Jan
2
Home again
Filed Under Driving, Family, Friends, Friends & Family, Mike | 1,062 Comments
Merry New Year to everyone!!! Been very busy since my drive from Utah visiting friends and family. My first overnight stop was in Milwaukee to visit a long time friend, when I woke the grounds were filled with about 10 inches of snow and not the nice fully stuff I became used to in Utah. This was the wet and heavy stuff that I started to despise when I first started to dive way to many years ago. Another thing I have noticed is that aside from my friends and family (well, most of them) I have NOT missed living in the mid-west at all. It does get cold in Utah but nothing like it does in Milwaukee or Chicago. I don’t know this from first hand experience but shoveling snow in this sort of frozen oxygen causes such shrinkage, so I have heard. Read more
Dec
17
New tire, auto insurance paid & plates renewed
Filed Under Family, Friends, Friends & Family, Quick Hitter | 87 Comments
There are more reasons to make sure Geico or All State is paid their auto insurance fees, tires are safe on ones automobile and paying my yearly license theft fee but the reason I did so today was because I am about to make a journey from Utah to Illinois. The drive should be around 25 hours and I hope to complete it by only stopping for gas, food and to let Barney out.
Nov
8
World gets smaller everyday
Filed Under Adjustments, Apartments, Family, Friends, Friends & Family, Getting Started, Mike, Renting | 15 Comments
My pending move to the Philippines is drawing more excitement for me daily. At this point there are still some accomplishments needing to happen before the move but I have been able to check a couple off. The major task ahead of me is the sale of my current company, the one I started about two years ago. All that needs to be done is to find a buyer willing to spend twenty two million dollars. Wonder if the American government would be willing to write me a check. Twenty two million is not a lot of the tax payers money when compared to the 850 billion socialistic bail-out (sell-out) that recently occurred. Truthfully the asking price is … Read more
Nov
1
Who is me?
Filed Under Friends & Family, Mike, Personal | 201 Comments
My thought process or lack of such a process led me to believe making new posts would be pointless if not about the Philippines. It is for this reason, along with time but mostly the former is why posts have been a bit slow. My new thinking suggests it could be about anything, after all “me” is in the URL… Read more
Oct
17
Learning to talk
Filed Under Adjustments, Barney, Business, Family, Friends, Friends & Family, Getting Started, Mike | 277 Comments
Considering my C average in English class during my high school days my teacher Mrs. Lomax will be quite interested on how I do in learning to talk Tagalog. The Philippines has many different dialects, my understanding is Tagalog is the most common although there are others very close behind. For those who might be moving someday to the Philippines or currently living in the Philippines feel free to check back here often as I will post my progress and new words as I learn them. Everyone else should check back just to learn a few bad words in another language if I post them. … Read more
