Palau Pictures From My Phone & Weekly Distractions Alii, dear strangers. I'm taking off to Guam tonight for the weekend and don't know what my Internet access will be like. So I'm
Grandma Grandma's Status Updates Guys, I have the best grandmas. Sweet, giving, hysterical, interesting, etc. One of my grandmas who is in her 80s, Grandma McCann (more commonly known by her gang name, "
Ridiculous Drop Off Good day, dear strangers. Sometimes bad service doesn't stop me from frequenting a business. Like, when I'm too lazy to change cell phone providers. Or when,
The Siblings The Queen of Colors I have had so many people ask questions over the last year about one special animal that has captured the hearts of many. And I don't mean that
Ukraine Pictures From My Phone & Weekly Distractions I hope your Thanksgiving festivities were everything you hoped they would be and more. Mine were great. And I'm never eating again. Until next week, strangers. Please enjoy
Ridiculous Tutoring With Underwear Did the title draw you in? You think this is going to be a story about how someone tutored someone else through the use of underwear? Well it's not. But you clicked on this so you might as well read it anyway.
Emails Turkey Emails Daniel had an idea for a Thanksgiving email prank. I shot off a bunch of emails to different cooking blogs and had a couple respond. The following turned out to
Palau Thanksgiving Panic Happy Thanksgiving week, strangers. I hope your Thanksgiving goes better than the time in Ukraine when I cooked a Thanksgiving dinner for three other Americans and gave them all food poisoning. It was the deviled eggs. I escaped unscathed because I didn't
Pictures from my phone Pictures From My Phone & Weekly Distractions The end of another week is upon us. Today I bring you 5 new pictures from my phone and a few other links to distract you from more important things.
Yahoo Answers Yahoo! Answers IV I hope it's not too soon, but today I bring you Yahoo! Answers IV. I want to scoop all of these people up and take them home with
Ridiculous The Joys of Cool Air An update on the Stormtrooper/Vehicle of Despair air-flow problems: Only moments before I planned to get the president of every country in the world on a conference call all at once to demand that they each declare an international state of emergency, marshal
Ridiculous Seat Belts & Rotting Bodies Alii, dear strangers. First, an update on the Stormtrooper/Vehicle of Despair. That thing that I mentioned might happen--the thing that would undoubtedly lead to my death--well it happened. The
Emails Hair Salon Emails One stranger, Emma, referred me to a website of a pretentious hair salon in a big city. The website had a contact email for questions and explained that it would
Ridiculous Ice Cream Excessive Portion-aholic No political rants here today, though I'm definitely feeling a bit reflective this week for all kinds of reasons. Maybe I'll share some thoughts later after I've worked them out. For now, I want to tell you about
The Siblings The Stormtrooper Before I got to Palau I bought a pretty inexpensive yet supposedly durable vehicle from a person who was leaving the island. It seemed risky at the time to make
Emails Massage Emails A few months ago a stranger, Jared, sent me an ad posted online by a guy we'll call "Paul" looking for an "intimate" massage
Church Tennis First item of business, welcome new strangers! Over the past few weeks we've seen an influx of new traffic to Stranger, which I understand is primarily due to
Yahoo Answers Yahoo! Answers III I bring you now the third edition of Messing with People in Yahoo! Answers. What good is a Halloween week if nobody has asked the Internet about what to do
Ridiculous The Eli McCann School of Diving Alii, strangers. To kick off your weekend in the states, I bring you three short videos from Palau. My friends and I down here run off to a great beach near my apartment most days right after work to snorkel, read, watch the sunset,
Ridiculous Scuba Alii from the south Pacific. "Alii" is a greeting in Palaun. I used that word so you would think I'm super cultured and practically a native
Emails Book Club Emails One stranger, Margret M., sent me an email a few months ago about a book club with very strict bylaws and suggested that I email the group. After doing a
Ukraine Pictures from My Phone: European Edition A little late coming, but here at last, I give you Pictures from My Phone: The European Edition. I know, I know. I'm in Palau now. I should
Palau Piranhas. Everywhere. Mere moments after I informed you of my China Air lost bag naked wanderer catastrophe of last week, I received a phone call informing me that my bag was found
Palau Greetings from Palau Hey strangers. The haggard and terrified Eli of one week ago reports to you now from the edge of the world, buried deep in the Pacific, one small breeze away from devastating hurricane. We arrived on Tuesday night in Palau, exactly 745 hours after
Nostalgia All At Once I'm sitting in an airport in Taipei now with Daniel. This is our second layover of two. Our first was in San Francisco where my dear friend Elsa picked us up and drove us across the Golden Gate bridge for some dinner
