We are in France. I’m studying here and things are going pretty well.
Again, visitors are welcome.
France
February 16th, 2010England
January 21st, 2010We are stopping for 10 days before going to France for the course.
If you want to meet up, give us a holler.
I’m rich.
January 18th, 2010Look, I’m rich.
Chinese Finger Cuffs
January 2nd, 2010Paul Krugman has an intersting piece on Chinese mercantilism: called Chinese New Year
Here is what I think: China has put themselves into Chinese finger cuffs. They have too many dollars, but trying to sell them would devalue the currency, causing them to take even more losses. They can’t get their fingers out without squeezing themselves.
Leaving POA
December 19th, 2009The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,
I was going to write something nice about leaving Porto Alegre, but I thought I’d quote Elizabeth Bishop (“One Art”). I can’t talk about selling and donating our stuff in a villanelle.
If anyone wants our accoutrements, let me know, we are donating most, selling a bit, and if it weren’t for carbon emissions having a bonfire of some.
You have until Tuesday. Tick tock.
MBA / M2
December 5th, 2009For the past few months, I have been working on an Master’s in Business Administration — International Affairs, and an Master’s 2 in International Negotiations.
I’ve not mentioned this here, because there were some bureaucratic (“burro-cratic”) problems that had to be resolved. Some of these seemed like they might have been show-stoppers. However, now it seems like these things are fine, but …. you never can tell.
Brown
November 17th, 2009I will write more about this when I am not so tired, but today I received my brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
To say that I feel honored is a gross understatement.
Poem
October 20th, 2009A little friend wrote the following poem for me:
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Back.
October 17th, 2009We just returned from a long trip to the States. It was really nice to see some family and eat various types of food.
I also trained a few times while traveling which was interesting. The BJJ in the USA and Brazil are different.
Get me off the Internet.
October 9th, 2009I have been thinking about shutting down this blog, or at least not putting anything personal on it, viz. family member names. I’m not sure if I would want to be on the Internet as a baby. There are too many psychos out there.