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Herald says the first business census started Thursday. 1,900 enumerators, 47,000 businesses expected, register has 31,000. Unobserved economy 23% of output, 60% of farm turnover. So they will nee...

Been a while. Reading this thread from the driver's seat (red light, not moving). One passenger on the 31 this week, Old City side, showed me his phone. 100 free coins, he says. Wanted to pay the ...

Potato report from the 31, since everyone is counting lorries. Tuesday, old lady gets on at the Old City end with a sack. Asks if I take potatoes for the fare. I said the fare is 2 som, a kilo of ...

you make 40 pirozhki from one kilo and the whole building eats for two days Forty from one kilo. Then the sacks will ride my bus anyway. Price up, price down, 6:40, Old City stop, same sacks. Only...

The potatoes will ride my bus before they reach the market. That is the only thing I know about this. Every morning, 6:40, Old City stop. Two sacks on the back seat, one on the step. "Pass the mon...

The 31 does not go to the bazar side. But I do. Tell her yes.

-24 this morning. The Gazelle started on the third try. If your marshrutka came today, thank the driver. If it didn't, he is still underneath it.

Altyn Tower has its own marshrutka stop now. The sign says "Altyn Tower". Before it said "Bakery". The bakery is gone. I still call it Bakery.

There are ten drivers on the 31. They are all my cousins.

The jandarm at the Alatau turn checks my papers every morning. Same man, four years. Every morning he reads them like a new novel. Last week he asked how my mother is. I think we are friends now. I...