Slim Posty

From the archives:

There's a certain mystique when I speak, that you notice that it's sorta unique, cause you know it's me, my poetry's deep, and I'm still 'matic the way I flow to this beat.

Source: These are lyrics from Love Me by Eminem off of the soundtrack to 8 Mile.

Explanation: The explanation is simple. I like his wording and this is pretty much the only Eminem lyric I could use as a status message and not get fired.

Special Blog Bonus: Here are Eminem and Proof freestyling. It goes without saying that this clip contains some adult language, but in all honesty it's actually pretty tame.

After Bukit Tinggi, Here come Bukit Genting.

After Bukit Tinggi, we heading to genting highland.. yeah mountain again. hahah. one of my friend even mention to me.. "those mountain sure become your weekend spot"..i'm speachless...


Next destination of my birthday celebration trip. Genting Highland. from mountain to mountain. from bukit tinggi to bukit genting.


ice cold blury myst Genting. so cool to me , so cold to them. hahaha



the 2 previous birthday boy just received their belated birthday present.. haha yeah. on my birthday. hahha. a watch and a sub leather bag..hahaha


nah~~ i wish this could be my birthday present. hahaha. ok ok.. i'm dreaming.. haven't wake up. hahaha(don't wake me if i really dreaming. i'll bite!). yeah.. saw someone newly launched GT-R 35 up there.. pretty lucky. i saw the real car liao. awesome.. there is lambo gallardo back there. but this 1 more unique :p


Where's my present? erm.. i being told it shipping from HK wor(i doubt)? haha no idea. just wait.. first.hehe


Tonight is weng yi concert, and is joey fans meeting.. see how traffic jam down there..


yum Seng!!! Kam Min Toi games begins... on bed.....-_-.. the 2 liquor maniac absent tonight. that made me feel like i survive from being force drunk like the 2 birthday boy back in fraser hill. hahhaa. luckily Don got Pray Pray.


Next Country look n feel alike. China! . hahha, ok ok, just some where middle mount of genting highland.


a buddish temple feel hotel..erm.. have u ever think of sleep in temple? come here. if you like buddish temple. this place might be the best place for you to spend a night. i wonder their bed is it decorate with lotus flower... hahaha


memory piece on genting highland. gosh.. that glass of things... guess how many % of alcohol inside?haha.My birthday trip. i feel like went to 3 different country.. hhahaha
France --> Japan --> China.
poor guy world travel trip. hahaha. Thanks for the trip :p san fu sai.

1 day Trip to Berjaya Hill Resort

my birthday just passed few days.. and they brought me to few place.. erm.. they bring me to japan and france. hahaha

Fance Village,COLMAR TROPICALE

France Village Entrance. this is our 1st station.


The france bridge, under the bridge, you can found few black swan and white swa, okay.. there is four of them.. hehehe


Here we are. infront of France village.


Anyone need a ride? hop in. the only transport doesn't affected by RM2.70 fuel hike.


Another view of the france village, on top of the tower.

Japanese Village

Japanese Village, is our next station to visit. i finally here. my last visit didn't pay a visit at this place. but now i'm here :P.


Japanese look and feel. hmph.. so this is how japanese look like?? awesome~. tatami spa... tot of give a try there.. changed my mind when saw the price list... gosh....


Another Group shot at Japanese village.


Do you feel like you're in japan??


Our Next Stop after Japanese Village. Rabbit Farm! a place i didn't stop by on last visit. these rabbit are cute~..too bad.. it start raining after i entered...


there are a lot of rabbit!!! feed them feed them! so cute. hahaha


Official Website : http://www.berjayahills.com/
State : Pahang
Location : Bukit Tinggi

Next Destination.... Genting Highland..

May Madness

In case you were wondering, I'm currently in first place in my NBA Tournament pool.

Explanation: Yeah, that's right - the NBA Tournament. It's just like the NCAA Tournament, except there are less teams and nobody is paying O.J. Mayo to be there. I nailed the entire Sweet Sixteen this year! I'm a cinch to win this thing. Go Lakers!

I should note that the NBA playoffs are an important time of the year for me, because once they end, ESPN is dead to me until August when college football starts up. Sure, I'll check their web site once in a while to see if Willie Randolph got fired yet, but I don't really care that much about baseball.

Special Blog Bonus: Time for a LEGO roundup. Here are a few interesting models I've seen lately:

First up is the Miniland-scale LEGO Stephen Hawking along with mini Hawkings. Click the picture for more of their adventures.


Next up is a Stephen Hawking minifig, courtesy of (this is my favorite part) "Count Blockula".


There's also Sean Kenney's LEGO Empire State Building, which will reside on the observation deck of the building itself, making it the world's highest LEGO model! And yes, it comes with a gorilla.



And finally, Mark Kelso's (not the big helmeted safety on the Buffalo Bills) Apocalypsis. Nothing amusing about this, it's just a great model. You can read more about it by clicking the picture.

Excuse me

So my husband went to Utah this week to get our rental house ready to sell (please buy it) and he took the computer because supposedly he was going to work (but he only called in sick) and so he was assigned the task of writing the Sunday Summary but he was fasting and not funny so apparently it is lame and so now he's back and I was so overwhelmed at the idea of reading blogs and emails and updating my Goodreads and library list that I avoided the computer and now it's almost the weekend and a million things have happened so you'll all have to wait until Sunday for the oh-so-exciting Romney wRap-up.

Try not to die with anticipation.

De mayor quiero ser...

Robert Rodríguez

Siguiendo el post anterior, decir que de chaval perdí la cuenta de las veces que alquilé El Mariachi en el videoclub (y de las veces que, años más tarde, alquilé Desperado). Hice mi primer corto, una cosa cuyo título eran varios números que ahora no recuerdo (¿4763046?), cuando escuché que él había hecho el suyo con 16 años y si el primer libro de cine que leí fue un volumen de entrevistas de Andrew Sarris, el segundo fue su, ahora desaparecido de las librerías españolas, Rebelde sin pasta*.

Pero nada de esa admiración es comparable a las ganas que siento de ser él tras haber visto esta foto.

Abortado su proyecto de rehacer Barbarella, Rodríguez está proponiendo a varias cadenas una serie de televisión llamada "Women in chains!" (¡Mujeres encadenadas!), que protagonizarían 5 mujeres encarceladas, entre ellas su, mi, Rose McGowan y en la que se prometen grandes dosis de sexo al estilo de las películas "de cárceles femeninas" que se popularizaron en los 70 como The big doll house o ese Acorazado Potemkim del explotation que fue Ilsa, la loba de las SS.

Parece ser que Barbarella se truncó porque la Universal no tragó con que la protagonizara la McGowan (debe ser que no habían visto el baile de Planet Terror) y Rodriguez se ha buscado un nuevo proyecto, que pinta fantástico, para dárselo a su nueva musa.

Vista la foto, nadie puede culparle.

* A pesar del link a iberlibro, recomiendo comprarlo en inglés ya que la traducción de Ediciones B hacía cosas como traducir "F Stop" por "Parada F".

Take That, You Inorganic Adhesive!

Yes, well, I am polymerized tree sap and you’re an inorganic adhesive. So whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off of me, returns in its original trajectory and adheres to you.

Source: Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory.

Explanation: Some people are rubber, some people are glue. Sheldon happens to be polymerized tree sap. I think it suits him.

Here are two clips from the show:

Thinking about designers coding

From my point of view sometimes programmers are not as respectful as they should be with the work of designers. I am talking very seriously at this point. Sometimes I hear despective comments even in distribution lists or forums, usually complainning about the workflow or whatsoever.

Some days ago I was talking to a Creative Director and we wondered what is going to happen with designers who used to code with the new versions of Actionscript. Specially due to the reason that the learning curve of Actionscript 3.0 is not the same of Actionscript 2.0, mainly because that designer who used to programm in AS2 some things, now has to learn also OOP. So the jump is not so easy.

I used to be a designer and migrated to programming by the Actionscript way. And to be frank, I don´t have the answer to the question I mentioned. Probably we can have some with next version of Flash (CS4) and perhaps with Thermo. On the while you should take a look to the link below. This application is called Wix, it is a beta but you can easily ask for a license. It is a interface which generates a .swf just with drag&drop and customizing.

Ok, it is not Flash but I think something like this could be a good opportunity for designers. More, why Adobe does not make something similar? Because it is made by programmers? I don´t know but they should. Definately!

Don't Not Do It!

Don't do anything that effects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to do it. Then, for the love of God, don't not do it!

Source: Professor Farnsworth from the Futurama episode Roswell That Ends Well.

Explanation: The professor is warning his crew that they have gone back in time and they should not under any circumstances (unless they should) interfere with the past. Fry naturally goes on to kill his grandfather and then becomes his own grandpa.

Here's a clip including the ever popular "Truman Hitting on Zoidberg" scene:



Special Blog Bonus: It has nothing to do with Futurama, but here's the movie poster for I Am LEGO:

Depresiones y tabaco y cintas de vídeo

Ayer le confesaba a un amigo que en más de una ocasión se me han saltado las lágrimas por culpa de la falta de tabaco desde que he dejado de fumar.

- Conociéndote, tampoco es difícil, me contestó

La verdad es que tiene más razón que un santo y quizá debiera haberme imaginado lo descomunales que iban a ser, en mi caso, las depresiones originadas por la abstención. Uno lee aquí y allí que dejar de fumar puede causar depresión o alguien te dice que pasó por una "sensación de vacío" pero nada podía hacerme imaginar la sensación con la que hoy me he levantado por tercera vez (llevo 27 días sin fumar). El vacío existe, claro, pero se filtra por todo tu cerebro y se aproxima más a una ruptura sentimental que a una vulgar sensación de tristeza. Pocas veces como hoy he puesto los pies en el suelo y he tenido tal cantidad de pensamientos negativos sobre mi vida, pocas veces he recorrido el pasillo de mi casa intentando buscar una buena razón para seguir andando y, menos veces todavía, he llegado a la cocina sin haberla encontrado.

Sin ganas de cambiarme de ropa ni de hacer nada que necesitara de un mínimo de inteligencia, me senté a pasar unos viejos VHS a DVD. Eran cintas provenían de un antiguo videoclub y, al estar grabadas con anticopy es imposible volcarlas a DVD si no se tiene un cacharro llamado Regenerador de sincronismos, que con la caída del VHS se dejó de vender en las tiendas... vamos, que como todavía tengo un viejo aparato de esos, son varios los conocidos que me piden que les pase algunas de sus cintas a disco, un trabajo que me encanta porque me permite copiarme para mi uso personal alguna que otra joya que jamás ha vuelto a ser editada...

De modo que, me tenemos a mi y a mi depresión post-tabaquismo, a una pila de cintas de videoclub y al regenerador de sincronismos (¡ah!, y a mi -horrible- pijama), ¿qué ha ocurrido?, pues que me he echado a llorar al ver los trailers (amigos y conocidos, abstenerse de recordarme esta entrada la próxima vez que nos veamos en la vida real). Recuerdo mucho la época de los videoclubs, con aquellos VHS cutres y con el tener que rebobinar (sí, claro, me ha encantado la peli de Gondry... no hace falta que nadie lo pregunte) pero había olvidado muchos de aquellos títulos que luego, la historia del cine y de las ediciones en DVD se ha encargado de borrar. Eso me ha hecho pensar en nosotros mismos, trailers de películas que uno disfrutó 1 y 2 y 5 veces, como esa de Steve Martin y Goldie Hawn en la que visitan Manhattan, y en que durante un tiempo somos importantes para 1 o 2 o5 personas, pero que la historia (y en casos, el buen gusto de ésta) nos barrerá a un lado, dejándonos morir cubiertos de polvo. Y lo peor de todo no será eso, lo peor será que un día, cuando creamos habernos acostumbrado a la situación, aparecerá un imbécil embutido en un pijama maloliente y, tras pasarnos por un regenerador de sincronismos, dirá "Joder, mira que era malo esto, ¿cómo podía gustarme?".

No tengo muy claro no haber dicho una gilipollez. Si lo he hecho, ha sido culpa del tabaco.

Si a alguno le gusta recordar tiempos de VHS, quizá le interese un blog llamado La abadía de Berzano

Poco más, me voy a la cama, a ver si se me cura la depresión. Antes os propongo que intercambiemos títulos de pelis que visteis en el videoclub y de las que guardáis un buen recuerdo, ( y también propongo un aplauso para la prima de Julia, que no sé muy bien por qué, se ha aficionado al blog y eso siempre es de agradecer).

Dos recomendaciones

Y a ver si acaba pronto el mes y consigo remontar el blog, que basta con repasar las entradas de mayo para ver que ha sido aburrido de narices.

La primera recomendación: El blog de J.C., amigo que debuta en este selecto club de guionistas con blog y al que le doy la bienvenida, puesto que su camino y el mio ha tenido numerosas coincidencias (empezando por habernos sentado en la misma silla de la ecam)

La segunda: www.faceyourmanga.com, de momento está sólo en italiano, pero vale la pena. Eso sí, una mierda la selección de gafas de sol que ofrece.

The Official Post of NASCAR

Remember kids, Ritz is the official cracker of NASCAR.

Explanation: Sharing a house with somebody who listens to country music from time to time, I hear things on the radio I would not otherwise be exposed to. This past weekend, I learned that Ritz crackers are the offical crackers of NASCAR. It's important to know this distinction, because you wouldn't want to be seen eating an unofficial NASCAR cracker, or even worse, (gasp) a cracker that has nothing whatsoever to do with NASCAR. Oh the horror!

To make your life easier, we at Jeremy's Status Message have done a little research and suggest you stick to the following routine in order to fully support NASCAR and its sponsors:

When you wake up an hour late for work because that skank at the bar last night took the fancy Tissot (Official Watch) you stole from the dead guy and you forgot to replace the Duracells (Official Alkaline Battery) in your alarm clock, you don't have time for Kellogg's (Official Breakfast Food) or Minute Maid (Official Juice). Just slather on some Old Spice (Official Antiperspirant and Deodorant) and for heaven's sake, please get that Budweiser (Official Beer) off your breath with your toothbrush from Oral B (Official Oral Care Product). Don't worry about using Gilette (Official Shaving Product) because your court hearing isn't for another week. Just hop up into your Ford (Official Truck) and get down to the warehouse. Don't drive too wrecklessly because you're no longer covered by Allstate (Official Insurance) and you don't want to wreck the pretty Dupont Performance Coating (Official Finish) on your truck by mowing down any Chevrolets (Official Passenger Car). Plus, back when you hit that UPS (Official Delivery Service) truck, those jerks at Enterprise (Official Rent-A-Car Company) stuck you with a Toyota (Offical Manufacturer). How un-American!

Anyway, on your way to work, stop by APlus, (Official Convenience Store) grab a cup o' joe and throw back a few Tylenol (Official Pain Reliever) in hopes that you no longer feel like you've been hit by a Mack truck (Official Semi-Tractor Distributor). When you come waltzing into the Office Depot (Official Office Supply Products Partner) warehouse an hour and a half late and your boss fires you, we suggest that you hit him over the head with a Craftsman (Official Tools) wrench, take his Visa card, (Official Card) and run like hell.

Once you have that card, the sky is the limit. Before utilizing its full spending power, you should probably hit the Sunoco (Official Fuel) station and fill up. While you're there, grab some M&M's (Official Chocolate) and Combos (Official Cheese-Filled Snack) so you have something to munch on. Grab some Dasani (Official Water) too - it's on the big boss man!

Now it's time to spend big! Get yourself a new computer. One of those AMD (Official Semiconductor Technology) dealies with the American Online (Official Internet Service Provider). Pimp your truck's stereo with something by Sony (Official Consumer Electronics) and that Sirius (Official Satellite Radio Partner) doohickie. Act like your snooty manager - get some new Top-Flite clubs (Official Golf Club) and Calloway balls (Official Golf Ball). Toast your new fortune with a fine glass of bubbling Diageo (Official Wine).

After a busy afternoon of shopping, you probably want to ditch the card and grab a wholesome lunch at Rally's (Offical Burger). Make sure you wash it down with a Coca-Cola (Official Soft Drink). After that, you might want to hide out for the night at the Best Western (Official Hotel). Just order in some Domino's (Official Pizza Company) and get some rest. You have to find a new job in the morning. Oh - we suggest you try the Home Depot Warehouse (Official Home Improvement Warehouse).

A Brief Rant: Seriously? Duracell is the official alkaline battery of NASCAR? What, the company wouldn't shell out enough to be the official battery? Is there a chance of an official Nickel Cadmium battery? Lithium Ion? Do NASCAR fans even know the difference?

Another Brief Rant: If you were to say Calloway and Top-Flite, I would immediately think clubs and balls, not the other way around. It's like if you shell out enough cash, NASCAR will give you your own category. "McDonald's, The Official French Fry Supplier of NASCAR," "Burger King, The Official Onion Ring Supplier of NASCAR," and "Wendy's, The Official Frostee Supplier of NASCAR." What? You want in Hardees? Just make that check payable to "NASCAR" and we'll figure out your category later.

One More Really Brief Rant: Official Cheese-Filled Snack? Are you freakin' kidding me?

Actionscript mythical webs II

Let´s talk about the Actionscript introduction of video in the web!

Comming from telecommunications in first place there used to be the Vodafone Journey website, yet on line. This was an amazing event in the introduction of video formats and cue points for the actionscript community. Made by North Kingdom, one of my favourite studios with hi-res, but we´ll talk about studios other day.

Apart from the friendly blonde girl, called Lucy, we can watch almost a movie in this site. I think this website was fascinating at its launch, and still is! Don´t know why video hasn´t been on the road lastly! But this was really a big point from Flash. You can move around the timeline although some more interaction is missing, isn´t it?


Another video flash site I like and was at least curious is the one from IKEA, so: what´s happening there? Is it a movieclip? Timeline? Video integrated? How do they do it to move from one side or another? Lots of questions about this websites. Actually they have used something very similar in the last launch of anothe IKEA section. In this one you feel like in an elevator. Check it out and answer please: How did they make it?

First example: Some years ago, 2006:


Second example: Just now (elevator experience):

Both done by IKEA Systems, cannot say more about it.

Interaction Design

Back in our way, away from Papervision prophets I come up with Interaction Design. I have found Jon Kolko, I think he is a member of IDXA (Interaction Design Association). I strongly recommend you to have a look at that site, if you didn´t know it before.

So, far from programming we are talking here about concepts, and concepts should be before any programming, creativity or whatsoever. Jon Kolko publishes via web a book called Thoughts on Interaction Design. I think you should have a look at it also. He is talking about Interactive Design from a conceptual point of view. I like the way he sees designers, but these ones should be specialised in interaction, something not very common, at least here in Spain.

It has good examples and talks about very interesting things such as Prototyping, scenarios, the emotion-technology binomial, the process of interaction, concept maps and these so fascinating things for those who have used the mind maps of Tony Buzan and similar things.

This Post? It's Faaaantastic.

From the archives:

Memorial Day grilling. It's faaaaantastic.

Explanation: Remember those old NBA commercials? You know, where they show something cool about the NBA and then say "it's faaaaaantastic"?





Well, Memorial Day grilling is like that, only without the fabulous athletes and with more fatty beef and pork products. Same amount of beer in both, though.

Size Matters

From the archives:

Saddam Hussein's prison cell in Iraq is bigger than our office. The difference is, we have internet access... SIGH.

Explanation: When Saddam Hussein was captured in Iraq, they described in the article how the once mighty ruler was now confined to a miserable cell. I was really excited about how he had been taken down a notch until I realized that the dimensions of his sad little prison cell were actually greater than the dimensions of my office at work... and I had to share my office!

Now, the internet access at work was certainly a perk, but he got free meals and we didn't. Let's not forget that part. Anyway, I learned that it is apparently better to be a deposed dictator facing execution than it is to be a lowly software engineer - advice I will certainly pass on to my children someday.

Always Looking Down on us Zoidbergs

From the archives:

"And those coworkers. Always looking down on us Zoidbergs. What are they? From Nob Hill? They're all like 'Stop spraying me with ink, Zoidberg!', 'Put on pants, Zoidberg!', 'Don't touch our fancy box, Zoidberg!'"

Source: The Farnsworth Parabox - the same Futurama episode as my 2/24/07 status message.

Explanation: Another quote by Dr. Zoidberg regarding The Farnsworth Parabox (which was a box containing an alternate universe). This time, Zoidberg is complaining to Zoidberg from an alternate dimension about how his friends treat him.

Special Blog Bonus: Audio of this quote.

Una tontería...

... que no puedo dejar pasar. En mitad del proceso de documentación para hacer el texto del que os hablaba esta mañana, me he topado con esto:

¡Un anuncio de coches dirigido por Dario Argento!


Spot80 - Pubblicità Fiat Croma (regia... - more free videos

a lo que importa

He dormido muchas horas (11), tantas que hasta me da vergüenza reconocerme hoy como ser humano, de modo que nada más abrir los ojos he tenido que ponerme a terminar a toda prisa un texto que le debo a SciFiWorld Magazine (pedazo revista, oigan) y que me tendrá ocupado todo el día de hoy (querido gab, hoy tampoco podré escribirte...).

Ayer estuve en León y hace ya algunas semanas, este inclasificable blog y este todavía más inclasificable blogger despertaron la curiosidad de un recién nacido periódico digital llamado Peatom que opera desde León. En el tiempo que ha pasado desde aquella llamada de teléfono y el día de ayer ha estado, mi días han estado llenos de mails cruzados de los que ha surgido la propuesta de hacer un nuevo blog en su medio. Ese nuevo blog tratará de cosas alejadas del mundo del guión (mejor dicho, del mundo de un guionista con RayBan) y en ningún caso sustituirá a este; de momento, no diré el nombre del blog allí, puesto que todo quedará cubierto por la ficción y no estaría bien revelar que aquello está escrito por mi (hay varios blogs, de modo que no será obvio descubrir cuál es el mio)... de todas formas, de alguna u otra forma os daré pistas de mi identidad por allí (por supuesto, os avisaré el día de esta semana en que se inaugure).
Además, llegamos al acuerdo de establecer algunas colaboraciones para publicar textos míos relacionados con temas culturales, que esos sí, irán con mi firma.

Y bueno, en esas estamos, ahora soy un guionista/blogger con RayBan. Al margen de mi colaboración en ese periódico, os recomiendo echarle un vistazo y ver sus secciones (especialmente peatomTV), porque es un medio bastante fresco y lleno de creatividad (solamente había que ver su redacción, llena de muebles de colores, para descubrirlo). Además, de recomendaros una visita a León, más extensa que esta mía, por su vida cultural, su forma de entender la música, su Musac, su todo (y sus intentos por conseguir producir cine, tal y como le creí entender ayer en una brevísima conversación al "Presidente de los productores de Castilla y León").

Lo dicho, que ahora tengo otro trabajo y, al margen de la felicidad, no sé ni cómo lo voy a hacer para seguir teniendo vida... (por lo pronto creo que voy a tener que rechazar la generosísima oferta de Aitor para ir la semana que viene a Sevilla y ayudarle a localizar Ruido, que me apetecía mucho).

Un abrazo, me vuelvo a elucubrar sobre el cine de terror italiano...

Perfect Strangeness

Balki Bartokomous, how could you do this to me???

Explanation: Well, the short explanation is that I had a conversation with Evil Jeremy yesterday and that shouldn't happen just as matter and anti-matter should steer clear of each other, and the bad guy in Time Cop should avoid touching his time-traveling self from the future.

The longer explanation is as follows. Evil Jeremy was trying to sell me on hockey, as he is known to do, and I mentioned that hockey people are just silly, citing the fact that Michael J. Fox and Dave Coulier insist on playing hockey at every opportunity in whatever sitcom they happen to be on. As you would imagine, he mentioned Steve Carrell as well. I said, "Like Tony Danza and tap dancing" to which he replied "and Bronson Pinchot talking with a funny accent." Naturally, I responded "Of course, don't be ridiculous!" at which point we agreed that Bronson Pinchot should give up his old voice for good and stick exclusively to the Balki accent. Then a little research on Perfect Strangers turned ugly fast.

As you may recall, Larry and Balki had a coworker named Harriet who eventually was paired with the loveable police officer from Die Hard as part of a spinoff series called Family Matters. Therefore, as far as I'm concerned, Balki Bartokomous is directly responsible for the existence of Steven Urkel. This is sad, sad news. There is no Dance of Joy in me today, folks.

Special Blog Bonus: Evil Jeremy also discovered that the original unaired pilot featured Louie Anderson as Cousin Larry.


How messed up is that? You can read more about the pilot here. In the meantime, here's a clip from the show:

On the Occasion of her Fifth Birthday

Five things that make Jane...Jane

her crooked smile

her white blankie

the way she talks

her muscley little body

(she was actually diagnosed with Hypertonisity as a baby)

the way she just BURSTS with love and energy

Happy Birthday, Janey Cakes!

The Home Office

Why it's not good to have your husband working from home while he waits for his company to lease an office space:

1. He uses your laptop all day, every day and only lets you use it at night when he knows you are not a night person and cannot come up with decent blog posts at night.

2. He's distracting. You walk by the room and decide that he looks like more fun than the laundry you were about to do.

3. You are very aware that he can hear all aspects of your not-so-stellar parenting.

4. He knows about the amount of napping that goes on at home by you.

5. No clean-up-right-before-he-gets-home-so-he-thinks-you-have-it-all-together.

Why it's good to have your husband working from home while he waits for his company to lease an office space:

1. Gas prices. Sheesh.

2. When you are potty training, he cleans up the poopy underpants while you clean up the poopy 2 year old.

3. When you are making a hugely difficult castle cake on the same day you are potty training (I have been doing lots of hand washing, okay?), he helps you transfer the huge crumbling mess to a more stable surface AND keeps telling you how good it looks.

4. He watches the kids during naptime so you can buy the stuff for the princess party you are having tomorrow.

5. You can walk into his "office" 14 times while you are trying to find something that you can actually fit your 4 month pregnant self into, crying, and he'll tell you you look great EVERY time.

León --> Madrid

Poco más de siete horas en León, pero muy aprovechadas. El trabajo es mío. Dadme horas (quizá, un día) para revelar uno de los secretos en torno a mis últimas desapariciones del blog.

León

Juan. Amigo. Compañero. Socio. Aventurero. Lo mejor de venir a León es volver a estar con él; lo peor es descubrir que hace mas de un año que nos vimos por última vez.

Good Dog.

Sit Ubu, Sit. Good dog.

Source: As you've probably seen it before, this is the closing tag from shows produced by UBU Productions, Inc. Their most notable shows were Family Ties, Brooklyn Bridge, and Spin City. Ubu Roi is a black labrador retriever shown holding a frisbee as they play these words.



Special Blog Bonus: Speaking of labrador retrievers, I'm reading Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dogright now and was surprised to learn that Marley himself appeared in a movie called The Last Home Run. It's rather amusing to read about Marley's behavior and then see him being himself in the movie:

Madrid --> León

Me duele la cabeza, me duele porque no he dormido nada. Estoy en el tren, camino de León. Tengo una reunión a las once para un trabajo y ahora todo lo que pido es que no me pidan estar muy ingenioso porque en este estado no le vendería ni una huida a un preso de Guantanamo.