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I can’t sleep and I don’t know why.
Isn’t it ironic that the Philippines now imports bajillions of tons of rice from Thailand, when we helped them develop their rice industry decades ago?
After about a year of no updates, the blog is still getting hits from people Googling Raffy Ladao. LOL
I’m hooked on The Next Food [...]

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Earlier this afternoon I was napping in my bedroom with my window fully open. I was awakened by the sound of a hummingbird. I looked up and saw that the cute little bird was inside my room! It flew around for a little bit and then flew back out the window. [...]

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While I was at work yesterday, I received a text message from Bill, telling me that I will have a package waiting for me at home. He had gotten me something in advance of my birthday. Wouldn’t tell me what it was, of course. He just said I could open it as [...]

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Yesterday was my mom’s birthday. My brother and his girlfriend were supposed to come over from Sacramento so that we all could make a day out of it. My brother’s grand plan was to take our mom out for lunch, then take her shopping, then take her out to dinner. Unfortunately my [...]

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Yesterday afternoon, before I went back to work for that god-awful late-night maintenance window, I got a call from one of my oldest friends, Glenn. He and I grew up together on the same street, and we’ve known each other since we were four years old.
We hadn’t had contact in over 16 years. [...]

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Not a whole lot happened today… just another mundane Wednesday in Silicon Valley.
I arrived at work a little past 9:00 AM today. As soon as I plugged my laptop into the docking station and logged in, I went to the deli in the office building nextdoor to get a bacon and tomato (yep, [...]

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