Which Reminds Me

Yes, whatever happened to Vickie Canfield from high school? She belonged to the Open Bible church, and I do agree that keeping the Bible open is probably more important than some of this other bird cage lining, but anyway, my job may on occasion involve other writings than the Bible. But where would her head have landed in all that mess? 

Which Reminds Me

Yes, I vaguely remember that during the one year I worked at Hermano Pablo's, our co-worker Mark was often in a rage about various things going on there. He thought the headlines and writing in the fundraising newsletters were overly sensationalized. I did not want to say whether or not I would agree with him. Did I not also hear that the newsletters are written by a professional fundraising specialist who is trained specifically to produce this type of fundraising materials? So who am I to say what they should put in their newsletters? But Mark prefers to vent his rage upon the newsletter, at least for now. And these people are always so celver about flipping the script later, as experience has shown, so perhaps I should not add my two cents to that one-sided conversation. 

And then later I heard that they fired Mark, after learning that he had all the phones rigged to his phone, so that he could eavesdrop on every phone conversation in the building. Come to think of it, I remember that he always seemed to know everything that was happening there.  

Which Reminds Me

Yes, I vaguely remember that back at the beginning of this thing, 12-15 years ago, they were wanting information about China because they were saying they wanted to help connect China Christians to the Catholic church in Rome, and also to honor those who would assist in that process. Well, good luck with that, but there is not very much that we can say. There are a few things that are a matter of public record, such as ship travel registers and consular documents, and beyond that time is fast sending those events deeper into the past, to be later interpreted by historians perhaps, but probably that would not be us. . We might not live long enough to see the move, if there ever would be one. 

Which Reminds Me

Yes, it is true that I did have a sort of part-time job during my last couple of years of high school. I translated letters for the child care program that was run by the school system that was founded by the Bueno family. So that was nice. We would go occasionally to the secretary there, who would give us a packet of letters to translate. Those were letters of students writing to their U.S. sponsors who presumably could not read Spanish. Those were cute letters, we would return those to the secretary with a translation attached. They paid us I forget how many cents per letter. So that job ended when we left the country, nothing more to say about that. 

Which Reminds Me

Yes, sometimes I think that I hear those wretched evil sports dogs rolling around in the lower compartments of hell, but my hearing is not that good. You were not invited to my life, you barged in uninvited as any rude and boorish person could or would. You were nothing. We would put you in jail, but anyway, we were not the police.  

Which Reminds Me

Yes, I am definitely not applying for any job in the area of fundraising for nonprofit organizations, not that there are not so many good causes that could benefit from added funding. So many diseases in need of a cure, so many poor people in need of assistance, etc. etc. But definitely I am not gifted in the area of fundraising, so no reason to belabor that point. For what do I need the idiots of NYC screaming at me about fundraising? I already am not planning to go there anyway. 

Which Reminds Me

Yes, nobody is asking for your garbage sports money. I would rather die than have to associate with stupid sports people.