There have been many changes since my last blog entry. I’m back at work, for one thing. Lao-puo Suzanne’s generous support of a Cambodian orphanage (she pays the rent for a high school) was dipping into my beer money, so I had to do something about that. I don’t begrudge a penny. Were it not for her efforts, the young orphaned girls, and some of the boys, would be hooking, and the rest of the boys would be begging. I’m back in my old job, with the provincial Ministry of Housing and Social Development. Things were better when we were the Ministry of Social Services. It took the clients, after that name change, about five minutes to start calling us “the SS”. For the wrong person, working in a welfare office is the job from Hell.
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