warning: technical mumbo jumbo ahead. that I don’t fully comprehend. for those only interested in montevideo info, skip this post G. Soros focuses his finance book on the concept of “reflexivity” I listened to his book on tape while enduring the daily drudgery of early morning commutes from east bay to silicon valley a couple of [Continue]

Ok….I’m giving everyone what they want….A few pictures of beautiful Montevideo before returning you to my mind-numbing-wall-of-text ™ posts on everything BUT Uruguay 1.)The first picture is of the old abandoned MVD train station…not in use (unbelievable!) 2.)A church in Pocitos 3.)Williman road, in Punta [Continue]

Fubarrio and Golden Lotus ventured once more into the great wild world of trying to find a place to live in Montevideo this last week. We found some things that were very interesting. Sadly for fuBarrio and GL, fuBarrio’s small monthly stipend check (a settlement from the failed ‘dna replacement therapy’ that left fuBarrio a dog [Continue]

….It’s about all the things the money will buy!” GL was remarking the other day, “geez fuBarrio, for someone without a lot of money, you sure spend a lot of time thinking and talking about it.” uh, good point. But, for that matter, for someone without opposible thumbs on their forepaws, I spend alot [Continue]

(I originally wrote this post below on November 3, 2006 and purposely *didn’t* post it for one month to test the fuBarrio first theorem of “bad luck” (TM). Fubarrio’s first theorem of back luck (TM) states that: the mere act of talking positively about any asset class (or new relationship, or job prospect, etc) will have [Continue]

Hi. Golden Lotus here. Hola peeps! sorry for not writing so long. i have been lazy. anways, on the topic of being wrong. i was and am wrong, for those that know me very well i hold very strong beliefs, specially about Tibetan Buddhism (TB) and his Holiness (HH). okay, so for a long time i [Continue]

Our friends were gracious enough to invite us out to their mini-hacienda out in the “country” this last weekend. Their son stopped by our home on Sunday morning and drove us out from the city. This was (gasp!) our first time leaving Montevideo since arriving in Uruguay. Pretty sad, I know! But, we are planning [Continue]