Tag Archive for 'Mexico'

Stamping On That Extra Penny

by Richard Say so long to the 44-cent stamp. Yeah, that’s right. The US Postal Service is now making all first-class stamps cost a whopping $.45 as of today. I don’t know about you, but I was getting pretty tired of having to shell out $.44 every time I wanted to buy a stamp. I [...]

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Blood Tales: The Great Escape

by Richard There really was no choice. We weren’t going to let the doctors in Cozumel perform a potentially quite risky surgery on me without having the blood supply necessary to save me should things go wrong and we weren’t going to pay $30,000 to fly back and leave the young dudes to their own [...]

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Blood Tales: Vivá, Mexico! Parte Dos

by Richard A Mexican hospital is an interesting place. For one thing, they apparently don’t believe in pillows. For another, what good was my high-school Spanish if I can’t say “My poop is made from blood.” in Spanish. Fortunately, the doctors and nurses were minimally proficient in English and we could do a good job [...]

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