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so i booked my flight to costa rica yesterday... pretty stoked.... i did some research on exchange rate for costa rica... and it's relatively the same as the PI.... about 50 colones to 1 dollar which equals out to about a 5 to 1 US dollar ratio. which means in order to make it rain, i could bring 100 $1 bills (US) and that'd be like $500 bucks in colones... (whenever i read that i read colons... dirty).  anyway, i'm pretty excited, even though i won't be traveling until march... i'll be gone from march 20-28... the wedding is on sunday the 22, so i'll have the 23 - 28 to kaaaaack it, and then fly back, rest a day, and go back into work. 

i think when work starts getting slow for me, i start wanting to plan trips to get-the-hell-out.... i think it's a necessity in order to maintain sanity. otherwise i start feeling like bill murray in groundhogs day. 

i've started planning a weekend getaway in tahoe at our friend's cabin... in january/february... the thought had crossed my mind that i should take a trip up to whistler or out to denver for some more boarding... my brother moved recently to ny, so that's still on the waiting list as far as places i need to go... and my old roommate from college has been in dallas for years now, and i'd like to go visit him as well.  

i'd like to really just get-the-hell-out of here for a bit... not think about work at all... not get any annoying phone calls on weekends when i'm trying to relax and sleep in... 

on a brighter note, i should be getting my new snowboard gear in the mail any day now... ordered a new board and new boots... still gotta buy some new bindings... i should really get rid of some of my old stuff... ah well.

in other news, erik came up for a visit...well not quite. he was working this weekend in sf so we got to hang out for a min... always good to see some old friends... randomly we saw this naked lady doing up/downs on the sidewalk. not the up/downs you're thinking of pervert. but up downs like football drills. you stand up, when they blow the whistle, you dive down onto the ground. this lady was butt ass nekked. she had a trench coat she was using to throw it down on the ground before she hopped down herself. it was odd. and then... after about 6 or so repetitions, she gets up, throws her trench coat on, and walks away like nothing happened... only in sf...