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Blogging about anything that interests me.


UEFA CL FINAL

1 Jun 2019 1 minute read 0 comments gduran

This is the game of the year, wherever you are, my team here in Honduras is in the final on Sunday but I really don't care I am a Liverpool fan and my game is the one being played on Saturday in Madrid at the Wanda Metropolitano. It will be a great g...

Publish0x for me, up to now

27 May 2019 1 minute read 3 comments gduran

I joined Publish0x a few weeks back, and of course first I started using it slowly until I got more or less used to the site. I have voted my daily quota most days and the days that I haven't completed it is because I had something else to do. And th...

Carnival Time

26 May 2019 1 minute read 1 comment gduran

Well we had the local carnival last night, this is the most important carnival in Honduras and attracts a lot of visitors the streets are overcrowded with people and there is of course a lot of drinking going on. Before the big Saturday event every d...

Snake Oil

25 May 2019 3 minute read 0 comments gduran

It seems that selling "snake oil" has always been intrinsic with the human experience. Any history book is full of mentions of that smart guy who hoodwinked everyone with that great idea that everybody knew couldn't possibly work yet this guy made it...

Giant Sharks

24 May 2019 2 minute read 0 comments gduran

There have been stories of giant sharks along the north coast of Honduras I guess always. The first one I heard was in Utila which is an island, I was told that after the Cuban revolution a wooden cargo vessel, somewhere around 50 feet long (I did ge...

Getting Fired

23 May 2019 1 minute read 2 comments gduran

I found when I was working for a multinational company here in Honduras (OK my position was not that great, but it was a multinational company) that every year, at some moment corporate headquarters would send the management people a request to decre...

Drugs and Bananas

20 May 2019 2 minute read 0 comments gduran

Taken from the book: Probidad y Etica en Las Politicas Publicas by Maria de los Angeles Chaverri and Vicente Zavala Pavon. (I translated this from Spanish) "In the 1930’s the Honduran drug market boomed under the leadership of President Tiburcio Cari...

Back Pain

19 May 2019 1 minute read 3 comments gduran

I found the spine picture on a site called https://fishkeepingforever.com/guppy-bent-spines-reasons-treatments-cures-facts/, somehow I think that is how my spine looks like when I have this problem.   I have a bad pain in my back right now, it starte...

Publish0X Today

19 May 2019 1 minute read 4 comments gduran

I have been having a very positive experience here, I have started posting a few articles, OK they are not much but then again I have never thought of myself as a great author, still it is good to get a few votes for whatever I write and of course he...

Bad Times in Honduras

17 May 2019 2 minute read 0 comments gduran

We are having a very hard time around here, of course we have economic problems as always and I am talking about the whole country, as you know I live in Honduras, we have crime problems and emigration and a constant hike in the price of foods and ut...