Our friends Andy and Cynthia came to visit today. We went together up to Faustina Pool Resort for lunch. Andy was right: It's the kin...

I can't say that this is a good idea. President Obama doesn't have enough support in Congress to close the prison for terrorist sus...

Our friends Harry and Bhebs got married today at Kingston Lodge, so Epril and I went. Pretty much everybody we know from Cagayan De Oro was ...

Today it was over to Mike and Emelyn Bird's house for Fiesta. They had a bunch of food (spaghetti, afritada and humba, fruit salad, and ...

Tyson is back home with us. We've put him on human food instead of dog food. The fact is, with Tyson eating anything that is put in fr...

Those of you who followed my blog back in my Thailand days will remember Vinnie Blogging . Vinnie (Vincent, or "V" as he is called...

Tyson went to the vet today. He's been having loose stools. Considering that he eats just about every piece of foul refuse he comes ac...

On Sunday, I invited all the Kano currently living in Jasaan (that I know of... that would be three of us total) and their wives over to my ...

Check out this great article on Proscan TV , and here's another one on Lasko 4910 .

This week has been almost completely empty of any activity... and thankfully so. Last week was so full of bad stomachs, missed meetings, ob...

On Saturday morning, I was up nice and early and in my formal barong. My orientation and initiation to The Eagles was today. I rode into C...

A policeman laid down his life for a boy who was held hostage before dawn yesterday in Baungon, Bukidnon. Officials identified the officer a...

I've got some time to kill while my company downloads new software onto my computer. Right Wing Claim : Since the crazy guy who shot up...

I haven't been following too closely, but apparently that Air France jet crashed off the coast of Brazil by going through some terrible ...

Epril went into CDO and renewed my tourist visa again at Immigration. This time it was 2,800 pisos (about $60). We're so bad: We should ...

Twenty-one cases of swine flu have been discovered in Pattaya . This brings the world total to 74 countries with 27,737 cases and 141 death...

I'm reading a good book called "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman, which talks about how the global business playing field...

I'm putting up this post as a bit of an open forum. If you have anything to add to it, let me know in the comments. Yesterday, I went ou...

I ate some bad chicken last night, and was paying for it this morning. (The most frustrating part was that I only had a couple of bites.) Fi...

Crazy Christian abortion-doctor-killer dude is in custody, and telling anyone who will listen that he has more crazy Christian abortion-doc...

Mike Bird's baby girl, Annabelle, was baptised today. We went to the church for the 9:00 baptism. I was one of the godfathers, and had...

If there is one thing that I am more than anybody else, it is a Trekkie. Being a Trek fan hasn't offered much as of late, but back in th...

Epril spent the day in Cagayan De Oro with Ednil shopping for school. Ednil starts college next week, and needed her uniform and books and ...

A foreign guy spoiling for a fight in a Bangkok bar gets knocked out cold. From the video, it certainly looks like he deserved it. One thi...

Epril and I rode in to Cagayan De Oro tonight. Payday: Time to hit the ATM. It's one of the drawbacks of Jasaan: There is no ATM her...

Mike Bird purchased the Playstation 3 game "Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" for me while he was in America. It's exactly the kind...

When Vicente Emano was Mayor of Cagayan De Oro from 1998 to 2007, he quite purposefully and knowingly (and against the pleading of scientist...

I had a fine day of work today. Epril sat with me for much of the day with her laptop, keeping me company. I find I do more work when I have...

Michelle Malkin (America's most famous and most disliked Filipino) when the sun comes up on Monday : " Tiller's The abortion do...

Thailand has a new visa regulation in effect. Due to the fact that Thai Airways is losing money hand over fist because tourists aren't ...

Not too much went on today. I worked in the morning. Epril cooked sweet and sour pork for lunch. The black fly population seems to have hatc...

Today Epril and I rode to Duka Bay Resort to join the Eagles Club for their Family Togetherness Day. It is about 50 miles further down the ...

They took the Total Eclipse Of The Heart and gave it lyrics that better-match the video. Absolutely brilliant stuff... and hysterical.

Yes, it's real. It's a moth with a foot-long wingspan. Mike in the comments tells us that this is an Atlas Moth .

Albert Dermott (the mouth-breathing doofus of Thomas Hunt / Grace Songcuya / Janelaze Songcuya fame) has been visiting my blog and leaving a...

With the upcoming Supreme Court nomination, Republicans are pointing out that nominee Judge Sotomayor has had her decisions reversed by the ...

I had an okay morning of work. For lunch, The Harem (Epril, Ednil, Susan, and Fatima) and I walked to the market where I bought a rather lar...

Today being Sunday, I only did half a day's work. Then we had lunch of bar-be-que chicken and Jil's World Famous Fried Rice. (Potato...

Shazam . Chen wanted to kill himself because he had 2 million yuan ($294,000) in debt after a failed construction project, Xinhua reported. ...

In what can only be described as a win-win development, loud-mouthed media stars are volunteering to be waterboarded (fun to watch) and are...

Tyson in his doghouse... an old cabinet off in a corner. Work went okay in the morning. Tyson has been become my new matutinal aide, coming...

An auditor from the state government has come to Cagayan De Oro's city hall to check and make sure that all of the city's books are ...

The internet went out while I was on my lunch break. (I made Jil's World Famous Fried Rice for lunch.) Without any work to do, I decided...

Republican Reality : People (i.e. you, apparently) are angry that homeless shelters are spending government money on fancy meals for the hom...

Usually when you see old videos from the 1950s and 1960s that try to predict the future, you get girls with beehive hairdos, tin-foil boots,...

There is a discernible correlation between creativity and people who opt to leave their home country in order to seek new experiences by liv...

A fair day of work today, but I got started quite late. That's been my main problem recently: Getting started at work nice and early. ...

Next time come to The Philippines? A British man is facing 2 years in a Thai jail after being "rude" to Thai immigration official...

Epril and Tyson seem to be collaborating in an effort to get me to put the same louche photo on the internet time and again. A couple more i...

Contestants for Miss Bikini 2009. Photo courtesy of Gold Star Daily. In order to please as many uptight people as possible... and bore the r...