Some Important Announcements

(1) I wrote a scintillating post about ice cream this afternoon.  See it below.

(2) Today (now that it is midnight) is Cinco de Mayo.

(3) Cinco de Mayo isn't celebrated here in Ecuador.  Nonetheless, some friends and I will be celebrating it.  All day long celebrating it.

(4) Cinco de Mayo also happens to be exactly seven months to my new COS date.

(5) COS = Close of Service.  The Peace Corps, like the Army, is full of acronyms.  Because acronyms are fun.

(6) My new COS date is Cinco de Diciembre (December 5th).  I was supposed to leave in August, but I asked them pretty please could I stay a few more months?  And they said, Okay.

(7) I know what some of you are thinking.  Some of you are thinking, "You know what they say, Jordan - 'Too much of a good thing...'"

And to you I say, All things in moderation - including moderation.

Let the War of Adages begin. 

(8) The picture in the header above, which is a view of Guayaquil and the Guayas River, was taken by my friend Whitni Ciofalo.

(9) Peter Pan the Handyman tried to fix my fridge using bottle caps and a wrench, but it didn't take.  The Refrigerator of Doom just got more doomish.

(10) Happy Cinco de Mayo!

(11) Thank you for your continued support and tax dollars.

(12) Love & Guacamole,
        me