some pics from Puerto Rico

Hey, well, I'm in Japan now and I'm just getting around to posting some pics from PR. Oh well. I'm always late.
Here I am sitting in front of the Barcardi bat at the Bacardi Distillery!

I think this is a famous astronomer or something. We found him near the world's largest radio telescope.
This is the ugliest beach I've ever been to.


Guess who that is...we have the same hair style :)

Its a BIMBO!

Check out the cool cookies you can get in Peurto Rico!

hey hey

I'm back. It's good to be back. Being in Puerto Rico made me realize how much I don't really want to live there. I've got some errends to do this weekend/'week. Gots lots of stuff to catch up on since I was gone for so long. Its Sunday, but I'm already looking forward to the week! 4 more days and I'm off to Tokyo for a month! I can't believe it, I'm so excited. I picked up a new tokyo guidebook so I can try all the restaurants and places I never did before since I wasn't on an expense account. I just need to focus and concentrate and wrap up Puerto Rico so I can enjoy Japan.

mosquitos and basketball

I've got a little something to say re: basketball.

So I was shooting the ball around a bit at the hotel
and started getting bit by some mosquitos. I forgot to
put on the OFF! it reminded me of a day earlier this
week when I was literally getting attacked by a swarm
of mosquitos. In about 30 seconds I was bit 3 times
even though I was swatting them away at the time.
They followed me and my coworker into the car and
tried to bite us there. Luckily, she killed on while
we were still in the parking lot, and I killed the
other while I was driving on the highway?! <not sure
thats a good thing since *I* was driving>

but about the basketball...see I told you I wanted to
talk about basketball. I was shooting the ball around
by myself when this kid came up and asked to play. She
was 16 years old and a bunch of parents were watching
us. Hey, I didn't ask for this. So I took my ball and
left before I got too many more stares.

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its always raining

Raining, raining, every day. whats up with this? are
we in the middle of the rainy season or something?
Seriously, its been raining on and off for the past 3
weeks!! As much as I like it here, I think its just
proved to me that I wouldn't want to live here
permanantly. I hate the cold of the winter, I hate
the heat of the summer, but I need both of 'em or I
won't be happy!

Rich White
http://spicysamurai.blogspot.com

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ah, the wonders of tech

i'm writing this not at a computer, not at an internet
cafe, but on my PDA at a wireless hotspot i'm leeching
acess from. just gotta figure out a way to write these
things faster on a virtual kryboard. anyway, later.

Rich White
http://spicysamurai.blogspot.com
http://www.geocities.com/rdwhite77

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you're gonna hate me

but no pics this weekend. I had to get out of Ponce, so I decided to go back up to San Juan for the weekend. I'm staying at the Wyndham hotel which is nice. They even gave me a bottle of wine, cheese, crackers, and some bottled water. Pretty nice setup they got. The problem is that the internet connection in my room doesn't work, so they shuffled me off to the business center again. I guess I'm lucky since the business center is supposed to be closed during the weekend, but they're making an exception for me.

That said, I'm not able to upload any pics here since they're still in my camera...that reminds me..maybe I should try plugging my camera directly into this computer and see if it recognizes it...

anyway, the third week was uneventful until my brother and his wife came down. They chilled out for the first few days, and then on Saturday and Sunday we got some good stuff done. First we saw the Rio Camuy caves. Those were cool, but the tour was way too short. Basically, we got to see one major area and that was it. Oh and they showed us a sinkhole. woo hoo! Next we visited the largest radio telescope in the world. At least this hemisphere... It was big, and pretty much what you would expect. They filmed some of the movie Contact here. Next we had a great adventure that night at the bio luminescent bay in Fajardo. Gettting there was a big challenge as many things kept going wrong, but we finally made it. I can't do the bio bay justice, so here's a link you should visit. Its for a different bay, but you'll get the drift. http://www.biobay.com. The next day we trekked in the only US Tropical Rainforrest. It was SO tiring!

'The past week was week 4. not much happened besides work. The hotel I'm at in Ponce is definately worse than the one in San Juan, and the beach is terrible. I'll post a pic of that someday too.

Time for dinner, so I'll catch y'all later.

haha fooled ya!

you thought I'd be putting up a new post with some pics didn't ya. Well, I promised to. Sometime this weekend I'll get around to it. I'm switching hotels and staying in San Juan again. There's more stuff to do up there than in the south. Anyway, keep checking in, and I'll get some nice pictures up :)

Puerto Rico week 3-a

ok, I'll write more about week three later. Right now, I'm forced to use the hotel computer in the business center, and they're pretty restrictive about stuff. There aren't any chairs, so I have to stand while I type this. I guess they think that if we have to stand, people will tend to hang around less. They've also secured the workstation a bit, so a lot of functions I don't want to do on my work computer, I also can't do here. I'm trying to download a bunch of podcasts to fill my dwindling supply, but they've blocked direct access to save files. Instead, I discovered that I can play the file through the media player and save it off separately. But I'm also screwed because the business center will close in 7 minutes. Thats right, a business center that is not open 24x7. They're closed on Sundays and during the week close anywhere between 5pm-7pm! I guess after 7pm, no one needs to use computers... Also having trouble with my camera. I can't get my computer to recognize it, so I can't offload the files and free up the memory card. I'll still be able to post some pics when I get some time though. anyway, gotta go. the bastards are looking me down. They want me to leave...but I've still got podcasts to download!!!