OPEN LETTER TO ANDERS, JESPER AND MACIEJ.

Since I am Chairman, CEO and Head Janitor of this blog, I am allowed to hijack it from time to time for personal use. This is one of those times.

As such, I would like to take this opportunity—on behalf of my wife (who I shall refer to as “Mrs. Virtual Tapas Bar”) and myself—to say:

Thank you Anders G. for the bottle of Wyborwa® triple distilled, pure rye grain, Polish vodka. You are correct. We’ll never drink Smirnoff® again…unless it’s mixed with Coke®.

Thank you Jesper K. for being the “mule” who carried the bottle from Denmark to Malta. Lucky for me that the customs agents in Oslo and Amsterdam (the latter being a city where your luggage spent the night…and you didn’t) failed to “confiscate” it for “further analysis.”

Thank you Maciej G. for the two packages of authentic Polish kielbasa (or, more specifically, “kabanosy”) sausages—a piece of which is tightly clenched between my teeth in the above photo. I hope they have something half as good in Hawaii.

I am your contract-writing slave for the next twelve months…except for you, Anders. That’s what you get for leaving the company.