From a recent poll : Do you believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America or not? Yes 77 No 11 Not Sure 12 Yes No Not s...

Tyson ate our motorcycle helmets. Well... he chewed all the padding out of them. I guess he was lonely one night (he stays outside at night)...

I'm getting a little nervous about the rain lately, with my birthday coming up. Normally around here it always rains usually right at, o...

We got the oven fixed. My call to the La Germania corporation in Manila yielded no results as expected, but a stop by the Desmark store whe...

I think there are 2 universal rules when it comes to dealing with police who are doing their jobs: Number one, accommodate them in their du...

I'm starting to take an interest in cooking. One of the things I didn't count on when I moved out to Jasaan would be the difficulty ...

My mother keeps recommending Kindle to me. I can see the appeal of being able to download books directly to my computer, and then having a h...

It was my usual day of work today. We made fried rice for lunch, and had the leftovers (plus roast chicken) for dinner. I took Tyson for a w...

I'm sure we've all dreamed it: Taking such famous and sweet revenge on having been treated poorly by customer service that one of t...

Today being Sunday, I worked for a couple of hours in the morning and then took the rest of the day off. Marc and Susan weeded the front yar...

Michael Yon goes to MILF Country in Mindanao and sees how carrots are working better than sticks .

Recently, my company has been trying to figure out what to do about the fact that the speech recognition software they rolled out 9 months a...

Sorry I haven't posted much lately. Quite simply, almost nothing has been going on for the last week. Tyson is doing fine... although he...

I was reading this article about the planned railway system that is going to link all the various parts of Mindanao to each other. It's...

Today marks one month until my 40th birthday. I figured I'd better have a party, or my mother would click her tongue and make that ...

We made barbecue chicken today. It wasn't just any barbecue chicken, it was my mother's barbecue chicken, using a recipe handed down...

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...