SMS Messages Worldwide

Well, since everyone knows I have friends worldwide, how do I send them text messages? This could also be considered a feat because I don't have a cell phone. (how un-21st Century of me!) I do this through a service I found searching online: ipipi.com

Basically you can send messages through a monthly service ( like a cell-phone's ) or pre-pay. I prefer pre-paying because I send them more intermittently. And the price per message is the same if I send them to Jah in Thailand, Phanice in Kenya, or Carie in Minnesota!

I have included the prices to the left, but you can also check out their subscription fees at their site. They start at $15 a month, but I still prefer the pre-pay method.

You can have incoming replies sent to your e-mail or saved on their server. So, it's quite convenient if you have friends in far-away places!

Unless anyone knows of better services out there ( and you have to tell me about them) - I think ipipi is the best value.

Phanice!

I have been absent from the blogosphere for nearly a month. Barely keeping up with my life in "reality" for those outside.

Several months ago I met Phanice online. I have met dozens of people all over the world through various IMing, she being one of the first I met in Africa. Many of my co-worker's are from East Africa. Phanny seemed too good to be true last year, so I decided to meet her this year.

My nearly 3 week vacation to Kenya was amazing including this cities of Nakuru, Kisii, and of course Nairobi. I didn't make it to Mombasa, but that is for the future. I will be going back in time to share with everyone some clips from my times there, because I DID take photos as one can see here.

I amazed at how Phanice is as easy going as myself and even more stable - is that possible? I could go on for a long time about her, and so I will try to space it out over the next few years rather than now.

While Brandy and I are not staying together due to long-term difficulties, neither of us should be flouting our responsibilities towards Josiah. But Brandy and I have gone through the difficult discussions before letting everyone else in on whatsup. ( and we still don't know everything that will happen - we aren't psychic or anything)

The song by UB40 is one played a LOT in Kenya - heard it everywhere! And it's one of my favorites already.....

Who You Fighting For - Reasons Mp3

Music Codes by Mp3Raid.com

Phanice’s Family in order of Age

Joshua - Father, lives in a small village near Kisii Town
Grace - Mother

Ruth
Kennedy - Works at Kenya seeds in Eldoret
Joyce - Lives in Keroka
Charles - A public health official in Bomet
Beatrice - Lives in Nairobi ( I’ve been to her place - tis a cute apt. bldg. )
William - Electrical engineer in Kijauri
Jackline - She died on 2 November 07 - Had a boutique in Kapsabet, married to a man who lived in New Hampshire, and would have moved to America in 2008
Phanice
Maureen
Victor - Live with father in small village
Justus - Still in school, lives with family also