Hello World...

In two weeks I'll start working in a new project, it'll be a python based web app, I know something of python, but not enough, and I feel pretty confident about the web part. The problem that I have is that I don't know if I'll have to install everything from zero, I know that I'll be working with some RaspberryPy, so I have been working on the console a lot more.

For the past 24 hours I have been trying to configure an apache server that can run python, since I don't that much about server configuration I screwed up a little, so I have been doing everything step by step. An hour ago I finally got a hello world from a python script, so now I only need to get a web.py (a python web framework) app running and (I think) everything else will be easier.

I'm pretty exited because of this project, and because I'll have to learn many new things.

Classics...

A few months ago I finished watching the new Doctor Who series, I really loved it, but I felt like I was missing something, I know the old series are that, old, they started back in the 60's, so they aren't easy to find, I knew that they were in the US Neflix, but I just recently started to proxy the hell out of it, and naturally look for the old Doctor Who episodes, unfortunately they aren't in order, there are separated in collections, so you can't watch the whole seasons, I tried watching it, but unfortunately they lack continuity (although they are interesting), one collection had the first doctor and the next had the second, the next one was with the three of them.

Luckily I found a torrent that had torrents for each season, I already downloaded the first season and I must say that it is great, I'm really liking it, probably not as much as the new series, but enough to know that I'll waste a lot of hours in there, lol.

This isn't the only classic I'm watching right now, for a long time I wanted to watch the Star Trek series and after watching Star Trek: Into Darkness I decided that it was time to do it, I found that Netflix has the original series so I began to watch it there, I'm almost at the end of the first season. Each episode I find it more and more interesting, although I laugh every time William Shatner stares at the camera, like he is trying to seduce it, lol.

All in all, I have been watching these two fabulous series and I can see why they are still to this day so loved.

Stressed...

Things went well this week, I already have my bed and refrigerator in my house, and this next weekend I'll move there, I just need to buy some pans and a electric burner, and some other things to cook. But it didn't go smooth. First of all, this past Thursday I had to go to my house because a guy from Telmex was going to put the line for the internet, I had to leave work for an hour, I got there before him and when I got there I noticed that the chain that holds the bars had two locks, and the owner only gave me keys for one, I tried to call her, but her cellphone was unreachable (she told me that she worked in a basement where there was no service).

When I was looking at the lock a kid, I suppose a neighbor, told me that he had a similar lock, that if I wanted to try with his keys, and I told him that they probably wouldn't work, but he went for them anyway, I tried but they didn't work, the kid was asking me things like if I was going to live there, and... some other things that I don't remember :P, he was a little to social for my liking, lol.

When the guy from Telmex arrived I told him about the problem, and that if he could go there again but on Saturday, since I wasn't sure if the owners could go and remove the lock, he said yeah, no problem.

Later that day at my work I was talking with a friend there and told her about what happened, and she told me that it was probably that kid, I didn't want to believe it, why would a kid do that. Even later I received a call from my landlord because I sent her an email about what had happened, she was pretty confused, she told me that she only put one lock, but that she and her husband would go later to remove it.

I was a little stressed because of that, that same day I paid for my bed, I bought it on mercadolibre, supposedly the manufacturer was the one selling it, and I could either pay in cash when I received what I bought, or pay with "mercadopago", I decided to pay that way since I don't like to have money with me, a little big mistake on my part, the contact they gave me (a hotmail email, not even with the name of the manufacturer) told me that I had to mark the sale like it was already finished and that I had received whatever I bought, I was a little hesitant, because it could be easily a fraud even if the seller had many good reviews, luckily it wasn't, but it made me think a lot before doing it, I made a bet, but next time I buy there I'll either pay in cash or wait till I receive it.

That stressed a little too, but what ever, if it was a fraud that's what I get for not taking precautions, I had to take a taxi to go home when the guy from Telmex was going to install my connection, and I didn't realize until later that I didn't have money for the bus for Friday and Saturday, I was thinking of asking my parents or Sergio, or someone else, anyone, more stress, lol, I asked my brother, I sent him a sms but he never replied, I waited till night to ask him in person, and when he got home he lend me some money, he saved my ass, lol.

Friday went like a normal day nothing there, except that my boss sent me an email that we were going to have a meeting at 1:30 on Saturday, and at that time my bed was supposed to arrive, I tried to contact the... contact from the manufacturer and asked if it could be delivered later that day, a few minutes later I got a reply saying that yeah, it was rescheduled for later.

On Saturday I had to be available to go home if the guy from Telmex called me before 1 pm, at that time my landlord was going to be in my house since her and her husband were repairing some things, so they could make sure the line was installed. Unfortunately I got the call at 12:00 pm, so I had to leave my job, I didn't even told my boss, just the receptionist, and I had to take a taxi or a bus, the first thing available. While I was there I called my landlord to check that the lock had been removed, I should have done that before, but I did it just at that moment, she told me that it had already been removed, but they put another one, and that her mom was at the house (she was cleaning the house), so she could attend the guy from Telmex, I went there anyway just to sign the papers that it had been installed, did that and got back to work, it took me like 35 minutes, luckily when I got there I noticed that my boss's car wasn't there. So probably he didn't notice.

When I got there I had to make a call to the guy who sold me his refrigerator, but I just noticed that I never disabled my internet connection that I used to get the names of the streets to tell the taxi to go. It used all my credit (or whatever it is called, lol), I asked if I could make a call to a cellphone from there but the phones from the office are only for land lines, I had to ask a friend there to lend me her phone, she did, and I called to confirm that I was going to buy it from him, and told him that I was going to be at 3:15 at my home, he already had the directions to it.

Later then I was at the meeting I told you, and it lasted a little longer than expected, till 3:00 pm, so when it finished I rushed to my home, when I arrived there my bed was already there, same as the modem (although it didn't have internet, I'll have to check that tomorrow), and the repairs were almost finished, I only had to wait for my refrigerator, a few minutes later the guy called me, that he was on his way but was trying to ask me for directions, I told him that I'm new here, so he was thinking how he could get here, luckily my landlord's husband knew pretty well the area, so I lend him my phone and gave him directions.

He got there and the refrigerator was actually bigger than I thought, it looked pretty well too. So we got it inside the house and I paid him, and that was everything for the day, my stress levels went to normal again. I laid some minutes in my bed, and after 3 months of sleeping in a couch it was glorious, but I had to go, I still had to go to watch a movie and to buy groceries and a hamburger so bad that it would kill me if I ate one each day, lol.

I went to the movies, saw Despicable Me 2, I liked it, then went to buy groceries, and got home at 9:30, then went for my hamburger, and laid while watching Doctor Who (the classic episodes) and chatting with my sister and a friend.

It was stressful, but in the end everything went fine, oh, and my landlord told me that it was the kid that put the lock, that he was trying to help them remove it and that he was a little scared, lol, that little devil, I'll have to keep an eye on him XD

And today I am all achy from my back and legs for everything I did.

This is the view I have near my new house

My new bed before I removed the wrapping

My 5 cubic foot refrigerator

Temptation...

A few minutes ago we ate some barbacoa at my job, our boss invited us, so how could I refuse? One thing about barbacoa is that it tastes 10 times better with some coca cola, not pepsi, not big cola, coca cola :P

It has been more than a year since I stopped drinking coke, but today I wanted it, I really really wanted to drink some, but I don't want to get addicted to it again, it really took me all my will to stop the first time, and knowing me one it would be as easy as just drinking once to justify the next one and the next one. If I drink again it would be for a special occasion, other than that I'll try to not drink that stuff.

The more you know...

So, tomorrow I'll get my new used refrigerator, it's small, 5 cubic foot, but enough for me and probably some visiting. The guy who is going to sell it to me was kind enough to bring it to me, I had hacerle la llorona to his wife hat I'm new in this city and it would be difficult for me to get some one to help me getting it to my house, which is the person that answered my first email, worth a try XD

So they agreed to bring it to me tomorrow, but a few minutes ago the owner called me to let me know something important that I had never considered, I didn't know that when you transport a fridge it must be transported standing, if not you might risk damaging it, in the case that you transport it on its side or lying, you must leave it some time still before turning it on since the stuff that it has inside can go to the tubes, so it needs to settle down.

Knowing me, I would probably turned on the moment I received it, so it's cool of him telling me this, although I had to read about it, since I don't trust everything people say, like when they tell you that you have to charge and discharge a new cellphone before using it normally, it probably was right several years ago, but people still believe that you need to do it with newer ones even if the manual says contrary, and no matter what you say, the old tradition continues.

Anyway, fridges haven't changed that much in the past, or so it seems, I read some sites about it and they all said the same, and gave a reasonable explanation of why it must be done that way, the more you know :P

The start of something beautiful...

Yesterday I paid for my bed and got the contract for my internet connection, hopefully I'll have them both before this weekend ends, I finally feel like this is the start of something even though I have been living here for more than 3 months.

This week I have been looking for refrigerators, I haven't bought one since I don't have any way to get it, so I need the seller to be able to bring it to me, or ask a relative for help, but I don't want to do it unless there is no other way, I tried contacting moving companies, but they charge way too much for what I need to move (like 45 bucks minimum).

I'll move next week since I still need to buy something to cook on, and this week I'll use most of my money buying refrigerator and bed.

Things are looking pretty well here.