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undersea cable from usa to cuba to be denied

Posted on December 1, 2022 | Leave a comment

Things continue to stay stupid.

USDOJ recommended that the FCC deny an undersea cable connection to Cuba due to risk to USA national security because the equipment on the Cuban end would be owned by… Cuba. 😱

Hell, everything is a risk to USA national security: the wind blowing, sun coming up, etc.

Data and telephone to Cuba is a mess because it has to go alllll the wayyy down and around through Colombia and Venezuela usually.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-urges-rejection-undersea-cable-connection-cuba-2022-11-30/

maps of undersea cable in caribe

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halloween decor in december

Posted on December 1, 2022 | 2 comments

December 1st and I finally take down the Halloween decorations and lay them on the porch.

Various Halloween decorations laying on the porch

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secret matching donor

Posted on November 30, 2022 | Leave a comment

All of the sudden every org in the world has a secret matching donor, so you can double your donation. I don’t even believe a word of that.

Donate to my Fanta Brotherhood (the orange soda). Lot of secrets in that. 🥤🍊

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weird t-shirt arrival

Posted on November 30, 2022 | Leave a comment

These t-shirts showed up in my mailbox shipped from China. I didn’t order these.

Maybe some kind of weird psyop. I don’t want this shit.

Soviet statue and symbol of communism

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churches

Posted on November 30, 2022 | Leave a comment

I’m not much of a conventional church goer. I guard my beliefs rather closely but slightly hint about them sometimes.


With that said, especially in Latin America, I enjoy going into huge cathedrals, walking around quietly, and having a seat for awhile to meditate and soak in the atmosphere. Feel the whirl of time and history.


In spite of being contrarian, if somebody invites me to church, I usually go, unless I know ahead of time that’s it’s nuts in there. I can have a pretty good time anywhere for an hour or so.

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facebook jail?

Posted on November 30, 2022 | Leave a comment

Maybe I’ve gone too far on Facebook. It keeps malfunctioning on me. There was that summer of jail a few years ago. Happened to a lot of people. If it is like that, I don’t know why. I never say anything important there. At best, mild complaints.

It’s best to save the “hot” topics for where one pays for the server. I’ve got some of that, but I don’t have that much to say there, either.

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Esmond Wilson

Posted on November 29, 2022 | Leave a comment

Zachary Esmond Wilson of High Point. My first love when still in high school.

He died quite young and I didn’t get to say goodbye.

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swank ramen

Posted on November 29, 2022 | Leave a comment

A lunch ramen so elegant that I didn’t even bother to put it in a bowl. lol.

This one’s quite nice though. We order them from Amazon.

Steaming Ramen still in the pot

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starving artist in havana 2005

Posted on November 29, 2022 | Leave a comment

Near the book fair in the previous post was this artist making sketches of the cathedral and plaza.

As is evident in the pic, he was sweet and friendly. I think he had picked up on the gay vibe.

I should have leaned over and gone, “psst! Wanna make $200 real quick?” lol. Nah, we don’t operate like that.

Sweet handsome starving artist

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2005 cuba trip

Posted on November 29, 2022 | Leave a comment

In 2005, my spouse and I sneaked over to Cuba from the USA via Cancun. I always wanted to see it, plus it was kind of a forbidden-fruit type of trip. Everything went great.

Once we got back home, we discovered that my cousin had been over there at the same time with her husband on their honeymoon. Like us, they had been low-key about it, so none of us knew about the others beforehand.

While there. We walked by plenty of portraits, and sometimes a bust, of people like José Martí, Fidel Castro, and Lenin. Not a single one of them rolled its eyes, hissed, or tried to touch us inappropriately.

In the pic below, we went to a book fair in Havana. We were so disappointed that the one in the pic kept blocking our camera view of the books. 😁

Handsome man in slinky pose in front of book racks

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