ten ₱esos

I found an old photo of an Audi prototype racing in the 12 Hours of Sebring (1999?)

A hungry man is not a free man. – Adlai Stevenson

I’ve dredged up some old Sebring 12 Hours photos — here’s Andy Wallace passing a Saleen S7R

The fifty-eighth 12 Hours of Sebring sports car race will begin Saturday morning. I wish that I were driving to Sebring tomorrow, but I really have too much homework to do. So rather than being gone Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I will have my home TV tuned to SPEED’s coverage.

Have a happy Saint Patrick’s Day

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.” – fourteenth Dalai Lama

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” – John Burroughs

If a camel gets his nose in a tent, his body will follow.

“In the Iraq and Afghanistan conflict, the role of culture has been recognized …”  Samovar, Porter, McDaniel — Intercultural Communication: A Reader, page 6

I didn’t know that Iraq and Afghanistan were warring…

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself. – Haitian proverb

I began this blog two years ago in the Philippines. I don’t think that I’d ever seen a blog before I made this with my friend Dominic’s assistance. I had read of weblogs in magazines, so I knew that some are online journals. I wanted family, friends and church members in the U.S. to be able to read of what Dominic and I were doing in and near Baguio City. So we began writing on Teachthepoor.org. Months later, after abandoning the dream of tutoring and teaching, I renamed this Reachthepoor.org.

After some months I renamed this Yankees abroad. But I’m no longer abroad, and that name sounds like a 1940s movie title, so this blog will soon be renamed tenpesos.com. That name has no particular meaning or significance to me. It just seemed succinct, and it was available.  Within a couple of years, after graduating, I suppose, I will rename the blog again to reflect what I am doing or where I’m living then.

“the world has grown so small”

– Samovar, Porter, McDaniel – Communication Between Cultures, Seventh Edition

How does something grow small?

The weather here is beautiful. Northern schools’ Spring breaks have begun, and F.S.U. is breaking its semester.  Panama City Beach is beginning to see many college students from many states joining the Snowbirds who’ve been here. Panama City Beach Police, Bay County deputy sheriffs and State Troopers are patrolling streets and little scooters are starting to swarm.

“Americans … dislike taking advantage of relationships by asking for favors.” page 9, Interviewing: Principles and Practices, by Charles Stewart and William Cash Junior

Alltell’s website reads, on the front page, “great deals on BlackBerry’s!” Why is an apostrophe there?

God alone is great. – Jean-Baptiste Massillon