Archive for August, 2007
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
First Impressions
It is a long journey from Cleveland, Ohio, to Hanoi, Vietnam. Mine took something like 33 hours, comprising three plane rides (including a 13 hour jaunt across the Pacific), twelve hours of stopover time in L.A. and Taipei, and very little sleep. I don’t sleep well on planes, and even a couple doses [...]
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Laparoscopic Appendectomy
At this moment in time, I should be in the air over Taiwan, landing shortly in Taipei before the last leg of a series of flights brings me to Hanoi. Instead, I’m still in Akron, Pennsylvania, in some pain and with three small scars on my abdomen.
On Friday morning I started experiencing sharp abdominal [...]
