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Post 205: Dumping Your Money Into A Slot Machine And Hoping A Boarding Pass Will Come Out
Janice flies to Port Moresby to get a root canal and the root canal was the least painful part.
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Post 204: Kiwi, The Green Car Alarm.
A screeching Eclectus parrot teaches me a lesson about contentment.
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Post 203: Phantom Potholes & Life Lessons
Potholes get fixed, Elliot learns to use a drill, and we get an espresso maker which keeps our guard up all night.
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Post 202: Simple Solutions Versus Wild Ambition
The potholes become so bad they close the road and detour us through a swamp full of potholes.
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Post 201: Anyone In Their Right Mind Knows That Animals Don’t Use Toilets.
We eat antibiotics like Tic-Tacs, we try not to curse the world, and Elliot gets new underwear.
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Post 200: Our First Tropical Christmas
Prepping for my Exam In the last post I mentioned that I needed to take some more tests. I have to take these tests at an authorized testing center and…
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Post 199: Airplane In A Box
Even the most stoic mechanic will leap around and shout like a spirit-filled Pentecostal if the airplane goes down when it was supposed to go up.
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Post 198: Dying from Boredom Is Entirely Preventable
It’s disheartening to have a patient heal from tuberculosis or some other horrible condition only to die from boredom a week later.
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Post 197: Common Cockroaches & Exotic Marsupials
It can be an unsettling transition to go from sipping coffee to having a marsupial in your hair without any time to get used to the idea.
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Post 196: Do Fish Even Sting People?
Suddenly a spiny fin shot out of the sand and stabbed Kenneth in the thumb, then made a hasty retreat into deeper waters. Kenneth made a hasty retreat back to…
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Death Warmed Over Is Better Than Death Served Cold, But It’s Still Worrisome.
Janice picks up some strange tropical disease and Adi gets stitches which causes me to muse about suffering and its effects.
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I Know What’s Wrong With My Faucet But What’s Wrong With My Feet?
I have a revelation about feet while walking to the hardware store to look for a new faucet.
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Speaking Funny
Language learning is shifting from memorizing vocabulary to the next step: Embarrassing oneself.
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So Far We’ve Been Spreading Diabetes More Effectively Than The Gospel…
But thank you for your patience with us. Good things take time!
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My Fate Was To Stand There For Eternity Wishing I Were Dead.
We move to Wewak, Papua New Guinea to start our term with Samaritan Aviation.
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Rejoice! For Our Visas Were Lost But Have Been Found Again
An unlikely series of events and a needle-in-a-haystack search helps us find our visas and passports.
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“It Won’t Take Long”
Traveling is getting easier with each generation, thus losing its ability to shape our character. Maybe this is why our nation is in a moral decline.
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Life Isn’t About You! An Inspirational Speech
The first step to giving a baccalaureate speech is finding out what baccalaureate means.
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Procrastination and Motivation
Procrastination is merely the process of distilling motivation down to its most ferocious form and then drinking it all in one sitting.
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Like an Iguana with Its Head Cut Off
I clean the van in the most frustrating way possible.
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Leaky Pipes
If a stinkbug farts in the attic, Janice will stop what she’s doing and look at me accusingly while raising an eyebrow.
