DwayneEMTP

Is it just me, or does anyone else write their post, proof it, reread looking for the little red 'spelling' thinky, hit "post" and then almost immediately find a ton of typos??

Oh hell, never mind, don't have the bandwidth to load chat...

Hey! Cool people here...anyone interested in going into chat for a few?? (11 April/4p U.S time)

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition" Adam Smith

"You never truly know how weird your friends and family are until you try and describe them to someone else.. So, in that spirit, let me help if you need to describe me...witty, handsome, hung like the horse that other horses are intimidated by... You're welcome...

Last flight...two more hours...I'm getting to old for this shit...

Hands down FIJI has the friendliest airport on the planet...there's not even a close second place...and I know of what I speak...I've been to a pretty good sampling of airports...

Does anyone else find that when you hit the "New Posts" button (I have mine set for 'within the last month', that the "Latest Posts" from the main page, don't show up? I look through the new posts, and then have to go back and go through the "latest posts" individually...know what I mean?

Thanks everybody, for the birthday messages..they are truly special, especially when getting them here..Love and miss you all! Merry Christmas!!!

Hello my FB friends: I want to stay PRIVATELY connected with you. However, with the recent changes in FB, the "public" can now see activities in ANY wall. This happens when our friend hits "like" or "comment" ~ automatically, their friends would see our posts too. Unfortunately, we cannot change this setting by ourselves because Facebook has configured it this way. PLEASE place your mouse over my name above (DO NOT CLICK), a window will appear, now move the mouse on “FRIENDS" (also wit...

One of the up sides to having a son with autism? Having someone in the household that thinks that untangling Christmas lights is one of the coolest things ever...and friggin' rocks at it.... After doing his third or fourth strand that began the evening looking like giant, green, hairballs..."There you go! Ready for some more!" I swear, hearing that is like a decor-gasm, as I couldn't hate doing it any worse than I do..

One last trip to the kitchen before going to sleep, and it reminded me of one of the best parts of Thanksgiving.... Eating the leftover whipped cream our of the can/tub! It rocks, right??

"If it be now, ’t is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all..." William Shakespeare

If there is a God, he's currently punishing me for the sin of gluttony....

Dylan-ism for today... After blowing Dylan a kiss at bedtime, he caught it, pretended to eat it, and then as I was walking away said, "Hey dad! Your kisses taste like hearts!" What kind of person sends that kind of love to an idiot like me? I don't know either, but I know that I don't want to be an idiot any more.... I'm wondering, of all the men here, who believes that they are who they should be without the love and thoughts of those that "see" them? Without that? Man, I'm a 50 year old...

"What we neglect tends to leave us..." (Unknown)

So, I got Babs a laser hair removal system...Why? None of your damn business. But, what I'm wondering is, now that I'm pushing 50, is it bad that I most want to use it on my nose and ears? (Ok, not most...but, you know...) Why has the hair left the top of my head and gone to those places??

Quoted from the openly gay team on the Amazing Race..."There are some things that The Gays (direct quote) are just naturally good at...and balloon animals is one of them..." 'The Gays', genetically superior balloon animal creators... Why did I laugh at this for ten minutes? No idea...But it's friggin' hilarious...

Latest Dylan-ism while I was griping at him for taking forever to get ready to leave the house..."Dad...You should talk in periods, not exclamation points..." What a different life we'd all have if Dylan ruled the world...

Man, I like this a lot...Though I don't bow my head to a religion, I'm finding that some philosophies can often create the same effect. Not with demands for demonstrations of subservience, use of threats, or promises, but instead from the much simpler power of honesty and insight... “Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness,...

This just rings really true to me...Source unknown... "The root of all evil is illusion..."

I had this conversation with one of the local national workers here named David. Most non traditional names are biblical, so that may be his name, but more likely he took it for himself after contact with the missionaries... David, "Dokta Dwayne..need maracin for knees. Pain...much pain." Me, "Did you hurt them Brother? Did something happen?" (Lifting his pant legs for exam.) David, "No...no hurt. Just walking." Me, "Uphill? Down hill? On rough ground?" David, "No...after walk 6 or 7 hours.....

So...I started my last flat of Malarone for this rotation! Surely you know what that means! No? Where the hell have you been? Actually, as it's my anti malaria med, and it comes in packets of 12, and I take one per day.........See?? What the hell!?! it means that I'm less than two weeks to flying home!! God...You make this difficult! Yeah, Ok, so I get that that's probably not the center of your universe...Just sharing... :-)

You know what I love about this quote, is the line, "One merely has the wish to soothe"...Because in my experience, that is truly all that it takes. If you wish to soothe, you don't have to be educated, experienced, or even be a little bit good at it...it's as if a little bit of your time combined with the honest wish have the power to get it done... Pretty cool.... "If with kindly generosity One merely has the wish to soothe The aching hearts of other beings, Such merit has no bounds." ~...

Discussion yesterday with my driver while looking at a poster warning of Death Adders... "What say?" Pointing at the big red letters next to the snake.. "It says "Extremely poisonous." "No poisonous..." "Well, I looked into this snake, because I hate snakes, and found a lot of sources that say it's one of the most poisonous snakes in the world..." "No, no poisonous. We hunt and eat...no problem." "You can eat lots of poisonous animals, but what happens if this one bites you?" "Oh...you die."...