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 28th, 2010
We all have colds. Bug slept all afternoon, which is a first, and a miracle. I got to watch TV for a change. Lots going down on Big Love season 4, incidentally.
The Economist notes that, when adjusted for inflation, a retail investor made zero capital gains for the last 40 years. That’s a staggering statistic. The last ten years, adjusted for inflation, brought an average of -2.2% return. Of course here we’re speaking of people who buy-and-hold, for example, your retirement portfolios. It would have actually been more profitable to keep the $ in a CD, or even in a savings account.
Soooooooooooo there was a big damn earthquake in Chile. This is one of those times when it’s unfortunate to be on a Pacific island, because apparently there’s a tsunami running around, though it’s predicted to hit Mindanao, not Luzon. In any case we’re on the side of Luzon island that faces China, so I think we’re OK. Also Van and I were careful to select a condo on the 4th floor because of flooding, tsunamis, etc.
