A bright beautiful day in Lisbon, but I’m in meetings all day so it is wasted on my. I did get a lovely hour walk in early this morning and was walking past a barbershop just as it was opening. I figured since I was in Portugal, why not. It was a good experience, not great like Porto, but better than any place I’ve had my hair cut in the USA in the past twenty years. It was a shop similar to the Porto place but it has not been kept up and there were lots of examples of deferred maintenance. Paint falling from the ceiling, literally, cracked plaster walls, a general lack of spit polish on all surfaces, but by the time I noticed all of this I was already wrapped up and ready so I just let it go.
The haircut took a bit longer than I thought since twice he had to stop cutting to answer the phone. It appears that he must be a landlord for some apartments since I could understand just enough to know that he was telling tenants that there was nothing he could do about whatever problem they were having. Judging from his shop, I can only imagine the condition of his apartments. When he finally had time to work on my hair he did a good job. Mostly scissors and razor so I look decent for these meetings and I’m hoping the cut will last long enough so that my next one can be in Italy in April.
I’ve a twenty-minute break before more meetings and then some big dinner somewhere in Lisbon. These are very interesting meetings with very interesting people so the time really goes quickly but I’ve really no free time for writing and I refuse to bring a computer to any meeting.
Cindy reports that the temperature inched above freezing and that the sun was bright and warm. She said that all the Russians were telling her ‘eto vesna’, it is spring! Everything is relative in Moscow! Speaking of which, Gorbi is getting a big honor from Dmitry and Vlad. As Bobby said, “the times they are a changing”.
Must run, Wm
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