Be My Pen-Pal - Call for Applications

Call for Applications; Deadline December 31, 2009

Be My Pen-Pal.

There are five immediate openings for pen-pal positions. I recently read an article stating that the US Postal Service is in serious financial trouble and that postal workers are loosing their jobs and post offices in small towns are at risk of being shut-down. Help make a difference by becoming a pen-pal.

About the position:
Selected pen pals will be required to correspond with me, approximately, once a week. I will send you a correspondence (most likely a postcard) to which you will respond. Once I have received your response I will send you a reply and so on. All correspondence will be included on the web-log (blog) http://bemypen-pal.blogspot.com. (Your name and address will NOT be included in any of the posts). This position will last one year, at the end of one year we will discuss the possibility of extending the position.

Requirements:
Ability to communicate via postcard, letter, or other mailable format.
Ability to pay for your own postage.
Ability to respond to correspondence within 7 days.
One year commitment. At the end of one year we will discuss the possibility of extending the position.

To apply:
Please submit one paragraph on why you will be a good candidate for one of these highly desirable pen-pal positions.
In your application please give your name and a mailing address where you receive postal correspondence.
Please do NOT submit your resume. If you have relevant work experience please include that information in your application paragraph.

Please submit applications to: Gabriel Burian-Mohr at bemypenpal1@gmail.com.
(All of our communication, after the initial application process, will be done via postal mail.)

The deadline for applications is December 31st 2009.

The gift that keeps on giving (revised)

Here is the revised version italics indicate new text. I believe that I have corrected the tenses at the appropriate points in the story. I hope I have cleared up any confusion.

This is scary red build-up on my car battery that I believe has something to do with an attempt I made at jump starting the Celebrity many, many months ago.

Here is the Celebrity on October 5, 2008.

Just so this makes some sense: I got a call from my old landlord, in October of 2008, because the Celebrity was still parked in the parking lot of my old apartment and he was not going to give me the security deposit unless I moved it. I went to move it and as we know from much earlier posts, the Celebrity/storage unit had not started for quite some time. I attempted to charge and jump start it and blah, blah, blah...the point is it did not start.

Megan and I tried to push it out of the space, but it was too heavy. Because it is a heavy car, not because it was filled with crap. I had moved most of the "crap" out of the car and into our new attic while Megan wasn't looking. However one of the items still left was an old sheet in the trunk so we tied the two cars together and attempted to tow it.

This also did not work. So we called Steve and Kat, who happened to be out on a date picking glasses, and asked them to help us move the car. They came over and helped us push the car out of it's parking space and into the street. From there we coasted down the hill in neutral and parked it on the street about a half a block away.

Later that week I looked into donating the car to various charities in the hopes of getting a sweet tax deduction. This was back when I still had a job so I was doing my research from work. I was in the process of giving my keys to a local charity so they could check out the car to see if they could use it for anything and Surprisingly, one of my co-workers overheard the conversation and mentioned that they (insert sob story)... Anyway I gave them the car and asked when they would give me some monney for it, they replied that they would when they had some (read never). Said co-worker was eventually fired and old landlord has yet to give me my security deposit.

California here I come (came)

This is the hotel where we spent the night. It is located somewhere in California. I give it Two point Five stars as it was clean and not unpleasant, however our room did not have an alarm clock or a trash can.

Looks like I still have some sizing issues to work out.

With the pictures I mean.

Megan claims that I have slipped back into my "aggressive" driving style.

I prefer to think of it as active driving.

This is someplace north of San Francisco.

Here are some exciting pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Fog-tastic.

And how!

Here we are impersonating Asian tourists in San Fransisco.

Those are monks. We would have posed for a picture with them, however, they already had a line.

In China Town, we learned the "ancient Chinese secret" to making tea.

Megan had just had about eight cups of tea and was now ready to get in the car and continue our drive to Yosemite.

Not before pausing to reflect on our effects on the earth.

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

It's been a while.

Lets see how this goes.

This is the open road.

If you ignore the whole "no money" thing, there are some perks to unemployment.

This is the beginnings of the Redwoods National Park.

We were trying to take it in as quickly as possible.

We figured that we would probably remember the important parts.

I am very tall.

This is part of another series of photographs exploring alternative means of transportation for the old, the decrepit, and the lazy.

This was an aging bike gang we met along the coast.

They started talking about "fixies" so we left.

A nice touch.

The sea was not angry that day.

It was very cold though.

Welcome to the Trees of Mystery.

Although we had left late, and had much more driving to do...

We made time to stop and visit Paul Bunyan and Babe his blue ox.

He waved at small children.

I always thought that "Babe" was a girl.

Here is some nature.

Here is my "Old Lady".

Here I am being "one" with nature.

Something about feeling small and talking to god...

Here we are taunting nature.

We were actually just searching for "magic mushrooms" and the "dank ass spinach".

This is an intriguing public sculpture in Eureka California.

This is the best shot of it and the internet appears to be keeping me from showing it?!

Megan made a new friend named Shelby at local coffee shop/frogurt stand. Megan and Shelby have plans to be pen-pals.

If you know Shelby at the coffee shop/frogurt stand in Eureka California; you can remind her, if you want.

Ebay

I have listed the Reflector Skull belt buckle on Ebay. I don't know what else to say...happy biding?

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