Change

Change keeps piling up. I don't like having change because it's like I don't have that money anymore. I don't take it into account when I'm counting how much money I have available. And it goes little by little, but fast.

I try to put it all in my giang Save key, but sometimes I have to take just a little bit out and it all comes out...and then it'll be gone. That's like 10 dollars in the picture, I'm pretty sure I'm going to spend it without knowing what I spent it on.

Oh well, I put it all back in the Save key...but I don't know how much that'll help.

Have a good day :D

Catching Up

First of all, I apologize for not posting for like 4 days in a row. I have no excuse for that. It was simply forgetfulness. Whenever I remember to post I wasn't near the computer or couldn't make time to do it on the phone ('cause it takes way longer on the phone than on the computer). I usually remember before going to bed, or when reading other blogs, but I haven't been up to date with those either.

I had like 60+ emails in my account, not spam. I almost never let it go over 5 unread emails. I like to keep my inbox clean. I read and archive everything. And the more emails that kept coming, the more I hesitated to read them.

I also had over 700 unread feeds. I also don't like to have feeds over 2 days old, preferably some 12 hours old before reading them.

It all went to hell over a week ago when I got sick and I couldn't even sit up or look at my phone without it hurting, so I just read important emails. I didn't even reply to them, I just read them.

Then I got some work that I did right after I got better, and somehow I didn't catch up on stuff.

I have just caught up on email. Feeds are next. That's where I read all the other blogs, which is the reason why I haven't been commenting on other blogs.

Well, have a good day :D.

Word Search

I used to play this game a lot when I was a kid. I like it. I use it to kill shorter periods of time than sudoku. I never play more than one in a row.

This post means I had absolutely no idea of what to post.

Have a good day :D

"New" Chair

Check out this 70's office chair that I'm using right now:

+Angelica and +Marisol's grandpa gave it to my mom for some reason, and I thought I'd try it out. It's more comfy than it looks. And it's sturdy. And it makes me sit up straight, I can't lean back like my other chair. It looks...old, yeah, but I don't care. This is not a permanent chair, though. I keep forgetting to look up new cheap chairs.

Have a good day :D.

Signing In...

For some strange reason, my phone has been reluctant to consistently connect to Google Talk when I'm on Wi-Fi. It just stays on this screen:

It's very frustrating. I chat more time on the phone than on the computer, mainly because I'm lazy. At least when I'm connected to 3G it does connect to Talk.

If it hasn't sorted itself out by tomorrow I'll look more deeply into it, I'm sure it's got something to do with my home network or the DNS servers from our ISP or something.

Anyway, I'm feeling way better, still not 100%, but I'm confident that by tomorrow I'll be superb :).

Have a good day :D.

Recovery

These past couple of days I've been pretty much laying in bed. I think it was a combination of not sleeping well with not eating well. I've been waking up in the middle of the night all sweaty and with headaches. And I get very cold, which I usually don't that easily.

I feel much better right now. It'll probably be all over by tomorrow, so here's hoping :)

Anyway, have a good day :D.

Under the Weather

I've got a fever right now...it sucks. My head hurts. This is like the 4th time in my life I've gotten a headache.

I can barely move, I'm half dead lying in bed. Even the phone's light hurts. I had to turn down the brightness to almost black.

I hope tomorrow I'll feel better, right now I'm going to go to sleep for like 12 straight hours. If I don't make it, donate my body to science or to feed poor cannibals.

Have a good day :D.

Vim to the Rescue

I knew learning Vim would pay off.

I learned to use Vim efficiently in my last job. It wasn't a requirement or anything, I just thought it would be cool. I forced myself to stick with it. It was hard. I messed up files several times (never beyond repair) because I didn't know what was going on at first. So I practiced, and practiced and practiced some more. I could move quickly in the documents and edit text. However working with multiple files took some more time. Then came the extensions and the custom commands and life was good. I finally saw why some programmers like it so much and I'm one of them now.

I use Vim almost exclusively to program these days and I'm pretty efficient with it. However, I never really thought of another thing that I would benefit from knowing Vim. Sometimes I need to modify files quickly and right now I don't have set hours to work, sometimes I receive a call in the morning to make some changes, sometimes in the evenings, and I usually work in the middle of the night. And since I don't have set hours, every now and then when they call me, I'm not even home. I'm out somewhere. And if the change is urgent, I have to stop what I'm doing and make the change...in my phone. I log in remotely through my phone to the web server where the changes need to be made and open up Vim. Most smartphone keyboards don't have arrows, so moving with the keyboard comes in handy in those situations. Sure, it may not be ideal, and I've only really had to do it a couple of times, but it saved time and the trouble of going someplace with a computer and an internet connection.

Anyway, it's pretty cool :). Have a good day :D

Faulty Scroll

My mouse's scroll wheel is acting up. When I scroll, about 1 of every 4 times it scrolls in the opposite direction of the intended one. It is such a pain browsing stuff like that. I guess it's not that bad for a $40 wireless mouse that I bought like 3 years ago. Other than that the mouse has worked really well. It's a Microsoft mouse. I guess they really do make hardware besides the Xbox, haha.

I'm probably going to buy a new one in the next couple of months and I don't intend to buy an expensive one. There are a shit ton of mice with a bunch of buttons and all kinds of sizes and stuff. I don't mind having a good 'ol mouse with just two buttons and a scroll wheel (I guess 3 buttons counting the middle click). I'm more of a keyboard man, so most of the additional stuff I could do with extra buttons in the mouse I prefer doing on the keyboard.

Have a good day :D

Risk

Today the cousins and I got together to hang out. We played some Risk, the world conquest board game. We didn't play world domination, which can take several hours to complete. We played a mission based type. We each have a different mission which the other players don't know, and whoever completes the mission first, wins. Mission can be to eliminate a player, or occupy certain number of territories.

I won :). My mission was to occupy 18 territories and have at least 2 units in each territory. I had forgotten about that last part when I first conquered my 18th territory and I told everybody that I won, but then I read my mission card again and realized I didn't have 2 units in every territory so everybody knew what my mission was, haha. It took me a couple more turns to actually win. +Marisol was about to win, because her mission was to destroy +Diego and he had a single unit left in the game, if anybody killed him, she would've won, but he got lucky. +Paulina too was about to win, her mission was to occupy all of Australia and North America, she was missing two territories. +Gabriel and +Diego weren't so lucky, they both were about to be destroyed and both their missions were to occupy 24 territories.

Anyway, it was fun.

Have a good day :D.

No Anticipation Surprise

Isn't it cool when something comes out that you knew you were expecting but didn't remember that it was coming out? For example, I know Dream Theater's going to release an album this year and I know that I will buy it, but I don't know when it's going to come out, and I don't plan on making note of the date when they announce it. I'm not even going to listen to song previews or anything like that, because one day I'll wake up and I'm going to find out that it's out and it's going to be a happy day.

On the last four weeks at least three games that I really wanted came out and I didn't anticipate then, they just came out and it was awesome when I read they had been released. No anxiety the previous days just thinking about it.

It also happens for movies, but a little different. Every Friday I check the showtimes for the movie theaters and sometimes movies with good ratings come out that I didn't know about.

Maybe it's just me though...I don't know.

Have a good day :D

German Final

Oh yes, Real Madrid and Barcelona are out of the UEFA Champions League, beaten by Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich respectively. I like it :).

The second game between Real Madrid and Borussia yesterday got tense at the end, because Real needed to win by 3 goals and they scored 2 goals in the last 10 minutes and they were close to scoring the 3rd that would put them in the final. It was pretty cool, but in the end they fell short and won 2-0, but were out of the competition.

The game that ended minutes ago, Barcelona-Bayern, was awesome. Bayern won 3-0...in Barcelona...for an aggregate score of 7-0...against one of the best teams in the world. Wow, I like Bayern's chances in the final. I'm extremely happy right now :D.

I'm very much looking forward to the final on May 25th. If Bayern loses again, for the second year in a row, I'm going to be depressed..........haha, not really, but it'll be a bummer.

Have a good day :D

Oreo

That's my mom's dog. He's a little Chihuahua. He sleeps a lot...but he also plays a lot. He makes you play with him, he guilt trips you. That's his little stuffed dog in the pic, which is actually kind of like his size. He likes playing fetch with it, though sometimes he can barely carry it. And he can't jump with it in his mouth. He jumps pretty high, thanks to his long legs, but the few times he did try to jump with the dog in his mouth, he just fell down, haha. He didn't hurt himself.

I spend a good portion of my day playing with him, running from one room to the other chasing him or being chased by him.

Have a good day :D.