"Happy birthday Zipper! I bought the cheapest thing on your list! Love Dave."

A UPS truck just pulled up a few minutes ago to deliver this to me.

Dave, my ex of quite a few years now, sent it to me. It's absolutely the most special gift I'll get this year. Why? Cuz Dave is a Peace Corps volunteer living in a shack in the Dominican Republic. And I know he barely has enuff cash to buy himself his daily meal of beans and some odd Dominican fruit and/or vegetable. (Unless the neighbors have used his yard to kill a goat again... i assume they share the meat when they do that...)

So, um... thanks, Dave!!

Oh... and if you're wondering why he calls me "Zipper"... the story is here.