St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
I like this and will be using it soon.
He was trimming branches. Apparently he isn't too bright, Mrs. SLB said the branch he was standing on was about the diameter of a quarter and it just snapped.
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He was trimming branches. Apparently he isn't too bright, Mrs. SLB said the branch he was standing on was about the diameter of a quarter and it just snapped.
Buck Bradcanon
Footballguy
Would like an update from Gadzooks on the little sister. Caught up on the last 5 or 6 pages and they have been as good as any in this thread. Awesome stuff from everyone.
kevzilla
Footballguy
She has sex with you without getting drunk?
Does she kick Chuck Norris' ### in her spare time? 
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Dr. Awesome
Footballguy
at Sconch and Stu.
Sconch
Footballguy
unch:
KGB
Footballguy
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
:FINGER:
She has sex with you without getting drunk?
Dr. Awesome
Footballguy
Disney doesn't do drinks. Go to California adventure. The restaurant that overlooks the pier. Lots of booze at a reasonable price (for Disney).
Sconch
Footballguy
I've been to Disneyland more than you've had hot meals, Gomer.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Boy, I think I have some reading to do....
General Malaise
Footballguy
I think I'm still hungover from Wednesday....
Dr. Awesome
Footballguy
I'm not so good at this reading comprehension thing. I worked at Disneyland for a few months several years ago. Those were some fun times.
General Malaise
Footballguy
They don't sell beer at Disney Land? I'm out.
Sarnoff
Footballguy
"Avalon Cove". Good place to get booze. They charge a cover after 6 or 7 PM though because it's a prime viewing location for the World of Color show. There's still the Karl Strauss beer truck at the DCA food plaza. There is no world beer & wine festival at California Adventure this year, however, but the California Vineyard is still open.The only place in Disneyland proper that serves alcohol is Club 33.
Downtown Disney, though, has lots of spots. There are usually long lines at ESPN Zone & Rainforest Cafe, especially this time of year. The Tortilla Joe's taqueria section, though, can get you served quickly if you bypass the food line and just want beer (Corona and Dos Equis, mostly).
But for the mixed drinks & wider beer selection, hit the hotel bars. Either The Hearthstone in the Grand Californian, or, The Lounge at Steakhouse 55 in the Disneyland Hotel at the end of the Downtown Disney district.
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krista4
Footballguy
This is an excellent idea. One thing we've now discovered is that no one makes good pasta here, which the ex-pats miss. OH is ridiculously good at pasta and sauces. We will see--the plan would be to live here a few months and scope out opportunities, not to jump into anything too quickly.Rudi, no we did not bring the cats; just learned about the kitty litter as we were talking to someone who said his girlfriend (Nica) had not even heard of kitty litter before. She also did not know there were time zones--he was going out of town and mentioned the time change, and he had to get on the computer to show her and prove that time zones existed! Apparently Nicaragua tried to institute daily savings time before, too, but everyone just refused to do it, claiming that only God can change the time.Our dinner party last night went well, despite a few challenges like a stove where the burners would not get hot enough to boil water--as OH said it was like trying to cook over a series of Bic lighters--which is a problem when you're serving homemade pasta. I thought OH was going to die, as he had worked on the ravioli, filling, and sauce for hours, but then Julio said he could fix the stove. Next thing I knew he had taken it all apart and was asking me if I had anything sharp like a safety pin--luckily I had had a shirt dry-cleaned before coming here and had the pin they had put the tag on with. We all stood around watching and I was absolutely sure that Julio was going to cause an explosion leading to burning down this lovely house, but somehow he got it done and WA-LA! There was much rejoicing and a huge amount of eating and drinking all night. Rodolfo also brought his girlfriend who knows maybe 10 words of English, so the dinner consisted of us, two Nica men with pretty good English, two Nica women with no English, and a Canadian ex-pat. Somehow we managed to communicate even when translations weren't being done, and I haven't laughed so much in ages! Nicas might not have a lot but know how to live well. A few words about Nica women...I do not think they are generally as beautiful as in many other countries such as Colombia or Spain, but each one that I have met who is the girlfriend of an ex-pat or a successful Nicaraguan is extremely gorgeous. They are thin but very curvacious as well. Of course there are quite a lot of old Americans and others who come here just to snag a young Nica woman, and the women are very up for that generally as it is a good way to get their families taken care of. If you marry (or not marry, as after a year together people start calling you married even if it's not official) a Nica you are supposed to take care of their whole family financially as well. As to our house...as it turns out (and I knew this), we did not sign the Spanish-language document that makes the sale contract binding, so legally the seller owes us the entire deposit back. My understanding is that in these situations people will work out a compromise, where for instance I let him keep 10%. We made a generous offer and I am waiting to hear back. In the meantime we have found another house that we are going to buy. It is smaller than the other but the layout makes sense and it does not need as many changes. It is also cheaper though we all like it much better. Something I find very amusing about Granada, and Nicaragua in general, is that there are no addresses as we would think of them in the States. I asked the seller of the new house what street we were on and he didn't even know the name. Instead, our address in Granada will be "Xalteva Church, 1-1/2 blocks north". Our friend Rodolfo lives at "Xalteva Church, 3 blocks south and 10 meters from the lake". We've heard of another whose address is "100 meters south of where the small tree used to be". There are a lot of addresses that include where something used to be. I don't know what happens when the generation who knew where that thing was dies off.When you buy a house in Nicaragua, you do NOT want to change the electricity or water to your name. If they find out that a gringo has bought the house, suddenly your electric and water bills will increase dramatically. The house we will buy still has them in the name of the owner two sales ago, who is now dead. We are hiring someone to clean the house (everyone has this here) but I'm told we should sign something that says she is part-time. Workers in Nicaragua, though they make little money, have very beneficial rights since it is a semi-socialist country (I say "semi-" in that Daniel Ortega calls himself a socialist but has spent his time as president amassing a gigantic personal fortune). They get two weeks paid vacation a year, plus a month of additional salary that is paid in December. And it is virtually impossible to fire someone after you have hired them. The system is set up to protect the workers. If our person is part-time, which she will be, we will not owe this and can get rid of her if she doesn't perform well. We still want to pay a more-than-average wage, of course, but I'd mostly like the benefit of being able to hire and fire based on performance. Much like marrying someone here, when you hire them you also find yourself taking on many additional responsibilities for their families.We're going out for some dinner now - Nica steak again I think! It is so delicious and cheap. One day we might tire of it, but it will be a while.If people there are truly that.poor and the food that good, I'd think you could find a quality local cook to help with the local dishes. Maybe do something in a sit down Humanzee menu inside, with a patio/walk-up window type of setup featuring more local cuisine.Well, there is satellite TV and you can even get the NFL Sunday Ticket.krista4, that sounds incredibly appealing to me. I think I would love to live in a place like that...but maybe only half the year.I'd miss "civilization" (American luxury) too much to not be here at least during the late spring/summer/early fall.Very happy for you, and hope you keep posting update. I for one will be living vicariously through you and Mr. K.
There is also wireless internet most everywhere. You can buy almost anything you want at one of the large markets in Granada, but most people also go to Managua every few weeks to stock up at a place that is similar to a Costco. There you can get the better electronics (there is a Radio Shack in Granada) as well as stuff like decent linens and towels. It is also the only place to get kitty litter.
Granada is thankfully free of American fast-food chains at this point but does have a chicken chain called "Tip Top", though I hear it's actually pretty good. What you would probably miss most about "civilization", in addition to the A/C, is the pace at which you can get things done. Everything hear moves realllly slowly, which is nice in a way but can be a challenge for us Type A people.
Early, it's a very good question about a restaurant. Our original intention was to try to open a place that could be appealing to both Nicas and tourists alike. The more time we spend here the more I wonder if that is possible. Granada, and Nicaragua in general, is still increasing rapidly in tourism every year, but the tourists tastes are of course quite different than what a typical Nicaraguan is looking for. We tend to eat Nicaraguan food most of the time and then bust out for a pizza once or twice (there are three very good pizza joints we've found so far). But most of the tourists tend to stick to the places where they can eat something familiar--there is a place called Kathy's Waffle House that I understand always has a wait. So we will have to figure out whether we can appeal to the $$ (tourists) while still providing affordable meals that a Nicaraguan would like as well. We'll start small in any case.YSR, maybe you should try a second honeymoon here!
First thought I had reading your post. Well, second after, "you guys suck."
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
This is an excellent idea. One thing we've now discovered is that no one makes good pasta here, which the ex-pats miss. OH is ridiculously good at pasta and sauces. We will see--the plan would be to live here a few months and scope out opportunities, not to jump into anything too quickly.Rudi, no we did not bring the cats; just learned about the kitty litter as we were talking to someone who said his girlfriend (Nica) had not even heard of kitty litter before. She also did not know there were time zones--he was going out of town and mentioned the time change, and he had to get on the computer to show her and prove that time zones existed! Apparently Nicaragua tried to institute daily savings time before, too, but everyone just refused to do it, claiming that only God can change the time.Our dinner party last night went well, despite a few challenges like a stove where the burners would not get hot enough to boil water--as OH said it was like trying to cook over a series of Bic lighters--which is a problem when you're serving homemade pasta. I thought OH was going to die, as he had worked on the ravioli, filling, and sauce for hours, but then Julio said he could fix the stove. Next thing I knew he had taken it all apart and was asking me if I had anything sharp like a safety pin--luckily I had had a shirt dry-cleaned before coming here and had the pin they had put the tag on with. We all stood around watching and I was absolutely sure that Julio was going to cause an explosion leading to burning down this lovely house, but somehow he got it done and WA-LA! There was much rejoicing and a huge amount of eating and drinking all night. Rodolfo also brought his girlfriend who knows maybe 10 words of English, so the dinner consisted of us, two Nica men with pretty good English, two Nica women with no English, and a Canadian ex-pat. Somehow we managed to communicate even when translations weren't being done, and I haven't laughed so much in ages! Nicas might not have a lot but know how to live well. A few words about Nica women...I do not think they are generally as beautiful as in many other countries such as Colombia or Spain, but each one that I have met who is the girlfriend of an ex-pat or a successful Nicaraguan is extremely gorgeous. They are thin but very curvacious as well. Of course there are quite a lot of old Americans and others who come here just to snag a young Nica woman, and the women are very up for that generally as it is a good way to get their families taken care of. If you marry (or not marry, as after a year together people start calling you married even if it's not official) a Nica you are supposed to take care of their whole family financially as well. As to our house...as it turns out (and I knew this), we did not sign the Spanish-language document that makes the sale contract binding, so legally the seller owes us the entire deposit back. My understanding is that in these situations people will work out a compromise, where for instance I let him keep 10%. We made a generous offer and I am waiting to hear back. In the meantime we have found another house that we are going to buy. It is smaller than the other but the layout makes sense and it does not need as many changes. It is also cheaper though we all like it much better. Something I find very amusing about Granada, and Nicaragua in general, is that there are no addresses as we would think of them in the States. I asked the seller of the new house what street we were on and he didn't even know the name. Instead, our address in Granada will be "Xalteva Church, 1-1/2 blocks north". Our friend Rodolfo lives at "Xalteva Church, 3 blocks south and 10 meters from the lake". We've heard of another whose address is "100 meters south of where the small tree used to be". There are a lot of addresses that include where something used to be. I don't know what happens when the generation who knew where that thing was dies off.When you buy a house in Nicaragua, you do NOT want to change the electricity or water to your name. If they find out that a gringo has bought the house, suddenly your electric and water bills will increase dramatically. The house we will buy still has them in the name of the owner two sales ago, who is now dead. We are hiring someone to clean the house (everyone has this here) but I'm told we should sign something that says she is part-time. Workers in Nicaragua, though they make little money, have very beneficial rights since it is a semi-socialist country (I say "semi-" in that Daniel Ortega calls himself a socialist but has spent his time as president amassing a gigantic personal fortune). They get two weeks paid vacation a year, plus a month of additional salary that is paid in December. And it is virtually impossible to fire someone after you have hired them. The system is set up to protect the workers. If our person is part-time, which she will be, we will not owe this and can get rid of her if she doesn't perform well. We still want to pay a more-than-average wage, of course, but I'd mostly like the benefit of being able to hire and fire based on performance. Much like marrying someone here, when you hire them you also find yourself taking on many additional responsibilities for their families.We're going out for some dinner now - Nica steak again I think! It is so delicious and cheap. One day we might tire of it, but it will be a while.If people there are truly that.poor and the food that good, I'd think you could find a quality local cook to help with the local dishes. Maybe do something in a sit down Humanzee menu inside, with a patio/walk-up window type of setup featuring more local cuisine.Well, there is satellite TV and you can even get the NFL Sunday Ticket.krista4, that sounds incredibly appealing to me. I think I would love to live in a place like that...but maybe only half the year.
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
Go to the hearthstone in the grand california. There's an entranc to the park, CA side, much easier. $$$
Sarnoff
Footballguy
Unfortunately, last summer they limited this entrance to hotel guests only. They check for a room key now. Off-season, they'll occasionally let you slide by with a receipt from one of the hotel restaurants, but not during the summer. Besides, this only lets into the California Adventure park, which would require a different admission ticket, guessing the school trip will be Disneyland-only.
Frostillicus
Footballguy
Can't you just PM Mr. Ham for Disney info?
-fish-
Footballguy
Only if the Matterhorn is going to erupt.
Sconch
Footballguy
We/I usually go to the ESPNZONE. I've never seen much of a line there. Last year I hit up Tortilla Joe's for their special. I think it was Modelo. All I know is that it was ice-cold and there was nary an 8th grader in sight.
desert rose
Footballguy
Some schools to work program tested some of my students and then had a drawing for prizes afterward. One of them won a brand new iPad. As far as I can tell, he's only using it to play Pong.
bentley
Footballguy
Good gawd Disneyland sucks. I had an old high school friend get married to some chick that sucked the life force out of him there. The night before the wedding, he declined the opportunity to go get drunk on my nickel to check out the electric boogaloo parade and hit Mr Toad's Wild Ride one more time. I ended up going drinking with three of his uncles and we threw a bachelor party for him without him. We met back up with his brother at the hotel bar. The brother drank a ton of white chocolate martinis and almost got kicked out of the bar for singing show tunes at the top of his lungs. He may have been gay. Spent most of the next day in that restaurant referenced above.
The_Man
Footballguy
In 1985, the top two grades of my high school took a field trip from Virginia to Washington, DC. At the time, DC was one of the only places in the country where the drinking age was still 18. So at lunch, in the cafeteria of the National Art Gallery, my brother (he was a senior, I was a junior) grabbed a Bud out of the drink case, put it on his tray and paid for it, then sat down at the table next to all the teachers and sucked it down with his lunch. They were all so pissed off, but he acted all "What's the problem? I'm not breaking any law."He was an awesome older brother. Not only did he get me all the drink or drugs I wanted, he was also totally openly defiant about it. So when I came along as a sniveling weasel who never copped to anything, my parents were only too glad to believe that I wasn't doing the stuff he did - and admitted to. To this day, my mom is mystified when she reads psychology that says first born kids are supposed to be dutiful and obedient.
El Floppo
Footballguy
In college, my best friend's free-basing roomie at UCSB recommended to us, prior to our imminent drug-laden trip to the Happiest Place on Earth, where to imbibe. He worked there through HS and knew the ins-and-outs- so he said. Huck Finn island (Tom Sawyer? I don't remember exactly) was the ideal spot according to him- nobody liked the place so few people there, lots of cover with bushes and buildings, and it was isolated. As we were literally slamming the door shut on their IV apt to drive down there, he threw out- Oh... if you see people who look too obviously like tourists, they're under-cover cops... you know, plaid bermuda shorts and disneyland hats/t-shirts, etc.So we get down there, head straight to Tom Sawyer's island and it was ####### swarming with people in plaid bermuda shorts with disneyland hats/t-shirts. We leave Tom Sawyer's Island and THE ENTIRE ####### PARK is swarming with these cliched tourists in plaid shorts and disney paraphernalia- it was kind of like when Malkovich went inside his own head in Being John Malkovich, except instead of Malkovich, everybody was a tourist and saying "busted". we hadn't even smoked yet, and we were paranoid as ####.... like Finless levels of paranoia.
So we decide to head out of the park into the parking lot to figure it out from there. Security cops buzzing around in squadrons of little electric carts... this was no good. My gb wants to leave the parking lot (huge parking lot- like crossing the sahara huge) which I begin to wrap my head around when I notice a car with it's windows wide open. I bee-line towards it, open the driver side door and sit down. My GB swears, but follows to the passenger side and quckly unloads our stash. While he's doing that, I look around the car... US Marine corp stickers, t-shirts, caps, pins, blanket mixed in with a couple of magazines about guns. My friend starts to freak, but I figure it's not even noon so no way this gun-loving marine comes back to his late 70s Mustang so soon after shelling out bank for disney tickets. We smoke. Prodigiously.
The hour wait line at Star Tours (which had just opened) was better than just about any ride I've ever been on, including the actual Star Tours ride.
krista4
Footballguy
Shtaym Syek
Footballguy
These Krista updates are awesome.
Since I haven't kept up fully:
1. Is this a 100% permanent move?
2. What are you doing for work there?
3. What is Mr. Krista going to be doing there?
4. Are you really opening a restaurant?
Since I haven't kept up fully:
1. Is this a 100% permanent move?
2. What are you doing for work there?
3. What is Mr. Krista going to be doing there?
4. Are you really opening a restaurant?
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
Correct. I have the pass, so can go between parks. I also would dodge the room key bit by getting a receipt from rest storytellers restaurant. They aren't checking yet. My daughters 4, we go all the time
Oliver Humanzee
Footballguy
I am not Krista, but I think I can field this one.1. We are at LEAST two years out from moving anywhere. Once we do, the plan is to live there until it no longer suits us, or we die.2. We will be opening a restaurant. 3. We will be opening a restaurant.4. Yes.
cosjobs
Footballguy
start hiding
cosjobs
Footballguy
wow. thanks for confirming my long-held suspicions about you
cosjobs
Footballguy
sounds like you're the Gomer
cosjobs
Footballguy
THis is your competition. Will you be better or cheaper than they are?We're going out for some dinner now - Nica steak again I think! It is so delicious and cheap. One day we might tire of it, but it will be a while.
Homer J Simpson
I don't push
DisneyChat: Deactivate.
cosjobs
Footballguy
Have you ever seen anyone hold their balls longer on a national broadcast than Stevenson?
Disco Stu
Confirmed FBGal
Not that I recall. That dude scares me a little. Through my tv. In person a little pee might come out.Dirkules, Dirkules!!
kevzilla
Footballguy
Coming from you, this does not compute.
cosjobs
Footballguy
possibly premature, but certainly a contender for greatest mav victory ever
krista4
Footballguy
Keys, we're just down here to buy right now, with the intention of moving in 2-3 years. All FBG I like are welcome to use the house for free (within reason) until we move.
cosjobs
Footballguy
he hates the game, not the playersComing from you, this does not compute.
krista4
Footballguy
Yessir. More consistent, too.THis is your competition. Will you be better or cheaper than they are?We're going out for some dinner now - Nica steak again I think! It is so delicious and cheap. One day we might tire of it, but it will be a while.
Homer J Simpson
I don't push
he hates the game, not the playersComing from you, this does not compute.
Now if we were discussing Dusney sarging strategies...
Buck Bradcanon
Footballguy
Why does Stevenson play at all? And yes, Ron Artest and Tony Allen think Stevenson is bat#### crazy.
Disco Stu
Confirmed FBGal
He's good at the defense. He's also good at going about 1 for 6. But mainly Terry is just better off the bench for some reason.Why does Stevenson play at all? And yes, Ron Artest and Tony Allen think Stevenson is bat#### crazy.
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