My younger brother called today to inform me where he was at in the globe and what he was doing. He works on a boat and we only get to talk when he is in port and somebody sells him a phone card. He then has to divide the minutes to where he can call me, his wife, and our parents. If I am lucky and he calls me first we get to talk for a long time but if I was the last in his list of people to call then a few minutes is what I am allowed. The bad thing is that I can’t even call him so we have to make do on short calls and text messages provided he still has enough pesos to make a reply. Anyway, he was not able to talk to our parents so we talked for a long time about anything we can think of. We talk about plans to go home (our parents’ place is home still albeit the second one) together since we have not seen each other in 4 years. We also talked about presents he has to bring home, our cousins, our parents’ plans, and somehow ended up talking about life insurance rates of all things. He also tried to engage the little man in a conversation but he only got a hi and that was it. Well, he was lucky he got that because when I talked to my parents the little man turned my phone off much to my dismay. He told me he wanted me to buy him an iphone which I don’t know if it is possible to get one without a contract. The little devil actually finagled a promise from me to buy him shirts and multivitamins which he claimed were very important for his job. So I will try to get him those when I have enough money built up on my credit again. At least I still have a few months to get these all done.