Museum Walk

While in California for Kerry’s graduation (see prior blog post), a couple of friends from Oregon came down to visit. Together, we went to two museums, along with a tour of the Santa Cruz wineries.  The first museum we visited was the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (Wikipedia and Yelp both have more info).  […]

Joys of Ecuadorian Internet

Last year when we were in Cuenca for three months, we had multiple times when our Internet access disappeared — sometimes for a few hours and twice for multiple days.  Once we had control over our own condo this time, we chose to connect two different Internet providers.  We now have both ETAPA and PuntaNet. […]

Tiestro, More Church Schedule Info & Google Maps

Tiestro is our favorite high-end restaurant in Cuenca.  They are not open on either Sunday or Monday though, so we decided to extend our anniversary celebrations to having dinner there tonight.  Their Loma Fino con Tocina (filet mignon with bacon) is probably the best we have had anywhere in the world. We also had langostino, […]

Printer Repairs and Power Outages

The HP Pro 8000 printer I bought last week hasn’t been working too well, so today I boxed it up and took it back to the HP store.  I also put my Mac laptop in my backpack, just in case it was needed, hailed a cab and was off to Mall de Rio yet again. […]

[Computer] How and Why to Backup Your Computers

Please believe me — this is one message you want to pay attention to.  It may very well save your sanity. 🙂 First off, why worry about backups at all? 1) Your computer disk WILL fail at some point.  If you have not had a computer disk failure before now, you are very lucky, but […]

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