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no excuse not to pay your nanny tax! 7 Apr 2010 | 03:01 am
There's an entire company devoted to helping people pay their nanny taxes.
Direct to you from the men's room wall in the Thunderbird Cafe, Austin TX: 4 Apr 2010 | 08:50 am
Infant tweet: OMG, I just got born!! 30 minutes later: I miss my umbilical cord!:(((((
My Kinyarwanda Glossary (with some Swahili) 30 Nov 2009 | 12:35 pm
* = ones I actually know beete = hi* nibgeza = response to "beete" amakuru? = how are you?* meza = I'm good* sawa = I'm good* (Swahili) mwatamutse = good morning murakoze = thank you* namway = you're...
Semi-Hiatusing 28 Nov 2009 | 08:11 am
Dateline: Flipnotics Well, back at my desk I find I have relatively little new to say, old chums, except that I'd like to get out of here again. You know, I work in the same place I live -- in the sa...
Photos You Can Hear 19 Nov 2009 | 05:38 pm
Mt. Horeb Holy Church Choir, Kigali, Rwanda. These should cheer you up a bit after the previous post. Photos by the gifted and adventurous Christina Syndikus. The woman in purple was totally, I mean ...
Murambi Genocide Memorial Center; Church of Ste. Famille 16 Nov 2009 | 01:01 pm
At Murambi, about 40 km from the Congo border, there was a vocational school with many small classroom buildings. In 1994, Hutu militia herded thousands of Tutsis into the buildings and killed them wi...
The Masked Neocolonialist 15 Nov 2009 | 05:44 am
The mask is a public-health measure designed to protect the population, and ourselves, from flu. When we arrived, there had been one confirmed case of H1N1 in the entire country, and a few days later,...
Rwanda photo 1 14 Nov 2009 | 07:03 am
Hi folks, here's the first photo I'm putting up from the Rwanda trip. There are many more, and I'll try to get some of them sorted out this weekend. Thanks to all of you who commented on or read my p...
Gorillas in the Mist, H1N1 in the Guest House, Heaven in the Church, Mud Against the Wall 8 Nov 2009 | 04:37 am
Help, I have a lot more to say! Here's a very quick recap: 1. I previously opined that the church service was disappointing, but the following Sunday we all went to another one, at the same church, t...
Muhanga Days 4 Nov 2009 | 06:47 pm
We're in the very nice small town of Muhanga -- "we" meaning our little group of seven muzungus and muzungettes -- treated with the greatest hospitality by our host Costa's brother Leopold, who bought...
