Pha telegrapher

Hello. My real name is Dan Robrish and I am a Peace Corps volunteer serving in North Macedonia. (The usual disclaimer applies: What I write here is mine alone and does not reflect any official position of the Peace Corps, the U.S. government, North Macedonia's government or any other government.)

I'm best known as the founder and first editor of The Elizabethtown Advocate, a weekly newspaper in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. I sold that newspaper in 2017 to LNP Media Group, but continued to work there as the newspaper's editor until I left that job to accept an invitation to join the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps recalled all of their volunteers worldwide because of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving many invitees including me in limbo. I was a self-employed freelance editor living in Yellow Springs, Ohio, during my time in limbo, but left for North Macedonia in the autumn of 2022. My service is scheduled to last until December of 2024.

The user name "Pha telegrapher" comes from Phillips Code, where Pha stands for Philadelphia. At the time I took on the user name, I was a newsman in the Philadelphia bureau of The Associated Press, a job I held from 1998 to 2010. Before that I was a reporter for daily newspapers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania; New Ulm, Minnesota, and Ely, Nevada. (The Ely paper was daily when I worked there but is now weekly.) Before that, I studied and worked on the student newspapers at the University of Minnesota and Los Angeles City College. I was born in Washington, D.C., and I am a 1989 graduate of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland.

This user is a male.

This user is American; recognized ancestry ends at the border.

This user enjoys reading the newspaper.

This user enjoys reading non-fiction.

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-NThis user is a native speaker of American English.

es-2Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.

IntS-0This user has no interest in Internet slang, or talks like an offline person.

whomThis user insists upon using whom wherever it is called for, and fixes the errors of whomever he sees.

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A and BThis user prefers to use the serial comma only when its omission can be confusing.

ANAL 4This user advocates good grammar usage.

¶This user is a professional editor.

This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.

This user is near sighted.

This user is a student or alumnus of the University of Minnesota.

This user is a college dropout.

This user is a carnivore.

This user believes that caffeine is necessary in large doses daily.

This user prefers cheesesteaks with provolone.

This user has eaten Vegemite and is thankfully still alive.

This user eats bagels.

C₂H₅OH-3This user utilizes alcohol at an advanced level.

MoeThis user wants someone to check the Men's Room for a Hugh Jass.