December 5, 2007 Archive Entries: Local Waterfall Diver Jumps, Digital Camera Time & Date Settings, Blog Advertising, I lost my ring, Snow!!!!, I'm Home!!!!,

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I'm Home!!!!

I made it home, I was up at 4:30 am and I've been traveling (car, boat, car, plane, plane, car) since 5:30 am. I'm just getting home at 1:00 am Detroit time (but it's just Midnight Costa Rica time.

I've got a 5th set of Costra Rica photos up, mostly of the area where I drove around the Southern end of the Nicoya Peninsula (a few have labels). That's assuming all 19 photos upload properly, I'm not staying up to see....

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Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 12:57 AM on December 5, 2007.
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Snow!!!!

I forgot to mention that it was snowing a little on the way home from the airport. It's nice and white out there today!!

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Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 11:13 AM on December 5, 2007.
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I lost my ring

I purchased a ring in Costa Rica, I really liked it too. That was really the only souvenir that I picked up while I was there :(

About an hour from the hotel yesterday I noticed I didn't have it on, but I did have my other ring on, so I'm confident that I put it on and it wasn't in the car. My hope is that it's buried somewhere in my luggage/dirty clothes but I'm not hopeful. It's probably in the hallway in the hotel, where I was wrestling with my luggage early in the morning, most likely in the stairwell since that was the biggest trick (it's an odd, steep stairway) everywhere else I was just pretty much rolling it along...

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Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 12:11 PM on December 5, 2007.
Related categories: Costa Rica 2007, costa rica
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Blog Advertising

I have started running some Text Link Ads on the left side of the page. I apologize that I 'sold out' for that, but I'd much rather have someone else pay for my hosting than pay for it myself :)

Most of the other ads on the site I pick what goes where, but I make so little on those, most will be gone soon. Most of little bits of money I make from ads are from Google or Amazon (and the Amazon ones are really hit or miss). Many times when mention a book or movie or something and you follow the link to Amazon or Buy.com, Wal-Mart or iTunes and you shop there, I make a few pennies (or more) from your purchase and you shouldn't have to pay a penny more. Not all of the links are affiliate links, just when it's something at one of the places I've signed up with, otherwise it's just regular link.

I'd just love to figure out how to make enough on-line from ads while sitting on the beach in Costa Rica. So consider these part of the "Gary Should Move to Costa Rica Fund"!

Actually, if you're shopping this holiday season and are going to shop at any of the above stores anyways, just follow any of my links to get to the only store of your choice and you can support my Costa Rica fund instead of letting Amazon (or one of those other guys) keep that commission?!?

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Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 4:14 PM on December 5, 2007.
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Digital Camera Time & Date Settings

So I'm always trying to adjust the date and time on my camera, making it fit the time zone I'm in / adjusting the time changes (DST) and it's pretty much just turned into a pain to keep correct. I'm thinking of just using GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) and then it'll always be right and if I even need to know when I took a picture it'll technically be right and I'll be able to figure out the difference (if I need to).

I'll have to test a few photos to Flickr and a few other places to see if they adjust or do anything to offset the time from where I say I am. Anyone who's also been annoyed by this have any thoughts on the matter?

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Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 9:34 PM on December 5, 2007.
Related categories: Costa Rica 2007, costa rica, technology
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Local Waterfall Diver Jumps

I hiked back up the Montezuma Waterfalls Monday. I made good time since I remembered the route better this time. Some local Ticos were jumping from up high, the jumping wasn't so dangerous as the climbing up the front of the waterfall, that was pretty amazing. Puts where I was jumping from to shame, but I still had fun jumping and swimming.

This guy jumped from a higher spot but I missed the shot, I couldn't get the camera out fast enough, the video of this jump is still pretty high though.

At the upper falls I started chatting with a few groups up there so I didn't stay long and headed back with them since they wanted to try the way I was going to leave by. I was going a bit different direction since it was supposedly more direct back so I had to make some of it up as we went along (they knew this). It was certainly an easier way back (although you don't se any of the falls) and I saw a few animals and a few sights I hadn't seen before. I did get to see a huge iguana, an odd bird, and a monkey kind that I hadn't seen before (a howler?).

And of course there is a sixth set of photos to see (with some labels too!).