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11 Nov 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Kim departs Gomez moves in. Kim. Short-Haircut.com Gomez stayed at Jean’s and Kim went back to her place, but now there were three surfers there besides herself, a little uncomfortable as the bedroom was two bunk beds. I sat in my cottage and su...
10 Nov 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I'm a little out of order here in my time. This piece should have been inserted about five pieces ago as it introduces Tom and Paola, a couple I met a few weeks before the Caguas Mall began. But it explains some things that followed and is too amus...
9 Nov 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Rincon again Waiting for the call Smoking crack together. Unsplash Our Caguas household was my one redemptive pleasure to the miseries and daily frustrations of work in the most ill-planned and badly scheduled mall ever. My opinion of Puerto R...
9 Nov 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Addison, an odd receptacle. Construction prints. Addison knew how to read prints better than anyone, from his New Jersey beginnings in the construction field, and his smarts, which no degree of crack abuse seemed to diminish. I remember one day a...
8 Nov 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Strange cohabitation. Cluster …uck. The second week into this project Sanita had left with Willy for Florida. The job was so problem plagued I had little time to think about them. I only drove back to Rincon one weekend in the next eight, expe...
7 Nov 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Mall Meltdown The Caguas Debacle. Now to the ‘Caguas’ debacle. The structure of the mall, the steel beamed, cement walled, Q-Deck rooved, shell of the building was supposed to be all ready by mid- July, so the contractors could begin their build...
6 Nov 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
False Dreams On the way to Mark’s house. But back to my story. About an hour after Laura left that Saturday morning I was at the top of the hill looking under the hood of my clunker car, (I think I purchased it from a local for three hundred dolla...
29 Oct 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
From broke in Newark to rich St. Thomas. Saint Thomas and cruise ships, where I had two lucrative jobs waiting, a bit different than the Y.M.C.A. in Newark. Mike insisted I do his next two bars, one came up in ninety eight and the last one a year...
11 Oct 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Buddy My new best friend. Looks like Dee. Sarah Silverman N.Y. Times. So Buddy arrived and the three of us began work to finish the mansion, tool belts on, talking away and making great progress over the next weeks. The nature of the work w...
10 Oct 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I'm continuing my autobiography at infrequent intervals as I'm back at electrical work at a gold mine camp in Northern Ontario called Gogama. This might last through Christmas. For those of you who haven't read the earlier parts I'll provide links to...
