Feast...

Today was Christmas eve and as tradition marks in my house my mom and I cooked, she made some tamales, pasta and mashed potatoes, I made some garlic and paprika bread, cookies and prepared the turkey (even though turkey isn't tradition here :P), it took us all day to prepare everything but it was worth it, i'll post some pictures tomorrow. We had a great time and the food was freaking good.

New life...

My laptop just received a new battery, the old one I had was only working at 30% of its original capacity (or at least that's what Ubuntu said :P) and it sucked because I couldn't use it  anywhere without risking it just shutting down without the charger. I upgraded the RAM to 4GB (up from 3GB) and even if it isn't that much of a difference it does feel a little better.

First step...

My main problem to start anything is always to take the first step, even if  I want to learn/do something, at least I feel this way, most of the times I have no problem starting something new, but start something similar to something I already know? I have a little problem to start something if I don't have or need to do it, and since this isn't needed for the moment (maybe later it will), I had a little trouble, but I want to learn it, this and many other things.

Today I started to read a book of Python that I have been wanting to read for a few weeks already but I just didn't had the motivation to start, specially since it is like 600 pages long, I felt that it would take way too much time. But I started to read it and I am already at page 70, so that is a little more than 10% in one day, if I keep reading at the same pace I might even finish it before this year is over, and I actually didn't read that much today, I watched some movies with my family and finished Orcs Must Die (at least normal difficulty).

o.O

Today I saw something that made me freak out a little, well, not, just kidding, but it made me think. I was on my way to my house and I saw this ambulance, there were some people collecting money, at first I thought it was from the red cross or something like that, but this ambulance had a certain logo that I recognized easily, it was the umbrella corporation logo (from resident evil), I thought that it might only be a coincidence, but in the front of the ambulance it actually said Umbrella Corporation.

So, with this info I can deduce 2 things, that someone scammed us really good, or...  that Umbrella is real and we are fucked up and they are developing the T virus here in Juarez!!!!!!!

Or maybe something else that I am not informed, but why would they use the logo and name from a company from a video game?

Being polite???

Since I work directly with people I can't say or do things the way I would normally do, I have to be polite (almost) all the time, unless I am given the chance to not be, ok, so here is my dilemma, I had a new patient today, well the mom of a new patient, and she had a horrible breath, not like 'you just ate something and didn't brush your teeth', but more like a 'you should probably see a dentist' kind of smell.

For little less than an hour I had to endure that smell and I couldn't say a thing because I didn't have anything to offer (gum or mints) for the bad breath, but how should I point it out to this person, I am not saying that I have the best of breaths, but I try to brush my teeth regularly and if I can't at least have some mouthwash or mints, or just go out with my garlic and/or onions smell, maybe someone will like it (just joking :P).

But seriously, what can I do in a situation like this? Should I endure the smell? Directly point it out? Discretely offer a gum/mint?

Orcs Must Die!!!!

So, I have been playing some of the games that I have on steam that I have not played before, one of them is Orcs Must Die and I am loving it, it is a strategy tower defense game in which you are a war mage tasked to prevent a horde of orcs from reaching a rift that lead to the world, so far all the levels are held in fortress type levels, not on the open world.

The main mechanics of the game to prevent the orcs from reaching their goal are the use of weapons, spells and set traps, the main goal of each level is to set up the traps in a manner in which you don't have to kill them all with the weapons and spells since you can loose all your mana with the spells and the weapons aren't that effective at killing them all, that's why it is an strategy game.

I have only played this game for a good 2 hours but I like it very much, I haven't had this much fun in a long time.

I was going to upload a video of me playing, but the raw video was over 2 GB and I don't have the time to re-code and upload it, so I'll use one that I found on youtube :P, maybe later I'll upload some videos of the games that I am playing now.

Vacations...

Even though I am not on vacations officially I have been spending more time with my family, watching movies, going out, cleaning the house, even watch them put the Christmas tree (yeah, I only watched, my mom and sisters know how to decorate it). The only thing I am missing this season are some tamales :/, but maybe tomorrow my mom (and maybe me too) will do some. And finally this Wednesday I'll be on vacations from CAPSIC, not from Hitosoft, I work when I want there and I'm loving what I'm doing right now :P

Craving...

Today I had this craving for coffee, though not a normal coffee, I wanted something different, something minty, I didn't have mint essence or liquor but I had some tea, so I prepared some mint tea and prepared the coffee with the tea instead of normal water, it was pretty good, but not as good as others I have tasted :P.

Alone in the dark...

If there is something I hate around this time of the year is that it turns night so early, I went to Capsic at around 4 pm and there was barely any sun left, I was on my way home like 7 pm and I had to do a 20 minute walk along a somewhat busy street, not a main street, but busy enough to get some cars at least every minute or so. So, I was walking down this street and I could barely see in front of me, there weren't street lights, just one or two in the whole trip and some from outside some houses.

That sucked, I had to walk with some caution because the streets aren't in good shape, they have bumps, rocks, dirt and crushed stones (I could slip), etc. That, and people walking from time to time, and I don't mind the people that much, but there were some cholo looking guys, so I better be careful, I don't want to be surprised so I try to maintain my distance and when ever they pass me I would turn back just to check no one is following me (yeah, somewhat paranoiac, but you would understand if you lived here :P). Oh well, this is the little city where I live, I have to put with this kind of things until I get a car.

???

I was thinking on what to write and I had to question myself, what did I do today? Well, today I think I did nothing... Well, not really, I just realized that I took the day off and did almost nothing work related... but then, what did I do? Who knows :P

I remember that I played like an hour in the morning some Super Meat Boy (awesome game btw), then I got to my parents home and ate breakfast, I had to get some money from the bank to ask Sergio for a few things I had to buy from Amazon so I now realize that I spent some time outside with my family, we went to the mall just to hang around.

We came home and my sisters and mom were watching some t.v. show or a movie, I don't know, and me and my dad were talking/discussing/debating or something along the lines and we got kick out of the living room and went outside to our backyard, the weather was awesome and we stayed there at least 2 hours. We had a pretty good discussion, then we got inside and I had to go since I made plans to eat out with Sergio, we didn't, we ended at the movies and it was cool.

And right at this moment I realize that I did some things this day, all of that and I watched like 4 or 5 episodes of scrubs through out the day (and I don't know if I am going to watch one before going to sleep :P)

LWE...

...LWE stands for Longest Weekend Ever, which is what I feels just happened last week, I haven't posted since the last Thursday, that day I came home after a loooooooooooooooooong day, I went out in the morning to eat breakfast with my Friend Michelle, we had a great time, and after that when I was on my way home I came across with another friend (and her friends) with whom I spent all the afternoon, and since she was from the "Colegio de Psicólogos" and that day was our meeting and she lived closer to it we decided to go to eat at her house and then to our meeting.

Some other friends ended coming to my friends house, and since they were from the same school I knew at least one of them, and they knew my brother too, we had a lot of fun just hanging around there and chatting, but we had to go to our meeting, well, I :P, my friend decided not to go since the main topic that day was the "Posada del Colegio", I got there a little late, and then my dad came to pick me up since there are no buses that go to my house at that hour. Ate something at my house, pulled a Sergio and fell sleep.

Friday, in the morning I had to work for Hitosoft in the morning and prepare something for my patient from that day, I spent all the morning doing that and then went to eat to my house before going to CAPSIC, saw my patient, everything ok, got to the Hitosoft office and worked there till 10 I think, got home, I had a discussion (not fighting, we were discussing something) and after that I was just tired and went to sleep, I watched some scrubs before that, but I wasn't paying attention and just closed the lid of my laptop and died there.

Saturday, in the morning I worked a little and then went to meet my first accountant, before this I thought I would have to pay a fine since I got paid the first of november (I used my honorary receipt that day :P) and I had to do my tax filing the 17's of each month, but she explained to me that it is from next month, so I am safe, woot.

After that I went to my home again and worked a little (for Hitosoft) since I had nothing else to do before going to the "posada" which was today at 8 pm. The "posada" was at an applebees and not too many people went, we where just like 30 or a little more, but it was great, nothing much happened here other than having a great time, I got home late and just died on the bed, I just checked my mail to see if my meeting from Hitosoft haven't been cancelled and that was it.

Sunday, I woke up early and worked just a little before going to my parents house and eat some fantastic Menudo my mom prepared, it was so damn good I had to repeat :P, then I went to my meeting and we were only preparing things we have to do for the next weeks for a project since some of us will have vacations and we won't be able to get together to work unless we do it online.

After that meeting I got home and I was fine, just a little tired, eat something and I was actually prepared to do nothing other than watch movies, series and play video-games, and I did, well, I didn't watched any movie, but I watched scrubs, and played The Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy and Bastion, freaking great games, all of them, but as the day continued I started to get sick.

For almost all week I have been coughing, but just once or twice every hour, nothing serious, every year I get this but I rarely get worse, well, I should probably have done something, I got so sick that night and was coughing so bad I wasn't able to sleep well.

Monday I called to say that I would not be able to go to CAPSIC, I was going to, but in the condition I was it would only be trouble, and I could spread my disease, so I stayed home and I feel like I did almost nothing all day, but I did work a little in the morning before I was going to go to CAPSIC, then nothing, just played some Bastion (I'll make a blog for this game later :P) and went to the doctor.

It seems that I have Bronquitis (first time I feel this bad), my back and chest hurts from coughing, same with my head and my limbs are week, its hard to breathe, dammit, I hate been sick. Still, that doesn't stop me :P, after getting to the doctor (that was around 3 pm), the good part of my work at Hitosoft is that I can work anywhere anytime and I worked for just a little, played Bastion again and in the night I prepared some Shortbread Cookies for my house and some for my friend Michelle since she will be traveling and wont be back till next year :P.

Well, so far that is all I have done since I stopped posting, today I still don't feel well, but i'll try to post about that this night.

Tired...

...So tired right now, i'll update this tomorrow, i'm pulling a Sergio right now :P

Where to go?

Sergio, our friends and I always have this problem deciding where to go, we never know of a place where we could feel comfortable or at least I feel limited to go to the movies our to play pool, which I love, but there should be other places we could go. I like to go to cafes, but with Sergio it just feels weird, well not really, but he doesn't like coffee that much as to go to a place like that, and neither of us drink so bars are out too.

Well, actually today Sergio and I went to a cafe just hang out and it was ok, he had an smoothie and I had a frappuccino with Irish cream and it was great, and some nachos too. This was something new with Sergio :P, though we both had gone to cafes by ourselves or other friends this is the first time that we go.

Responsibility...

Because of the cold weather in the morning I wanted to skip my job at CAPSIC today, call and say that I wouldn't be able to make it, I don't know, use any excuse and try to re-schedule my patient from today to another day, had it been my last job I would just skipped the day and not give a damn (except for the money :P), but with this job I have more responsibilities and I can't do this kind of things, if I'm going to skip work I better have a real reason, not just because I am lazy and/or feel cold :P.

On other news, I just watched the first episode of Breaking Bad and at first it didn't appeal to me, but I finished watching it and I did like it, though, just yesterday I watched a Scrubs video that was on my youtube account recommendations and it made me want to watch that series again, and now I don't know if I should watch Breaking Bad or Scrubs first

Cancelled...

Today, after waiting almost all day at CAPSIC for a meeting we where supposed to have, it got canceled, the meeting was at 7 and I was waiting there till 6 before it got cancelled. I was a little pissed and a little happy for that, I suppose that I was more happy than pissed since it was so cold and I only wanted to go to my house, but still, I could have been there much more early.

Success...

After 2 days of trying to run Mac OS on my computer in a virtual machine I finally succeeded, so now I can work in Windows, Ubuntu and Mac in my laptop, though, mac is in a virtual machine and not installed in the hard drive, so far I can't really say that I like it or dislike it, I haven't seen anything special about it except for the menu bar, right now I am downloading xcode but it will take all the night since it weights 4.14 GB :/
So, maybe over the week I'll test it

Publish...

I forgot to press that button yesterday, dammit, I wrote something else, but failed to publish it, I was installing some programs in my sisters laptop and left this one besides the bed with the lid closed and blogger open >.<

That song...

...sounds familiar.

Today after I got home one of my sisters was watching tv and I don't know if it was commercial or a show or whatever, but they played certain song, I was at the table and started following it and it only made me want to watch the movie that featured it, I'll try to watch it tomorrow on netflix, I put it on my queue so I don't forget, this is the song I am talking about:

Speechless...

I just watches this video from a series I love (Tales of mere existence) and it expresses exactly how I feel most of the times about certain things, I leave it here for you to watch, so enjoy :P

Sleeping early...

Tomorrow I have to go to process my Mexican passport early in the morning, so today I had to prepare everything I need for that and pack it in my backpack. Though, it didn't went easy, I thought I would only be out like 3 or 4 hours at most since I had to get my paycheck at CAPSIC, but no, in the s.r.e. (secretaria de relaciones exteriores) website said that I could get a form, to pay the fee for it at the bank, at the SAT offices.

I got there and the person that attended me was clueless, she asked another guy there and he said that I could pay it right at the bank without the form, that I didn't longer needed it, so I got to the nearest bank and waited several minutes to be attended... or not, I was told that I had to get the form at the s.r.e. luckily there was one near the bank where I was.

So I went there to get it (in Galerias Tec) and then to another bank that was in the same plaza, I spent again so much time there waiting to be attended but I at least got my receipt that I paid it, and then I went to CAPSIC only in time to get my paycheck (if I didn't get it today I would have to tomorrow or Friday in the morning and I only have a patient until Friday at 5:00 pm and banks close at 4:00), I didn't have problems there, got to the bank just in time to collect my money before they closed. Long day out almost all day and now I am going to sleep :P

Sick...

Well, Chuy already wrote about this, and it seems I am in the same boat, I feel like I am getting sick too, I have been coughing all day, and after I came back from my work today I have had a headache that is killing me.

Preparation...

This last month I have been studying more and more to give some courses at hitosoft, this is a great way to learn for myself since I have to understand it more than if I just learned it for myself, my friends are doing the same and I must admit that this is much better than school, and quicker. And I am not talking only about programming, since this is a company we need to learn more than just the product that we offer, so I decided to learn some marketing, not something I am good with, but I need to learn it too since i'll be an entrepreneur rather than a programmer (though, I love programming and I wont stop doing it).

Another day dies...

Seriously, days go way to fast now days, I woke up at 7:00 and I spent most of my morning reading and studying and by the time I realized it was already late (like 2:00 pm) and I had to go to CAPSIC, I got there in time and then I had to go to the Hitosoft "office" to a course after that, I had my patient at 5:00 pm and I had to be at the "office" at 7:00 pm, I got there in time (just barely) and suddenly it is already 9:00 (we finished early), I got home before 10:00 and I just talked with my dad for a few minutes while I ate something, got to my house, watched a few videos, read some things, was falling sleep a few times, and now it is already 12:00, what happened with my day? It went way to fast, but I must admit that I do feel that it was a productive day.

Oh, yeah, and I leave you with this song from redemption that I just love.

Broken...

Yesterday I broke my xampp while trying to install a new web framework (Django) in my computer since I want to try it, but I had to modify some of the files of the xampp system and I broke it, I didn't knew what I did wrong, I tried for hours until I gave up (for that day), I even re installed it and it was still having an error, so today I decided to follow the steps the same way I did before I broke it and it was only a word in which I changed 2 letters (damn my dyslexia :P) and I got everything running again, it sucks when just one letter can screw you so much, I have learned to take a little more care in how I write since I started programming, lol.

Complications...

So, today was my first time working with a couple at therapy, it is my first patient and her mom, it was a little harder to maintain them under control and keep myself from siding with one of them, and some other things, it isn't easy but at least it seems they will be working fine. And I must add that it was way more exhausting than working with just one person.

Finally...

...I finished watching Criminal Minds, at least the episodes that are on netflix, I have been a little obsessed with that series the last months and today I watched the last episode of the sixth season, thought, I think I will watch it again since I don't remember half of it, I think I fell sleep wile watching it, lol, but at least I know that I can get addicted to something else now.

Temptation...

A few days ago I received an invitation from Blizzard Entertainment to get Diablo III for free, I only had to sign up for an annual pass for World of Warcraft, I have to admit that for a second I did consider it. I love that game, and I have been waiting for so long for Diablo III that last year I might have done it without thinking, but not anymore, I do love the game, but I don't like the way it is taking.

I haven't been liking them for some time now, I still read about some updates from time to time to see how is it going, and I don't like it, and I am not sure if I want to get Diablo III, I do like most things I know about the game, but there are some others that I do not, I'll have to wait a little more to decide that.

Well, main point, I was tempted to play WoW again, but I wont do it, I don't want to get addicted to that thing like I did some time ago, I have better things to do right now other than feeling the need of having to log on at a certain hour just to do some thing that I didn't even enjoy to not feel like I wasn't doing enough, games are meant to enjoy, not to feel like a job.

Excited...

Today I watched a video-conference of web development organized by various websites of Latin America, it was transmitted from Santiago de Chile and it was pretty awesome, and not only did I like it, I was all excited for the things I learned from it, I made a list of the things that I want to learn for my next projects and some that I want to implement to the ones I am right now.

Also, I learned about this little software by the name of Prey, an anti-theft software that I didn't know about, it is free and looks awesome, I would recommend downloading it. One of the topics was from the creator of this software and all the things that happened since he started to involve in the world of programming (he studied journalism) till now, it was pretty interesting.

Not only did they speak of web development, but business and project management too. I wasn't expecting that much, it was pretty damn good, the only turn down was that my internet connection started to fail in one of the presentations and I watched only like half of it :(

Diablo...

...swing Orchestra.

A few weeks ago my brother told me about this band, the Diablo Swing Orchestra, a Swedish experimental metal band that combines jazz, swing, progressive and symphonic metal. At first I didn't listen to them, I forgot about it in a matter of days, but this week I finally heard one of the albums my brother has of them and it was awesome.

I really liked their style, pretty interesting music, not what I am accustomed to, I'll leave you with this songs:

Awful...

...videos.

A friend and I have this little game of posting the worst videos we can find and we have to watch them from start to finish, so far we have only shared 2 each, so if you guys know of a video that would embarrass if people knew you were watching it can you share the link? :P

So far the ones I have posted are:
Friday by Rebecca Black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0

and a music video from Peru, it really sucks, click under your own risk XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuSSlFZ8cfA

I seriously...

... hate steam.

I haven't been able to buy new games in a long time (I think my last one was Portal 2), but I like to check steam for its deals to see if they have a game I might like to buy. This week they had The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for 6.25 (down from 25) and I couldn't resist, in the last 2 months I bought this game, Borderlands, Bioshock 1 & 2, Cthulhu Saves the World, The Binding of Isaac and Bastion, all awesome games that I really want to play.

I must admit that I have been playing regularly The Binding of Isaac (21 hours :P), Borderlands is awesome and I have played it a few hours, same with Bioshock 1, but the rest are just there installed waiting for the play button to be pressed. Oh well, hopefully now that I'll have some free time I will play some of them :P

Paperwork...

My "assistant" finally finished her professional practices, so now I have to evaluate her performance throughout the semester, sign some papers and send a letter to the school stating that she finished, I have never done this, it feels weird, I never thought I would have people at my charge. I have to admit that it worked fine, not as good as I would have wanted too, but it was because of external factors that were out of my control.

After this I will have some free time (at least from CAPSIC) until I pick another project, if I pick one, so I can dedicate a little more time to other things.

Retro...

There is this youtuber (Total Biscuit) that I like to watch regularly who makes first impressions of video games (not reviews) and comments about different topics about video games and the video game industry. Today I watched a video of a RPG that looked pretty good, I had seen it before but I wasn't interested in it until today, I had read that it was a great game, but never cared to see how it was or what it was about. When I watched the video I decided to buy it, it was only 3 bucks (for this and Breath of Death VII) .

I haven't played it yet, but I will do it soon enough, I loved this kind of RPG's and the game dialog in this one looks hilarious, specially when Cthulhu breaks the fourth wall. The retro style of SNES RPG's, the music, everything looks just like the games I used to play when I was little :P, I think it'll be lots of fun if the game continues as it is shown in the video.

WTF just happened?...

This afternoon I went to a local store like 2 blocks away from my home to buy some tostadas, usually this store has its doors closed as a security measure, but not today, when I opened the door it felt weird since I always have to ring the bell or knock at the door, well, I didn't care about it, but as soon as I picked other things I had to buy, a guy got in gun in hand. I saw it before he began to threaten us but I didn't saw his face, just the gun... I didn't understand what he was saying (maybe because he was stoned and was talking weird) but I got on the floor and lay there with the owners son and another customer.

He then made the owners son open the cash register and he got all the money he could and ran away, lucky for me and another customer he didn't robbed us and we didn't got hit or anything... well, he did aim the gun at me when I was standing, , but dammit I was so pissed, and I didn't get a chance to see him, I only saw the gun and I wasn't going to risk myself for a few pesos. And besides, the owner he has a safe-deposit box where they put part of the earnings for this kind of situation, so it wasn't a total loss.

Foul-mouthed

Today I was scolded again, but this time it was from a 4 year old boy... this sucks.

I was scolded because I was saying something to my sister and I said the word "wey", I don't even remember what was I talking about, but he said to me that I shouldn't use that word because "it is a bad word", my sister asked him why it was a bad word but he didn't know what to answer, she asked him if it was because "god" would get angry for using that word and he said no, then she asked if it was bad because of her mother and said yes, this made us laugh but I couldn't resist asking why he knew that it was a bad word and the kid said that because his mom would get angry and scold him, lol.

On the edge...

So, here I am, 3:50 and I woke up with my laptop on the edge of the bed, I fell sleep with it before writing anything and woke up because I was cold, this week was something busy, I had a presentation yesterday of "Maquetación" (don't know if it is translated to Laying out or something like that) in css and it went pretty well. Except from that, the rest of the week was pretty normal, busy, but pretty normal, and now I will move this thing to another place before I brake it >.<

Compromise...

Next week I will be finished with my "assistant", she finishes practices next week and I won't have to go to CAPSIC except for my patients, meetings and when I am needed there. But I feel that I am don't have the compromise there anymore, since I left the other project I feel that I have been distant from CAPSIC and its events (I didn't go to the two last events, but that was because I didn't sleep the day before in the two events).

Unfortunately the project I left was to obtain resources so CAPSIC would be able to continue working, but it was too much pressure for me alone and I declined continuing with it alone when I was given the choice, when I wanted to help with that I was supposed to only do the written part, which I did, but since no one else wanted to help I was in charge to do the rest, go to institutions and with people that might donate to CAPSIC, this I didn't wanted to do, I didn't have the time.

This Monday another co-worker announced that she was working with this project and asked the rest of us to aid in it, or to form a team for this project, or do something :P, I decided to help, but not the way I was working with it, I will be helping them with the logistics and organization, and this time I will stick with what I say I will do. 

16-FP

So, I found a laptop that was in my house that can read floppy disks, it was in my dad's man cave :P and since he isn't using it I grabbed it and took it to CAPSIC to check the floppy I was talking about the other day, it worked, and it gave a pretty good review of the test, the only turn down is that it is limited to only 25 uses, after that I don't know if we have to buy a new license or just renew it, that sucks.

BTW, this test is called 16-FP (16 factores de personalidad), and is used to measure, as the names says, the personality, it gives a pretty accurate result (most of the times), I prefer the other one I talked about the other day because the other one gives more insight, but this one is pretty good to (and not as long, it can be from 160 to 200 questions).

Museum Item :P

Part of the Personalty Factors that the test evaluates.

Chill out...

So, yesterday and today I have been scolded by some co-workers and my mom because I don't carry my jacket, with this weather I don't feel like using it, I feel comfortable with just my shirt, and I actually enjoy being a little cold, the other reason is because I am lazy too :P I don't like to carry my jacket everywhere, I know that I'll have to take it off in most places and it is a nuisance. But the main reason is because I don't care about the cold weather, I can tolerate lower temperatures than this :P

Typical...

Typical Monday, working all day, I had a meeting at CAPSIC, the only difference, today I went to eat to Plaza Sendero, I went to Subway but they didn't have a terminal for my debit card so I had to go elsewhere, I ended eating a hamburger at an unknown local, I don't remember its name, I just know that it wasn't big kahuna, but it was a pretty tasty burger nonetheless XD. After that I came back to CAPSIC and waited for the meeting, nothing interesting here for the moment, it was just a typical Monday at work.

XNA...

So, I started to work with C# today with the XNA framework (focused in game development), this is a whole new level to me, so different from what I have been doing until now. I feel excited, but at the same time overwhelmed because I have to learn a lot of new things, so far I have only done a tutorial and was only following what it told me to do (most of the times I watch/read and adjust to what I am doing), I felt the difference between the Object Oriented Programming and what I was doing, hopefully it won't be that hard, but I feel that it will be, and if not, at least it will be a lot of work.

Updates...

So, today I spent some time updating my computer, I haven't updated Windows for a long time and it took me some hours to update Windows and Ubuntu too, I haven't used it in a few months mainly because I had no reason too, but I would like to start using it again. I had to uninstall some programs that I no longer use that were using space that I might need for other things, a lot of games had to go (but I can download them again from steam if I want to play), backed up some things to get some more space and cleaned many folders from things that I no longer use and won't be using any more.

Now I just need to scan for viruses, back up some things, defragment my hard disk, and do a few more things. but I'll finish tomorrow, I'll leave it this night defragmenting.

Obsolete...

Have you ever seen something so obsolete that you can only facepalm?

Well, I have had this problem for a test here in CAPSIC, the 16-fp (16 personality factors), the test isn't obsolete, but to evaluate this test I have to use a program that was included in the package that included the test manual of application, the answer sheets, and other things. This is a 2007 version of the test, and the only way to evaluate it is with a software... included in a floppy disk.

Can you believe it? A floppy disk... in 2011 from a software from 2007, seriously, how can this be? I haven't used floppy's since 2001 (I used rw-cd's), they are unreliable and easy to break, we tried copying the content from the floppy to a usb, but unfortunately the floppy serves as a security measure, so we can't use it. I looked for a floppy in my house, and I couldn't find any, I have like 10 or more computers in my house (most of them no longer work I think) and none of it had a floppy drive and now I need to find a computer that has one or forget about this test.

The Binding of Isaac...

...and they say that he grew up to become an engineer...

So, I still can't play games like I did some time ago, still I sometimes take a break and enjoy a few minutes of gameplay, this week I have been playing The Binding of Isaac. A game with the dungeon style of the original Legend of Zelda, the difference is that it is more like a shooter. You control Isaac, a kid who is running from his mother who wants to kill him because "god" asked her to sacrifice him as proof of her fate.

When Isaac learned about this he tried to run from his room, but there was no escape, except the basement, he got into the basement to run from his mom... it doesn't have a long story, but the little they show is pretty good and religious driven (showing the crazy part of religion :P). 

I have really enjoyed this game, not too hard, not too easy, can get pretty hardcore sometimes, but very enjoyable :P

Passport...

Since I received my check this week (I get paid monthly -.-) from CAPSIC I decided to get my Visa, first I need my passport though. So I got to the "Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores" website to see what I need and well, they didn't ask for much :P, the problem though was when I wanted to schedule a date to begin the process.

Ok, first I must admit that I screwed for not checking where it was, I only wrote my postal code and assumed that it selected Juarez, but I was wrong, it selected Chihuahua, Chihuahua :P, I didn't notice at first, I was a little more worried that the dates were for 2012. After reading a document they sent me to check if my data was right I saw that it said Chihuahua Chihuahua >.<

I went to the website again and got a new date, but now I selected Juarez, and oh joy, I scheduled a new date for December, still a long time for it, but at least it wont be next year :P

Feeling...

Have you ever felt that some one is looking at you?

Today, while I was on my way home I was walking in the street and saw a group 3 of guys with cholo aspect, I felt a chill on my spine and my heart beat went up a little. When I walk alone I try to look like I am not watching the people, or like I am a little distracted, but in reality I am always watching everything I can to the point that I sometimes feel paranoiac, I have always watched my back because I know this city isn't secure, and ever since I was robbed I can't seem to relax while I am walking alone, I look every few seconds to my back to be sure no one is near me.

I always try to walk at full speed and I am ready to start running if I have to. When I saw this guys I was talking about I felt uncomfortable, I didn't heard a thing they were saying, but right when I passed them two of them started walking near me, I went to the other side of the street and they went too, I removed my headphones to hear if they got near me and I could hear that they were near me, but they weren't getting closer.

I don't really know if they were following me or not, but I would rather not take a chance to confirm that, I prefer to be a little paranoiac than to be robbed again, the last time I was lucky I didn't get hurt, but next time I can't be sure how it will end.

Results...

So, today I finally finished evaluating the first MMPI, this one was from a patient that I wrote a few weeks ago (I think :P), and as I said he has nothing, everything went well, I only had to confirm what I already knew from the interviews, and how am I sure that he isn't lying? Well, if you remember I said that this test had more than 500 questions, well that is because it is so complete that it even evaluates how likely he is to lie, and that would invalidate the test from the start.

Tomorrow I will talk with and give him the results and discuss if there is anything else to do. I don't think he'll want to work with anything since he wasn't going there on his own, but because his mom asked him to.

Traditional food...

So, I am not very fond of traditions, but something I can't let pass is the traditional foods (at least some of them), today I had some "Pan de Muerto" with hot chocolate and it was awesome, and with this weather it tastes even better... and that's it :P

Lazy...

I didn't do anything today, I only tried to clean my room but I didn't finish and made half the laundry I had to. Blergh... I will finish tomorrow, I really needed to rest, last week was very busy and I was very tired... am very tired. I am going to sleep with the lights on because I don't want to stand up and turn them off and I don't have anything to throw at it :P

Dead...

... I need Brains!!!!!!

Sometimes you eat a Wendy's burger...

...at the cinema.

So, today was one of those long days that I am out all day, but today was a bit different, I went job hunting with my friend Michelle, we went to some schools to leave our resumes. I got to her house at 9:00 in the morning and I already knew to what schools go to leave our resumes, but we went to others that were on the way or that we remembered were near.

We went to 6 schools in total for the moment, and I am going to another one tomorrow or next Monday (this one is near my house), the last one we went was near Galerias Tec, we went there and after leaving our resumes I saw a guy selling Elotes en vaso, I bought two and damn, they were good.

Before going to Galerias Michelle asked me if we could go and buy some coffee and I accepted, but it was late and we were getting hungry so I invited to eat, we got to Galerias and we were going to the school first and then to eat, but that smell, you know which one, seduced us and we decided to go to see a movie, we saw which ones they were showing and decided to see either Moneyball, Crazy Stupid Love or Abduction.

We asked for tickets for Moneyball first and Crazy Stupid Love but they were a little late (past 4 each) and we bought tickets for Abduction, this was at around 12:20 or 12:30 and then we went to our last school of the day, while we were going there or on our way back we were talking and realized that we choose the that movie because we both thought that the other one didn't have enough time to wait for the other movie.

We decided to see if we could change the tickets for any of the other movies because they looked more interesting, luckily we got to change them to Crazy Stupid Love, well, now we had a lot of time before the movie, since we were tired of walking all morning we just stayed in Galerias for a while.

After resting a little we went to take some air to a nearby park, but we still had a problem, we were hungry, I got some sweet bread to eat if we got hungry, but it wasn't enough, we were going to buy some popcorn but that wouldn't be enough, so we decided to go to Wendy's but we didn't felt like eating in there, no, we wanted to eat while watching the movie, so we made some room in Michelle's purse and we got our burgers there. And I got a pair of juice bottles in my pockets.

We ate while watching the movie and it was great, after that I accompanied her to her house and then went to my regular meeting from the Colegio and got home at around 10:30. A very productive day, and a lot of fun too. And now I am falling sleep, so good night.

Over...

I finally finished my paperwork with the SAT (at least the ones I needed for now) after 4 visits, the first time I went to register my RFC (registro federal de contribuyentes), I needed that to get paid in CAPSIC since I am working there as a freelancer, but since I didn't knew what to do I only went there, bad choice, I had to schedule a date first at their website. No problem I did it for next week, I still had time.

After scheduling the date (it was for this Tuesday) I had to confirm it via website, but I had to do it two days after scheduling it (it doesn't happen if the date is the same week or 1 or 2 days after) and since I wasn't home almost all day that day it got cancelled... that sucked, but I re-scheduled another but for this Monday (a day before the first one) since there was now some free spots that day (maybe some people got cancelled like I did).

This day (Monday) I got there ready to get my RFC, I got my number, got in the queue and after some minutes I got with a representative and he told me that I was already registered (I really didn't knew that) since the first time I worked. I asked him what I had to do to get my fee receipts and he told me that I had to process my FIEL (firma electrónica).

I asked the guy if I could get it there and he told me that I had to make another appointment and see if there was a spot open that day, I didn't had time so I scheduled one for the next day, next day I got there get my FIEL (firma electrónica), I went in pretty quickly, was the only one at that hour and thought that it would be fast, and there was another problem... apparently I still had the address from my first job, so now I had to make another appointment to change it, luckily I had what I needed to make the change, but the appointment was till 11:00 a.m. (I got there at 9:00 in the morning) so I had to wait there, I thought it would be quick so I made an appointment to process my FIEL at 11:30, smart, don't you think? Well it wasn't, I got to change my address at 11:30, when it was already 11:25 I thought that I wouldn't make it for the next appointment so I canceled it. 

I finished the address change almost at 12:00 and I had to get going for CAPSIC, I got there before my patient and I scheduled another date for next day (today), I had everything I needed to process my FIEL and be over with. Today I got there in time (just barely), the bus was kinda slow and I had to run a little to get in time (they only give 5 minutes of tolerance, if you aren't there your date gets cancelled, and after 2 cancels you can't make another one for some time), this time everything was right and I got out pretty quickly. Finally over with SAT... at least for the time being >.<

Burden...

I finally took a burden off my shoulders, I really wasn't getting anywhere with one of the projects I was helping in my association, unfortunately I had to leave it for someone else to work with that, it wasn't easy, but there was nothing I could do about it, I could have dedicated more time to it, but I choose to dedicate my time to Hitosoft, I didn't think it would take so much time... or that I would dedicate so much time to it, but I really enjoy it.

I do feel a little bad because of that, when I started this I thought that I would be able to do everything, unfortunately I did not, and I must learn to take what I can and don't over burden myself. On the other hand, when I started this project I was only supposed to do the written part, not actually go to institutions and request donations for CAPSIC, I did the written part, didn't finish it, but I only left the administrative part blank, which I didn't know a thing. I did learn some things, but I don't feel that I will be using them, unless I form a nonprofit organization :P.

Doomsayer...

Today while going to the SAT (Servicio de Administracion Tributaria) a guy got in the bus, I didn't notice him until a song finished from my cellphone (you know how long it can take for a song to finish :P, Dream Theater ftw), so, when I started hearing what the guy was saying I was already near my destination, but I could hear him speaking of the end of times, that you should accept Jesus as your savior or you would burn in hell, and all that shit.

I was just laughing and hearing what he was saying, at some point he starts saying that people should watch certain movie (2012), that even if "it wasn't accurate" that might happen to us, but only if you accept Jesus as your savior you would be saved, I couldn't stop laughing at that point, he didn't notice tough, there was so many people at the bus that even I couldn't see him, I only heard him.

Seriously how people can still believe in that kind of things? I remember that I read about 2012 when I was like 16 or so, but it was more of a pseudo science book that explained what the mayas "knew" that would happen and why, it didn't say anything about the end of the world or anything, but rather about a "change", then moved a long and forgot about it, it wasn't anything special, I remember it talked about the electromagnetic fields and sunspots or something like that, interesting when I read it, and so different to what every nut now claims as truth. If this world is going to end is because of people like that, spreading the hate, intolerance and fear among people.

I tried to record him but the sound was awful, you can't understand much, maybe next time :P

TeamViewer...

I had my first presentation over internet, we weren't able to get together at hitosoft and we had to present our respective projects, but thanks to the internet we were able to still present it, we used google + and TeamViewer for that purpose, it feels weird, and luckily I didn't disconnect the whole session. With TeamViewer I was able to show what was on my desktop and what I was doing, showing some examples of what I want without having to link everything or send images, pretty helpful.

Even though I wasn't prepared to give my presentation it helped showing them and explaining it over the microphone instead of having to write everything. Still I have to finish the document with descriptions and images of how I want it, but thanks to this I didn't delay the project presentation.

Work schedule...

So, I am going to be the "project leader" for one of the projects we have at HitoSoft, this one is for the website for the "Colegio de Psicologos" (I don't remember if I already said this, so spare me if I did :P), and because of that I have to design how it will be done, what will it have, what we need for it to work, and some other things that I'll probably learn tomorrow when I finish writing the first part :P

I have been thinking all day how to build the site, what do we need, how should it work and how would I like it to look, so I can present it to the rest of the team tomorrow and assign the tasks that each will have to work, and put a deadline for our goals, there are many things that I didn't knew that I had to take into consideration before building a site from scratch, this is going to be fun.

Appointment...

Today I was supposed to go to a meeting with a possible client for CAPSIC, it was unofficial, I still have till next week to go, but I wanted to do this fast and see what it might be, unfortunately I didn't have the phone of the school (I was supposed to, but I forgot to ask when I got there a few months ago), and I really didn't know exactly where it was since I went there with a co-worker (in his car), luckily I found it thanks to google maps (after a few minutes of searching in street view I found it), but the principal of the school wasn't there, I should have made an appointment, but I didn't have the phone >.<, at least I made one for tomorrow.

Lets see how it goes...

Limoneros...

Today was an awesome day, I worked a little in the morning and then went to the house of my friend Michelle, we were going out to a cafe, we got a little late there because we had to finish something from our project, a little side bar menu that had to be changed at the last moment, we finished quickly and went to take the bus to go to the cafe by the name of "Limoneros", this particular cafe was new for us, I didn't know where it was exactly, but I had heard that it was a cool place from a friend.

The only thing I knew the location was that it was near "Tec de Monterrey", and that it was in the "Thomas Fernandez" avenue, but other than that google didn't help much. So we did the natural thing (not too natural in normal people I think) and asked people about it, the first person knew where it was, not too far away from where we were, so we got there and asked for the menu since we were starving :P, the place looked good, the food looked nice and all, and the drinks and desserts too.

Lucky us they had a special (well, this is almost all weekdays, except weekends) for a sandwich a salad, a cold salad and a drink (which I must say that was freaking awesome, a natural lemonade with mineral water), actually all the food was good, and it was a lot, we both got satisfied with it... actually we got pretty full :P, and it was worth it, and the best part was that it was cheap, it was like 65 pesos for all that (for each), I pay almost the same at wendy's and I don't get that satisfied :P, we wanted to try some desserts but we were pretty full, so we took a walk before that.

After eating we wanted to go to a park, but there was none, so we got to a place where there was some grass and shadow and settled there and talked for a while, after that we went there again for a dessert, I asked for an apple strudel and a drink by the name of "una mentada" and Michelle asked for a kozobo (or something like that) which is the specialty there (according to the person that attended us who looked like the owner :P) and something like a lemon pie.

Both desserts were pretty awesome, and the drinks too, from what I remember they were express coffee with condensed milk, ice and probably something else, mine had mint too, that was the only difference between our drinks, lol, but it made some difference (I think it was mint liquor, not just mint :P), we spend more in the desserts than in the food, but they were good too, so I don't feel scammed XD.

All in all an awesome day at "Limoneros", I enjoyed everything there.

Oh, and finally our project got presented to the client, we saw our other friend that works with us at hitosoft after he presented it and told us that the client was satisfied with it, he wants some other things for it, but that is another history :P

P.S.:
I will try to take more photos next time :P

My "Una Mentada", the straw had the layers intact after I  mixed it, that little green part is the mint :P

Michelle with her "Kosovo"

Rest...

Yesterday and today I finally got to rest a little more than I had been doing lately (I wanted to rest this Monday, too, but unfortunately I had to be all day in CAPSIC, so one day less :P), since we finished our project (from Hitosoft) this Sunday and haven't started any new one, I am resting at least a little, I still have to finish the user manual for the part I made and then integrate it with the other parts, check that it looks consistent in the language, that it says what it should, etc, after that I have to make a video tutorial of how to use our software, luckily this will be finished by this Sunday, and then, since I will be the "leader of the project" for the website for the "Colegio de Psicologos", I have to present our work plan, but I still have time for that (to clarify, I am not procrastinating this time, I am working in this, just not all day :P), so I will try to rest a little more, then work again.

I am looking forward to our projects, we are going to redesign and update our website too (since we learned a lot with this last project we feel comfortable to redesign it and add new features too), but that is another story for later.

Success!!!

Even though yesterday and today mainly sucked, I feel very well, today I worked with both my patients, the first one is the one I have been working for like 10 weeks or so, the second one just 4, and he is still under evaluation since he didn't came here for a reason (I am going to make an evaluation to him to see if there is anything with him that clinically needs work, still with interviews and tests).

Well, I didn't have much prepared for my first patient for today, just to continue working with the things we have been working for the last couple of sessions, after this, and because we ended pretty quickly I wanted to evaluate his progress, and according to him there has been some change, his goals are far from met, but there is  an improvement, I can't say much about it here because I would be breaking his privacy, but everything he said was confirmed by his mother after the session, I felt very happy because his mom told me that she has seen the improvement and they have fewer problems between them.

I cannot describe how happy it made me, especially since I can't see much with my other patients, but I know that this is normal, I have 4 patients in total right now, I have been working with the first one for two and a half months, and the other three I only have like a month with each, I will start working with them in two or three more sessions once we are finished with the evaluations. And I am still waiting for another patient (a friend of one of the new ones) that still doesn't feel comfortable to start (he always comes with his friend, but he doesn't seem to want to work himself :P).

Bender...

Unfortunately I am not talking about this guy, but rather the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test, an instrument commonly used for evaluation different aspects of the mental development of a child, or to know if there could be any evidence of brain damage, I had used this test in the past when I had practices in an institution by the name of "Techo Comunitario", and in some classes that had psychometry.

For most people this test might just look like a bunch of silly drawings, but it can be pretty useful if reviewed correctly, not only can it show signs of the level of mental development of a child, it can too show some emotional signs. The application if this test can be quick (7 to 10 minutes approx), and the review of it too, it can be done quickly.

As I said, this might not look like much, but it is the complete opposite.

Presentation...

Since we are almost done with our first project at Hitosoft and we have some personal projects that we have to do too, today, we presented 2 new  projects, one is the, almost, complete overhaul of our website, and the other one is the website for the "colegio", we are doing this for free as a form of social project.

I had to give  a little presentation of what we wanted, I prepared something and presented it, it went better than I thought :P, and next week we will distribute and start to work with it.

Sore throat...

...I hate it, today Sergio, me and other 2 friends went to play pool, and we did some other things, while we were there I was singing the whole time, obviously not the music they had there but the one I had in my cellphone, that, and because of a debate we had in our friends house, it was pretty awesome, even though neither part changed their point of view, still I haven't had a discussion this interesting in a long time. Unfortunately I really am aching my throat, hopefully tomorrow (in a few hours when I wake up :P) it will feel better.

MMPI

I know I have been writing only about work lately, but this is the only thing I have been doing, in my other job at CAPSIC I have been attending 3 new adolescents, since they were sent from a school (not from the same) I have to evaluate them first, to do this I have to interview them and apply a series of test to either confirm what I obtain from the interviews and/or get more information that I might have skipped in the interview.

One of the test that I will be applying is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, one of my favorites for the wide range of information it can give, the only thing I hate about it is that it is way too long to apply in one sit (it consists of around 500 questions of true or false), but it is worth it, I haven't worked with this test since I was in school, but I remember pretty well how to use it, one of my patients (one that wasn't sent from school) is already answering it, but I don't think he might finish it the next session, as soon as I have it finished I want to work with it and see what it might show, but obviously I can't follow it blindly, it is only to compare with what I already know.

I know I shouldn't feel so happy for a test, but I love this part of the process, to obtain information, analyze it, integrate it and diagnose, of course I like to work with them too, but I really enjoy this.

Firefox...

So, for the last 2 weeks I have been using Firefox since Chrome has been failing (it won't load anything unless I clean the cache), I like firefox but not as much as I like Chrome, even though I use both, for programming I like Firefox better, I don't know if the firebug in firefox is better, but I like it much more, but for everything else I like much more Chrome, I like the ability to search in a website from the address bar with just a tab. I love the auto-complete feature too, the way it handles chrome extensions, gmail notifications, as well as the facebook app. This and many other things are the reason I prefer to use Chrome over Firefox, at least in simple things, for programming I do prefer Firefox, even if I use both.

These two weeks have helped me appreciate Chrome better :P

Change...

Today I had to modify a document that I made back when I started working with this project in HitoSoft,  it was working fine, but it had some limitations that I had to take care of, first of all, it was almost only php, it had some javascript, and it didn't have any jQuery, so after each post it had to reload everything again. After some minutes I decided to re-write everything again, it only took me this afternoon to finish it, something that took me like a week some time ago, and it is working much better now, quicker and smoother, and it looks prettier too.

The March of the Penguins...

Today I just noted that something was missing in my trip to my work, since I started going to CAPSIC I have to walk a considerable amount of time to take the bus, every morning I went there I always saw this guys that sell a frozen treat by the name of "Bon Ice", it is very popular here. Sometimes I just saw like 3 or 4, some times 6, but they always go one after the other, some go in pairs, but it looks kinda weird.

Since last week I haven't seen any, I don't know if it is because they changed their schedule or something else, but it feels weird not seeing these guys now... and now I want one, dammit.

Long working shifts...

Today was one of those days, I went to CAPSIC in the morning, got to my house in the afternoon, ate there, and the went to work with my friends at HitoSoft (we went to the "office", not online :P), and got back home past 10. I feel tired, but it was a productive day, tomorrow will be the same or even worse since I will not have the chance to go to my house and eat, I will have to do it outside. I have to go to the Uni in the morning, patients in the afternoon, then to eat and meeting, I will try to take advantage of the free time I have between each thing.

Better...

A few hours ago I had to write a little code for the software we are making in HitoSoft, it was easy, but a few weeks ago it would have taken me 2 or 3 times more than what it took me, and probably I would have used a different method than the one I used today, I can say that I am really getting the hang of this, and I am getting better each day :P, and I am freaking loving it.

Humble Bundle

As I wrote yesterday, I went to the bank, the reason was to open a savings account to start saving money, that and to be able to buy some things online, at least games from steam or donate to the Humble Bundle. Today in the morning, before I went out to work I tried to register my debit card to Google checkout, I tried yesterday, but the card wasn't working, not the case this morning, I proceeded to donate at the Humble Bundle and I didn't have any problem, it went smooth.

At least I no longer have to depend of Sergio or my brother with this, and it will be easier to save money if I don't have it all the time. On the other hand I will have to be careful with steam, that thing is from the devil and if a good offer appears I will have to think twice before wanting to buying a game :P

Late...

I woke up a little late today, I had to get to the bank before going to work and I got there a little late too, went to CAPSIC and I was later than usual (just like 5 minutes, but I usually get there before everyone else), got out of there later than usual too, I had to finish some work, got home and went with my mom to buy some things to prepare food, we ate very late too (like 7 pm), I was supposed to write this like 2 or 3 hours ago, but I fell sleep, then woke up, then I was all zombie, I don't want to get up and turn off the lights, I was staring at the monitor not knowing what to write about and was falling again. I feel tired after this long long day, productive, but freaking long, so now I am going to sleep late and tomorrow I have to go and repair a computer in the morning, I just hope I don't get there late :P

Procrastination strikes again…

So, I have been neglecting this Project because it wasn’t a priority and someone else had the same Project, it wasn’t hard, actually it is pretty easy, but I had to get some information from other persons since there isn’t a public document where I can get it, only my boss has the documents, like the mission, vision and objectives of CAPSIC, what has been done, some administrative data that I need, but tomorrow I have to present some advances.

I made what I was able to with what I had and I think it is fine, but far from finished, I need to ask a lot of things that I can’t just invent myself, but neither my boss nor I have had the time to sit and do this, I am always with other things as well as her, we’ll see tomorrow how it goes.

Best song ever...

This is something I wanted to write from some time ago, a few weeks ago Sergio and I were outside my house just listening to music and "singing", Dream Theater to be specific, we know that there isn't such a thing as a best song, at least for us, and I doubt that any one can consider any song the best for ever.

While we were there we tried to list our favorite songs, I don't remember why, but we decided to rank the calm songs first, we both accorded that the best calm song from Dream Theater was Disappear from Six Degrees, we like other calms songs as much as this one, but at the moment this one was the one that we thought was the best.

Every album has freaking good songs, it is impossible to say which of them is the best, I have always said that every song has its moment to shine, for example Learning to Live is my favorite song right know, but a few months ago it was Octavarium, and before that it A Change Of Seasons, Never Enough was from some time too (one of the first songs that I fell in love when I started to listen to Dream Theater), and I know that in some time I will say that my favorite song is other one, which one? Who knows :P

It isn't easy to say which one is my favorite, not even from each album because most songs have something to offer either in the music or the lyrics or both, I feel the same with Opeth, Porcupine Three, Redemption, Pain of Salvation, and most bands that I listen right now. All of them are great bands and have amazing songs, and the thing I love about them is that I can listen to the same album time and time and never get bored, and notice things that I didn't noticed before, like with Redemption, I didn't like at first "What will you say" but now I love it, the same with Dream Theater, it took me more than a year when I started to listen to them to sincerely say that I love each album and song from them.

I love music!!!!!!!!
But I must admit that the best song to me right now is this one, so good it will melt your brain with its awesomeness :P

Saved...

Yesterday was my "assistant's" birthday, I told her that I was going to make her a cake, but since we weren't going to be in CAPSIC that day it would have to wait, tomorrow we need to go to make some reports and stuff, but it won't take us that much time, but I can't make it in the morning, it would take me more time that I have. That's why I made today.

The cake is a cherry cake, first time doing it, and I didn't prepare things before, I didn't have time to do it, fortunately I had the right ingredients to do it, and actually some things were just enough for it. I don't know what I did wrong but it was right before adding one of the ingredients (milk), I almost put in in the oven before realizing that I had forgotten that. The weird part was that it was ok without it, at leas the consistency.

I added the milk and it looked like it was pancakes mixture, I almost ruined it, the thought of starting it all over passed through my mind, but it was late already and I was tired as to go to the store, so I decided to try and save it adding more of everything, but I didn't have more butter, so I substituted it with some canola oil, there was no sugar either so I used some of the syrup of the cherries I used in the cake, I added more of the other ingredients with what I thought was the right proportion, before taking it to the oven I had to try it a little to see if the flavor was right, and it was.

Now I just had to wait till it was cooked. After some minutes in the oven it was ready, I made 1 big and 1 small cake, I cut a part from the small one since this one was for my family and it tasted great, it wasn't too sweet, but it tasted like cherries, it was moist and delicious (I thought it would dry since I left them the same amount of time), I was lucky I didn't ruined this, now lets see how they like it tomorrow.

Adventurous?

I don't know if I can call myself that way, but one thing about me is that when I have the chance to try something different or new most of the times I'll do it. Today I went downtown again, I had to go near an smart in "la chaveña" since it was the best place to wait for some one (this some one being my assistant) near where we were going.

I didn't know exactly how to get there since I had just been once and I walked there. I knew in what direction it was and that it was near the railroad tracks, when I got downtown the bus stopped far away from where I was supposed to go, but I decided to just walk till I got there, I don't really know where I was, but I walked as if I knew,I went through some flea market that I didn't know.

After some minutes of walking I got near the place, or at least that's what I thought. There were some people around so I asked them how to get there and it turn out that I was just 2 blocks away from my destination. I got there in time and went to do what I had to do.

Technology illiterates...

So, as I wrote some time ago the "Colegio de Psicólogos" is going to screen a movie and make an analysis of the movie by two psychologists, the movie that we choose was Lolita from Stanley Kubrick, the point here is that the manager of the theater said that the movie had to be in Blu Ray, but who knows is a blu ray? Well, you might say that most people, but here it is different.

I had to try at least in three or four different occasions to explain what it was before giving up, I made analogies like x = y like w = z, but it was too much for some to understand it, I tried just saying that it was like a dvd but newer, I tried with other forms but it seemed like talking with a kid, they just didn't understand.

I don't know if this had anything to do with something that happened today, but I wouldn't discard it. Sergio and I went to Las Misiones to hang out and we got to Sanborns, some weeks ago we saw a collection of Stanley Kubrick movies and some of the movies could be used at the "Colegio" for future events or other things, well, the problem was that when my boss went to buy it it was already sold out.

When Sergio and I went there we asked if they had it again, but they didn't, I asked if they had Lolita in Blu Ray and it was there, but before buying it I called my boss to ask her if anyone hadn't already bought it, unfortunately she told me that they decided to get it on DVD and they didn't had it in that format because it was easier to watch or something like that, I don't remember the exact words, but going from a blu ray to dvd just because you don't understand what it is is silly... or dumb, I don't know, it was ridiculous, but whatever it is their decision.

P.S.
If you guys can and want to see it, it will be screened this october 15 in Las Misiones at 9:00 a.m. (I know it is way to early, but there was no other option) and the tickets will be 50 pesos per ticket.

Prepared...

So, today I wanted to finish some work and to avoid going to my parents house (for food or water, not to avoid them :P) I prepared some things, after breakfast I cut a big slice of watermelon, a few oranges and an apple... it didn't survive though, I ate it before going out, I also brought a jar with water.

I went to my room and worked for a few hours, watched some Criminal Minds, and worked with other things. All in all, it was a productive day, though, I feel like a shut in sometimes, even if this past week I was out almost all day at least three days :P, well, at least this project is almost finished.

Coffee...

Sometimes not even coffee is enough to wake you up.

Today as always I woke up early, and since I was unable to sleep again and had some work to do I started to work, I finished what I was doing before breakfast, after eating breakfast I started to feel sleepy, I decided to prepare me a coffee, and it was pretty strong actually, even though, I was still very sleepy after the coffee, so I decided to rest a little. Unfortunately when I was almost falling sleep I got a call...

Well, I can't complain, it was from CAPSIC, I am going to have two new patients starting this Monday, with this it will be four and one still on hold. After that I worked a little more on other things and played some Batman Arkham Asylum, I beat the game today, I didn't know I was almost at the end of it, it was worth it. Now I am ready for Amnesia The Dark Descent...

Key ring

Short post, I am dying again :P
Today I received a gift from the Colegio de Psicólogos, the board decided to give us a key ring... well not everyone, just the ones that had already celebrated their birthdays this year, the unlucky ones will receive it in their birthdays. It looks cool, I really like it... and that's it for today :P

New grounds...

So, today I went to some schools to promote my Vocational Orientation project, I went to the territories of my... assistant (still I don't know how to call her :P), we went downtown Juarez, I really don't know that place other than a few blocks that I had to use to go to El Paso and a few other places just around there.

I thought that it would be ugly there... and I wasn't wrong :P, but it wasn't as bad as I thought, and fortunately it was pretty quiet, although on the way back I saw a man get out of a house and he just fell, just like that, I saw him and changed directions, I really wasn't comfortable as to go help him, or do something, I asked my assistant if she saw it and she told me that no, she just followed me, but told me that it was pretty common, that maybe it was only a drunk guy.

I now know a little more of this city... a place that I don't really want to know :(

Frustration...

Today I received a new patient, the brother of the girl who's mom wanted a female psychologist, since the patient is underage I had to first interview the mom, and according to her there are many things that can be worked here. After the interview with the mom I wanted to talk with the son, it's not always possible due to time restrictions, but since finished a little early with my other patient I took advantage of that time.

The boy is 16 years old and he was so disinterested that I found hard to continue with the interview, at least twice I had to feign that I was writing something to think of what to ask, I never had that problem, but I never had a patient that wasn't interested in therapy, I felt a little frustrated, but I will try to make the best out of this and not frustrate, I will give my best shot and if he continues to not be interested, well, to hell with him (I know that this might not be appropriate to say this, but know I am not the psychologist, I am me) :P, I won't force anything therapy on anyone.

Netflix...

I have always wanted to have Netflix here in Mexico, a few weeks ago it was made available here, I knew about it since last week but I wasn't able to register since I don't have a Credit/Debit Card, or that's what I thought. I was cleaning a drawer and found an old Debit Card that I had a few years ago, I haven't used it for a long time and it is obviously deactivated.

Since I had nothing to loose I tried to register with it and lucky me it  worked, I have my 1 month trial, and since it too isn't expensive I will pay for it, maybe I can even convince my brother and/or sisters to share the expenses if they want to use it too :P.

Assumptions...

Why is it that just because you where born in a certain place people think you should know, be interested or at least heard of something related to its "culture"?

A few days ago I was talking with some friends at my work, I don't know why they started to talk about a show or comedians by the name "Las Lavanderas" and I didn't know about them, I never watched the show or even heard the name of it, or at least I don't remember it.

My friends didn't believed me that I had never seen that show, and where questioning me if I was serious when I said that, I was dead serious, I have never watched that show and I don't care if I never watch it, I am not fond of Mexican comedy. The "discussion" lasted at least 10 minutes and they didn't believe me that I have never watched that show, they showed me some images and a video about them.

At some point one of my friends said that it wasn't possible to not know about it since it "it is so famous", that I at least should have watched them, or heard about them, I said that I don't watch tv and my friend said that it it was impossible, that just because I live in this city I should have at least heard of it, to which I responded that I wasn't joking, I don't know what you are talking about, the "discussion" ended there, but they where somewhat surprised because I have never seen a show. People act stupid sometimes (most of the times) :P

Dying...

I feel like I am dying of tiredness, today was a long day, a cool day, but long. First of all I wake up early (since I can't seem to be able to fall sleep again after I wake up) and finished writing some code for my work, I then went to tune up a computer I had to repair, it wasn't booting, windows started to load then it restarted every time, easy to repair, but since that computer had not been used for over a year it had many things I decided to update some drivers, software, etc., it was at least a little more decent than it was after that. While doing this I was testing that the code I wrote was working as intended and backing up my work. As far as I can tell it is working fine, the way it is supposed to do, but since people not every time do the things they are supposed to it might need a little more work in the near future, but for now it is good.

In the evening Sergio and I went to a friends house to hang out, we eat there (I prepared some discada), had some drinks (obviously coca cola) and played some darts, after that Sergio and I stayed outside my house just talking about music, Dream Theater specially and we sang some songs. It was pretty cool, I don't think that there is a band that I enjoy as much as Dream Theater. And now I am here at my bed writing almost falling sleep.

Chrome...

For the last 2 days Google Chrome has been acting weird, I don't know why but it won't load anything, not even my localhost, it just stands there "loading", but it isn't doing anything, I already re-installed it and deleted all cache and cookies, and at first it was working fine, but today it started again with the same problem, I don't know but I'll be checking for viruses and malware, and I will be using Firefox in the mean time :P

It stayed that way while I wrote this in Firefox :/

Getting the hang of...

I feel like I am finally getting the hang of this, yesterday I finished Dead Space 2, and I only played a couple of minutes in the morning before going to work (I never played more than 40 45 minutes at this times), and sometimes when I got home early (not too common), I have been on time with my work(s), except one that is giving me hell :P, but I will dedicate more time when I can since this isn't a priority at the moment.

I have had more free time that I have been using to do other things like watch some Seinfeld again, I am already at season 4 (second half) and I have been working out a little more than what I was doing, and I have spent more time with my family (not as much as I used to, but more nonetheless).

I still want to do some other things since I moved here, but for the moment I feel comfortable and productive and not as workaholic as I felt a few weeks ago, though I still feel like a workaholic, just not at the same level as before.

Project Advertising...

Since this Monday I have been promoting my project in some schools, it has been a little tough, I don't like to go to a school and be at the mercy of the security, teachers and/or principals, I'd prefer to make an appointment  or something like that, but it can't be done, at least not that easily, it is more convenient getting there and speaking directly to the principal and tell him about the project, so far I have gone to 8 schools.

I can't know if this is going to work, in some of the schools the principals looked interested in the project, but at the same time were a little skeptical, but said that they would try, in others they were somewhat interested and told me that they would tell the students, but they didn't sound so sure about it either. Just in one I wasn't able to do anything, since the secretary told me that I had to go to other place to ask permission to promote my services.

Even if this doesn't look that good at first I won't give up, I have been working way too much for this and I have to make it work, the only problem is that this doesn't depend on me now, but on the students and teachers part.
Next week my "employee" (she keeps claiming that I am her boss, so now she is now my employee lol) and me  already have planned to visit at least another 15 schools. Lets see how this works, and luckily I haven't been nervous when talking with the principals, lol, lets see if I can do that in front of a group -.-.

Long day...

Today was a freaking long day, I was out almost all day... actually from 9 to 9, I went to CAPSIC in the morning to finish some reports I had to give and then went to promote my project in 2 schools since I forgot to ask my boss to sign some letters and she wasn't there. I had to read something that I was going to work with my patient and, and after that the receptionist informed me that we had a meeting planned in the afternoon so I wasn't able to leave.

Since I finished the report for my patient almost at 5 I had a had 2 hours to do other things, so I was reading some things while waiting for the meeting. Before it two friends and I went to buy some things for the meeting (chips and coke), that was my only food of the day after my breakfast... that and lots of water. After the meeting I got home.

Since I didn't eat anything all day (just breakfast and some chips and coke) I went directly to see what was there so I could eat, I had only a cereal and a yogurt, I feel to tired, I need a better condition because now I am officially dead :P.

Moving out...

I don't know if what I am doing counts as moving out, but for the last months, whenever I felt the need to work without being disturbed I have been coming to the other house of my parents, but I got back as soon as I finished or when I was going to sleep, well, since this weekend I have not been sleeping in my parents house, I have stayed in the other house at night (and most of the day since I worked almost all weekend), still I have to eat with my parents since I only have my room, a bed, a desk and my laptop :P... and some random things.

Today I moved some other things and am planning on staying here for as long as I need, it is more convenient to me, I get distracted a lot less and have been working out a little more since I have some equipment here. I can't say that this is the best thing I could have done, but at the moment it is the most convenient. Still I will go to my parents house to do various things, like playing in my brothers computer >.<... well what ever I can't do here, lol. But when I have to work or sleep this will be my place :P

Spam!!

If there is something I hate when checking my mail or surfing the web is spam, though, I don't have that problem anymore, at least not in gmail and are more careful with the websites I visit, still I only have problems with some facebook application requests and things like that, but they are sent to the spam folder in gmail.

Today my brother bought me a bundle with all the DLC's from Magicka (I wrote about this game in May I think), they had a 75% off offer for today and I could not refuse that deal (I hate you steam :P). I thought it would only be 1 email notification, but I was damn wrong, I received 7 email notifications and steam opened another 7 windows of gift notifications.

It was kinda annoying since I had to close each one of them and then they told me that I had already received that gift (it activated with the first one) and had to close another window, but it was worth it :P... and then I realized I haven't finished this game. Dammit, I know what I will play after Dead Space 2.

Bad kind of spam, one from a game I haven't played for at least half a year, and the other from a game I never even played :|