So thanks to Best Buy and their subscription services and dumb automatic renewal shit, I am now down to my last $70 or so. And in a few days, lovely TCF will be doing their routine out-of-U.S. ATM checks and deducting another $40 from my account, which in effect means that at the moment I [...]

I pretty much spent the entire day today brushing myself up on all the popular Latin music I’ve been listening to since I got here. The Spanish-language music on my iTunes hasn’t really grown that much (mostly because a lot of the music I hear here, I’ve already got on my iPod LOL) but today [...]

I don’t know what to do about my camera dilemma. I’ve just about given up on trying to repair it on my own, and were I at home I probably would just hold off on buying a replacement or charge one to my Best Buy credit card. But I’m here in bloody Costa Rica, with [...]

After literally a decade of trying to get my younger now-19-year-old brother to read the Harry Potter books (although to his credit, he has seen most of the movies), I woke up this morning to the following email: Hahaha I am suddenly interested in Harry Potter now. I’ve just finished reading the last book (i [...]

My camera has broken. Temporarily, permanently, I do not know; the fact of the matter is, it will not work. I press the button, the lens has a fit, and the LCD screen screams “LENS ERROR” to me for about half a minute. I’ve no idea who to blame for this. It was residing comfortably [...]