Ridiculous EGG WARNING! I'm here to issue you a warning. Consider this a PSA. If the person pictured below offers you eggs that he has prepared, DECLINE! [http://3.bp.blogspot.
Ridiculous Tsunami Watch The law librarian who works just outside of my office came to my door about 20 minutes ago to tell me that a tsunami is going to hit Palau at 3:00. That's now in 1 hour. The words she used were
Ridiculous If You Give a Mouse a Keks First thing's first: This weekend, my baby sister turned her body inside-out and emitted human life from her womb. She has sort of one-uped everyone on
Palau Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions All day long on Friday (your Thursday) I got updates from Daniel about the status of our current German problem, which prompted me to share this on the Facebook page
Ridiculous German Couchsurfers I get couchsurfer requests relatively often in Palau. I have an account on couchsurfing.org [http://couchsurfing.org/], which is a site that exists so backpackers can find like-minded people in the cities they will be visiting and meet up with them or
Palau Trials Make You Grow? As many of you have figured out by now, my time in Palau has been sort of a roller coaster for me in a lot of ways. This experience has been so much more difficult than I ever expected it to be. I'
Ridiculous Nobody is in a Hurry One of the strangest parts about living in a tiny tropical island nation for me is the slow pace of life. I mean, I know I didn't move here from Times Square. I came from Salt Lake City. Life isn't
Ridiculous Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Happy weekend, Strangers. Today I give you another set of pictures and distractions. Have a safe weekend and please be careful on those roads. Oh, and since it's
The Siblings Puking in Palau This weekend a terrible thing happened. I got sick. And not the good kind of sick where you're just barely down enough to have a few days of justified rest and ice cream eating. Like, the Ebola virus, you'd rather
Palau Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Happy weekend, dear strangers. This week has been a fun one with you all. Enjoy some pictures and distractions. Have a good one, and remember: either laugh so hard you
Palau Little Guy, Big Map Oh no, guys. Here comes another chapter in the Eli McCann Book of Learning. Learning is the worst. One of the most difficult things I'm experiencing right now is the unsurety of where my life is supposed to go from here. Guys,
Palau Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Another week concludes on planet Earth, where we all live. Guys, it was a week ago I asked you to send those emails. And can you believe that I STILL
Ridiculous Where Everybody Knows Your Name And here's another thing about Palau. (I'm starting this post as though we're in the middle of a conversation. Which, if you just got done reading yesterday's post, we sort of are, and it makes total
Ridiculous So, The Equator is Kind of Hot I've learned a lot of things since I got to Palau. But the very biggest thing is this: it is so freaking unbelievably hot on the equator. Seriously. Man is not meant to live this close to the sun. We didn'
Palau Pictures from My Phone & Weekly Distractions Hey Strangers. Let's enter this weekend in style with some pictures, distractions, and one odd request at the end. [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WjVq2J3ANv4/UObYjogrFoI/AAAAAAAAClA/yi-
Ironman 2012 How did we already get to the 2012 wrap-up post? What a year. For several years now I have measured my life by the mantra that if I'm doing things right, the best year of my life at any given time
Palau Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Last Friday's Pictures and Distractions post was supposed to be the last one ever, what with the world ending and all. I'm happy to report that
Church FAQs Good morning, dear strangers. A while back I decided it was time to stick an FAQs section on Stranger. So I'm finally doing that. You can find the tab above. I know. It's like I'm trying to set
Ridiculous I Don't Hate Christmas Christmas came and went. And guys, I have a huge announcement to make. I think I like Christmas. I know. How could somebody not like Christmas. It's like
Church Lost in the Jungle A whole bunch of things happened yesterday that probably all involved witchcraft and as a result, eventually Stranger was moved to what the kids call "its own domain." So they tell me now that you can access it by just going to
Palau Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Another week has come to an end. Thanks for helping make it great. Happy weekend strangers. Try to enjoy it. Pull your pants on, get out there, and have a
Palau I am an Island You read this blog. Some of you, faithfully. And that's an incredibly fun and strange thing for me. And from time to time some of you have mentioned that you feel like you know me personally, just from reading all the nonsense
Church Cooking With The Kids Last week, before going to Guam, we hosted a cooking night at our place for the church kids. 20-something hormonal teenagers showed up. 20-something. Strangers, have you ever had 20-something hormonal teenagers all come to your house at once? By the
Palau Typhoon Aftermath Hello, strangers. First of all, in case you missed the word, I have decided to try what the kids are calling "Twitter." This is something that happens on
Ridiculous Stuck in Guam I’m stuck in the airport in Guam now because of the typhoon that was supposed to wipe Palau off the map today. Apparently Mr. Typhoon skipped on by and didn’t do much damage. Yet my flight was still delayed for 3 or
