Final Days in Costa Rica – Day 18, 19, 20 and 21

2 newest additions to my jersey collection

Hey everyone.  I have been a bit lazy about posting but I wanted to enjoy the last few days of my trip.  Honestly nothing super crazy or interesting has happened in the last 4 days either.  It has mainly been catching up on work and continuing my exploration of the Rails framework.

I attempted to get to the beach a few days ago for last sunny day down there.  I made my sandcastle chair in the sand so I could read comfortably.  It wasn’t more than 5 minutes before I was sandblasted.  Even with my sunglasses on I couldn’t see a thing and sand was basically stuck all over me.  I think I am still finding sand behind my  ears and in my feet multiple showers later.  My copy of The Sandman was FILLED with…um sand.  Weird.

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New photos are up from today’s adventure.  You might notice the new Tweet This plugin I added also.  It adds buttons for Tweeting, Digging, or Stumbling (and some others I didn’t include) at the footer of each post.  If you don’t know what these are just ask me.  Very useful for social media/networking people out there.  So yesterday was a super boring day where nothing interesting happened so we’ll just skip right to today.  Oh some dude in the development next to ours had a stroke a few days ago but that’s another story.  Pretty sure he’s ok now though.

Having a tail to hang from would be cool

I woke up at a reasonable hour (10:15am) and began to prepare for my little bike ride.  I had my water all set, my towel, sunblock on and packed, money and keys all ready.  Around 11 I decided it was time to head for Playa Hermosa.  Little did I realize that Hermosa was about 15km from Ocotal.  Oops.  I didn’t realize there was such a huge elevation increase.  Not easy on a 1 speed beach-comber bike. a  There were multiple times I thought about turning around and just heading home.  Thankfully the competitive part of my brain told the reasoning part to shut up and stop being a wuss.  So after 1 hour and 15 minutes of biking/walking with my bike, I made it to Playa Hermosa.  Wow, what a waste of time and energy.  The beach was nicer than Coco but not as nice as Ocotal.  I plopped down in the sand and just rested for about an hour.

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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.

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