Aaaah, the Title field: LOOK AT MY CAR!!!

Holy cow, I bought a car! It's an old Suzuki Samurai, and I love it. It creaks and groans and goes anywhere. Been around the block a few times but still going strong, just like Mommy.

In the background of the photo is the Tico Times office. It's an old house in downtown San José that somehow manages to fit the paper's entire operation. The tree you see in front sucks because birds live in it and shit all over your car. To the right is another, bigger tree, which contains bigger birds that produce bigger doo doo. We also have fruit trees in the small bit of soil around the house: banana, orange, cas (kind of like a guava) and avocado.

Not shown in the photo are the ghosts that allegedly inhabit the building. Sonia, the editorial assistant, says she often hears the sound of typing from the editorial room in the morning, before anyone else arrives. Occasionally it's typing on a computer keyboard, but more often it's the sound of someone typing on the old clackety-clack manual typewriter still used by Dery, the publisher (who doesn't use computers). Which makes sense, since if it's a ghost, he or she has probably been dead for a while, and may not know how to use a computer.

Also not shown in the photo is Snuffy, the former street dog with the adorable underbite, who lives at the office and occasionally bites people, particularly men wearing black shoes. Snuffy really hates black shoes. And motorcycle helmets. He recently tried to bite the UN Peace Ambassador on a visit to the office. Snuffy almost got the boot for that one, but I defended him. It's not his fault that some people don't know they aren't supposed to wear black shoes.