If you’ve been reading this blog, then you know I was off hiking around Costa Rica for 2 weeks.  Well, despite an overpowering urge to pack up and move there, I survived and made it back.  Actually, I got back late Wednesday, but I’ve been spending every free moment of my life catching up on “stuff”.  Its incredible that despite more or less getting all my business in order before I went away^*, that I still have such a backlog of stuff to do .  I don’t think I realized exactly how much time I spent on BambooInvoice... until I came back to 2 weeks of backlog.  I’ve tried hard to get all caught up, but if you’ve written me in the last 2 weeks and you haven’t heard back from me yet, hang tight… I’m still working my way through some of those.

We were supposed to be back a day earlier, but literally as we started the boarding process for our plane a small 6 or 8 seat jet came in for a landing on the only runway at the airport, and blew out its front tire, crashing in front of us.  It was pretty hairy, but nobody was hurt.  It did however close down the airport for a day.  We were flying with Air Canada, and frankly, they did right by me.  While the situtation sucked, they did their best.  They shuttled us to a beautiful hotel, put us up, bought us dinner and breakfast, then shuttled us back to the airport for the first flight the next morning.  I’m going to write them a thank you letter… generally when people write its only to complain, so it might make their day to hear from a happy customer.  That said, they did subject me to Spiderman 3 on the way down (ugh), so maybe the karma balances out :)  I ignored most of the in-flight entertainment and read Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” and “Neverwhere”.  I loved them both.  I also bought “Good Omens”, but haven’t been able to get it out of Joanne’s hands…

I’ll be writing more about the trip in the upcoming week, but I’ll file the entires under “personal”, and clearly outline that if you’re here for CodeIgniter, ExpressionEngine, or other geekery, then you can skip those entries.  There are lots of pictures and great stories: I was telling Derek Jones, that if you’re really good in this lifetime, you get resurrected as a squirrel monkey.  Those guys have so much fun!

So I’m alive and kicking, recovering from a minor sunburn, trying to lose the 20 pounds I must have put on (despite all the hiking, the food and drink was amazing), and ready to tackle life again.

^*save 1 very major project launching this week