You get what you pay for.

It is very hard to find the tiki style tropical vacation getaway in the Philippines anymore.  It is all the same sachet factory food, shoddy cement block construction and litter everywhere.  There are nice places, however you really have to work hard to find them and it will cost you.  Either in travel effort to get there or money in room rates. 

Ironically the so called 'new construction' that is the favorite style here.  IE a clone of a crappy Tondo slum  shanty, cost exponentially more to build than the tiki resort.  Tile imported from China, cement from Cebu, substandard rebar made in a Chinese owned foundry in Mindanao, and plumbing made with imagination rather than skill.  Whereas Bamboo, coco palm, and handcrafted furniture is cheaper to aquire but requires upkeep.  Something resort owners do not care to do.

 Upkeep or making things nice is not on the menu with a absentee owner who is just in it to make a fast buck and place to stay when they travel in from Manila or abroad.

Alona Beach looks fine in a photograph. Two blocks away a marching band played all night. The property was concrete-block buildings masquerading as old bamboo huts. The toilet tank was broken; the bowl flushed with a bucket. Breakfast was yesterday’s rice, a scoop of canned CDO corned beef, an overcooked fried egg, and instant coffee. All for a nightly price more than a decent hotel in Manila. After 12 hours I could not wait to leave.

A CHB box on a muddy road with the word resort in the name does not a resort make.

Meme of the week

 

In another round of funsies today, Shipped out a order from my online store.  Its not much, couple bucks only.  The person buying it, was so desperate to order it.  Then she did not accept the order delivery.  So it was sent back to me. 

Well then tracking said the delivery driver brought it back to me.  Dude sent in a gps coordinate from some random house across town, and a supposed picture of the package returned with ID of the reciever.  Clearly not my place cause the GPS coordinates are watermarked on the pic.  ID from some random guy and picture of some random packages, some were for tiktok store,  not the online store brand bag I use.  

My point is, it is all this random petty thievery that goes on here is a serious drain on the economy.  One which I have observed also being so much more common in the USA.  Imagine you meet a time traveller in 1995 and they tell you California will become a dump with Bangladesh style squatter shanties, and drug addicts everywhere?  Imagine you was told the prices of things, or how people behave?

So short staffed.

 

Sexytary is off on vacation. 

Social media girl has been MIA for days.  Supposedly on some college thing.  But I was not asked for this time off.  

Welder took a day off, just because he felt like it.

Business Manager called in sick.

I am suffering bouts of back spasm, so I am pretty much useless for manual labor.

I got anouther brood of chicks hatched.  The bantam hen and rooster I paid 20 bucks for, have now produced 2 adult hens and one rooster. 9 chicks hatched this time around. 

We shall see how many survivors I can get out of this one.  I will have my guy make a new coop from plastic lumber for the bantams.  The bantam hen bullies the big birds and the big birds bully the bantam chicks and Bantam rooster.  I think this is what they call pecking order.  

The monsoon rain has gone down to a daily afternoon thunderstorm and sunny mornings the last few days.  As such I got the workers clearing out the last out the plastic from the old shop to turn it over.  It was a huge mess.  I discovered previous worker stashed the materials I was processing out in the back and then saying he had nothing to process, so as to avoid work.  Story of my life.  Cheap labor is not always cheap.

Wife is doing her usual. This time demanding I 'reimburse' her for money she spent going to a brithday party with her friends at some restaurant.  I was not invited, not consulted, just given a demand for money like a corporate expense reimbursement.  I told her if I give in to her demand I can not pay the salary for my day labor today.  She snorted and said she didnt care.

FB Pushing CCP and Antifa Propaganda hard lately

 My feed is now almost entirely CCP wumao propaganda and the fake and ghey American leftists pushing their false moralizing in insulting posts.  

No wonder my business page numbers are dying.

I have posts reaching 1 to 200,000 views without a sale and tens of likes and comments.

Around 300 inquiry a month now, when it was 600-1000+ a month.  

Despite making better content with more effort. Used to be a random pic and cool story bro post was enough.  Now its 4 hours to make a 15 second video, to get half the views.  The random shop post gets 50 views now. 

I am cutting the meta ad budget tomorrow and moving efforts to other apps.  

Meta will get the cross post, but it is no longer my focus.

Yellow RINO