Oversleeping...

Today I overslept, I woke up at 3 am because a freaking mosquito was getting a feast out of me, I usually have a hard time falling asleep again, so I had to decided whether to try and sleep some more or do something else, since I was tired I tried to sleep, but it was already past 4 when I fall asleep again.

After that, I didn't hear the alarm, I woke up half an hour later than I usually do, and because of that I had to try to do everything pretty fast to have time to eat breakfast, prepare my food (two sandwiches), shower and prepare my backpack.

I ended going out before 7:50, at least 15 minutes later than I usually get out of my house, and just to be prepared to run if I had to try to get to the bus I put my tennis shoes, I got out, walked faster than usually, before I got the bridge I have to cross I saw the bus I have to take pass.

Usually they pass two within just a minute apart, then the next two can take up to twenty minutes, I saw that the next one wasn't that far behind and I ran all the the way, a girl that was crossing the bridge just moved out of my way when she either saw me or heard me running, lol, I just barely made it to the bus and got just in time to work, but I don't want to do that again, it was nice I haven't been running since I got here and it felt really good, and I still have good conditions, even though I don't feel like I do half as much exercise with the rope as I did when I ran.

Indulging...

This weekend I had no bills to pay, there wasn't any movie I wanted to watch, no game to buy, anything that made me spend money really, so I decided to buy something special to eat, since all week I'm eating so healthy, in the mornings only some cereal with banana, in the afternoons some fancy bread sandwiches, and in the afternoon only some pasta or rice with some salad and tea, glorious tea :P

So since I have been eating so well I decided to buy something different, I bought myself a German cloudy bear (it was like 4 bucks), and a special hamburger to eat while watching the first episode of Star Trek the original series, oh and a doughnut, I was craving for some sweet bread all week and saw that glorious doughnut covered with chocolate and some dark chocolate bits.

I must admit that I didn't like the beer, lol, but it was so much better than most I have had, and the hamburger was fine, but I don't think I'll be buying another one for a few weeks, it made my stomach ache and well, the next weeks have interesting movies, so I might spend more there.

Great weekend, I finally finished Bioshock and started playing the Bioshock 2, I really liked the ending a lot, I see why a friend of mine was telling me that I needed to finish it, lol.

I can feel the end...

...of Bioshock, so this past weeks I have been playing Bioshock, mostly at my job when I'm at my lunch hour, I have already put like 10+ hours in the game and I feel like I'm getting to the end of it, I feel the tension of the story, the consequences of the choices I made, the villain mocking and threatening me.

I'm really loving it, I tried to play this game a few times on my old laptop, but it was always laggy enough to turn me down and start playing something else. But since I got my jobs laptop, I have been playing a little more when I have a chance, and I am really enjoying games so much more than I used, even Diablo 3 has become more enjoyable, although it does lag at least a second or two when there are way too many enemies at the screen.

So yeah, I feel like I'm almost done with this great game and looking forward the second one, and maybe the third, although I want to wait till I buy a gaming laptop first for that one.

Reading mangas...

This morning I just realized that I haven't been reading mangas like I used to, that is, every Wednesday and Friday I would read the ones that were released that day (Wednesday Naruto and One Piece, and Friday Fairy Tail), and on Saturdays I usually watch One Piece (the anime), but since I started working it has been hard to remember to read/watch them, I usually remember two or three days after they are released and sometimes I try to read them before going to work, but I almost never finish reading.

The thing is, I really like to read them, but I feel like either I try to make more time between all the things I want or stop, and sincerely I don't want to stop but I don't feel like I can do everything, I already have a hard time trying to exercise and prepare food in between sessions and eat while either watching something, work on something or play a video game (and while playing video games, chat with a friend), but if I don't do it like this I won't have time to do anything.

So the only choice I see is to do all that on the weekend until I forget since the weekends I barely rest, lol.

Software in Spanish...

Today I had to use excel and word to write some documentation for the app i'm working, I haven't used it in years (libreoffice and google docs ftw). I had to use it since my boss uses it and as far as I remember it always changes something in the format when using it with the other one.

I don't have any problem using either word of excel, but since I have always been accustomed to use them in English I fail to adapt to the commands in Spanish, like ctrl+s is underline or subrayar, not save, ctrl+b is find or buscar, not bold, and so on. So yeah, I have to try to adapt to this since I will be using it for my job, or try to change the language to English.

Google Maps

The new Google Maps looks awesome, yesterday I received my invitation to try it and I really like, it looks so much better compared to before, although many of the functions don't work yet like the metro (or bus, I don't really know) and bike routes, and the navigation with street view is weird, most of the times it doesn't work, and when it does it moves weird.

The new layout looks awesome too, at least in the desktop, I'll see what else I can find with it :P

Studying...

Since last week I was working hard to finish a module of the app I'm working on, it had to be ready to put to production this Monday, so last week I was correcting any critical error that could ruin it's purpose, after making several ajax calls the session was being deleted, then it created a new session again, but the few calls that it didn't have a session it wasn't able to save what I was doing, so it created items with no values or didn't update what I was doing.

After some hard work I was able to resolve that problem and upload it (not the best thing I had in mind, but it's working as intended, and I now know how to do it correctly), right now I don't have anything to work on until my boss and I discuss what's next, but it seems that he didn't come today and yesterday he was busy with other things, so I have been studying python since yesterday and I'm liking it, although I'm still with the basics, and the book I'm reading is hilarious in some parts, it made a text based game and I was laughing like an idiot with it.

Oh, I never though a text based game could be interesting, but it makes sense, it's like reading an interactive book, or playing a book :P, anyway, back to work... studying... whatever :P

UPDATE: My boss isn't in town till the day after tomorrow :P

Not enough time...

As expected I wasn't able to do everything I wanted to do this weekend, although I did most things I wanted, but there are always unexpected things, in one hand I talked with my family a few hours through Skype on Saturday, and then this Sunday I had to help my sisters boyfriend with a school project, I had to review it, that took me longer than I expected and was tired as hell from reading when I finished.

I was able to do the things that I wanted most, backup my old laptop and upload some important things to my google drive, install windows 8, configure some things in it and configure other things in my jobs laptop. I worked in a friends website, but it took me so much longer than I expected, but in the end I finished one of the modules I wanted to do this weekend, and planned some changes to the part I'm working on the game.

Star Trek was an awesome movie, I really liked it, although I didn't have chance to buy popcorn, I went to the wrong plaza and had to go watch the movie later. I just barely made it to pay the internet bill, lol, I was the last one to get in line since they close at 3 and then I had to hear all the customers that got later jell at the pour guy who was on the door.

I watched the season finale of Big Bang Theory and two episodes of Doctor Who, I just need to watch the one that was shown this Saturday and I'm done till the 50th anniversary special. I wasn't able to play much, but at least leveled my Monk to 53 or 54, I don't remember, and almost got to the next level.

And even after all that I really feel rested today, lol.

Weekend plans...

In a few hours my weekend starts and I have so many plans that I fear I won't have enough time to make everything, once I get out of work I have to go and pay my internet bill, buy groceries and watch the new Star Trek movie, I'm still not sure where I need to go to make all this in one place, although I have an idea, I'll google that later.

After doing all that I want to work in my video game and a website I'm doing for a friend, I still have to watch the season finale of The Big Bang Theory and the last three episodes of Doctor Who. Try to get my Monk to level 60, although I'm aiming to level 56 or 57 now since this are the levels that take the longest, play some Bioshock and still have time to do the laundry and prepare food, lol, try to install Windows 8 on my old laptop along with Arch Linux (since I no longer use it I might as weel start trying to do things I couldn't do when I just had one :P), and finish adjusting Ubuntu on my jobs laptop so I can start working on it, so many things. But as long as I do the main I am fine with it, I can't miss the Star Trek movie since I can't go watch it till next week and I don't want to go out tomorrow unless necessary :P

Bills...

So I had forgotten that I have to pay bills, yesterday I got the internet bill that is due tomorrow and I don't have money till I get my paycheck... tomorrow, what really sucks is that it says that it should have been delivered since Monday, and I just found it yesterday, and I know that it wasn't there since the day before yesterday was raining and it wasn't wet, anyway, it really doesn't make a difference since I used most of it this weekend since I sent Sergio the money for my cellphone, my birthday present, from me to me :P

Well, anyway, I had already thought of how much I needed to save each week to pay them, but I completely forgot about them and now I have to go when I get out of work and pay it, lol.

Sleep on the bus...

It has been years since I last fell asleep on the bus, I was still in school. Yesterday I finished reading The Hobbit, loved it till the end I might add. So today I had nothing to read, and I was tired since yesterday I stayed late chatting with a friend, well, not really, I fell asleep unintentionally like at 11:00, and then I woke up past 12:00 and just sent her a message that I had died and was going to die again and closed the laptop.

This morning I woke up and read what I wrote her, lol, it was missing letters all over the place, well, for writing half asleep it made as much sense as I wrote when I am fine. I really got some good rest in the bus, I don't feel a hundred percent, but much better than before. Well, time to start working :P

Rain...

Yesterday was raining like if the sky was falling. When I got out of my job it wasn't raining that hard though, but when I got out of the bus I could barely walk since the water was high, well, not that high, but I didn't want to drench my shoes and feet, I had to remove my glasses since I couldn't  see anything with them.

When I got to my house I was all wet and had to take a shower and wash my clothes to let them dry.

It was kinda cool, I really like feeling the rain, the only thing that I didn't like is that my backpack was all wet too, and a notebook that I left inside is too, and some pages of it, I wont be able to use it for a few days until it dries, lol.

On the same note, it seems that it will be cloudy all days, except for Friday.

Bullshit...

I don't need to study anatomy to know that our bodies are full of bullshit, the day before yesterday I slept like 8 hours or more and when I woke up I was still tired, yesterday I slept not more than 4 and I even woke up a few minutes before my alarm went on, and today I felt fine.

I slept on the same couch, the temperature wasn't that different, I haven't done anything different as to feel something different, nor have I been overworking myself that much, at best I have been slacking a little more playing video games.

And this isn't the first time this happens, it does all the time, I feel more rested when I only sleep between 5 and 6 hours, and even less sometimes, anything more and I don't don't feel that good. Or taking a nap, I can't take them, more often than not, they tire me more or I wake up all cranky and with a headache.

Conclusion, our bodies are full of bullshit... or at least mine :P

Looking for a house...

Before I got here in Monterrey I knew I wouldn't stay at my grandpas house for long, I wanted to move once I got a job, but that isn't possible, there are things that I need to do first, either save some money to buy some things that I really need, like a refrigerator or a bed (since I sleep at a couch), and some other things, but I really feel that those two are the really essential, and a water boiler, although, most houses have them already.

For a few weeks now, I have been looking on the internet for house prices and the location, I wan't something either downtown or close to the metro, preferably I want something that is near a park too, or somewhere I can exercise. Now, the prices I have seen go from 1000 pesos to... well they go to high, but I am only considering houses at 3000 max, I have seen some near where I want it, but since I still don't have a contract at my job, only the two month contract that I got when I started, I don't want to take the risk, not yet, and because I still need to save some money.

Now, how much should I really be paying for what I earn weakly? If I find a house at 2500, which are the ones I have liked the most, some even have furniture and other things, I'll end up using like 55% of my salary in rent, groceries, services and transport, therefore having the 45% of it free for me to do whatever I want, I think that is a good deal, so I might get a house at that price, I just hope that I can get one where I want it, and that I get my contract at my job, lol. 

Tired as hell...

So, this week I have been working a lot, not only at my job, but with other projects I have, add to that that I am not sleeping well since I have been sleeping at a couch, and that I, sometimes, wake up earlier than I should, and that yesterday I stayed chatting with a friend past 2 am, although I don't regret it, lol.

But thanks to that I have been pretty tired all day, although I haven't been able to rest, I had to for groceries and I worked a little in the morning, and did some exercise, but thanks to all that, I feel very tired and am falling sleep, but I don't want go to sleep now because I know that I will be up at like 1 am or 2, and I won't be able to go to sleep again.

Fuck it, I almost fell sleep for like 15 minutes while I was writing this, see you soon, I'm out :P

UPDATE: I slept till my alarm woke me up, but I still feel very tired, lol.

Success...

Yesterday I had to program something to prevent brute forcing passwords in the app I'm working on, 2 years ago I programmed something like that that used the users ip to see how many attempts someone had tried, but that was when I was just starting, this time I know better and if someone is going to brute force a password chances are he might change its ip, so I had to think of something different, that and since legitimate users work with the same ip it could punish other users.

So my solution was to store the the user name and password in two variables and see how many attempts each had, this works when some one uses  the same user name and different passwords, or the same password and different usernames (targeting easy to guess passwords), so with each attempt I put the application to sleep for a time before sending the response, between 3 and 14 attempts the app will sleep between 1.5 and 7 seconds, after that till 29 it will sleep like a max of 15 seconds, and after that it will sleep 1 second for each attempt, although not receiving data after 30 seconds sends an error.

I feel very happy because of this since I didn't had to look for anything and did it by myself, well, I had to look for how the sleep function worked, and it almost worked at the first attempt (a few minor mistakes that where quickly resolved).

So yeah, after two years of programming I feel very comfortable at what I do, although I know there is so much more to learn, and many many things that I will have to learn at this job like programming a Raspberry Pi, so I need to learn python now, I'll probably have to re learn some electronics too for this project, and I'm looking forward to it, I saw the prototype for a project my boss is working on (with a Raspberry Pi), and it make me feel like when I was a kid with my screw driver disassembling my Nintendo and putting it back, lol.

Reputation...

I have used stackoverflow for some years now, it has saved my ass many times and today was no exception, but for the first time I felt like voting up an answer and found that I can't since I only have 1 point of reputation... I went to read how I can get more points (what gamer doesn't like points :P) to see if I could give the answer that vote.

All this time I have been only a reader, I have never posted a question or answered anything, I don't know if I know enough of it to try, probable I could answer some easy ones, but I never cared for that, I got the answer I needed at the moment and continue what I was doing, although there have been many many times when I have 10+ tabs of stackoverflow.

So today I decided to try from time to time to answer something, obviously I'll only do it if I really know what I'm talking about, I don't want to get a bad reputation :P, and I like to contribute to a site that has saved me so many times.

Revenge

A few days ago my sisters laptop HDD just stopped working, she bought a new one and installed windows in it, but she needed other software that she wasn't able to install properly, so she messaged me to try and help her. The main things that she needed was Photoshop and Autocad, since she was in a hurry she didn't want to screw anything.

I had to remotely install it for her, I did it using TeamViewer, and she was happy because she was going to be able to finish her projects for school in time (probably :P), but she was bragging about having some flaming hot cheetos and how she wasn't going to give some to me even if I was there, and some things like that, so I had to take some revenge.

Since this software's takes ages to install she went to eat something, actually she went to buy some hot dogs that are freaking good and was telling me how I couldn't eat them just like the cheetos. She made the biggest mistake of her life, she left facebook logged in, and was teasing me, so I did what was appropriate, changed her profile picture and banner and posted in her behalf that she smelled like poop, or something like that :P

Childish, but I am proud of what I did, could have done better and cage her facebook (lets hope this link works, I can't access urban dictionary here :P), but I didn't had that much time, lol, and I had to do some other things to her computer to work properly, like install video drivers, without them it just doesn't work like it should, and java, etc, etc.

Blank....

I don't know if it's because I'm sick, tired or just my natural self, but I'm not doing anything, just staring at the screen(s), watching the code, nothing else, I know exactly what I have to do, but I can't get myself to do it. I have been like this for the past hour, and that's why I decided to write my post right at this moment, just a moment of distraction before starting to work again... probably :P

Sick at work...

Yesterday I started to feel a little sick, these past days have been crazy, it has been cloudy, rainy, sunny, sunny with a little rain, hot and humid, cold in the nights, and thanks to all that I got sick, I didn't want to get to work, but I can't start taking days off, besides, I'm not that sick that I can't go out, just enough to not be 100%, still, this suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks so much and I want to be at home :(

Two monitors vs two laptops...

Having two laptops is not the same as having two monitors.
Since I have two laptops now I have been trying to work on some of my projects with both, but it isn't the same as working with two monitors, I have to manage two keyboards and two mouses, which isn't ideal.

The pros of having them is that I can (if I need to) leave one doing something processor heavy and still use the other one normally, other than that, I still haven't found something useful with them that I can't do better with two monitors, but I'll try :P

Clever pirates...

A few days ago a new game was released, Game dev Tycoon, I don't know much about these kind of games, I think that you are a game developer and have to make a successful company, or something like that that involves making money in the game.

One interesting thing I heard is that you pass through all the history of video games, from the commodore 64 to the PS4, and here is where it get's really cool, the developers of this game released a pirated version that they put on a torrent site, the main difference is that when you get to the era of digital distribution you make less profit per game, making it more difficult to get to your goals, this doesn't happen on the retail version.

I found it pretty clever from the developers doing this, make them see their part of the history on making games, and that pirating does indeed affect to some degree retail sales.

Testing new laptop...

Yesterday I left some games downloading to see how they played, they where Dead Space 2 and Deus Ex Human Revolution, even though I haven't played them I run them and adjusted some settings to medium and the screen resolution to 720p, I just started the game and they run smoothly, maybe not 60 fps as I would like, but they run smooth enough to enjoy it. There is just one more test that I need to do, Bioshock Infinite, I want to play this game so badly that I will wait till I finish the first ones, since this games have a good story I don't want to spoil the other two by playing the third first :P

And +Marisol Chacon  cuando se arma L4D2 pues? :P
I'm ready to kick +Sergio Valencias ass and yours in that game :D

Spam!!!!

Recently I have been receiving lots of spam on my posts, that's why I decided to make my blog private, I didn't think it would send emails to the persons I put that can read it, so sorry for that :P
Hopefully the spam will stop now.

Falling asleep...

Yesterday I just blacked out, I don't remember going to sleep, I just woke up when my alarm was on and can't recall anything, I wasn't even tired. I was going to download a game that I wanted to see if it can run on my laptop, but now I'll have to wait till tomorrow since it is like 10 GB and I can't download it here, anyway, back to work...

FPS...

Yesterday I received "my" new laptop, until yesterday I have been working on my laptop because the computer I had at work sucked, but yesterday I my boss told me that he already had  a laptop for me and that I could take it home if I ever need to work outside.

As the best and most dedicated employee I am I did what was obvious, install games to test how they felt, lol, I installed a few programs that I use, but since I already had games on my other laptop, I only had to copy them here.

First game I played was Diablo III, and it felt great, not laggy like my other laptop, then I played Darksiders, a game I have wanted to play for a long time (it is an action RPG like Zelda, or at least that's what I have heard, that it's like a dark Zelda, I only played a few minutes and it felt great, granted I didn't play at max specs, but for the moment I don't really care for that, that will come when I buy the one I really want, lol.

The laptop that I got is an Asus K43E, not a good laptop, but enough to enjoy some games that I wasn't able to play on my old one, the only thing I do like better in my other laptop is the numeric pad and that the screen is bigger, other than that, I welcome this change.