One week down, one more to go. Thankfully my own vacation time begins today. Unfortunately I wasn't able to see much of Nottingham due to having to work 8-6 all week. By the time I got back to the hotel, was quite dark so that ruined any good pic taking chances.

Friday is back to London for the week to be total tourist and see the sights!

Something odd happened tonight while bowling. I rolled a 679 series for the night. This hasn't happened in a long long long long long time. Started with a 247 and the next two games were 216 each.

I guess I do surprise myself at times. That's also an all time personal high since I started league bowling. One day I'll break the 700 mark,it's soooo

I've been cleaning a lot the past week or so and finally going through a lot of accumulated paper stacks on my desk and other places. For those of you that have been here you know what I'm talking about. Here's the funny thing. I've discovered several Starbucks gift cards from past gifts. In all, the total of them is about $70. The irony here is ( Read more... )

It just had to happen again while I'm here. At least they weren't on back to back days but this morning a rather shallow 5.2 quake occurred just off the eastern cost. The office building I've been working rolled with it. It was about the same as what happened last Friday too except this one felt like it lasted longer ( Read more... )

The group I'm working with is starting to label me the earthquake maker. When I was here back then there were two back to back magnitude 6 quakes in the southern part of the country. This past Friday in the middle of my training class a decent shaker started. From the 3rd floor of an office building, the effect is a little magnified somewhat. I was ( Read more... )

Sadly, Costa Rica lost to Mexico. Final score was 3 to 0. The experience was great although getting caught up in it all made me loose track of how much I had to drink. Oh well, live and learn. No, I didn't get sick but it made today just be overly annoying for a while. I'm glad I didn't have anything planned ( Read more... )

I've spent the last 3 weeks in Costa Rica for work related business again and I come back home in 6 days. Today there is a huge soccer match between Costa Rica and Mexico. Some of my co-workers from the office here want to take me out this evening to watch the game. This game is the World Cup qualifier so there's a lot of national pride going ( Read more... )

I made it back to the US in one piece after my month long work adventure in Costa Rica. If I have a choice again, I'm never making another international connection through Houston. I came within 30 seconds of missing my connecting flight last night. That was not a pleasant experience at all ( Read more... )

This is my last week in Costa Rica after being here all month. It's been an interesting adventure since it all began. I know I'll be returning here, but I just don't know when yet. Yesterday I took the last day long tour that looked interesting to me so I could see some other parts of the country. This incuded the Irazu Volcano, Jardin Lankaser ( Read more... )

I got out again today and took another tour of the city. San Jose has quite the variety of things to see that's for sure. The tour lasted just over 4 hours and I think I might have gone overboard with the pictures. I'll let you be the judge of that though.

My Costa Rica Flickr Set