I'll try this as soon as I get home

That's always a constant thought I have when I'm obsessed with a video game (currently Skyward Sword). I'm some place like work or school and I'm thinking about what things I haven't tried or done yet in the game. And then I make mental notes about all those things to try as soon as I get home.

Lots of these things end up being useless, but when you're only thinking of doing them instead of actually doing them they make a lot of sense in your head.

Intense pool battle

I went to play pool with a friend, and a friend of his, but only me and my friend played.

We played a total of 16 games. I think it's the most I've played in a single night.

At first I was kicking ass. My biggest advantage was 6-2. My friend seemed to be having an off night. But then he started playing better and better. Most games of the last eight were decided with the 8 ball being the last in the table.

Then, all of a sudden we're 7-7. Games were so close, but he ended up winning most of them. Second to last game he beat me in like 5 minutes, I didn't do anything. And the last game seemed like it was going to be the same way, but after he missed the ball that would make him win, I defended myself and it was again only the eight ball in the table...he eventually won and it was 9-7 for him. He won the last five games, but it was really entertaining :).

I know why it rained today

Because I washed my car...yup, can't be another reason.

It had been at least some 4 months since I last washed my car, and I wash it...and of course it rains the next day. That, my friends, is why I don't wash it often.

Ok, I know it's coincidence, but if it were the lottery, I'd have pretty good odds at winning it. Easily, easily, 90% of the times I wash my car, it rains the next day, maybe I'll start playing lottery, haha.

Zelda...

...is all I can think about right now. Have not been this excited for a videogame in a while. I still don't have it in my hands, but man, oh man, do I want to play it. Good timing too, with school being over this semester and all :D.

Also, tomorrow is a holiday, which means no work, awesome!!!

Show

I went to see a friend's friend's band play. My friend had told me on several occasions how his friend's band was really cool and how his friend played drums very good. And today I finally saw them. My and my friend went to one of the band's shows, and they do play pretty awesome. They play only original music unlike most local bands, and they're not like any of them, I would say kind of progressive, but maybe not, lol. Pretty cool night :)

Arrivederci school semester

Today was the last day of classes this semester. No feeling better than this one :). I still have to go check for some grades next week, but I am officially stress free...ok, I was never stressed, but I will definitely enjoy weekends more :D.

I also got my microSD card today, so the ride to work will be all the sweeter...because of the music in my car, not the actual going to work, haha.

Daaaaamn that's slow

I am not exaggerating when I say this: but today, it took the computer I use at work (Mac Mini), 22 minutes to shut down, yup, no more, no less.

And on an unrelated topic, I managed to set up a proxy in my phone :). I can now watch US Netflix in there, oh yeah. Doesn't work for the Android Market though, so I can't download apps that are unavailable for México, like Google Music, which is actually why I started doing it, cause I want Google Music in my phone...but won't be able to till Google releases it in here :(

Irrational fear

I brought my laptop to school to do some work cause I was going to have some time.

While searching for an outlet for my computer in one of the less visited buildings, I came across a whole zone with absolutely no people. There were 3 empty and dark classrooms. I went into one of those and plugged in my laptop.

It was completely quiet. It didn't even seem like there were students outside the building. It was as if the building was closed and I had snuck inside.

Precisely because of that I kept thinking I was going to get caught...caught? It's not like I was somewhere I wasn't supposed to be. The school is for all of us. Yet I kept feeling as if I was hiding from the authority (if there were one).

At one point a cleaning dude took a peek inside the room and saw me sitting in the dark by myself. I felt like getting caught red handed...until he just waved at me and left.

Pretty weird...

Another step closer.

I admit it, there have been some stupidity on my part in this whole Visa renewal process.

However, the US is more at fault than me. Their website for filling the application is not very good (I prefer doing that than showing up at the consulate though). I had to practically harass them for them to send me my mexican passport so I could send it back to them (don't even know why they have to send it if I'm just going to send it back to them).

But today I got a real official answer, 5-10 days. Now we're talking. So, El Paso people, prepare for some Sergio in your city soon :)

Weather

It's back to not being cold. I don't like that.

I'm getting a little obsessed with weather lately, something I had never done before. I actually check to see what the weather the next day is going to be like and what's it going to be like at nights.

It kind of makes me feel old, don't know why.

Memory upgrade

It's about time I upgraded my phone's external memory. It came with a 2GB microSD card, but between the applications and the podcasts and stuff, it gets full pretty quickly. It doesn't even give me enough space for a decent amount of music, meaning I can't really enjoy a good random music driving session, cause it's almost always the same songs (right now, it only fits like 4 albums in pretty good quality).

I finally ordered a 16GB card, that'll be enough for apps, music and podcasts. Car music will be once again mysterious and entertaining :).

Don't know, don't care

Somedy asked me if I liked box.
I said "no."
I'm thinking "that's the end of this conversation."
But nope, following act, he asks me if I'm watching some fight tomorrow 'cause apparently it's "the fight."

It just didn't matter what I answered to the question about me liking box, he already knew what he was going to say regardless of my answer, so, my question is, "why ask me in the first place?"

Don't know about box, don't care about box.

Heater

I just placed an electric heater in my room. I've had it for like 2 hours and it's already pretty hot in the room...here's hoping it has a thermostat or it's going to be like a sauna in here (I'm too lazy to stand up and see right now).

CyanogenMod

I just installed CyanogenMod on my phone. It's like a distribution of Android that improves on the functionality of the OS.

You can tweak lots of stuff and customize in great detail your phone. Plus it has support for themes.

It feels like I have a new phone...though my phine's warranty is super void by now haha.

Here's a random picture. Diego knocked over some hot sauce.

Cool walk

Now that the weather is actually a little cold and that nighttime comes earlier in the day, I'm starting to enjoy more my walks around school.

There's something about having my jacket on that makes my backpack feel nicer when carrying it. Like if it belonged there, like it was part of my body. Of course, it only feels like that cause it's so light. I only carry a couple of notebooks and that's it.

It also feels nice walking in the dark without fear of getting mugged or even worse, kidnapped or killed (those last two are not common thoughts...but they're there), which is what one would feel walking around in this city.

However, this will only last two weeks...which is when the semester ends for me. Then wait till January to resume my walks...I'm not complaining though, I like my school breaks way better than my school walks.

False contact

I'm guessing my brain has a false or something, it's like it doesn't register anymore that I have to blog everyday.

I've missed three of the last five days and I was about to miss today too. Gotta blog three days in a row for my brain to register that function again...so, this is number one

One more hour

Oh, yes...when we wake up tomorrow, it'll be one hour earlier :D. I bet this is the earliest I'm going to wake up on a Sunday, haha. Anywho, I'm pretty beat, going to bed now :)

Logic and basic math

That's pretty much all I needed for my second screencast. I finished the code already. I just need to refactor it and write a script draft. And obviously, the recording of my screen and voice. I'm also thinking of throwing some diagrams to show how I made the calculations but I'm afraid that alone is going to take me more time than all the rest combined.

I'm also learning some basic CoffeeScript and Sass, cause they are now on by default in Rails 3.1 :D

Here are a couple of pics of what the screencast will look like:

This is what it looks like when the page loads

As you scroll down, notice the date stays in sight

When the date reaches the bottom of the post, it stays there

And as you keep scrolling down the date of the next post stays in sight

Zend Framework

I decided to learn a new PHP framework...just because. At least to some degree.

I read that Zend Framework was really hard to learn and whatnot, so that made me want to learn it more :).

I've been doing some freelance work at the jewelry again, that's why my second screencast has been advancing pretty slow, though I already know what it'll be about, and I already started coding it, but it's not finished at all yet.

Lullaby

By Chuck Pallahniuk...that's my next book.

After who knows how much time, I finally finished The Stand. I liked out a lot, though at times it seemed a little too religious for my taste.

It's going to be nice reading a "short" book for a change, or at least it will seem short after that 1000+ page book I just read.