When Living in the Middle of Nowhere has its Benefits, and Other Information

With everyone unnerved this month by the increased threat from Iran,
it's nice to be somewhere that no one would ever think to attack. I'm
not convinced that the Americans even had Chisinau or any of the
other "major" Moldovan cities targeted during the Cold War. So don't
worry about me when Israel gets nuked. Even if the End of Days comes—
several religions have mythologies about it, so it must be true!—I
highly doubt that the forces of good and evil would choose Moldova as
an important battle ground.

I discovered not 30 minutes ago that my English teacher counterpart
has found this web site. I have no idea how often she reads it. I'm
glad I haven't said anything bad about her.

In the audio/visual field, I have posted links to new photos on the
right sidebar. For 2006, I have switched to Flickr.com; for photo-sharing, which has a more
extensive Macintosh toolkit than the sad-sack third-party solution
used by Webshots.com. The new
photos are from my Christmas vacation through Romania and Budapest.

Also in audio/visual news and also on the right sidebar are links to
Moldova, Volumes One and Two, the two short films I have made
so far in Moldova. I will warn you that Volume One can be hard
for vegetarians to watch, but it comes with the Pete in Moldova
Productions Seal of Approval, so you know it's calitate pura—
this is most likely a poor translation of "pure quality", but since
the definition of "quality" is so up in the air, anyway, does it
really matter?