All Alone Again and No Internet for 8 hours…Day 14 and 15

Super Windy

First of all if anyone tried to call me today between the hours of 3 and 11PM I am sorry but the Internet was out. Here in Costa Rica a strong gust of wind can cause a power surge and knock out power. It is usually only a couple minutes but last night it went out for about 15 minutes. This morning it went out a couple times just resetting everything but then around 2pm the Internet disappeared. Power was on but no Internet. Apparently the ISP here just can’t handle these types of things. So right when I was in the thick of my work, I was forced to stop. It is crazy to think how much I needed it. It is my only source of communication. My email, my phone, my chatting. I even tried to use my cell phone quickly but all I could manage were a few texts. I can only imagine how much that is going to cost me.

Since Becky left mid-day yesterday I have been working like a maniac to get caught up on everything I have been putting on the backburner. I decided to take a couple days out of the sun as well to rest my skin. Being 50% English my skin can’t handle too much of it. I have almost fully caught up on client work. I was even able to write a company blog post over at Connected Web Solutions, Tools to Run Your Business Remotely.

Why am I always pointing at something?

Time to geek out a little bit.  After delving a little bit more into Rails  development I can now almost fully understand the capabilities of the MVC architecture and how easy Rails makes this.  What would take a handful of code and time to do in PHP or ASP.NET can be easily accomplished in MINUTES of Ruby on Rails.  I hope to transition some of our future projects over to this platform to increase speed of development.

Do you guys out there use Twitter?  I know a lot of you are on Facebook and LinkedIn and what not but I thought I would throw Twitter out there.  Twitter is basically a microblogging site.  Think of the Facebook status updates.  This is similar but you are restricted to 140 characters.  You can link it to your Facebook status as well so if you change one it will change the other (I have since disabled this after my sister said “Don’t be one of those losers that updates their status all the time”).  I’m sure a lot of you have heard of Twitter as of late on the news as well.  The best picture of that plane in the Hudson came from someone’s “tweet” from their phone to Twitter.  Just thought I would throw that out there for everyone and you can follow me at http://twitter.com/sambishopCWS.  I guess it’s a form of uber-stalking but at conferences it’s great to use to meet up with people.

Ok enough geeking out.  Tomorrow is my last day out of the sun (maybe sit by the pool) but Saturday is going to be my bike ride to Playa Hermosa.  More pictures to come after that journey.  Anyone want to help me learn Spanish?  Yo estoy aprendiendo pero quiero aprender con ustedes!