HalfMex

In June (yes, it was that long ago and I hadn’t written about it yet, as Elizabeth promised… sorry), Elizabeth decided we should take a final trip away before the baby arrives and before she is no longer able to take airplane rides. Our destination, Cozumel, Mexico. Neither of us had ever been there and we both obviously love Mexico. So, she found a good deal on FunJet and booked the trip with the travel agent we used for our honeymoon to Playa del Carmen.

So, on our departure day, we woke up at 4 a.m. to drive out to the airport. Houston traffic is so much better before 6 a.m. Once at the airport, we started our day of ‘waiting in lines’. By the numbers: we spent about 45 minutes in the ‘check-in’ line, 2 hours on the flight, 1 hour and 30 minutes waiting for 3 customs agents to process 3 full flights, another 20 minutes to wait in line to push the fail-safe stoplight button to see if pass or fail for a strip search, a 25 minute ride to the hotel, and finally a 15 minute check-in at the hotel only to be told we would have to wait 4 hours to be able to actually access our rooms. Just in time to miss the breakfast they stopped serving 10 minutes before-hand.

Two tips (literally):
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I am a big fan of Google Maps. It found the route I use to cut through the neighborhoods on my way to work everyday. Now you can use the new Google Moon Map to find some prime real estate guaranteed to be obiting distance of the nearest McStarbucks-Mart. Make sure you zoom all the way in.

After reading articles about the best Macintosh software at Andy Budd, Futurosity, Garrett Dimon, Macslack, TUAW, Whitespace, YourTotalSite, and for Windows at Digital Web Magazine about free tools for freelancing, I decided to incorporate some of their ideas into my article. After having just purchased a Mac, I was in search of the best [free] software I could find. I would be starting from scratch, not having ever owned or used a Macintosh, so I figured I could make a nice, usable list for myself and some of my friends who are about to make the same plunge I did. I not only wanted to replicate some of the software on my PC, but I was really aiming to replace the PC with my Mac. In essence, a complete migration. So, here’s the list of the best freeware tools I found:

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