eric haller

stolen shoe

i usually leave my two pairs of “high performance sandals” (or at least that is what i imagine someone in marketing might call these) sitting out on the back porch. one morning i opened the door and discovered that the right shoe from both pairs had gone missing. i found one of them in the front yard an hour later, but the other was missing for about a week and a half or maybe two. yet another lesson on patience. just as i was starting to wonder when i should give up and toss out the orphaned lefty, one of the neighbors returned its match. the dogs here like to play with shoes.

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parrot imitating rooster

a parrot i saw on a finca near here has spent too much time hanging out near the roosters, and now wants to be one:

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completely lazy sunday

i haven’t really been posting much lately i guess, so what better way to ease back into it than a quick blast remarking on how lazy of a day this has been. there are a couple of backpackers talking up the benefits of wordpress behind me. i learned the chords to girl from ipanema on the guitar today.

yeah, i guess that is about it. i have mostly been posting to twitter and the link blog, although i have been thinking about that lately, that i am posting all my updates to outside services now, which seems like something i should evaluate. and by that, i mean start posting things to here more often and to other places less often.

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highlarious

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

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changuinola panama

i went over to panama for a few hours today and checked out the city of changuinola. my camera is “kind of” working now, so i got some shots of the trip. a very interesting place. prices are pretty low for food and goods there, and there are tons of chinese products with curious names.

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i guess my camera is not working

i am giving up on the camera i brought here, the screen seems to not be working. pretty frustrating because now i will be photoless for a good while, while simultaneously seeing lots of things that would make good pictures.

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life’s been good to me so far

if you had told me when i was 20 that i would spend my 42nd eating a jerk chicken sandwich with gazpacho and a lemonade with fresh ginger in the caribbean, i probably would not have believed you. but that’s just what it has been so far today.

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white lobster

i have heard about this happening in this area. interesting read.

“People here now go beachcombing for miles, they walk until the find packets. Even the lobster fisherman now go out with the pretence of fishing but really they are looking for la langosta blanca - the white lobster.”

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horoscope

liz sent me a horoscope that is coincidental.

It may help you to hear from an outside source — like a couple of psychics, perhaps — that you’re OK. You’re OK! But you’re not in control. You’re not in the driver’s seat. In fact, you don’t even have a driver’s license. Find the strength to find your strength without being in charge

my driver’s license expired today.

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in and out of panama

i went to panama for a few hours today, just across the sixaola river. my camera battery was inexplicably drained so i didn’t get any pictures, but i plan on going back to chase (the pueblo on the costa rican side) soon. i also went to bribri for the first time. it was a great day, and now i am posting between songs at the weekly gig at cafe rio negro. dinner just arrived.

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