Category: Logs

  • Starting an NGO – IRS update

    The IRS is making it a bit easier for the NGO startups after their advance ruling period.  Below is the updated information. This is an addendum to the “So You Want to Start an NGO” post.

  • Talk to Me

    “Talk to me.” my companion said in a very predictable manner. She usually says this when she feels I’m ignoring her or at the very least not paying her enough attention.

  • Some Days Are Just Bad

    “What?” “Can you deliver my sister’s baby? The midwife couldn’t do it and they said you delivered babies.” I asked where his sister was. “At the clinic” was his reply. It was about 2pm, I had closed the clinic at about noon since most of the back country “taxis” or jalónes (Toyota pickups with metal…

  • Society Sucks, So Get Lost

    Building Your Own Mountain Hideout: A Step By Step Guide Way back in the day I was really enamored with all this society bullshit, this pushing and pulling, this tugging to reach higher plateaus of existence, schmoozing and smooching the stars and shagging random married women at film festivals; ah, it was the life, sipping…

  • Improvise, Adapt, Overcome, and Text

    Improvise, Adapt, Overcome, and Text A big stormed slammed the Eastern US on the very day my team was departing from Louisville, Kentucky with a destination of San Pedro Sula, Honduras. It was a rather large group of 21 dentists, dental students, and support personnel. As is my SOP, the Mrs. and I had arrived…

  • On thin air

    One of the things I take great pride in with regards to my travel habits is the level to which I preplan for certain contingencies especially those which will hopefully safeguard myself and my companion in the event things suddenly go pear-bottomed.