November 2011
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The Park People
I’m trying to figure out what’s going on in the parks in Taiwan.
I recently adopted a dog that was abandoned here. I’ve been a proud dog owner for most of my life, but I put that lifestyle on hold here in Taiwan, mostly due to the fact that my residency here is never guaranteed for a term longer than a year, along with the fact that I live in a tiny apartment. Despite these two...
June 2011
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Credit Cards, Banks, and Idiocy (Part 9,634,809)
I have a credit card through Citibank. I know they’re not exactly a great company, but they were willing to give me my first credit card when I was an unemployed college student (with insanely high interest rates, of course), and I’ve never had any need for anything further.
In general, I’ve never been too dissatisfied with my service from them. I guess calling them is a pain,...
March 2011
1 post
it's alive.
Avalon Post is back. I don’t know why, I don’t know what I intend to do with it, but here it is anyway.
For what it’s worth, apparently the old site, hosted on a non-updated version of Wordpress, was hacked and used to host malware or something. I thought about trying to clean it up, but since it managed to only accumulate a whopping two entries in the nearly three years I had...