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The unfortunate incidents of the past semester are rapidly fading
\n into the water-under-the-bridge file, and the Dowbrigade is happily turning
\n his attention to his upcoming two-continent, three-sport Spring Training
\n Expedition.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday of next week, (3\/15) we will be flying down But we will have time on our hands and a late-model Harold is a testament to the American Dream and the power of psychotropic Part of Harold’s charm, in addition to his thick, Kissingeresque accent Ten years ago, his marriage a casualty of his disease and his wife’s Then, Sunday the 20th, we will be flying down to Guayaquil, Ecuador, Meanwhile, we wonder if any Dowbrigade readers in southern Florida would We would be interested in hearing from any readers or bloggers in the The unfortunate incidents of the past semester are rapidly fading into the water-under-the-bridge file, and the Dowbrigade is happily turning his attention to his upcoming two-continent, three-sport Spring Training Expedition. On Tuesday of next week, (3\/15) we will be flying … Continue reading
\n to sunny southern Florida for five days of decompression and hobo wannabe
\n wandering. We
\n had hoped to catch a game or two of Red Sox Spring Training, only to
\n find via the
\n Sox
\n web site<\/a> that all of the tickets to the games Wednesday and Thursday
\n are sold out! In addition, all of the reasonably priced hotels in the
\n Fort Meyers-Cape Coral-Naples area report they are fully booked the night
\n of our arrival!<\/p>\n
\n mid-sized rental car waiting at for us at the Fort Meyers airport, so
\n we figure we can cruise the
\n highway and find some dive for the first night. Then we will go
\n to the ballpark Wednesday and see if we can pick up a ticket on the
\n spot. If
\n not, there are a dozen other major league teams in the area, and we are
\n confident we can get in to see SOMEBODY play Wednesday or Thursday. Thursday
\n afternoon we are planning to drive across Alligator Alley to the East
\n Coast, and drop in to visit Old Crazy Harold in Boca Raton for a couple
\n of days.<\/p>\n
\n pharmaceuticals. A German immigrant who married an American Jewish Princess
\n who ended up at the Harvard Law School, we met him over a beer-stained
\n chess board in the Plow and Stars, an Irish dealers bar between Harvard
\n and Central Squares in Cambridge, back in the late 80’s. Harold used
\n to work for Digital
\n Equipment Corporation<\/a>, until one day after leaving
\n work he noticed boxes and boxes of obsolete IC’s and circuit boards in
\n a dumpster in the parking lot. He loaded most of them into the back of
\n his Datsun hatchback and after posting to a few mailing lists he cleared
\n almost a hundred grand. He promptly quit his job and has been buying
\n and selling excess inventory as well as all sorts of rare and obsolete
\n electronic components ever since.<\/p>\n
\n and eclectic, omnivorous intellect, is his heroic struggle with bi-polar disorder,
\n which, until he learned to NOT stop taking his medication, led to legendary
\n episodes of hopscotching across Europe one step ahead of maniacal Nazi
\n hit squads and intimate familiarity with mental health facilities in
\n a half-dozen countries. Now, older and wiser, he tosses back a half-dozen tabs and capsules a day, and if he misses the wild highs and flights of fancy he is happy to relegate them to the relm of memory in return for doing the same to the nightmares of involuntary committment and the desolate landscapes of depression.<\/p>\n
\n soaring post-Harvard ambitions, he relocated to tax-free Florida, where
\n he has established a local network of like-minded European ex-pats, tax
\n fugitives,
\n members of obscure Hasidic sects and that peculiar breed of sun belt
\n conspiracy theorists that infect Florida and Southern California Starbucks
\n like fruit flies around a bin or brown bananas. They are a fun crowd,
\n if preparing for the Apocalypse is your idea of a good time, and we are
\n looking forward to catching up on the latest portents of doom.<\/p>\n
\n where our favorite soccer team, the New
\n England Revolution<\/a>, will be playing
\n THEIR preseason games against top local teams Barcelona (22nd) and Emelec
\n (24th). From there, we plan to bus it up the coast to our pending retirement
\n relocation destination, Manta, for a week of two-a-day Spring Training
\n tennis. We are sure we can get a one-week pass to the Manta
\n Tennis Club<\/a> and rejoin the Doubles at Dawn gang, including the
\n Mayor<\/a>, the Rector,
\n and the Architect. Hopefully, by the time we get back to Boston on April
\n 6th, the snow will be off the courts and we can show off our slick tricks
\n and new licks to our local squad, the "Just Don’t Suck" bank of the
\n Charles weekend warriors tennis gang.<\/p>\n
\n be up for a game during the five days we will be down there. Although
\n he claims to play, old Harold has put on so much weight in the past few
\n years he can barely get from his computer to his car for the ride to
\n Starbucks. When we took him to Peru on the drive up into the Andes he
\n turned blue and almost passed out when we got up above 12,000 feet. He
\n blamed it on his medication.<\/p>\n
\n Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Boca area for a possible meet-up. Spring training,
\n here we come!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"