Doug's Project 365

Or have too much disk space.  At least not if you take a lot of photos 🙂

Upon coming back from Costa Rica I made the unpleasant discovery that I was running out of disk space, both on the house server and my desktop.  So I bought new disks for the house server and trickled down the old disks for other purposes.  Here’s one of the hand-me-down disks on its way to a new purpose.

For those curious, the house server is now a 2 terabyte RAID-1, and my desktop has a 300 GB RAID-1 for data and a solid-state system disk.  The 500 GB disk pictured above will go into the MythTV system, bringing it up to 1.5 TB.

I cleaned off my desk today. This is the first time I’ve had this much space on my desk in over a year.

The paint chips are out… we’re trying to decide on colors for a minor sprucing-up of the dining room.

I installed a new porch light to go along with our rebuilt porch.  Key feature: this one’s bottom is open so suicidal bugs don’t get caught in it.

Yes, that’s a beef tongue brining in my fridge… why do you ask?

Yes, no pictures for a week! Too busy processing the 1400 shots from Costa Rica.  We missed one blizzard while we were away, but not today’s.  Newton did not get as much snow as central Massachusetts, but then again we have fewer places to put it.

We are finally home, and our porch is almost done.  Soon we’ll even be able to use our front door.

These guys were on the wall at the Don Carlos, our hotel in San Juan, in which we spent far too much time today due to flight schedules.

On New Years Day we made our way back to San Jose for our goodbyes and re-introduction to real life.  Here is Mario, our intrepid guide, sporting his newly-acquired sunglasses. In the rear-view mirror you can see Luis, our talented bus driver.  We thank them for all they did for us in their home country.

Today was our last non-travel day of our Costa Rican adventure.  Posted for your enjoyment is probably my favorite bird of the trip — the blue-grey tanager.  It’s not large, exotic, or ostentatious — just an attractive, common, competent little bird that will always remind me of this trip.  It doesn’t hurt that he’s the same color as our house 🙂 .