Tunneling...

Here at my job I have almost every website remotely interesting blocked. I can't access many pages and I know that I probably shouldn't do it, but what the hell, walls were created for people who cant climb them. A few times I have had to look for something over internet and fail to read it because my router is blocking it's content. Also, I don't like that Netflix has content that I can't access, or that some shows are only in Spanish when they were originally in English (like the office was several months ago), the other reason (and the main really) of why I started using this is because I want google music, but it isn't available outside the US, but Sergio and my brother have it, and I want it, and yes, I know that right now I'm like a child that wants the toy that the other kids have, but what the hell, I don't have to be mature all the time, so, I want it, I want it, I want it :P

So this week I started using one of my servers to do an ssh tunneling and I couldn't be more pleased with it, although I have only used it for Netflix and nothing more (not at my job), there really hasn't been a reason for using it here, although I probably will when I'm eating.

Weird pasta...

As I said yesterday, I am trying new things, yesterday I was going to cook some rice with curry, but I don't know why I put pasta instead of rice, and I noticed until I was already eating, pasta with curry, I never thought of them being together, but it was nice, actually pretty good, it was a curry sauce made with onions, garlic, cremini mushrooms, butter and creme, and it was delicious.

Also, just finished watching the BBC series Sherlock Holmes (with Benedict Cumberbatch) and it was awesome too, would recommend it if you like detective series.

Trying new things...

I think I already have said this, but I love to try new things, specially new foods, so this week I decided to buy some new things.

I don't know why, but I haven't been able to find black tea here, and I ran out of it a few weeks ago, so I had been drinking some earl grey, and while I love it, it isn't the same. Today I found another kind of tea, flavored black tea, there were like three or four, but the one that I picked was some vanilla flavored black tea since I love vanilla. And it was pretty good, although not black tea, lol, but it will suffice for some time.

The other new think I bought is some almond and rice milk, since every morning I only eat cereal for breakfast I need to have milk, but normal milk wont last till the next week, even if it says that it, it has gone bad at least twice, so I had to either go to buy two times milk or buy some that would last longer in the fridge.

A couple of weeks ago I found some vanilla soy milk and I bought it because it last way longer than normal milk, and I'm not that picky with food, it wasn't bad, so next week I was going to buy some more, but I didn't find it since I went to another place, so I bought another brand, this time it was plain soy milk, and strangely it was way better, and more expensive too.

So this week I was going to buy the same one, but I went to the place where I bought the first one and didn't find it, so I bought yet another two different ones, some rice milk and almond milk, so far I have only tasted the rice milk and it was pretty good.

Also I bought some cremini mushrooms and they are awesome sauteed with some pasta.

So yeah, I have been trying some new things and being enjoying them.

Documenting and debugging...

So this week my boss was out, I only saw him on Monday and Friday, and since I was finishing one part of the program I'm doing this past Wednesday I decided to document my scripts better than I had done (more descriptive) and test other parts that had given me some problems before.

I literally was falling asleep in front of my pc because of this, I had to go out and walk a little, unfortunately it isn't as easy as when one works at home, so I went to buy some cookies to a nearby store. Once I got back I continued with my testing and so far everything is working as intended, I tried to dry (dry stands for don't repeat yourself) my code a little since some parts look repetitive.

I finally saw my boss yesterday and so far everything looks like it's working pretty well, although I had a very hard time this week learning how to make charts from the data I have, it wasn't difficult, but tedious, and it included a lot of data manipulation, but in the end I was able to do it like my boss wanted to :P

Making friends...

In the time that I have been here I haven't made friends, I barely know anyone besides my family and my brother, and the people that I work with. I have tried to keep in touch with my old friends but so far I only speak regularly with three of them, you guys and my family obviously XD.

I have lost contact with most of my other friends, but that was even before coming here, and I have eliminated many people from facebook in the past weeks. I only speak with one friend there and that's because she resists to talk on gmail :P, and my sisters, although we use skype more than facebook, so now I have less than 40 people (probably less than 30) in facebook, down from almost 150 "friends" that I had before I started eliminating people.

Here at my job I don't really speak with most people, I only speak with two women and my boss, most people only likes to talk about football, one of the things that bores me more than anything in this world, so yeah, not really interested in talking with them, lol, unfortunately this city is just full of people passionate about football, included my uncles and aunts, and cousins. And with my boss, it's weird, he is as big a nerd as any of us, but he is my boss, lol, so we chitchat a little then back to work.

So yeah I haven't been able to make any friends, but at least I have been able to keep in touch with my old friends :)

A trip around the sun...

I have been working out for some time now, but I never took it as seriously as last year, a whole trip around the sun that I have been doing this pretty regularly, not less than 4 days a week and as much as 6, I have had my ups and downs, and there have been weeks when I didn't do anything, but that was really when I couldn't do it, like past December when I got sick and hurt ankle (again :P), and when I moved to Monterrey, I couldn't do much, although I walked everyday, so that's something.

Yesterday I jumped the rope for more than 40 minutes almost nonstop and did much more than I usually do and didn't get tired, so I tried to do it harder and quicker, and I hit myself a lot, lol, but my legs started to hurt a little and I was pretty hungry so I stopped to eat.

So yeah, the point to this post is that I really feel great with my progress from the last year or so, and I have lost a lot of weight, I don't know how much though, but I know that more than 20, maybe 25 kilos aren't here anymore, in February I was able to run for like 17 minutes (maybe more since I usually ran three times that) without stopping to rest or drink water. Maybe it isn't that much for most people, but for someone as lazy as me is a lot.

New phone

So
Yesterday I received my new phone and it's awesome, I love it, although very different from my previous one, so I have to learn lots of new things. It's a Nexus 4, the same Sergio has, and I finally have a camera, so I'll be able to take photos.