The BOOKMARK in Dolega

I just have to air my opinions, which will probably get me deported some day, but my life with Banistmo has finally reached its climax. Staring tomorrow, I am going to take all my banking, as I can arrange it, to Banco General. Having talked with several people, and wqith my increased dissatisfaction with Banistmo, since it is under the aegis of HSBC, reached a breaking point when they started charging me a 25 dollar fee for my monthly direct deposit for online book sales. In addition to this, I have been trying to get another hundred dollar Cash Back from my credit card since late September. I finally got fifty dollars on November 28, but the other fifty dollars became fifty cents Friday, when I was credited thgat amount for Cash Back…I spend two to three thousand dollars a month on my credit card, but the only credit I can get is what I have deposited in my credit card account…so it entials constant depositing of funds in the bank. I am tired of writing on line emails, as I have for more than six months, on a weekly basis, and have yet to receive a single acknowledgement. The nCustomer Service girls try to push me off on the others, personnel from 15 years back, are now managers, and won’t talk to me. When my debit card was eaten by an ATM machine in San Jose last year, a direct appeal by their sister bank in San Jose was denied to forward me funds from my account. I hate impersonal banking, and in a small town, it should be personal. Banistmo tops my list of Failed Friendships of 2008. I want to thasnk those of you who read this blog, for your support and I wish all people will have their hopes and expectations met in 2009. You have made this my most successful year ever, since I opened these doors ten years ago. I am optimistic, and will continue to be so, through the coming weeks, as we wait to see what this most portentious year will bring

Money – how to get it, keep it, stash it or hide, move it make it, a whole table full of money books, many brand new,  worth up to 30 dollars…on sale for the holidays at just 4 (FOUR) dollars each…a good investment..no pyramids here.

if you had asked, I would have given you the large , young plant growing from the finest pink striped bromeliad I have ever owned. Instead, you came by in the night and uprooted the entire plant, the pride of my entrance at the bookshop. This plant, a proud replacement of one stolen two years ago, required strong nurturing, and cautious watering during the long months of the rainy season, to keep it thriving without drowning. Wherever you have taken it, I hope that it dries up or rots quickly and dies…thieves in the night deserve no better. I have few joys these days, though my faithful companion, Cody the Rottweiler, has improved to the point that I feel he will outlast me, and I am considering buying some of his geriatric dog medicine for myself…but plants have always brought me pleasure, and you have stolen from me, one of my favorites. An to whatever person that receives a beautiful double, pink and green striped bromeliad for a gift, please check its provenance. Garden thieves are a nasty lot, not at all like snippet borrowers, of which most plant lovers have been at one time or another. Bromeliad thief, I sincerely wish you ill.

We have a thousand fifty cent paperbacks, and for the entire month, will sell them at 3 for a dollar; that is, if the Big Event  at the Feria doesn’t overload you with Christmas booty….come by when you recover and look over the bargains