About Jonh
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About Jonh
- Location
- La Florida
- Occupation
- Architect
- Your interest in Nicaragua
- My wife is Nicaraguan and we plan to live there eventually.
- How did you find TRN
- I CREATED it.
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"If you are unwilling to defend even your own lives, then you are like mice trying to 'negotiate' with owls. You regard their ways as 'wrong.' They regard you as dinner."-- John Farnam
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Jonh on 06-28-2010 at 05:44 PM
I had to send some drawings to Hicksville via DHL today. DHL is the only such service in town, as far as I can tell. My wife wanted to combine the short trip there with another bread run to Gutierrez (awesome picos) and, of course, another sacking of an ATM (derivation: "sacar dinero" as in "take out money). Her aunt's friend has a "jeep" (Nicaraguan for "SUV." Officially - it says so on the registration card) that my wife said we were allowed to borrow, but
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Jonh on 06-26-2010 at 07:38 PM
My wife had some lunch meat brought up from Managua by a cousin who lives close to that Bavarian Deli place. However, even after going out shopping twice with her cousin after she got here, she still failed to procure sandwich bread, mustard, or cheese.
As lunch time came and went, and the farthest the "What are we eating for lunch" conversation went was that my daughter wasn't hungry and my wife was just going to eat leftovers. I didn't want the lunch meat to go bad (it
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Jonh on 06-22-2010 at 03:01 PM
Today's mission was to go take out some money from the ATM so we could pay the workers who have finished the septic tank rebuild. My wife requested I pick up some ron con pasa ice cream at the Eskimo shop while I'm out. And since our daughter was bored I invited her and the dog along.
It's five blocks to the Bank Corner. On the last block before the corner, something in a shop caught my eye. I'd dropped my pocket knife while riding a horse out on the farm, and there were two knives
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Jonh on 05-19-2010 at 07:32 PM
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Jonh on 05-02-2010 at 06:27 AM
From W. E. Johns' Biggles Flies West
'Now then! Here we are, ' murmured Biggles, drawing a rough oval on the map with a lead pencil. 'Here is Providence, the island Dick's father and Deutch saw when they were in the open boat, but on which they could not effect a landing. Instead, they drifted away to the south-west, like this' - Biggles followed a south-westerly course with his pencil - 'and here we come to a whole lot of little islands. As you can see, most of them are such mere specks
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