Oct. 26, 2009. Trying to add more photos than just one at a time. Anyway, we're in America. Marie is in her jammies, and I am grateful to everyone who is reading this. Please be patient for more photos. I'm doing my best. But, damn, it's good to be home. Peace and Love. See y'all later. I Love You Rachel. Over and out. [View Full Entry]

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Hello all Friends and Family. Kamina Marie is asleep in the Snowpack on my back as I type this. Got to remember to keep my weight evenly distributed over both feet. Don't want very close veins. Dear God, thank You for this beautiful day. Thank you for the people who have taken the time to be with me. Thank you for my WOMAN whom I Love so much. Thank you for keeping me safe and healthy and strong. Thank you especially for my nimble reflexes to be able to sidestep vehicles speeding at 50 mph within inches of baby and me [View Full Entry]

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Hello all!!!!!!!! Happy belated birthdays to Dan and Rachel. No internet access for about 5 days. Yes, it is finished. The US Embassy piece was smooth as silk. Today's mission was far too long to describe here; I'll cover it all later. Just a hint, my driver arrived with no car. Passports, letters from immigration everything I need I HAVE AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now time to go. And take a shower. Hope there's hot water. Hope there's water. Sometimes the water just stops. No worries, I'M COMING HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peace and Love. Keith. I Love Y [View Full Entry]

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Hello Friends and Family. Thanks to everyone for your continued well wishes and prayers. Thanks your Royal Hockiness '08 for the Penn State update. Everyone, please remember, I'm just one guy. We are a team. A Family. We are a Family. FAMALEE. And I Love Yinz All. This is my prayer today: Please, please have a gigantic backyard cookout(s) today. Somebody call someone and just get a giant call chain going and then everybody get together somewhere. Anywhere. Grab a stranger off the street, call someone with whom you are on the "outs" and bury the hatchet, anybody, it [View Full Entry]

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Dear dear friends and family. I am moved to tears as I write this. Reading all of your comments, and blessings, and suggestions, I am simply flabbergasted. While I am honored to be thought of in such high regard, YOU ALL deserve the credit. I am just one person. WE ARE A TEAM. There is no me in team. OH wait, that's wrong. There is no I in team. That's better. Congress, thanks for all the great suggestions. A paper airplane - sweet. Gang at CVS Caremark, I'll be there soon. Thank you Miss Karen for the Bible passages. I'll read [View Full Entry]

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Aujourd'hui - 03 septembre 2009 Bon jour, y'all. Yes, major success Victory yesterday at the Embassy. David Boyle, US Consular (Consul? I'm still not sure which is which) said, "Congratulations, your VISA is approved. You can pick it up Tuesday at 10 AM." Sweet sweetness sweetitude. He was impressed that I had all the neccessarryy paperwork completed so quickly. I had to laugh. "I'm an American." He is American also, from the Burgh, so he understood my not so subtle reference to the completion of an assignment. KM agrees. She's on my backk in the Snowpack. I'm calling [View Full Entry]

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Hello all. I know God has been watching over my footsteps in the darkness, but I need to ask Him for a few more things: I need steak and baked potatoe with some greens on the side. Stanton - style. I need a full body massage, because my entire body is in pain. I need a nap in air conditioned comfort with no car horns honking, doors slamming and no people outside my window screaming. I need a beer with some pretzels on the patio. I need to see the sunrise and the sunset again. I need to see my people [View Full Entry]

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Hello all. I've read all messages. Still cannot access email. C'est la vie. Anyway, I've made a copy of my passport so I will not be surrendering it to anyone no matter what he's packing. SURRENDER DOROTHY ! Laying low today, for sure. Frrom the window in this room I'm going to take a photo of the street whereupon the encounter occureed. The Congolaise govt doesn't cotton to photos from the street, nor of the street, but I'm not on the street. I've stacked some boxes of books and I can look right over the treetops, so when the motorcade passes...wait [View Full Entry]

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Hello all. Have read all comments and mwssages. No access to email for some reason. Electricity for 1/2 hour now. Must type fast. Excuse errors. KM is in backpack proofreading over my shoulder. Don't stop praying yet. KM and I were walking ttoday looking for bananas. Didn't find any. I was about 100 yards from "home" when I heard a guy saying "pardon Monsuier." I shouldn't have turned around, but I did. He was in a formal type attire. Beside him was a fellow with a machine gun. He is the "policeman." They were joiined by a thrid fellow in civilian [View Full Entry]

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Hello all. I've read your comments. Thanks to all. (Especially my "neighbor in the red house"). Linda, yes, please add us to the company picnic list. Thanks. Janet, yes, I knew you would find the answer. Thanks. Tom, thanks for handling the HR/UNUM updates. Much appreciated. Baby is napping and I should be also, but couldn't resist this access. I'd much rather be at Happy Valley watching the Nittany Lions whup up on somebody. WE ARE...PENN STATE! Went for a road trip today with some of the people who are here; John Fletcher and another fellow. Bought diapers, wipes [View Full Entry]

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