ephemera

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Tempted to do an Amazon resupply box to Midtown, fly there, pick it up, eat dinner in the grocery cafe, and then fly back.  Would be basically the same cost as the shipping and customs.  And one of the things I hadn't appreciated about the Amazon was that strong cheap things are surprisingly hard to find, even in the more developed economies here. Stories of academics, even in recent years, coming back with suitcases of inexpensive jeans.

Jeans are actually not bad, as the fast-fashion conglomerate that operates the three or four major chains in the Balkans or the Turkish chain generally has them at a reasonable cost, and with some looking, you can find the traditional cut, rather than the fast-fashion serf look.  The other elements of the box are proving more problematic.  

Will muddle on, repair the existing kit, but still odd to be thinking about Midtown after all the difficulties of recent years.  It did offer a world-class library, an inexpensive gym, cathedral churches, and cheap, healthy food.  (Even when some of the other essentials were absent.)