Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Almost there...

So... this project was intended to last at least 365 posts, obviously it isn't that easy. But I'm almost there, and if people can say anything about me is that I'm stubborn (often confused with persistent, but I like to thing otherwise :P) and I want to finish this.

In the last month many things have happened, and at the same time, not much has changed. I moved to a new house, went to Juárez to visit my family and friends, I'm almost done with my big project (the one with the Raspberry Pi), and I was able to make breath... twice (one at my parents house and one in my new one).

Other than that, nothing much has happened, I have been reading The Count of Monte Cristo as well as playing some video games, I finished the Mass Effect trilogy and have been playing Dragon Age: Origins (more than 20 hours and not even half way through). I have been trying to squeeze some time into another projects, but sometimes it is really difficult. I finally got to the third season of Star Trek (the original series) and I'm at season 5 of Doctor Who, although it get a little boring sometimes when the episodes are reconstructed (photographs of the episode with the audio and some text to describe whats happening).

I really like my new house, it's really comfy and feels better, and it has a water boiler (no more cold showers :D), there are so many minor details that I didn't like of the other one, and while this one is more expensive, I feel like it's worth it.

My niece is growing bigger and bigger, and she is so cute, I wish I could spend more time with her, but on the other hand I don't wan't to leave my job, maybe I don't make as much money as I could make in another job, but at least here I feel very good, I can experiment and learn new things.

So here are some photos that I have taken in the last month.













Garlic and paprika bread that I made at my parents home, the best I have made so far, at least that's what everyone that ate told me.

By request of my sister I cooked an Italian version of the Burek Bosinan, it was awesome too




My loot from my trip to Juárez, a few boxes of twinings tea and The Theory of Everything from Ayreon that a friend gave to me.

First try to make bread in my new oven, I didn't measure anything (haven't bought scales or measurement cups), and the oven doesn't say what temperature it is.

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Not the best looking bread, but it tasted sooooooo good

Some risotto rice balls with cheese in the center that I cooked this weekend, they were awesome




Monday, November 11, 2013

First official 10k

Yesterday I finally ran my first official 10k, it was awesome and I felt great and it was easy, I did it under the 60 minutes mark, although I was close to not even run. I woke up at 3:00 am (approximately) with a pain between my ribs and my right lung, I don't know why, but it was bad.

I didn't know what to do or try, I really wanted to run (specially since I had already paid my inscription :P). I had some aspirins but I wasn't sure they were going to work, I tried to stretch but it didn't do anything either. After a few minutes of me feeling bad I threw up part of what I had for dinner, that made me feel better, (maybe because of the endorphins).

It was just 4:00 and I was still felling crappy, and I laid in my bed for a few minutes and after that I took a shower, eat a pb&j sandwich and some and some milk to not go with an empty stomach and the pain was coming back, not as strong as before, but it was there, I was thinking of not going, but either way I had to return a thing (a chip or something like that that I had to put on my tennis to register the start and finish times).

The morning was perfect, it was like 15 or 17 degrees, it was cloudy and with some wind, when I arrived to the place where the race was going to be I decided to run, pain or no pain, but I wasn't going to risk myself, if I felt that I couldn't do it, I was going to stop.

A few minutes before the race the organizers had a speech and people did some warm up, except me and probably some others, lol, when I run I never warm up, I have never had an injury (and I remember reading that it doesn't make that much difference except with low impact exercises.

I was still feeling some pain but it was smaller, when the race started and I started running I wasn't feeling it anymore, I felt great and I was sure I was going to finish it, after all, it wasn't my first time running that distance, it was only my first time running with others.

It really makes a difference, I don't know why, but people sheering and saying my name when I passed them really motivated me, one hour later I finished and was still with some adrenaline, after that we were given some things like fruit, water, trail mix, gatorade, and some other things, I felt good and I think I beat my record for a few seconds, lol.

I received a medal too for finishing the race, nothing special, but it's the first medal I have received in ages, lol.




It's not easy to take pictures with sweaty hands :P



Monday, October 21, 2013

Stainless steel pot hack...

A few months ago I bought a induction cooktop and it is awesome, although it has given me some headaches, not the cooktop, but the pans/pots I can use with it, so far I only have two that work with it, but before this weekend I only were able to use one, a peltre one, that isn't that bad, except that everything sticks to it if you aren't very careful.

The other one is a stainless steel pot that doesn't work, it isn't good enough for it to work, or it doesn't have enough pulling force for it to activate the cooktop. When I bought it I tried to return it because of that, but the store where I bought it didn't wan't to return me my money claiming that it wasn't in condition to resell it since it had a stain... a freaking stain in a pan I had bought the day before... I almost lost it, I was really pissed of and almost left it there... or rather throw it at something. But that is another story.

So after that I have been trying to get some good quality stainless steel pans or pots, but they are way to expensive, the cheapest I have found are like 100 dollars, and I don't know if they will work, and the best ones I have found are like a 1000 dollars, very freaking good quality, but I can't invest that much money on a few pans, not now at least, when I have a good kitchen where I can use it hell yeah I'm going to invest in something like that. The other option is amazon, they aren't that expensive, but the transport fees make them way to expensive.

So if anyone wants to buy an induction cooktop, make sure that your pans/pots are good enough to work with it, or that you can return them if they don't work.

I have been using that pot with an electric stove, but it isn't as efficient as the induction one, it is sloooooow. Yesterday I was boiling some water in the peltre one and I don't remember why I changed it with the stainless steel one without turning off the cooktop and it didn't turn off.

So I thought that maybe it was working now and the last times I tried it was just failing, I turned it off and on again and it didn't work. I tried turning it on with the peltre pot and then changed them and it worked again. I decided to try and use it to cook and oh, it makes a big difference, I cooked some rice and it turn out awesome, and it didn't stick and I didn't have to take care of it like I had with the pletre pot.

Tried some other things and works, the only problem is that if it falls under certain wattage it deactivates and I need to use the peltre pot to reactivate it, and I need to be quick when changing them for it to work, but whatever, better than nothing.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

10K

A few weeks ago I starter running again, I had not ran since I moved here from Juárez. Before, the best I was able to run was like 4 Km, in 3 or 4 sessions with a few minutes of resting in between. Back then I felt that I had hit a wall that I wasn't passing, I got stuck at that, but since I only wanted to run back then I was ok with it, I thought that with time rather than increasing the length I could lower the time, for a few months I barely made any progress, and then I moved here.

When I got here I wasn't comfortable with going to out to run so I started to jump a rope, it was good exercise, but frustrating at time. When I moved to my current place I wanted to start running again, but for a few months I wasn't able for many reasons, so I continued with the rope.

While it is a good exercise, I felt that I was missing something, so one Sunday I just went out to run to the park. I don't know how much I ran that time, but I felt that it wasn't much, at best it was like 12 or 15 minutes, not more, although it could be less. I felt so good after doing it, tired, breathless, sweaty and full of energy.

For the next weeks I tried to go out after work some days and the other continue with the rope, then was one day that I was just unable to jump the rope, I was hitting myself and got frustrated, so I just said fuck it, went to run and since then I have been only running. In the end I feel better after running, even if I feel all achy, lol.

Every Sunday I have been trying to run more than I did last week, I started with 3 Km without stopping since I was running that but in two sessions.

Next week I was going to try 4 but I was able to run 5, next week I was going for 6, but got 7, after that I was going to try 7 again but a little less time, got 8, and this week I wanted to do 9 within an hour, but I felt that I could go for more, so I went to 10, I feel that I could have ran a little more, but I don't wan't to injure myself, and I already accomplished one of my goals for this year, now I just want to get to a 10k marathon and finish it and do it in less time.

This time I did 1 hour with 10 minutes, so by the end of the year I want to see if I can do it at least in an hour, but I know that reducing 10 whole minutes will be hard, but I'll still try to do it.

I felt very happy because of this, a year ago this was only a long term goal that I had, now it is a reality, and obviously I wanted to give myself something special because of my accomplishment, probably by myself a coke and some chips, but then I thought that that would be better for when I run in a marathon and finish it, even if it's the same distance.

So this was my epic loot today


Friday, September 20, 2013

Weak...

So Dream Theater is releasing a new album, it comes out on September 24th and since Sergio's birthday was this week I pre ordered him a copy, I wasn't sure of doing it through Amazon or iTunes, but since I also want it I decided to try iTunes first, I didn't find where to gift it so I bought it for myself and bought it trough Amazon for him.

A few weeks ago Dream Theater released the first song of the album, I didn't want to hear it until I bought it, but the last days I have been very tempted to hear it. I received an email from Dream Theater's official website telling me that they just released the official video, then I saw it on my youtube feed, then on facebook, and on twitter, I was able to ignore it convincing myself that I wanted to hear the whole album.

When I pre ordered the album on iTunes I saw that they had that song on sale but  I wasn't going to buy just one song. So I ignored it, but then iTunes decides that it would be a good idea to allow me to download the song... then it syncs with Google Music and I see it on my phone... so I gave in finally...

After resisting so much I finally heard it, and it was awesome, I really like the new style on it, not one of the best but good enough for me to feel that the whole album will be good.

I just hope that this doesn't happen with the new album from Ayreon, specially since it's a concept album.

Random thought: Peanut butter sandwiches are freaking awesome and go well with tea :P


Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Investment...

I remember the first time I got a job I wanted to buy me some tennis shoes with my first payment, back in the day I thought I had a notion of what money could buy, I used to save money for anything that I wanted, I never liked asking my parents for things that I didn't need.

Since shoes and clothes are things that one needs my parents always paid for them, so even if I knew how much they cost I never had to feel the price. I must admit that I'm not really a person that likes expensive clothes or anything, except for shoes and tennis, I really like the nice ones. So obviously they are expensive.

So when I got my first check I went with my dad to buy some tennis since the ones I had were almost dead. I was looking around and found ones that I really liked, when I saw the price I realized that they costed more than I had made in that long week of work and my dad was just laughing when I told him. Since then my parents either helped me buy them or I bought cheaper ones.

Fast forward to this past Saturday and I decided to buy new ones since I don't have that many expenses right now, so I had some spare money (not really, that is for my laptop, but it can wait :P). Since I started running again I decided to buy running shoes, I knew they would be expensive, but in the long run it would be a better investment, the ones I had weren't meant to run and I lost a few nails because of it (6 so far, in 4 fingers, so I have lost them two times in the same fingers).

I went to a sports store and was looking for tennis and as always I didn't like them (I like them simple, not flashy), and most of them were too expensive. I found some in the 100 dollars range, and I found ones that I liked (by discarding method), I remembered what Angelica told me about getting ones half a number bigger and I did, tried them and they felt awesome, so much better than the ones I had and so I bought them.

This Sunday I went out to run and they felt awesome, I ran a little more than 8 Km in like 50 minutes and my feet didn't hurt like they used to with my other tennis. So far I think that the investment was well worth it, although I felt the hit when I paid them since I wasn't planning on buying them for at least another month.

Today I'll give them the next test since yesterday I rested, I'm just hoping that it won't be raining in the night XD (it has been raining for the last week, and it will rain all this week because a hurricane)


Thursday, September 12, 2013

Weird...

So right now I'm a vegetarian jew that is wrong because I don't talk much with people and don't care for a partner and always say no to every suggestion they make to me... That's what I can recollect from what people have said about me in the last weeks.

Some context, because that doesn't make any sense. Apparently me eating meat only on Saturdays means I'm vegetarian, although I have eaten here meat... a few times, and I'm wrong in this because... one needs to eat meat, at least according to a coworker. Ok, I get that it sounds weird coming from me guys since I'm not vegetarian, but that's how I roll :P, I only eat meat once a week.

I almost had a discussion because of this (not a fight, just a normal discussion), my coworker said that you need protein and thanks to that I didn't need to say much, just say what you guys know better than me, you can get protein from many places apart from animals, conversation ended :P

According to another coworker I'm like one of those jew guys because I don't celebrate holidays, I suppose Hanukkah isn't a popular here, I didn't say anything, I really don't care if people believe that I'm a jew, and unless I'm asked directly something about my religion views, I won't talk about it just because I'm lazy and I don't want to invest time in explain all the things that people often say, specially since there are some persons that are very religious here. Just thinking of them asking me questions about it make me tired, but I won't deny anything.

According to the lady that cleans the office I'm wrong in how I am because I'm way to serious and don't talk much with people here, and I'm wronger (if that is a word XD) because if I talk to someone usually is through my computer or cellphone. She has said to me that I should talk with another coworker that eats here too, and I do talk sometimes, but lets get real here, who among us can talk for a long time with someone that doesn't have anything in common with you? I just can't, I can talk about stupid things, but those are stupid things that interest me, not football, beer, cars and/or carne asada, or the telenovelas, or t.v. in general.

According to another coworker I'm not ok living alone, I need someone with me or something like that. Seriously this is something that bothered me because I really am enjoying living alone... well, enjoyed when I was alone, right now my brother is staying with me, so who knows when I'll live alone again.

I don't get it how it isn't even an option for some people being alone. Right now I feel great, I even talk more now with some friends than when I was in Juarez, same with my family, just because those interactions are made through a computer doesn't mean I'm not talking with them, and even if I didn't talk with them, what would be the problem of me not talking to anyone? I go out more, I have more opportunity to do things and the money for it. I finally feel like a productive person and I don't want to change this unless is for something better...

I don't even know what I was writing about, I started in the morning and I don't feel like reading it again and changing something...

Monday, September 2, 2013

Lost and found....

This past Sunday I went downtown to look for a stainless steel pans for my induction cooktop. The day was really crappy, it was like 36 degrees and it was humid as hell. Since the metro is free on Sundays I was looking in various parts of the city near the metro stations.

Usually I try to be careful with what I do and try not to do stupid things like what I did. I was pretty tired and had to transfer from one metro line to another. The station where one transfer is always crowded and people make it really difficult to walk. I saw that the metro that I wanted to take was arriving and wanted to run, but I couldn't do it.

I still had time to get inside and there was a little space to get in, but right when I tried to get in the doors started to close, I thought that I would be able to make it if I tried to stop the doors from closing like in an elevator. Bad decision, the doors were so strong that I couldn't even stop them for a second, unfortunately my head was inside and I just barely pulled it out, maybe it would have stopped, but I didn't want to test for that. Unfortunately my glasses were trapped between the door and fell inside.

I thought I had lost them and started thinking what should I do, I can't do anything to get them back, so I need some new ones, but should I buy some glasses or should I buy contacts? I wasn't pissed... well, just a little with myself, it was pretty stupid trying to do that.

I waited to the next metro to arrive and boarded it, when I got to the next station I was still thinking what I was going to do and a guy approached me and gave me my glasses, I was pretty happy about it, I didn't know what to say, I just shacked his hand and thanked him, that's the best I could do.

When he handed my glasses I noticed that they were bent, they are usable, but bent, so either way I need some new, I tried to unbend them, but I can't leave them the way the were, and I think they make me dizzy.

So now my question is, are contacts fit for running or things like that? Or should I stick with glasses?

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Epic trip to Juárez...

This weekend I visited Juárez for the first time in like 5 months, I had to met my first niece and the first granddaughter of my parents, she was born three weeks ago and since I was doing good with my finances and found some cheap tickets I decided to go, although I just went for the weekend so I wasn't going to have much time to meet friends.

I just saw Sergio and another two friends that I really wanted to see, although I wasn't sure if I was going to see them or not since I really didn't have much time. I arrived Friday at 4 pm and left Sunday at 7 pm, I arrived at Monterrey at 12 am and got home at like 2 am and I had to get to work on Monday.

Since I wanted to spend a good amount of time with my friends and my family I didn't have much time to rest. I met Sergio on Friday like at 10 pm and I went to sleep at 4 am and then I had to get up at 6 since I was going to met another friend in the morning, we got together at around 9 am and I got home at 2 pm, then I spent time with my family till like 5 and went out with my other friend, we went to eat then went back to my parents home and we played video games till 5 am and then went to sleep, we slept till 12 pm... well, she, I slept till like 9 and then was trying to rest but couldn't get to sleep, lol. After that I accompanied her to a near mall since someone was going to pick her up there at 2 pm and after that I went home and spend my last hours with my family.

This weekend I really pigged out, I arrived here and bought pizza, then with Sergio we went to eat some tacos and I drank a coke. Then in the morning I went with a friend to eat at a restaurant, we ate an omelette and then a yogurt ice cream. When I got home I ate some pizza and then with my other friend we went to eat sushi, but it wasn't just sushi, we ate some ramen too and some dumplings, some tea and prepared sake (next time we will try sake without anything else though :P), and after that we bought some chips to accompany us while we played The Walking Dead, after more than 6 months we finally finished that game, it was awesome, we played from 11 pm till 5:30, then we went to sleep. Since I woke up earlier than my friend and I was hungry I decided to make some breakfast, I prepared some Eggs in a basket for us, but she was too tired to wake up and eat, lol. So I decided to wait till she woke up to eat them with her, in the mean time I went with my parents to eat some barbacoa and then went to sleep again, or tried to rest at least.

I took a shower later and when I came back my friend was finally waking up, we ate breakfast, talked a little and then I left her with her friend that came to pick her up.

When I got to my parents house I spent time with my family and ate some more, my sisters husband brought me some menudo, I seriously don't know how I was able to eat so much, but I was pretty sure I was going to get a little sick since I really don't eat anything like that here. Said and done, when I arrived at my house in Monterrey I had a stomachache, luckily I didn't get sick, it was just my body dropping all of that, lol.

Outside all of that, I too wanted to come to pick some things that I asked Sergio to buy through amazon, a backpack, a pair of headphones, a onesie for my niece, a water bottle (a portal water bottle :P) and an induction cooktop.

I asked him to buy these things there since I can't really get anything of that quality here, I have seen backpacks twice the price and half the quality, I haven't seen induction cooktops here worth buying and so much expensive than the one I bought, headphones... well, they were cheap and since I already was buying I said, why not? and the onesie I bought for my niece I didn't find anything like it here, same with the water bottle, they just don't sell that kind geeky things here in México.

So yeah, that was my past weekend, hopefully I'll go again in December, at least that's the plan, I was dying of tiredness on Monday, but it was all worth it.

17" laptop backpack, holds more groceries than my other one :P

Haven't used it since I don't have pans that work with it :P

My trusted friend in science, this bottle makes water taste better, it's made with science and love :P

Monday, August 19, 2013

My first Raspberry Pi experience...

This weekend I finally was able to work with my Raspberry Pi, I had one in my job but my boss and I use it as a server to make tests. But this weekend I asked him for one to use and he gave me an old one that he had there. I wanted to start working with its IO part because this project will require communication with other hardware through it.

My first challenge was to turn on a led, and it really was a challenge since I haven't worked with electronics in years, I didn't even remember how to connect the led, where the resistor should be, the color code of a resistor, nothing, so I tried to be as careful as I could be so I don't end burning something.

Turning it on was easy, I just connected it directly one of the pins that is always on (the 3V3 pin) and ground and it turned on, my next challenge was to test if I could control one of the IO pins to turn it on and off, so first I read how to do it, I connected everything accordingly, connected to the Raspberry through ssh and ran some commands to test it, I was able to turn it on and off, it was cool.

The next step was to turn it on and of from a program, so I had to write a script to turn it on and of when I pressed a key or something. It was already to late so I didn't finish that, but I'll try to do it before the weekend. I did get to write a script to manually turn it on and off with just a function, but it was far from where I wanted it.

All in all it was a great experience, even if it was just play with a led, but hey, that's how it all starts, once upon a time I just learned how to do a "Hello World" and now I have a job thanks to that.



Monday, August 12, 2013

The aftermath

So a week already passed since my little adventure, it took me a whole week to really feel better. All week I had pain in both my legs and feet and they feel alright now, except for my toes, like I said in my last post, I injured both big toes, it was so hard that yesterday I literally was able to remove the whole nail from my left foot, the toe from the right one seems like it will take some time before I'll be able to do it, but judging from how it looks it will fall off.

It didn't hurt, but now that I don't have it it does hurt a little, specially when I wear shoes since they are a little tighter than my tennis.

Well, so far that's the only bad thing that happened from that, the good is that I feel like I could do much more, right now I feel like I want to start doing more things, and I'm thinking in start running again and get into a marathon, a 5km one to start, I wanted to go to one that will be this next Sunday (august 18), but I don't think that I'll be able to make it because of my feet. Maybe if I have not removed my nail, but well, that gives me more time to prepare to the next one, I think there is another one in september.

Anyway, I have been feeling pretty good, and everything has been going awesome, this weekend I finally was able to save some money for me since I already paid for most things that I needed, only missing a few minor things that can wait, so starting now I'll finally start saving for my laptop (and probably a tablet) :D

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Fision mallada, promesas rotas y publicidad engañosa...

Es media noche y despues de haber descansado la mayor parte de la tarde he perdido el sueño, mis pies me están matando, no aguanto mi espalda, tengo mis hombros adoloridos y un calor que no me deja descansar agusto. Todo esto es la consecuencia de una aventura que tuve hoy, probablemente una de las cosas más pesadas, arriesgadas y satisfactorias que he hecho en mucho tiempo.

Mi pequeña aventura comenzó este sábado (03 de agosto) a las 6 de la mañana, me levanté, me bañe, comí mi desayuno y preparé mi mochila para salir, una vez que todo estaba listo me aseguré de saber como llegar a mi primer destino, revisé las rutas que podía tomar y donde tomarlas para no equivocarme, una vez que llegué a mi primer parada pedí direcciones para no equivocarme y estar caminando sin rumbo, llegué a una gasolinería y me dijeron como llegar, así que me encaminé llegué a la caseta donde comenzaría mi aventura (aunque olvidé tomarle foto).

Una vez que pasé la caseta tuve que caminar aproximadamente unos 600 metros cuesta arriba para llegar al inicio real de mi camino... desafortunadamente esos primeros 600 metros me sirvieron para darme cuenta de la poca condición física que aún tengo, al llegar sentía mi corazón muy acelerado, no cansado, pero si me faltaba el aire, eso no me pareció un buen signo, pero aún así decidí continuar.



Hoy, por primera vez en mi vida, intenté subir una montaña hasta lo más alto, más de 4 o 5 km de camino de subida en ángulos no muy amigables ni para subir ni bajar, caminos hechos de tierra, piedra, cemento e incluso algo de tierra. Un camino en el cual podrían haber osos (al menos eso me han dicho), insectos no muy amigables como avispas y arañas, cienpies y no se que más...

Uno de los caminos lisos, una inclinación de unos 40 a 45 grados (creo XD)

Despues de haber descansado un poco en la base del cerro y recuperado el aliento decidí continuar, y desde un principio me pude dar cuenta que no sería un camino fácil ni rápido, pero la vista que se tiene desde unos pocos metros es espectacular. A pesar de que me agité mucho al subir a la base, me pude dar cuenta que ya me sentía más agusto, que no me faltaba tanto el aliento y que estaba subiendo relativamente rápido, al menos más rápido que otros que al principio me llevaban la delantera. El camino que seguí, y que sigue la mayoría de la gente está rodeado de arboles, así que no se puede ver mucho en ocasiones, pero hay lugares donde la vista es espectacular, mi primer parada para tomar fotos de la ciudad fué a unos 700 metros del camino (casi todo el camino está marcado y hay lugares donde te indican que tanto llevas recorrido), cada vez que tenía oportunidad tomaba una foto de un punto más alto para ver la diferencia.

Foto tomada a la 9:16, no se que altura era esta ya.

Foto tomada a las 9:23

A pesar de que se veía tan alto en esa toma, aún me faltaba mucho camino por recorrer, a esa hora del día se sentía perfecto el clima para poder subir sin que el sol molestara, estaba medio nublado, pero conociendo Monterrey, no puede confiarce del clima. Así que aceleré un poco el paso.

La pequeña punta roja que se ve en la parte más alta es el lugar al que me dirigía.

Como el camino es algo pesado, en ocasiones tomaba descansos, desafortunadamente no hay lugares donde sentarse mas que en el camino, en la primera mitad del recorrido se puede encontrar mucha gente, familias, amigos, parejas y gente que va sola.




Despues de poco más de una hora de camino llegué a la primer mitad, o al menos eso es lo que creo, hasta esta parte es a la que sube la gran mayoría de las personas, hay una plataforma plana o el techo de una construcción (no pregunté que era, jaja), y desde aquí se puede apreciar gran parte de la ciudad y tomar unas fotos panorámicas espectaculares, al llegar aquí me entro la duda de si podría subir hasta el pico, ya me sentía un poco cansado y quería regresar, mis piernas ya sentían la tensión con cada paso, pero no lo hice y continué subiendo, a partir de este punto las cosas se pusieron más interesantes, había menos gente y se sentía una tranquilidad sorprendente.

Foto desde la mitad de la plataforma por que me da vértigo acercarme a la orilla...

Foto desde la orilla de la plataforma, sentado, por que fuck mi vertigo, jaja, y menos gente en la imagen


Al continuar mi camino me encontré con una gruta, pero no supe si era seguro entrar o no, no me quise arriesgar por que no había nada de luz y no había gente cerca, despues de pasar este punto, por fin pude ver la punta otra vez, ya se veía más cerca, pero aún faltaba mucho recorrido. Recorrido que se hacía más pesado con cada paso, la inclinación era mayor en algunos puntos y más peligrosa, además de que se encontraban más insectos y lagartijas, y había menos lugares donde se podía descansar.








Despues de aproximadamente 3 horas de caminar por fin pude llegar hasta la punta, aunque no se que es lo que pasó que solo encontré una reja para entrar a la antena, despues de llegar ahí decidí comer algo y descansar un poco antes de comenzar mi camino de regreso, cumplí mi meta de llegar a la parte más alta, aunque la verdad me sentía tan cansado que quería quedarme ahí a descansar mucho más, pero el día comenzaba a ponerse más feo, el sol comenzaba a quemar y no había mucha sombra, así que era hora de regresar.







Con esto es con lo que se encuentra uno al llegar a la parte más alta del cerro...


Al comenzar a bajar me pude dar cuenta que esto no iba a ser más fácil que subir, un paso en falso y te puedes caer, golpear y rodar por el camino, si comienzas a bajar muy rápido y comienzas a correr, va a ser dificil detenerte, así que hay que tener mucho cuidado.

No había bajado mucho cuando me encontré con una señora que venía justo detras de mi, me preguntó si había llegado hasta arriba y que si había ido a "las cruces", le dije que solo me había encontrado con la reja cerrada, y me comentó que se puede llegar a un punto muy padre donde se alcanza a apreciar la verdadera belleza del cerro y la sierra, pero que es algo peligroso por que no hay un camino, hay que irse por la orilla de las instalaciones de la torre, y agarrarse muy bien para no caerse.

En este punto, yo estaba muy agotado, todo lo que quería era llegar a mi casa, nisiquiera quería bajar, iba a ser muy pesado bajar todo lo que ya había subido, pero ya estaba ahí así que que demonios, fuimos los dos hasta donde llegué y me dijo por donde nos ibamos a ir, me fué guiando para poder llegar, desafortunadamente en esta parte no pude tomar fotos por miedo a caerme, en verdad es un lugar muy peligroso si no tienes mucho cuidado, un paso en falso y es game over, al llegar al otro lado de las instalaciones en verdad pude apreciar lo que me decía, es una vista mucho más espectacular que cualquier otra foto que tomé, ya estando ahí nos tomamos fotos para poder vernos en esa parte tan alta, y para tener evidencia de nuestro logro.










La vista que se podía apreciar desde este punto valió la pena todo lo que sufrí para subir, pero al bajar, la verdad no me esperé que fuera a ser aún peor, para nada lo pude hacer con la misma velocidad, sentía que iba a paso de tortuga, aunque al final hice casi el mismo tiempo que tardé en subir. Cada paso que daba era más y más doloroso, sentía ganas de quitarme los tennis de lo adoloridos que sentía mis pies.

Al comenzar a bajar solamente me quedaban aproximadamente 2/5 del agua y gatorade que había traido, así que tuve que racionarla muy bien para que me alcanzara lo más que pudiera, llegar a la plataforma que se encuentra a la mitad del camino fue un martirio, pero ahí apenas conemzaba el dolor, aún faltaba la segunda mitad y de pasada caminar hasta donde tomaría el autobus para regresarme a mi casa.

Mientras bajaba la segunda mitad del recorrido me di cuenta que iba en realidad muy lento, mis piernas se sentían como fideos, con cada paso sentía como me temblaban y descansar ya no me funcionaba, el sol era insoportable, y cada vez que veía una señal de la distancia que me faltaba por recorrer me hacía sentir mal, el sol estaba tan fuerte que no podía ver claramente, tenía que mantenerme enfocado en donde estaba pisando.

Al llegar a la base me sentí en verdad muy feliz, y caminé lo más rápido que pude a una banca que había ahí y me senté por un buen rato, aunque la verdad es que no me ayudó mucho, ya no estaba recuperando fuerzas, no me sentía agitado como cuando estaba subiendo, ya no tenía energías para continuar, y mis piernas comenzaban a fallar. Al bajar por la calle, de regreso a donde pasaba el autobus, sentía mucha sed, ya tenía rato que el agua se había acabado el agua y mis labios y garganta se sentían horrible, así que lo primero que hice fue llegar a un oxxo y comprar una botella grande de agua y una soda grande...

Despues de comprar eso me fuí a la parada del autobus, pero el que debía de tomar se estaba tardando demasiado, y el primero que pasó no se paró, así que tomé uno al azar, pensé que me dejaría cerca de donde quería llegar, pero para cuando me di cuenta ya estaba muy lejos, quise tratar de ver donde estaba, pero por alguna razón el 3g de mi celular no se quería conectar, al llegar a un lugar que de plano no conocía me bajé y le di un reboot a mi cel para ver si ahora si se podía conectar y buscar como regresarme.

Al conectarme me di cuenta que si estaba muy lejos, pero por suerte un autobus que pasaba por ahí cerca me dejaba cerca de donde tomaba el que me deja por mi casa, así que lo tomé y ahora si iba seguro de regreso, pero aún así cada paso que daba seguía doliendo, estaba en verdad muy agotado, caminaba como zombie.

Terminé llegando a mi casa como a las 5 de la tarde, y lo primero que hice fue meter la soda al refri y me fuí a acostar un buen rato. Al quitarme los tennis y los calcetines me di cuenta que tenía un montón de ampollas, nada grave, con la excepción de dos cerca del tobillo, en la parte exterior del pie, eran tan grandes como mi pulgar completo, y que al parecer me lastimé las dos uñas de los dedos gordos de cada pie.

Despues de reventarme las ampollas y descansar un rato me fuí a bañar para refrescarme, me sentía todo pegajoso por tanto sudor, aunque fue una tortura por las ampollas, me ardió como si me pusieran limón en una herida, solo espero que no me arda así por mucho tiempo, y que las uñas de mis dedos no se me caigan como me pasó en enero con las del segundo dedo de ambos pies (al bajar de peso también me adelgazaron los pies y tuve que comprar tennis más pequeños, y esos me quedaban al principio justos, pero las primeras veces que corrí me lastimaron ambos dedos y despues de unos meses se me calleron ambas uñas, pero voliveron a salir :P).

Una vez que me sentía más descansado decidí a ir a comprar algo para comer, como acostumbro los sábados, hoy me compré una hamburguesa doble y papas fritas, pero en verdad no tenían un sabor nada especial, no he encontrado por aquí un buen lugar para comer aún. Mientras comía disfruté de la soda que me había comprado, despues de un año por fin volví a tomar, y se que dije que ya no tomaba soda, pero esta ocasión lo ameritaba, mi regla para la soda es no tomar a menos que sea una ocasión muy especial, y creo que haber subido hasta la punta del cerro lo amerita, esta fué una de las cosas más agotadoras que he hecho en años, y no creo que la repita pronto, tal vez el próximo año, pero no es seguro, jaja.

Y así es como termina mi pequeña aventura, espero la hayan disfrutado :)