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A Moment to Mourn for a Stranger
I never knew Steve Jobs. But my life has been forever changed by his works. After unsuccessful career moves and a frustrating decade of PC proficiency, I bought my first Macbook Pro. I delved into the design, the usability, the ease of computing. I started a hobby, and then a career, as a web designer and videographer. This career suits me incredibly well, and I never would have found it without the amazing creations that Steve Jobs made possible, through [...]
Insomnia Bath
I've been a bad blogger lately. Sure, I've been busy - running a business, moving to Costa Rica, chasing after two toddlers, etc. - but there's no need for me to neglect my blog like this. Aw, great. I just took ANOTHER crap on my blog, and opened my post with an apology about how I haven't been posting lately. So, I'm going to keep kicking myself into shape, by doing bad blogger things until I get them [...]
Beautiful day at the beach.
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Border trip to Panama
It’s a nice excuse for a day trip, and it’s exactly the sort of bureaucratic bobbing and weaving that is essential to living in a socialized country. Today, we bought bus tickets that we will never use, from Costa Rica’s border town of San Vito to Panama, for 90 days from now. These will replace the plane tickets that we will not use in two weeks, and allow us to stay in the country for another 90 days. Sounds confusing? [...]
I’m a lucky bastard.
Any list of personal gratitudes could potentially be very long, for any living person: having eyes, having a mind that allows you to think, a heart that gives you desires, and the fulfillment of even tiny desires - these are all gratitudes that are available to any of us. Sometimes, life puts us in the blessed position of having great big obvious gratitudes, making it exceptionally easy to feel thankful. I am now in one of those positions. I live [...]
Shhh…don’t tell anyone. I’m not getting upset.
I’m broke. Or nearly so, anyway. I came to Costa Rica with a few hundred dollars and a couple of clients. It’s been six weeks, I’ve finished all the client work, and used up all my cash. At the Feria the other day, the weekly farmers market where we buy our groceries, I had to bring my ’emergency’ cash – $200 in US dollars that was for ‘just in case.’ ‘Just In Case’ happened when I had [...]