"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."-James Dean
Dec 31
Like I said in a previous post, my plan was to return to David prior to New Year’s Eve. Guess what? It didn’t happen. But I also said that all of my plans in Panama are subject to change and I never know what I am going to be doing much ahead of my doing [...]
Dec 30
I received an email from a private individual that has land for sale in Chiriqui. The description follows:
Notice for sale – 68 hectareias of land in the Horconcito district of San Lorenzo Province of Chiriqui. 62 hectaries are reforested, 40 hectareias with African Mahogany (khaya Senogalersis) and 20 hectareias of Theca that is approximately 14 [...]
Dec 25
On this day let’s reflect on how fortunate we are to be alive. To be with family and friends. To live in a place where we can express our views freely. To have plenty of food on the table. To have the memory of times gone by. To have the eyesight to see the beauty [...]
Dec 21
It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end-to-end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them.
Dec 20
A Chiriquí Chatter Reader sent me the following Obituary. I found it interesting:
Native of Panama Returned as Missionary
By Lloyd Jojola
Journal Staff Writer
The Rev. Claudio Iglesias was born on a little island off the Caribbean coast of Panama and was 13 years old when he was sent to the United States to receive [...]
Dec 20
Last night, we took Sofia to see a Christmas display in the housing area of La Perla. This display is set up across two houses. The first house has a couple of large yard scenes set up.
The second one is probably the most talked about Christmas presentation in all of David and most likely in [...]
Dec 20
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
Dec 19
This is an early warning that I will soon be out of pocket. The plan is to drive to Panama City on the 21st. If everything goes as according to the plan, we will return prior to New Years Eve. But as everyone knows, plans in Panama are subject to change at a moments notice. [...]
Dec 19
I am in the process of downloading the latest release of openSUSE. I have been running release 11.0 for some time and openSUSE 11.1 is now out.
I am using the torrent method to get both the 32-bit and 64-bit DVDs. Both are over 4 gigabytes in size and transferring that much data is subject to [...]
