Compromise...

Today while at work my friend/co-worker/employee/person at my charge... ok, I don't really know how to call her and that doesn't matter, we were redacting a letter to the schools we will be visiting to promote our project, since we use only my laptop to work only one of us has to write, usually me. Since she was a little anxious (I still don't know why) she was playing with everything that was at her reach.

At some point she was just playing with some paper and asked if I wanted a paper boat or if I knew how to make one (I can't remember which it was), well, she made one and gave it to me, and asked me if I was going to take care of it, I told her that yes, I was going to take care of it, but she was a little skeptical. I told her that I was going to post about it in my blog (hence today's post topic) and she was a little more convinced.

And yeah, I know, lame post, but I told her I was going to do it :P and don't know what else to write.

Improvisation 2.0

Today at therapy my patient and I worked with habits, for the moment that is the main goal he has, he wants to have better habits in school and his house, I was going to work with the classic method of making an activities calendar, but due to his personality it is not that easy to follow something so rigorous, we were going to work with that, and we even started to plan it.

In the middle of the planning he went to the bathroom and while I was waiting I remembered the Seinfeld Calendar, I thought that it might work, and since he has the motivation to work I thought that giving him a little more flexibility and freedom would be better. He was more motivated with this one and he actually said that he was going to make another one at home, one more complete.

I know I am doing something out of the book, but I think this can work pretty well, I said to him that we would evaluate this method the next 3 weeks and see his progress, if it works well then we can get this done and get to another goal. If not, evaluate why isn't it working and either make a new work plan or adjust this one.

Silverware...

...who knew it could come in handy sometime?

So, Mari, Sergio and I went to the movies, the movie we went to see started like half a hour from the time we got the tickets, so we were just walking around Las Misiones, we got to liverpool and we passed some silverware while in there and Sergio and Mari were discussing who would pay for something like that and Sergio said that it might cost like $100 bucks and Mari was skeptical that the silverware would cost that much, a woman from the store approached us and asked if she could help us.

To clear things out I asked how much that silverware cost and she said like 1200 pesos, that is all I wanted to know, but she had to try and persuade us to buy other things, I realized the mistake I made too late... or was it on purpose? Since it seemed that she was paying more attention to Sergio I pulled back, and told Mari to come, we left Sergio there with the lady, he wasn't happy, but we were laughing so bad. It was worth it :P

Sorry you had to pay for my mistake Sergio, que diosito te lo pague :P

Temptation...

My laptop has been heating pretty fast these past weeks, or at least it feels that way, it hasn't caused a problem (yet), but I know it will if I don't take care of it, I already dusted it and I will try to defragment it when I have a chance.

But to tell the truth, I want to open it and clean the internal fan it has, I have always done this with other kid of electronics, but not with a laptop, and most of the times (if not always) I did this without consulting a manual or something, but with the laptop I am very hesitant to do it, unfortunately they are very delicate and have a lot of cables that aren't easy to replace.

I even downloaded the service manual since I don't want to break anything, but I want to wait until I buy a new one to open it since this one is my working tool and it will be a pain to work without it. I will wait until it is necessary or until I got my new one, which hopefully will be in December or January... or at least I hope that I can buy it by then :P

Darts...

Today after watching rise of the planet of the apes Sergio, another friend and I went to our other friends house and played darts, I had never played darts in my life and I was owning them, Sergio scored the most points in 2 occasions with 27 points, but I scored in 10 more times, in 3 separate occasions and Sergio just once. I won the most games too, lol, it is the first time I beat Sergio like this, I think I am going to sleep pretty well tonight :P

First 10 of the night by me :P

Who thought...

...that a guy like this...

would be such a good teacher?

Sergio gave us (my friends at hitosoft and me) the first part of a curse course in JavaScript and jQuery today, I knew he was good and passionate to teach since I talk with him when I have doubts or just to talk about something else other than our general gibberish, but since he is as introvert as us I didn't know how good he was going to be with more people, well 3 people isn't that much, I want to see him in front of a group of 40 or more people, that would be a good challenge :P (I have worked with that many people in more than one occasion and it sucks :P).

But yeah, great work Sergio :),  keep the good work and someday you will be like this... except for the color, you can't be that cool :P

Teleconference...

Today I had to "assist" to a teleconference imparted INDESOL (Instituto Nacional del Desarrollo Social), this is part of my training for a project I am working at CAPSIC, the conference was transmitted from Mexico D.F., since it was going to last 2 long hours I wanted to record it in case there was no other way of accessing this material, I spent at least 1 hour looking for (and configuring) a software to capture my screen, I used camstudio and it did a pretty good job, I had to configure the audio because it has some issues, but in the end it went well.

The topic of the conference was "Estrategias de Financiamiento y Procuración de Fondos", which is what I am doing right now for this project, I have to write/design a project to get funds and/or donations to our institution. It was pretty interesting, but unfortunately 2 hours is just too much time to get all the attention it deserves, and since I was watching it from my home I was getting distracted. That's why I wanted to record it :P.

Even though I wasn't paying that much attention I have to say that this really will benefit me to do a better job, I really was clueless as to what to do when I voluntarily proposed to help with this project. But thanks to this and the training I had in the Tec de Monterrey I feel more comfortable. Still a long way to go, but now I can see the light... and it burns :P