I often get foreign spam mail (I attribute it to my CIVA email account – which in China is the Chinese International Volunteer Association). I occasionally like to open one, and do a translation on it. I came many round, east under the Burma means, had to become vip member? How am I the vegetable…

… had fun (I had no idea what else to say, I’m truly uninspired). We literally Just got back to my parents house about an hour ago (pathetic that I’m on the computer; no? work calls, and the kids are out at Dutch Wonderland with mom and dad). We walked and walked and walked. No…

Yes I have fully matriculated into full robot-dom. Aaron and I have convinced one of Evok’s interns that I am a robot in Cincinnati, set up in a clean room, programmed to interact and learn through instant messenger. Can you say “dumb as a rock”? In all fairness, I often feel like a robot. Doing…

Suddenly the week is gone (and I didn’t exactly tear up with the four times a day updates – but I’ve been busy). I’ve been thinking about legacy. When my bones mix into the dust of the earth what memories or stories that grow and endure the weather? I’ve not yet written that great novel…

So we’ve been here only 2 weeks which means its hardly enough time to call this a “continual” issue, but so far Mr. Trashman – also called Rumpke – has yet to pick up our trash. Last week we had quite a bit on the curb. We had even called about a special pick up…

There was a quote I heard in church that has had my brain turning. The basic ache we all have for something more … without knowing exactly what it is we want but knowing we have no attained it. “Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exist. A baby feels hunger;…

Because I have immense security issues. I fear for the next day when someone will call me up and decide to “use” (and I use that term literally and figuratively) another vendor who is cheaper, quicker, a cousin, a brother, a relative, a monkey (you fill in the blank). For all the work I have,…

… no one away (or something like that). I’ve recieved a challenge, and I shall do my best to accept the challenge and update this lil ol‘ site updated four (yes four — count that out – 1, 2, 3, 4) times a day, though I can’t guarantee anything interesting. There will be another new…