This blog is to help my wife and I, itinerant expatriates, stay in touch with family and close friends. We're living in the Pearl of the Orient.
In Rome, April 2006
Vanessa on Ko Samet, Thailand, June 2011
In Kabul, Mar. 2011
In Kabul, Mar. 2011
In Dubai, Oct. 2009
"Only those who risk going too far find out how far they can go---Fringe
"There are few problems that cannot be solved with the proper application of high explosives." — U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Motto
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to the next with no loss of enthusiasm"---Winston Churchill
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" --Thomas Jefferson
"Unless I sample life’s dangers I shall never know its mysteries…”---John LeCarre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." — Thomas Jefferson
“The game is rigged. But you cannot lose if you don't play.” –The Wire
“A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.” ---Yoda
"It seems to me that when you judge a man's worth, his ability to survive should be no small part of it." JV Jones SoS2
Posted in Uncategorized by Administrator on the February 11th, 2010
You can tell we’re in the Far East, because people are getting all excited about Chinese New Year and the Year of the Tiger.
It’s strange that poor-people food in America is rich-people food abroad. So we have English muffins and pot pies. Not gourmet pot pies incidentally. Rather the really cheap poor-people variety. Out here, English muffins and pot pies can only be found at Rustan’s, and they certainly aren’t poor-people food. I remember as a college student eating a lot of pot pies and English muffins with a slice of melted cheese on top. Also I remember eating a lot of broccoli, not because I liked it, but because it was cheap. Broccoli is a cold-weather plant and so it can only be grown in Baguio and is, of course, quite expensive.
Tristan is crawling a bit. Not far or fast, but he’s on the move.
I’m not sure why I would use Google Buzz in preference to Twitter.
