyone,

Lee

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Posted By: Jay Miller

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and a happy and healthy New Year. May 2002 be a better year for our nation and the world.

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Posted By: Elliot

Season's Greetings to all.

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Posted By: leon

Hey all,
Happy holidays. Let's hope 2002 is better than 2001. Be safe and be thankful......best regards....(from Alaska)

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Posted By: Tim Sedlock

Merry Christmas from Argentina! This year I find myself working on a project in the Southern Hemisphere for my company.

Tim

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I hear the toilet water swirls the opposite direction as here. . .

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Posted By: Jaime Leiderman

Tim

Things must be pretty wild down there...
Economic caos!

Right now I'm Working in Venezuela for half a month, and LATAM's economic future looks real bad...

Happy Holidays!


JL

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Posted By: Tim Sedlock

The water seems to swirl clockwise here in Argentina. Can't remember what it is back in the States.

Definitely economic chaos here. Just hope they don't pay us in Argentino--newly developed currency! My company may not be here much longer as the gov't does not have any money to pay us! Also, not the best place to learn how to drive a manual auto!!! The drivers are nuts and there does not seem like there are any traffic laws.

Tim

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Posted By: Marc S.

The general rule of thumb with driving was this...

During the day, drive carefully. You may stop at a red light if you wish.

During the night, drive aggressively. Never stop for a red light unless an oncoming car forces you to do so. Stopping your car at night is BAD, very bad.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

"The Next in Line"... "Mexico, when I think ofyou, I see miles and miles of dead horses"...."El Norte"..."When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and it's Eastertime, too..."

I won't even go south of the Mason-Dixon line.

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Posted By: Jaime Leiderman

That's the best description I've ever read about driving here...

At least economics are doing well, in fact, Venezuela will finish the year with economic growth (+)...
Lots of oil but lots of government corruption.
Good winter league baseball, with guys like Bob Abreu, Mags Ordonez, Ramon Hernandez (Oak) playing everyday.

Aregentina can be hell for a baseball fan.

hmmm... forgot about the new Fidel Castro "wanna-be"...
Hugo Chavez.


Jl

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Posted By: runscott

I love Georgia, but all those dead horses kinda bug me.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

That's a Ray Bradberry short story, a L. ferlinghetti
poem, a great movie, and a song by Bob Dylan, called "Just like Tom Thumb's Blues"--don't ask me why--all celebrating the horrors of Mexico, and fitting neatly into my prejudices. The only place i ever was in Mexico was Tihihuana (sp?). Most of it is probably gorgeous.

Went through the Panema Canal once, going from Long beach to le Havre, France.

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Posted By: runscott

Tijuana is a really surreal place - I bought some nasty Mezcal there that later had me almost hallucinating and didn't help my poker game. Haven't been south of the Mezcal-Dixon line since.

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Posted By: Tim Sedlock

Would any members on the board be interested in the Presidency of Argentina?!? They can't seem to keep one here!

Tim

Happy New Years!

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Posted By: Jaime Leiderman

Madonna is the expert Argentina needs...
She did Evita, so she must know something!

Also, She has tons of money, with no needs of govmnt. corruption...

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Posted By: runscott

I saw a story on Ripley's about a place like that, somewhere south of the border. I used to read a lot of Bradbury in high school - he has a screw loose, which allows me to identify with some of his stuff...It's snowing here!!! The 70 pound dog is cowering by the couch.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Thanks for correcting my spelling. I got all the way through Grad school without learning how to spell.

"The next in line" is about a robust young man who takes his mentally and physically frail wife on a driving trip through Mexico. They stop at a place that is so dry, bodies buried in the cemetary don't rot, they mummify, all by themselves. This is a good thing, because in this cemetary, you can only rent plots, not buy them. So when you get tired of paying $50 every ten years for Uncle Joe's grave, he is uneasrthed and stood in the nearby Cave of the Dead, propped up on a metal post, in a long line of other mummified dead without rent (I assume the Cave and the dry cemetary are real, but I don't know). Well, robust, insensitive young man insists on taking his wife to see the Cave (a great tourist and local attraction). She almost dies then, but manages to live until that night, when she begs husband not to leave her standing in the Cave of the Dead if she should die. "Don't be rediculous," he says, and they go to bed. She has a quiet but fatal stroke. The last scene of the story is the husband driving back toward the U.S., absently patting the vacant seat beside him.