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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Still Here

So it has been some time since I’ve last written and updated, for this I apologize. My webmaster is currently unavailable to update photos and I really have no excuse for lack of input. I do invite you to send me free text messages through TIGO (which is the company I am using here in El Salvador).

http://www.tigo.com.sv/envio_mensajes.php

It’s really easy to do and I’m even going to walk you through it.
Celular: My telephone number, if you don’t know it, email and I’ll give it you
Mensajito: The “tiny message” your going to send
Caracteres: How many characters you have left
De: Thats where the author’s name comes in
Send: Uh, well, to send of course

Now I could conceivably answer you through the web page after I receive the text, but that would cost me $, and well, I don’t have it, so it’s unlikely, but I would appreciate the thoughts from time to time.

Here’s a quick update. For some time now I had been living in an adobe house complete with outdoor trough for showering and a latrine. When my security officer visited me, she told me two things that I will always remember, one: “if I were to score you, you would receive a negative score”. Two: “This house, is a piece of shit Richard”. Oh, did I forget to tell you that my security officer is a Salva…oh wait, did I forget to tell you that she said that in English. Yeah, so the hunt for a new house was long and exhausting going through hurdles that would bore you 1st world citizens, but have taken a great toll on your humble narrator.
The good news is that I have found a new home, made of brick, with a false ceiling and a bomba (pump) that draws water form the well, which means, I have water 24/7…oh yeah, and I have a shower and a toilet.

Other than that I had been writing two new poems for our newsletter and slowly declining into madness as I encounter the psychological ramification of solitude and loneliness (go ahead and make fun of me you non psych people), continue to grapple with Ayn Rand’s Objectivism, as I was completely mesmerized after reading The Fountainhead (though I read her in high school), and have been at odds with my own personal philosophy, and tackled a real world problem to the Law of Diminishing Returns. I’d have to say I appreciate my education now more than ever, but damned if my brother (the middle one) has a more complete understanding of the philosophical side of life more than I…I may need to descuss the Rand problem with him. I can handle the psych, don’t you worry, and Phil (my hombre por vida) has sent me a Economics for Dummies book that I got in the mail.

Ahh yes, I think Nas said it best, “life, I wonder, will it take me under?”

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