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2-19-08 - So this is my last blog here. I'm gonna start blogging on my new myspace account.
2-13-08 - I had an interesting day at work today. I had to climb all over a steep house holding onto a rope attached to the top of the house. Then we lifted but I forgot to film myself. Woops. Then Wyndham and Mike came over for a few hours. Then I saw Elizabeth. Tomorrow I don't work. I hope to do more than 10 minutes of weight lifting. I ran up Green mountain from Gregory canyon with Wyndham yesterday. He fell on his ass five times. I can't weight to run around this summer. Want to do the biggie this summer. I google mapped it and it looks to be about as long as a marathon. I want to do it in both directions hopefully with Mike on at least one. I need to get his ass into gear. I'm glad I've turned Wyndham onto running and Jordan and Mike into lifting. Even Mike P wants in. I'm gonna buy him a pullup bar and dumbells and staight up go to his apartment and lift right in front to him to show him how much of a sissy he is if he doesn't join in. That'll do it. Played Call of Duty with Windham again last night. I hope I don't have insomnia again tonight. I need to get it into my head that if I'm excersizing every day I need ten hours of sleep a night instead of seven.
2-11-08 - Been hanging out a lot with Windham. Played a game called call of duty for the last two nights. That game is amazing, now I understand why those shoot em up games are so popular. I told my mom and her friend about it though and they were giving me the third degree telling me it puts violent thoughts in my mind. Been running with Wyndham two times this week. He says he wants to go every day. I'm still only needing 10 minutes a day of working out. I hope to be able to do more than that, but my body is still staying sore. The calves are taking a while to kick into gear. I had a lot of feedback from a kayak forum and haven't had a chance to check out all of my other responses. Got a lot of good info I need to process now. I need to buy a lot of books and start reading them. Been working too. That's cool it's starting up again.
2-05-08 - I worked out for 45 minutes last night with Mike and today I'm blown in a lot of muscles and didnt work out. Could have though. I ran 4 miles today; not much better than last time. I haven't gotten to the point where I recover easily yet. I work tomorrow. I figured out how to transfer the video from the camera to the computer and splice it and upload it to you tube. I let a bunch of people know about the UKT. Tomorrow I want to start with the philosophy videos.
2-01-08 - I just found out I lost all the shit I wrote about what I know and think about all the worlds religions. It disapeared from my computer and my server. I lost all my photos from my server too, luckily I had most of those backed up, but not this. It sucks because I had like a whole month full of research into it. Oh well, there's nothing I can do about that now. I guess I'll start over in a few years when the inspiration comes, if it comes again. I worked today, that was cool, three places too. Jordan said he wants to work out with me, that's cool. I don't feel like saying anything else now. I just found out I also lost everything I wrote about what I think about other countries too, luckily I never did that much with it, but it sucks that if I leave my site alone shit just disapears from it. I really have to stay on top of things and have it always backed up in muliple places because a server isn't good enough. I think it must be spirits or aliens or something. Has to be. I never did anything. Whatever...
1-28-08 - I slept in today. I thought I was going to be ok but I guess not. Wyndham called and wanted to take advantage of the free passes at 24 hour fitness, so we did that but I had no energy. then I watched a movie with mom. Hopefully I will feel ok tomorrow. I ordered a video camera today. I want to make videos of me philosophizing and stuff for youtube.
1-26-08 - I worked yesterday and the day before that. That wasn't fun. My legs felt like jello day before yesterday walking up and down the ladders. I don't think my brain is working too well also. Jordan and Mike want to come over to film weed smoking for youtube. I think I'll try to write now but if I'm not into it I'll just read. Don't want to push anything.
1-23-08 - I am still exhausted today. I have to work tomorrow. I hope that will bring me back to life so I can start running, riding, lifting, and stretching. I really want to get into shape but I can't if I'm sleeping all the time. I sweat all night last night so I was clearly still sick. I can't think too well today either. Laraine is still hurting bad but she's working again.
1-22-08 - My mom gave me some codine cough syrup last night and a trazodone and it knocked me out and right now a day later I can still feel it. I think I must be allergic to it. I filmed the first episode of Kyle's gym today. I was out of breath and my lungs hurt and I had no strength because I was on that codine shit with the trazodone. I think I remember taking this stuff some other time and it had the same effect. I need to stay the hell away from it. I'm psyched I'm officially working out now though. I'm an athlete again! yay! I slept most of the day though thanks to the drugs, or no thanks. I took my car into the emisions today. I pucked like seven times today after working out on that crap. My mind is kind of gone also. I also had no appetite today. Gonna read about atlantis now. out...
1-21-08 - I slept well last night for the first time since I got sick. I slept till noon today which was nice, and woke up feeling pretty good. I just might be well tomorrow...or the next day. My mom can barely speak though even though, but I think she's getting better physically too. I had some interesting dreams last night. I had a dream about hanging out in Boulder at some outdoor event at CU with my mom and Shano. Then I had a dream about really fast bright green monsters that would kill everybody in their site and the only way to hide from them was to go above because they couldn't look up. Then I had a dream that I was hanging out with a blonde girl and a guy and I would keep waking up screaming holding onto the ceiling. One time I was way up at the tip of an A frame looking way down. Then I realized I was scitzophrenic hiding from the monsters and they were my caretakers and their presence would bring be back to reality. It's interesting what kinds of dreams I can have when my brain in a degree above normal. I don't think all these zombie movies do much good, they should stop making them. I saw I am Legend the other week. That was freaky.
I got my first response from a country concerning ports of entry today, but I think the best way to really research that would be to call because most of these people don't return their emails. Today I think I'll just type all day. I don't want to move too much and trigger a relapse. This influenza virus is weird like that.
I just looked at my philosophy page and all the links were dead. I don't know how that happens. I lost all of my photos the other month too. I think spirits enter the computers and tamper with them. That's the only explanation I can think of.
1-20-08 - So I'm still sick. This morning I was listening to Yellowman and felt good and started vacuuming and then felt like Hell again. This flu is weird. You feel OK and then it hits you like a truck again. Now I don't feel well. I couldn't even force feed myself Tre Ling's today. Mom can barely talk. I saw Hot Rod today and the rest of the Planet Earth episodes with my mom.
1-19-08 - I had a hell of a night last night. For like an hour or something I was in agonizing pain, like my fever spiked or something. I had some interesting dreams. I had a dream that I was riding my road bike up Flagstaff and the road leading up to the canyon was ridiculously steep, like 45 degrees. I had to ride zig zag up it in the lowest gear. I had a dream about that part of the road being that steep before which is interesting. Then I went higher up and it was the scene of a campus and various other activity as I was going up the switch backs until it was closed. Then I had a dream that I was in a plains town with some people and then I got separated and asked a girl if she know where so and so was and she led me to a parking lot and thought it was over there. Then I was sitting at a table in a restaurant talking to the most beautiful girl I have ever seen who was carving various mandalas into the wooden table we were sitting at. She asked me if I was hanging out with a girl and gave me the name which I forgot and I said yes, as the conversation continued and she kept asking me questions about this girl I finally admitted that I didn't know the girl she was talking about, but she didn't seem to care. On my left was Jared Price, a kid I was working with last year and he told me someone had given him acid, extasy, and mushrooms the night before in a disco and had a great time and I was thinking that was an awefully lot of drugs to be taking at the same time but I didn't say anything. Thats all I remember.
When I got up this morning I felt like hell. My mom made me a meal and made me eat even though I didn't have any appetite. When I was done I felt a lot better and went back to bed. I just got up now. My mom said someone told her at the bank that one of the workers there has been sick for three weeks. I hope I won't be sick that long. I haven't been this sick for four years, and I can't remember the time before that that I have been sick like this; like since I was a kid. I think I will go watch a movie now that my headache is gone. My mom seems to be getting better so that's encouraging.
1-18-08 - I have been really sick lately. I am excited about finally starting to work out and also to finally start writting. I want to write philosophical stuff and about my life. I will just write about my life now because I don't want to overheat my brain while I'm still sick. I need to clean up my thoughts on my website though. I never fixed the stuff I wrote while I was stoned and living in crazy Chile which fogged my mind. It was hard to think clearly in Chile but now I can here in my peaceful room. I had to turn a job down today because I'm sick. That's the first time I had to do that. I hate it when I have to do that. I heard this flue can last up to three weeks from my mom who has it too. I think I'm going to switch to a normal blog pretty soon. I just had a big philosophical discusion with my mom and now my head hurts and I feel sick again. I'm at 100 now. At least I'm improving from yesterday when I was at 103.
1-14-08 - I went swimming with my mom for the first time since I moved in with her this morning. I just laid in the water on my back and relaxed my neck and felt it stretch out. I had some sharp pains in my neck on the way to the gym yesterday, I think from doing the computer on my stomach for too long, and the pool helped. Then I spent the day helping her figure out how to use her constantcontact email marketing program, and went to sleep early again. My body is still recovering from doing my strength tests in the gym yesterday.
1-13-08 - I cleaned my room for the first time since I moved in with my mom in June. I was too busy with other things to bother. It's nice to have a clean room. I also helped clean my mom's house today. Then I set my attention to figuring out how to get videos on youtube and discovered what I have to do is buy adobe premier, so tomorrow when their office is open I will buy it, but will download it first so I can film myself working out. I will set up ten minute work outs to do because that's the video limit for youtube. I will do as many of those a day as I can. Tomorrow I will go to the gym with Mike Chapin and find out how strong I am for my profile on the bodybuilding.com website.
1-12-08 - So it's two in the morning and I just woke up. Last night I didn't get any sleep. I just layed in bed for the last couple hours of the night with ensonmia and so I was like a zombie all day yesterday. Yesterday I finally finished putting the photo albums together and went over to scrape my brothers pipe to celebrate. Then went down to the County Clerk to finally sign the divorce papers and then made a money order for the Chilean Consulate. I need to mail that off tomorrow. Then I'm done and can email Paola. She'll be relieved. Now I can email her with instructions on what to say on the UKT video. I hope she gets internet soon, or a cell phone. After I got home I mounted my pullup bar on my walk in closet and then called IPower so see why I can't ftp. While I was waiting for tech support I fell asleep, and when the guy woke me up when he answered I had to tell him I forgot why I called and to give me some time to remember. After about ten seconds I remembered but I was still half concious. It did'nt ftp because they changed the security and I had to change the password and forgot to change it on the ftp settings. Then I crashed again and just woke up now. I had a dream about my dad, very vivid dream. I don't remember all the details now cause I got stoned yesterday, but we were visiting a foreign country and I was with my dad. I remember looking at him and being under the impression he was dying but he looked perfectly healthy. I remember looking at him and I started to feel my face crunch up as I began to cry. I was thinking I had to remember how I crunched up my face just in case I ever wanted to act it out. I don't think you know how to crunch your face up to cry the right way unless you have really done it, and this was real. I also remember when we got in the plane I looked over the landscape and saw a neighborhood sett up as a mosaic of Bob Marley's face. I was with a group of tourists who I was at the back end of and getting lost in the airport and that's where I met up with my dad. I was getting kind of lost. Just before leaving the first airport to get on the bus to go to the other airport they lined up and shot all these students who were apparently involved in a coup. I don't remembe the details of it. I guess there always has to be drama in dreams even if you avoid the TV. That's pretty much all I remember that I care to include here. I should start a dream journal again. Didn't think about that.
I'm so glad I finally finished the photo project. I found this new site called bodybuilding.com where I set up a profile and can upload photos of me flexing and all my data to keep track of. I can even upload videos of me working out. I'm gonna try that. It's great to get the motivation together. It's also kind of a social networking site, were people can talk about their workouts together. I want to share my home gym method with people. I plan on lifting in ten minute segments where I just go for ten minutes strait with various excersizes that I film and upload. Then I do about that much stretching; obviously I won't film that. I think I'm motivated enough to make getting into shape a priority for me. I really need it. I can't sit up strait without my back hurting because of lying in bed and slumping for so many year. Day before yesterday I was on the ladder in a narrow section between the wall and a huge window and I had to put one hand behind me on the wall to balance while I washed the window with the other, and I got a cramp in my shoulder from it and could barely do it. That would have never happened ten years ago. I wasn't even leaning back. The beginning part fo working out is going to be difficult so I'm just going to take it easy. I will also start running and riding. Hopefully there are wintertime group rides I can join in on on the weekends or something. I really want to get my assed kicked by a girl in one of those. That would be so sexy and will motivate me more to get into shape. I'm gonna start running every day on the trail outside of my house too. I hope I don't get asma everytime. But if I do I'm sure it will go away after a couple weeks. I just have to keep up with it every day. I will still have extra time to do projects on the computer, I just have to remember to keep the getting into shape a priority which has been hard because I get so obsessed with my projects. It will work this time though, I'm confident about that.
Some of the new projects I want to do now are completing the geneology. I need to get my mom to get a membership with ancestry tomorrow, or at least see if I can. I coulnd't before because they weren't sending me my password from the other time I had apparently signed up for it which I don't remember. I also want to finish the ukt site, but I have till August to do that. I have also been having urges lately to write my entire life story down. That will be fun. It's so weird that I can type way better when I'm not looking at the keyboard. I guess I'll just close my eyes when I type. There we go. I hope I will be able to sleep tonight. Maybe there's some kind of cosmic thing going on right now that is affecting my sleep. I'm going to look into what's going on astrologically and with the sun spots I think.
1-9-08 - I was up till sunbreak this morning typing old transcripts and never went to sleep after doing some errands in the afternoon. I bought a bench and some dumb bells for my new gym and my room and then went to the ymca to cancel my membership cause I have only been like four times in the last like seven months. While I was there I did the fat count test by holding a contraption that sends an electric pulse through my body. I have 14%, the guy said that's really good. I think it's so low cause I have been eating so little lately in my quest to finish this damn photo album project. I swear to God I'm gonna get into a regular work out and running schedule just as soon as I finish this godaweful project.
1-8-08 - I'm typing pages and pages of documents I found in my moms family albums right now. It's interesting how certain professions run in the family. In my moms side it's ministry and teaching. Interestingly enough it's also ministry as well as banking on my fathers. I finished putting the photos in albums. I got's to finish the leftovers and newspaper clippings tomorrow after I get a laminator. My sleep schedule is totally reversed and I'm barely eating. I have to work day after tomorrow. I wonder if I'm going to get to sleep or just stay up all night and suffer the days work...remains to be seen. Wyndham helped me the other night, said he'd help me tomorrow.
1-03-07 - I can't believe it's been a month since I wrote in this last. I had some ftp problems. Tony called last night and wants to make his own ukt site, so mine will be the backup in case nobody wants to sponsor us his way. Wyndhams coming over to help me put his photo albums together. Since I wrote in here last I finished the timelines, or at least took the loose links out of them, then I was working on what I think about the first amendment because I wanted to finish at least one issue that I have an opinion about, but when I was getting started wyndham came over with the photos that he cropped and so off I went uploading 18,000 photos to flickr. I had to privatize all of them but my own though. Now I'm putting them back in their albums. Needless to say its a huge job. I also have to fix a bunch of stuff on my mom's websites. I came up with the idea of making my own youtube show called kyle's gym, but I have to get a video camera for that. Maybe later. Got's to go. hope it ftps this time. I hate writting in my journal if I can't ftp it right away. I get superstitious like my computer will crash or something.
12-05-07 - OK so finally I'm keeping a journal again. I'm back on track! I went to the gym for the first time in a long time like months a couple days ago and today was the third day in a row. The reason I haven't had my shit together is because I have been working on the kayak web site, but now I feel like I've at least got that started to the point that I don't feel like I'm behind. I also went running for the first time in I can't even remember when, more than ten years. I got like five minutes into it and had my excercize induced asthma attack and had to stop. I was still having asthma when I went ot the gym. It's nice to finally start the process of getting into shape. It will take a while I think. I will make sure to go running ever day so I remind myself that I can't run until the asthma goes away, so no pot, or rather, resin or pot smoking any more for me, I'll keep writting like I'm a stoner though. I got myself into official out of shape condition for the first time in my life. I never knew what it really was until this week. I just felt like shit, toxic. I'm starting to eat right too. I know it's for real this time because so many things are so close to fruition I won't get addicted to another project. I logged into my adsense account for the first time in a couple years today also, but I won't let the adsense project for the ukt take over my life. I will start rotating the photos pretty soon too, but that won't consume me. I have a good feeling. I am on a mission for my body now. That's about all I can think of now. until tomorrow.
12-17-06 - Today will go down in the anals of my history as the day I finished the photo album and wrote this and got my stuff ready for some mountain biking tomorrow.
12-16-06 - I spent all of yesterday cleaning the house.
12-15-06 - I can't remember
12-14-06 - Tony came over and I helped him build the beginning stages of his web site fmee.org. That is a name I came up with Full Mountain Experience Expeditions. We had some Chinese takaway and worked into the night.
12-13-06 - The next day I slept in a lot and when I got up Claudio wanted me to get him some weed. I hadn't done that before and figured there is always a first time so I got him some and smoked a little of it and tried to pick up the house a little which Paola had left in a complete dissaster. It looked as if she left in a hurry and stored a lot of her valuable stuff in our room so nobody could steel it. I went over to Tonys house and tried to help him with a web site but I got too stoned and I realized it wouldn't work making it from stratch, so we decided to make it from a Dreamweaver frameset template at my house the next day and watched Borat. Then we had a nice barbecue with Andrea and her mother.
12-13-06 - I came back yesterday afternoon from the trip with Tony. It was 12 days.
Day one, 12-1-06, getting to Termas del Flaco - (Photo album) I didn't get any sleep the night before I started, but Tony wasn't ready until eleven so I got to sleep in. We met at the train station at about noon and got on the train at about one thirty. We waited around in San Fernando a little bit and got a van up to Termas del Flaco with some people who work there. We happened to get there around the beginning of the season, so the people who run the van and the hotel it goes let us camp behind their hotel for free and offered to let us soak in their pool behind for free; but we just wanted to go asleep.
Day two, cowboys camp site - The next morning at dawn after a half dozen old men got in the pool behind us we cooked up our breakfast oatmeal and took off. The river was smaller than it was in February and we had no problem crossing it, but I pulled Tony accross with the rope and harness anyway to see how it worked. After we hiked up through the big rock section and big ditches we camped at the cowboys first campsite near the big rock.
Day three, surrounded by snow - We took our time getting up and lolly gagged it up to just past the turn into Mars valley which was still covered in snow. We found a nice dirt patch near the river to camp that was completely surrounded by snow, with the permanent glacier just to the north.
Day four, lake - Tony was still a little under the weather from a cold he caught from Andrea so he took a little siesta at the end of Canyon section. I hiked up a little and discovered a lake and a nice flat camp section so I went down and told Tony and we made out way up there and had a nice view of Mars valley and the pass into Argentina. Now that we were high we got to enjoy the sun setting a little later which was nice.
Day five, mountainside shelter - We headed straight towards the pussy to get up to the top of the mountain we saw in the distance. Tony lagged a little until the beginning of the steep section, but after we had lunch at the beggining of the steep section we was able to keep up with me because I was kicking in large foot holds into the hard snow. Not long after getting to the top of the pussy and hiking up the less gradient rock for a hundred meters or so we found a cool looking ridge near a sandy area. Tony was kind of tired and wanted to camp so we decided to make a nice shelter from the strong wind coming from the West and leveling the steep sand. After about 1:40 we had a great shelter made that was comfortable and completely sheltered us from the wind. We had a little time left to cook up some dinner before we went to sleep.
Day six, ridgetop shelter - We felt great that day as we hiked up along the snow line towards the top of the pass we could see from the camp site. Only 50 meters or so from where we were we could see a gigantic crevase that I forgot to get a direct photo of. When we got to the top I was surprised to see a much narrower valley than the one I was expecting, but I did recognize the distinctive signal cliff rock in the middle of the valley on the North side. We hiked up a little bit to the top of the ridge that formed such a perfectly flat top that we felt enough desire to go ahead and built another shelter at that magical place. We spent about four hours hauling big rocks from 10 meters down the moutain to the top and created a giant U shaped wall that did a great job blocking the wind that came from all directions. We also did a good job in making the floor of the shelter a nice layer of sand that was exquisite to camp on.
Day seven, descent into Argentina - We started that day hiking up the ridge to a couple of stone towers near the base of the glacier that leads up to the top of the 15,500 ft mountain that loomes over the area. I couldn't go on any higher because I thought my sunglasses had blown away the night before (they were in the soup bag), and we didn't want to risk any crevases. On the way down we saw a little Kierin and a plastic bag under it with some names of some Argentinians where where there just one year and two days before. After we hicked back down to camp we packed up everything and hicked down to the pass which was the lowest point in the pass that we could see and then slid down the Argentinean side of the top and then hicked down the snow to the bottom. I failed to remember the lesson I learned from hiking down into the valley in February and followed the river to the bottom and we were presented with a cliff that we had to climb down. At a difficult point on the cliff I passed Tonys bag to him and he tried to bring it down with him but dropped it into the river and I watched it float down the river towards the glacier. I thought it was going to get swept under but at the entrance it got stuck and Tony was able to retrieve it. After that we wised up and I lowered my pack with the rope and climbed down. Tonys bag was sopping wet but luckily for him his sleeping bag was still dry.
Day eight, hike up to the memorial - We hicked up a little bit to a camp site that had a nice little shelter next to a couple of pretty little lakes and left the bags and hiked up to the memorial and hung out there for a couple hours. The memorial is built on a dirt patch near where the plane rested and had about four crosses built out of plane parts. There was a small pile of plane parts about two meters by one meter that included part of a wing, a window, a radio, an electrical switchboard, and various metal bars. We spent about an hour reading the sign in book, and from the look of it there had only been people visiting the site since about 2003. Only in March did they put a Marbol plated black pyramid with the names of the dead and the survivers etched on it. After we hiked down to the camp site we had some time to relax and I sowed up my back pack.
Day nine, hike back up to the ridge shelter -The next day was the super day all the way up past the memorial site and up the mountain slope the plane slid down to the top of the ridge to the ridgetop shelter where we camped again.
Day ten, hike down the valley -We thought about staying up there for another day to perfect the shelter but when the morning came we were ready to get home and hicked down to the ridge and found a nice place to descend and got all the way down to our first camp site after Termas del Flaco. That was four climbing days in one descending day. Part of the reason we covered so much distance is because we came accross another trail we didn't see on the way up that skirted the side of the valley so we didn't have to go up and down so much like we did in the middle of the valley.
Day eleven, back to Termas del Flaco - The hike down the valley past the rock field was much easier on the way down than the way up. One time I stopped to weight for Tony and noticed that there were four Condors flying overhead enjoying the breezes that were created by the narrowing of the valley. Not long after I noticed them they seemed to notice me and took turns swooping down three meters over my head and circling back again for a few minutes until we started hiking down again. The river was much bigger this time around. I guess a week and a half can make a difference in the size of a river at the beginning of the Summer; it was also later in the day this time. I got accross the river fine, but Tony had trouble and eventually had to strap up to the harness and have me pull him accross with the rope. He got accross OK, but slipped and lost his pole. We decided to come back the next morning and see what the river looked like then, so we hiked down to Termas del Flaco and soaked while I ate a whole quarter kilo of salt soaked Charchi (deliciouse dried horse meat). When we got back to the hotel we camped behind the people there gave us a bowl of beans and pasta and invited us to stay in a room for free.
Day twelve, back to Santiago - I set my cell phone to get us up at six but I forgot to turn it on. Luckily Tony had insonmia and got up naturally at 6:20 and we took off running toward the river about five kilometers up the valley after we hid the bags. When we got to the river the Sun wasn't showing yet but we didn't have time to wait so I crossed it and we set up a rope and Tony tested it and it worked fine and he was happy, so we ran back and had time to have a free breakfast at the hotel before leaving. Tony still wasn't totally confident about his river crossing abilities so he wanted to go back there with his wet suit and practice crossing and set up more ropes so he won't run into any problems when he comes back with his groups. Tony wants to created his own mountain guiding operation to get him through the Summer and maybe even make enough so he can get into teaching on his own next year (fmee.org). The ride down the valley was nice because we were the only people in the back of the van and the seats were pointed towards each other like a Limo. We had some fried chicked and french fries for lunch in San Fernando which was delicious and noticed on the TV that Pinoche had died. There was another interesting episode illustrating the stupidity Chileans again. I was in the train station and put in a hundred pesos and the machine took it and didn't give me my candy. There was a phone number there to call to complain, but it was a false number. I explained that to a boy who was manning a candy stall next to the machines that he should tell his boss about their competition ripping people off and he told me it had nothing to do with him. I explained to him that he would make less money from people going to the machines and finally got him to admitt that it did have something to do with him and that he should tell his boss after a couple minutes, but he still didn't seem to care. I just hope the owner of the stall he was working at wasn't his dad.
I got home at like 5:30 and Jerry and Gato were there hanging out. I asked Jerry if he had a job and he said he lost his job because his boss wouldn't let him take time off for the birth of his son Vincent so he went anyway and they fired him and Paola hired him to take care of our house. He made me a bowl of pasta which was awful and hand't hardly any sauce in it.
That night I went to see a soccer game at a soccer clubhouse place a couple houses down for the first time with Jimmi. It was Colo Colo in the final against Pachoco, a Mexican team, for the final of the Nissan South America cup, which is according to Jimmi the second biggest cup in Latin America. Colo Colo got the first goal, but lost in the end 2-1.
11-23-06
Jerry had his first child two days ago; a boy.
11-18-06
I made a few hundred some odd essential oil bottles today. I'm gonna go ahead and make materials out of the rest of the oils I have and then sell it. I have to wait on my moms email on how to make the cream again or wait till paola comes back. I don't feel like researching it. Maybe thats paola the bells ringing...
1:35 OK I'm exhausted and ready for bed. I was up since like 6:30 this morning. I just got up I don't know why. A couple days ago after staying up all night I did my class and went home and stayed busy before I went to Marios and then did the class at aduana and was passing out in class from the lack of sleep. But when I went home and ate I wasn't sleepy anymore and stayed up late again. Every since then I have been magically getting insomnia right at sunrise. That has been what I have been praying for, or what I have prayed for alot.
The cats have been being a pain lately. Belen bit me when I picked her up by the scruff of her neck and drew blood in two places so I kicked her out, but she sneeked in through the reja and pooped right next to me at like 6:30 am when I was printing something. Then the next day one of them pucked in two places in the house. Saul was going to take Belen off our hands the other day; he must have forgotten.
I started filling up the little bottles with all the oils I have so I can see what I have and play with them some more. I have rashes on my arms and face from rubbing them off on me so much. I want to make product out of everything I have before I sell any of it so I can take a photo of it. I'm curious to see how much its going to be.
I gave up on the Flash. I'm in a good place to stop after the main movie file mysteriously dissapeared and the zoom one needs to be redone because marios way is better. I totally have my work cut out for me with this aromatherapy. I hope Paola helps me at least make it. The other night after Paola and Saul said no to helping me Claudio offered to make 50 bottles which was the first time he'd ever done anything like that.
11-16-06
OK so here I am typing on the blog. My mom didn't answer the phone, I wanted to ask her if she could tell me what size label the ones she sent me were so I could match it with one of the labels from this program I got so I can use them on these bottles im making. I have so much to sell in not very much time but the holidays are coming up and aromatherapy stuff makes good holiday presents. I had my last morning class with Pablo today so next weeks going to be lite, then one week after that and im off with tony to the mountains for like a couple weeks. I have to get a sleeping bag still. Last year I froze my ass off when I camped at 14,100 feet in that ripped open 30 dollar sleeping bag. I should just go up to las condes and by one.
I was at marios yesterday and the problem with the flash was that flash files can't hold 54 megas so i will divide all those scenes into their own files. he showed me a better zoom tween than the one i was doing. All you have to do is plop a shrunken photo onto the island that you are zooming up to to keep the resolution, duh. Maybe i'll work on that now.
I found this totally awsome website called learnoutloud.com. You can hear just about anything you want. This has been what I have been waiting for. I can't wait to get home and just listen to stuff I get on that site all day long. This has been the biggest year ever for the internet. I found out about wikipedia, wikimapia, you tube, and now this incredible site this year. I can't even imagine the internet now without those sites. Thats wick to the wack.
11-15-06
So I slept all day again today. I got bit hard by the last day of school bug. I'm pretty much finishing off the working and will put the new site to sell everything in the newspaper tomorrow, and will start selling the rest of the essential oils and stuff. I think I will give up on the flash movie for now. The program keeps crashing and when I boot it up again it losses most of the photos in the library. I must have replaced them like 30 times and I'm sick of it now. I can't reinstall the program because I lost the key so I think I will just wait until I buy it legally when I get back home and have the money. Tomorrow I will meet Mario to find out whats going on. I think I'm ready to shift my focus to selling everything now and mountain biking.
11-14-06 Monday
OK so I'm back bloggy blogging it again. The other computer hit the crapper so I downloaded dreamweaver on this computer and back on the blogging circuit. Hopefully this computer works for a couple more weeks so I can sell it and forget about godam computers for a while. The other computer had a loose power input so I paid like 80 bucks to get that fixed even though I provided the new part; and when I got it back from the shop the keyboard didn't work and they said the motherboard was busted but it wasn't their fault. I didn't press the issue because they have no reason to fuck up my computer and I know how these things serindipitously just stop functioning at inauspicious times. I guess its better for that to happen to me than some poor Chilean who just bought it and then gets fucked; especially if I'm still in town for them to complain to. When I sell these computers I have to make sure to be double clear that once those fools give me my money the computers are theirs and thats that.
Last week Tony and I tried to do that ride I did a few days beforehand. He showed up at my house at 3:30 in the morn but it was raining so we looked at the weather on the internet and amongst a whole week of cloudless sky this day was a chaparon which meant heavy rain storm, so we got drunk and climbed cerro Blanco in the drizzle with Toby when the sun came up. I can't beleive it is still raining. It better not on the trip in December cause we ain't gonna have no tent.
For the last three or so days I've had reverse sleep. I just stay up all night and then go to my class in the morning and then go home and crash out at like noon and stay up all night again. Today I'm sure will be the same thing. I am rocking the kayak movie now. I will have a cool place to start off again from in a few months when I get another computer in Boulder. So I'm good to go and fiddle with the flash again. chow chow.
11-02-06 Thursday
I haven’t griten much lately because both of my computers have been out of comision. My computer went to the shop because the plug in was loose and the guy wanted to buy my busted computer so I changed the keyboard out but then the computer didn't work so I had to give him all of the computers. I got this one back today and apparently there was nothing wrong with it. All I had to do was put in 1234 on the startup. Whatever. Now I'm gonna go and pick up my computer. When I don't have a computer (which seems to happen all the time even though I have two working ones) I got depressed so on Tuesday I slept until 4. On Tuesday night I remembered that Wendesday is a holiday so I decided to take advantage of the extra sleep I had and go on my first bike ride of the year. I left at 12:45 and totally lollygagged it up through the city to Santuario naturaleza and had dinner at a gas station on the way. It was Halloween so I saw tons of kids all over the place. Getting my bike over the gate wasn't that big of a deal, and the ride up that trail was awsome. I hadn't done that awsome wide single track for a while and it was a moonless night so I had no idea where I was. I got tired and drowsy from the altitude and had a little nap thinking I was below the saddle and was kind of disapointed in my bad form, but after the sun came up I noticed I was way farther that I thought when I saw that that little farm was right around the bend. That lifted my spirits and I decided to not just go down at the saddle. Not long after the farm I had to start walking through mud and snow fields for a couple hours. I noticed up ahead somebody was plowing the road so next time I go up there it will be clear. I saw from the saddle I was at there was a little single track with some motorbike tracks on it so I followed that down into some of the coolest smoothest single track I have ever seen. I was at the top of some awsome terraced cliffs and saw a couple foxes and a huge three meter condor flew like ten feet from my head. That trail let out at that country club Tony Julious and I went to a while back, so I have to do that ride in reverse this summer. Anyway. 1600ft to 9100 feet is a pretty good way to start out the year. I don't know if I will go on any more rides this month though because I am hooked on this kayak flash movie. But when December comes I swear to god I'm gonna sell these godam computers and everything else and do some serious mountain biking.
10-29-06 Sunday
So here i am at 3:53 in the morning. i haven't been writting in my journal lately because my computer busted in the plug in area and i have been too lazy to take it into the shop, plus i don't have the money to get it fixed right now. I will deal with that next week. i figured i could still write in my journal on this computer and switch it over later.
I have been trying to get flash into my head. I have been banging my head against the wall for the last couple days. i couldn't seem to be able to get anything to work. Now I feel like I can actually make enough progress on the various things i am trying to do that i don't have to stop and wait for the next time i see mario. It took a couple days, but i think i can enjoy myself trudging away.
I went into daves office the other day because i wanted to see if i could hang out there and get his flash guy to get me unstuck from stuff, but he went to venazuela. I gave dave marios number and they met last week. that would be cool if mario works there and i could hang out and use him to get me unstuck. i can't wait until im at the point where i can cruise along without getting confused all the time. when i get home im going to sign up for an online mentor deal. I wonder how that will work out. i only have like four or five more weeks of work. That is so crazy. claudio went to his fathers and paola is working so im all alone. peace out.
Tusday 10-24-06
So its almost November wow only one more month of working and then I'm gonna sell all the computers and the car and everything else and just mountain bike my brains out. I don't even want to work that much anymore. I was supposed to go to the first class with the owner of the bike shop yesterday but I forgot and today decided not to call her. She didn't call me when I forgot so maybe she forgot too. I didn't do much today. I am trying to get into the flash after so long of just watching the videos and then drawing the site with colored pencils. I called Mario today to get together tomorrow. I need to figure out how to do the zoom tween. You would think that would be one of the first things people would want to learn but the tutorial isn't on the web. But I know you can do it.
Dave and Sandra came over last weekend. That makes like 6 weeks in a row or something that I have been hanging with the homies. We went to Dave and Sandras engagement party, then to Sandras dads birthday party. Those guys were cool. All these singers from the 70's taking turns singing all night. I got to sing happy birthday in English. I told them I could sing but we left kind of early at 4. Sandra said last year they partied till noon. There was a presenter who was presenting people and talking almost non stop. This old drunk indian guy grabbed my dick though telling me how to say dickhead in mapuche. He tried to do that with Dave too but I warned him and he was able to block. He left pretty soon after that.
It was pretty cool but I was exhausted because I had only gotten like 4 hours of sleep the night before and was working the whole day. We started a weird movie about aliens with morgan freeman but I went to bed towards the beginning at like two so I could get up for my class at 8:30 the next morning. That was daylight savings time and so I was an hour late. I already knew about that but I needed the extra sleep and Rolondo didn't say anything.
It was pretty fun last saturday playing the playstation with dave. I never play it because one of the kids always is and i have other stuff going on. I want to get the steering wheel and get all the car racing ones when I get home. Jimi came over for a little bit to tell us about a fight he got into because he offered to have sex with three girls who were walking by and the boyfriend smacked him on the back of the head and called him a baldy so he kicked his ass. He had a red eye and a little scratch. I heard Milan was bragging about his dad kicking some guys ass. That would have been funny to hear. I think I'm just going to let Milan play playstation every time he asks. Claudio has no reason to not let him play it just because he forgot to turn it off once. Paola just gave me 45 thou for her attempt to pay me back for claudios plane ticket. I think I'm gonna see what I can do with the flash map.
I saw this movie the other week called the high price of the iraq war. That movie totally blew my mind because it shows how unprofessional and unwise some of the leaders in huge companies can be. These are guys who you would think would be the best and brightest in the country and their just crooks. And in America. Its ironic that we would go into that country to turn their system into ours because its better, but right in fronot of their eyes they can witness the same kind of ridiculous mismanagement that went on their under Saddaam Hussein.
What I understood what happened was the army had a recruit crisis and desparately needed more manpower to administer the rebuild effort, so instead of doing the obvious thing and inproving troop salaries to be able to recruit more troops they outsource other companies that charge unbeleivably enourmous fees to provide civilians to go over their and do the armies work. Truck drivers were making like a hundred thousand dollars a year. I need to watch the video again to know how absurdly expensive it was. The pathetic thing was that they were deliberately blowing as much money as they possibly could because they had some kind of contract with the government called cost plus that paid them according to how much they were spending. So the more the company spent on oporations the more money would go into the pockets of the executives who were already making i guess hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The company Halliburton pulls in 20 billion a year. They gave Dick Cheney four hundred thousand and hooked him up with 8 million in stocks.
It's understandable that the might need to get specialists outside of the army to do some of the more technical oil stuff, but because of the out of control cost plus they built the army base in babalon, a task easy enough the army to do. In the video there were interviews with young guys who said they had to train the halliburton people who were getting paid ten times what they were to do a job that was suppossed to be for them; and then just sit there and watch.
The video said there is somewhat of a diaspora of people who drop out of the army so they can get a job for halliburton and make a lot more money. But it gets even more ridiculous. It wasn't just blatant cost plus theivery what was going on, but they didn't even seem to care or have the brains to see that instead of using their spending freedoms to protect their own workers from the terrorists by buying them guns and putting bullet proof glass in the trucks that take them to their job locations, they were blowing their extra money on forty thousand dollar cars for office workers who were driving them around in iraq for all to see.
It's crazy to think about the fact that these filthy rich guys are so selfish and confused that they think that having a few million dollars extra for them to stash away in the bank is better for the world and their country than making sure that the companies that they have the privelage of running are not sabatoging the us presence in iraq. Not only do they not seem to care, but they don't seem to realize that any mismanagement they do will be found out and used and a valid bostering point for the terrorists. Osama Bin Laden mentioined Halliburtons greedy money making practices.
It just goes to show that you don't want to put too much or your trust into somebody in a place of power just because they are old or "well educated" or rich as fuck. The poor people need to kick them in the but so iraq doesn't turn into an embarrassing proof that America is just about making money.
Wow its been almost two months since I wrote in my journal last time. Well it's been because my computer crashed after about only a month of having the os installed, and the other crashed on the same day, so I decided to go ahead and buy the legal version of xp from microsoft for both computers and then I bought nortons anti virus and now for the first time both of the computers work right. Its awsome to be able to burn a cd and do other stuff at the same time. I also blew $550 on all of the web development videos from www.learnwebdevelopment.com and watched them which took more than a month. They were awsome though and now I feel like I can do anything, so I'm going to design the kayak site with my colored pencils first and then put it on the computer.
Yesterday we got the tickets back to the states for February 15th so now I feel like were on a countdown and when I think about it the little remaining time we have here will go buy very fast and excitingly because I will pretty much stop working at teh end of November to do the trip to the plane with Tony; then I want to climb Acancagua and then just mountain bike and climb mountains until I go. I have a bad feeling the only way I will be able to muster up the motivation to do all of that I will have to sell the computers so I don't get addicted to just sitting around the house doing computer stuff when I should be out in the mountains. Even though I can only take out about a hundred dollars I think we will be fine for money even for a road trip back from Miami because we have so much stuff to sell.
Personally I would rather stay here for another year because I am still developing my English teaching materials and site and we never did anything with the Aromatherapy, but Paola just feels stuck here and really wants to go back and my mom too so thats cool. I'm also really excited about going back. I want to start out just delivering newspapers to see if I can keep up with the bills and buy another computer. If I can do that I would be in seventh heaven. That would be so cool to only have to work two hours a day so I can sit around the house all day every day working on the kayak site and honing my web design skills so I can do it profesionally and make money. I also want to make a Thai massage site and improve my English site and maybe make a Spanish teaching site if I want to be a Spanish tutor. That would be cool to mix Spanish tutoring, English tutoring, Thai massage, and web development. I don't know how I'm going to balance making money with creating enough spare time to make the kayak site and get my personal site up to a point that I would want to register it on the search engines. The blueprint I have it on right now will take thousands and thousands of hours to develop. But whatever, it's cool to have a big site so I can play with the navigation and styles; and create new categories and hence millions more of hours of work to put into in at a much later date. oi vey!!!
I think Claudios ready to go too. I asked him when he wanted to go and he said the beginning of March. He got mugged a couple days ago just a couple blocks from home and they took his mp4. I think he's going to love it in the States. Out of all the exciting things I've got lined up for this summer I am the most excited about the road trip home because Paola and Claudio have never been out of the neighborhood and will be amazed with the grandeur of the States.
Anyway. I hope this ftps. I haven't been writing because I am superstitious about putting stuff on my computer that I can't immediately upload; otherwise I feel like I'm inviting a hard drive failure. I could't even upload single pages before and I had no idea why. Then I found out not all of the site was on my computer, so I downloaded the entire sight and then tried to upload and it worked.
Okay I'm going to work on the English site some now.
Thursday 8-24-06
I am here with some problems with the computers. On this one whenever I try to execute an antivirus the window dissapears. I think this virus is from the time before I reinstalled the os, so I need to take the chip out of the computer or whatever that was Mario was talking about.
I have been working more lately which means that I have been riding my bike more also and getting strong. This week I got to a burn out on my legs for the first time in I think the whole year and even got behind on sleep so I slept until one this afternoon with Paola after my morning class. I am caught up now. I think I am riding pretty strong, and an looking forward with curiosity to see how strong I will be when I recover from the present burn out I have now. Yesterday I rode as slowly as I could as to not kill my legs. It is hard to keep from sprinting though because there are always buses, cars, and red lights to outrun. The day before yesterday I tried to outrun a car that was merging onto the highway and got hit and broke my bike rack and knocked my rear wheel out of alignment. Luckily there was already a broken spoke that I was going to get fixed, even though I got two broken spokes fixed like three days beforehand, so I was going to take it to the shop anyway. I need to take it easy on that because if I had been hit closer to the center of the bike the car could have pushed me into traffic where I could have gotten run over. Yesterday I was taking it easy and a spandex leg shaven guy on a nice rode bike passed me and I asked him at the red light about races and he said there were mountain bike races every weekend. If I ever do a race this spring would be the time because all of this speed riding around town is making me fast. Maybe even close to as fast as I have ever been. I put on a new white shirt on Tuesday and by the end of the day it was totally dirty.
I finally met with Mario yesterday and he got me unstuck from the Flash. Hopefully I will be able to actually do something now; but now I have less time so we'll see.
Saturday 8-19-06
I was going to climb a mountain with Julius and Tony tomorrow but those guys backed out so I'm just going to be here again. Paola's going up Cajon del Maipu with some workmates which made me wish I had a car bur whatever I get plenty of mountain experience in the summer and I could always use the time to catch up on stuff at home. It is Francias birthday today and Paola told me Jimi was going to have a party and told me to not take part, and I wouldn't want to anyway, but Emilia told me that was off because nobody has any money.
I've been teaching more lately which means more bike riding. I have been going to bed exhausted lately, and at first I thought it was from all the teaching and not enough sleep, but I have been getting like 8 hours and so it must be the riding. It doesn't seem like I ride that much though, but I guess it adds up after like five classes a day, that would be like at least a couple hours a day of pure riding which makes sense seeing that I haven't been riding much lately. If this keeps up I will be pretty strong for the summer where I will try to have as many cool adventures as I can before going back in like January.
Today I'm just going to work on my Chilean journal. I'm up the the point of when I moved in here from Capellan Abarzua which is a subject I have thought a lot about of as an unlikely pivotol point in my life, or acually I guess it is a pretty likely pivital point now that I think about it. I'm stoned. OK here I go.
Thursday 8-17-06
OK so its been a long time since i've written here so obviously that's because I've had a motivation crisis; in fact the biggest motivation crises that I have had since last summer. I think I get these motivation crises because i'm one of those attention deficite disorder types who are either super motivated or super unmotivated. When I was young and this happened I got depressed, but now I understand it's just a cyclical thing and so I just enjoy being lazy; something I've learned here from the lazy ass chileans. I had to bust out of that last week since i got some new classes and now have like a 26 hour a week schedule which makes me like a million pesos a month which is close to two thousand dollars. That is cool, and much needed as I will need to save the money to bring Paula and Claudio to America in February. The last month has been pretty uneventful. I climbed a mountain a couple weekends ago with Julious and Tony and got a bad rash all over my body because i wiped my ass with this bush leaf that turned out to be like poison ivy; it sure was nice to burn the fuck out of myself in the shower thow - thats like ten times better than sex, however a fleeting sensation.
Actually now I can't think of anything to say. We might climb a mountain this sunday which would be cool. I am looking forward to going to the states next year. I offered tony to teach andrea if he teaches english to paola - we'll see about that. Paola doesn't want to learn from me because she says i patronize her but thats not entirely true; I think she is mainly just too chileanly lazy and looking for an excuse to not do work. She did get a job though which is cool but she only makes like seven thousand a day which is pitance. I would like to sell the aromatherapy stuff but now the time is a factor. maybe I will quit teaching and deal with that in the summer. I want to do some specific epic trips before i leave like Acancagua, find the tail of the uraguayan plane, and do the plomo bike ride and climb plomo. I hope the credit limit they give me is at least a thousand dollars. I made a mistake and said my household income is only 8k when it is really like three times that. I don't know why I did that. hopefully they won't give me a ridiculous credit limit. OK thats it for now. I have a new class starting today. chow chow.
Wednesday 7-26-06 1:10 AM
I have been working on the Aromatherapy site for the last week or so. After Paola started working I started thinking about the Aromatherapy business we started a couple years ago. I spent two months
Sunday 7-16-06
The last couple days have been pretty monumental because Paola finally got a job as a typist after about more than two years of being unemployed, and two and a half years since being employed by someone else. Now that she's working I have considered her to have officially given up on the Aromatherapy business; at least its cool that she likes Aromatherapy and has been using the oils on herself and has become familiar with them, so she can have a basis for a relationship with my mom when we come back. I want Paola to spend a lot of time with my mom because I think they will get along well and my mom doesn't speak Spanish so Paola will learn English faster; as apposed to her hanging out with her Mexican work mates and speaking Spanish with them and me and Claudio all the time. So now that she if over with the Aromatherapy I have taken upon myself to take up where she left off... or rather take up where I left off because she didn't do anything. That was more than two years ago.
So yesterday after my class in the morning I started to take an enventory of what we have which took a while because we have a lot. Paola left at like ten at night for a get together at Ana Maria's moms house.
Friday 7-14-06
Today I got up for Laurtaros class but he called just at nine to tell me he couldn't make it. At least he called this time, the last three times he hasn't called. Then I went to do Felipes class. After that I went down to pick up my computer at the shop and brought it home and transplanted the CD burner and burned a bunch of Larouse and Friends CDs with both of the computers. I spent the majority of the day doing that and stretching and lifting weights.
I got out of shape between drinking too much on Paolas birthday, having a smoking and drinking benge, and giving blood. I consider myself out or in shape depending on if I feel physically good or bad when I excersize. I don't know if I am getting more seceptible to getting out of shape or getting more in touch with my body, probably a mix of the two. I am kind of burning out on being here, ever since I gave up on the Mini I don't have driving up into the mountains to look forward to anymore. That's cool though, when the snow thaws I'll start mountain biking again, and until then just do classes and work on my web sites. Maybe I can get into a stretching and weight lifting routine. I feel really motivated to do that, and for the first time actually in my life, I feel like I can balance everything together without getting over driven in any of it and be satisfied with my output. That I learned from being here in Chile, and I think that quality will come in great benefit when I go back home.
Thursday 7-13-06
Today I went to the Kepler class and we finished the 500 question conversation questions page. Then I went to Felipes class but he couldn't make it so I went home for a bit and then went to do the class with Luisa where I helped her with pronunciation and recorded myself reading an article for her so she could listen to it later. Jorje cancelled so I only had two classes today. After I went home I stretched and lifted a little weights, but not before I called mom and talked to her about the Visa stuff for Paola and Claudio, then I called the state department to ask about some stuff about the Visa and then I called about getting a credit card. I was pleased to find that I can get a card and not have to pay interest for a year. I hope the credit limit is at least a thousand bucks, because I will probably need that if I want to do a cool road trip thoughout the east when we fly back in January. Peace out.
Tuesday 7-11-06
Today I had class with the group and then cashed a couple of checks, one being the income tax return check which finally came. Then went to pick up my computer but it was disasembled. Then I went home and did some stretching for the first time in a long time and listened to Laura Lee. That was the first time in a long time I have gotten any excersize besides riding my bike. I really needed it to because my back and neck have been hurting. Then I had class with Sam Soto. Today was the first time this year when I had to ride in the rain. It was ok but the mp3 doesn't last more than a minute no matter what battery I put in it which is bothersome. Then I went home and did some more stretching and lifted some weights for the first time in a long time. Right now I'm not very interested in lifting weights or even riding hard, I just want to stretch myself into a prettzle.
Monday 7-10-06
OK I didn't write before because I got a virus for clicking on a thing that said it could hook me up with a serial number to an audio recording program I downloaded and I couldn't figure out how to get it off.
Wednesday 6-21-06
This morning I had my first class with Lareto or whatever at my house. That was my first class at my house this year. I wanted to lift some weights but I was tired even though I got plenty of sleep last night so I went back to bed and slept with Paola. When I got up at noon we had sex for the first time in about three weeks. We took some time off because the birth control shots she was taking disapeared from the shelves because supposedly women were using them to administer abortions. A few days ago she found another brand of birth control shots that she got on. Hopefully these ones will make her tits big like the other ones did.
Then I rode up to the casting. I felt imediately that I was still weak from the blood draining two days ago. It was only 450 mls, but I feal totally deflated. I can't even sprint because my legs just burn. Yesterday after I passed this kid he challenged me. Chileans are weird, when I pass them they catch up to me, but instead of passing me they right right beside me, which he did for awhile. I wasn't in the mood to up the pace and challenge him and let off and drafted off him until the climb up La Pyramid started. Today a little bit after the start of the climb I looked back and noticed somone behind me. The guy was a little old Indian dude on a hundred dollar road bike that didn't even have rear brakes, and was riding in just sneakers. He was hammering, and I tried to stay with him but I coundn't for more that a few seconds. I would really like to get my strength back. I remember donating blood when I was in High School and College and never felt losing strength. But then again I probably didn't get on a bike for a few days, or maybe it was I was just younger and more resilient; I sure hope that wasn't the reason.
The casting was the most interesting one I have had yet. It was for a comercial that is supposedly in Germany, or actually I think to be made here but shown in Germany. They needed skiers to ski in the commercial. There was this totally stunning super model in there posing away for the camera. I felt like I was in the presence of a goddess because of how hot she was and how she was working the camera like a pro. Then they had me flirt with her. Supposedly we had just come back from the slopes and I was her ski instructor and we are in the bar flirting. After the first take they said I was too serious and to act like I was flirting. She said I should act like I was drunk, which was the perfect advice. I think I did an OK job on the second take. I'm not a trained actor, so I don't think I'm particularly good at improvising. Then they had me strip down to underwear for some filming. The cameraman gave me some good advice to flex my muscles a little as I stand there. I never did that before and its a good idea because you look a lot more fit if you flex it a little. I should start lifting weights and call the agency to tell them I can audition for shirtless photos because I have been burning excess fat away, but I am so obsesses with projects I only lift like once ever couple months. I know if I lifted on a regular basis I could get some underwear modeling jobs.
Then I met with Mario, I was like 45 minutes late, but we had enough problems to get me unstuck on Flash. I will try now to implement what I learned in case I forget by tomorrow. Then I had class with Samuel and went home because Jorje cancelled. Peace out.
Tuesday 6-20-06
After my morning class I came home and watched the Germany verses Equador game and England verses Sweden game. I was printing up some vocabulary lists getting ahead at the same time. I also listed to an interview about the Giza pyramid power system on Laura Lee dot com while I did some stretching. I was going to lift some weights but I still feel week from donating blood two days ago. I should feel better tomorrow. Then I had class with Samuel Soto. Henry and Lourdes cancelled so after Samuel I went straight to Jorje Munez's class. Now I'm about to fix some stuff on my English site.
Monday 6-19-06
On Saturday morning I barely made it to my class because I forgot to set the alarm again after it went off the first time. Maybe I won't do that again. I do that so it isn't as difficult to get up because I never go completely back to sleep after the first snooze goes off. I like to space them about 30 minutes apart. Luckily for me I naturally got up at 8:04 and raced to get ready and to the class which started at 8:30. Luckily I was on time and it went alright. Then I had class with Cristian Cruz and then came home and watched the US verses Italy match where the US kicked ass and tied Italy. That night Dave and Sandra came over for a barbecue party. I invited Julius and Maracena and Tony and Andrea too but Julius and Macarena are in the states and Andrea was sick. It was fun, I got pretty drunk but didn't have a hangover the next day. Dave was into Claudios car racing game on the play station and got me into it so I played some by myself on Sunday after we got back from donating blood for Paolas aunt. Today I had two classes starting at 5. I slept until like one even though I didn't have to. I have been really lazy lately for some reason. Oh well.
Saturday 6-17-06 1:00 AM
Stoned Journal. I just quit trying to work on flash. I got stuck in two different things, moving the masks over the lines and making an image map withought filling in the selection. I don't want to search in a forum and so I'll just not touch it until I meet with Mario on Wednesday. I want to get into a rythem where doing this site is more of a hobby instead of an obsession. I would like to have the time to do other things. There, now that its in my journal, I will do it. I have been having some lung problems lately and I'm beginning to beleive it could actually be from the air. A couple of weeks ago there was a feature on the news about the bad pollution and that bikers and even motorbikers should wear masks. And then I noticed how a lot of bikers and even motorbikers are riding around with masks on. Before I though they were just paranoid, but lately I have been noticing how bad the air is. A couple weeks ago when I got home in a white collar shirt that was clean in the morning, the collar was totally black. My lungs hurt and I always get asthma when I ride, before I thought it was the weed I was smoking, but I think tomorrow I will buy a mask and at least try it out. I think I bought one when I first got here but I can't remember. Paola went out for Miriams birthday party. I have two classes tomorrow. I thought I would have more to say, usually I have plenty to say but I am too emersed in something else. I will go and write that petition about whale huntintg.
Thursday 6-15-06
I'm sorry I don't have time to write a journal today.
Wednesday 6-14-06
So here I am it seems as though I have been slacking on the journal entries lately. To sum up what I have been up to, last wednesday I started meeting with Mario again and he is helping me learn Flash so I can make the Kayak web site. Last Wednesday after I had the class with Mario my rim broke on the way home so I had to cancel my last two classes of the day. That night was Paolas birthday and she wanted to go out to Bellavista with Anna Maria and Myriam and we went to the crazy bar where a guy was singing cover songs. They had a special where you get two drinks for one so I ordered a couple of Margaritas. The first one tasted like lemon juice so I told the waiter to spike up the second one and bragged that I was going to do the yoga move the tree when I left and I showed him, so he made the second one a little stronger but it was still lemon juice and I told him it was weak. I didn't want to get drunk because I had a class at nine the next morning but he seemed to thing that was what I wanted so he told me that I should order a long island ice tea. I didn't know what that was, its like four different kinds of liquor mixed together in a way that they don't tasted like alcohol. I knew after the first one that I was going to be in trouble, because I had a few glasses of wine before we went there and I was getting drunk. That's the last thing I remember before waking up the next morning in a pool of puke on my bed. Paola and Ana Maria said I finished the second drink the guy brought me and was totally smashed, and when we got home Claudio got pissed that she was drunk and got her parents to come over and yell at her. When they got there she said she freaked out on theme and told them she was dying of Cancer. For some reason whenever she gets drunk she says shes dying of cancer. Needless to say I didn't make it to class the next day, but when Paola called to tell them I wasn't going to make it nobody had even arrived yet because it was raining. Chileans treat rainy days like days off or slacker days.
That afternoon I took my bike to the shop to get the wheel fixed. The people at the shop didn't want to give me a new wheel for free even though it was only like a week and a half old. There was nothing I could do about it anyway becaue I didn't have the reciept. I just won't ever go there again, their loss. They took too long to fix it so I missed my class with Cristobal, but I made it to Jorjes class.
Then on Saturday night we had Paolas dad, Hugos birthday party which actually wasn't that bad. I didn't get drunk because I was still hurting from Wednesday night. Magali got drunk and was babling on about how she comes from the Campbell clan in Scotland which is interesting because the Kyles are related to the Campbell clan. It's interesting how family legends go, she says there's a legend that three brothers came here from Scotland a hundred and fifty years ago and their decendants got scattered since then. She said she met an old man who said he was a Campbell also.
This week has been pretty mellow, I have been collecting photos to put on the kayak site and trying to learn Flash, but I am far from the learning curve still. OK I think thats enough for now.
Monday 6-5-6
Today was pretty boring. I got up at like two because I was up until four this morning getting ahead printing up class materials. Then I picked up the computer at the shop at 54.000. My class with Rolphino was cancelled so I put on paulas tires and burned some CDs for classes and did some other computer stuff. Paola got in a big fight with Grisella today, the biggest one I can think of yet as a matter of fact, about the washing machine.
Sunday 6-4-06
Ok so I'm back. After a couple of weeks of having computer problems I got me another one! The other computer went bad because the cable connection broke and the battery died so I couldn't use it. For a couple weeks before that I could use the computer but only sitting up at a desk because I couldn't move it so I didn't have any motivation to use the computer beyond looking a porn. But now I got me another one so I can lay back in bed and just type away!! I just got caught up on all the Naral petitions. I especially like the ones where you can write a blib on what you think about the issue, and the ones where they invite you to share a personal story. I have been getting a lot of abortion ones lately, and I never have a lack of stuff to say about that.
I have been teaching more English lately and thusly been riding my bike around more, and my belly is getting small! It's so cool. However I overdosed on weed and candy last weekend and got sick and have been having bad asthma problems lately so I'm gonna have to take in easy with that now. Ok Peace out!
Wednesday 5-16-06
Today was pretty monumental for me. It was the first time I have had three classes in a row since I started working for myself. They were spaced thirty minutes apart and I barely made it to them in time. Right now I am totally exhausted. I was lifting weights last night while Paola was hogging the computer, and I feel that a little bit too. I have that class way the fuck up in alto manquegue tomorrow. I feel like I´m training for the freaking olympics. I got a new class for three times a week yesterday, thats cool. Wyndham and mom asked me to pay four fifty to get my car fixed. I told them not to even borrow my car and now I have to pay to get it fixed. Thats unfair, but if Wyndham can't pay for it I have to help out. I went to the first casting for a long time today. Ok peace out. I hope I can get to sleep soon as I have to get up early tomorrow.
Saturday 5-13-06
Yesterday Tony and I went mountain biking up to the waterfall I did the other month with Larry. To my surprise it was a different waterfall than the one he did before, which was cool because that makes another little adventure for me that we can do in the winter. When we got back I went into the Ghetto and got some weed for Andrea and we went back and had some dinner and then Andrea came over and we got stoned. This morning I barely got up because I was exhausted from the biking, but managed to get to my classes. When I got home Tony came over for his bike and we did like 20 minutes of weight lifting on the roof.
I started a discussion about the kayak trip I want to do from Miami to Caracas. People are saying pretty much what I expected them to. Some people think its cool but others think its too dangerous. Unfortunately the people who think its too dangerous can't give a good reason. Maybe what they're trying to say is that the ocean waves can get really big and capsize you, but I seriously doubt that, especially if I have a couple of outriggers. I'm just going to have to go ahead and do the trip. It will be kind of cool to be the first if in fact I am. I just hope the currents are too strong for it to be worth it, but there is only one way to find out about that. The fact of the matter is though that if you bring a shit load of water and food and the currents end up taking you way out into the ocean, you just keep paddling until you get to where it is you want to get.
Thursday 5-11-06
I was riding strong as hell for the first time today. It surprised me. For the last two weeks I have been doing nothing other than looking at videos on www.metacafe.com which is the dopest ass site for videos. Last night I was doing that until like four in the morning and then had a class at nine this morning and came back and got my hair cut and highlighted and Paola got her hair dyed black. Then I went home and tried to fix some lessons but fell asleep so I thought I would be weak for the bad ass ride to my class up in alto manquegue. Their house is literally the third highest house in Santiago, about a thousand feet higher than my house and just 11.5 K away. I totally hammered it even though I was having a total asma attack. I maintained 10 k/h up the last part of the long steep part no problem, I remember before I could barely even hit 10 k/h. This is the first time in my life that I hit fitness and burn out at the same time. I got officially burnt out yesterday. I went to a class stoned and it went bad. All I did was take one hit from a couple of tiny peices of resin on my can, and it turned my brain off. So im burnt out, and my lungs are totally trashed. They hurt and I have constant asthma. I even have a constant runny nose and cough from smoking so much. Its just so cool to smoke shit loads of weed and watch those videos. But I gots to stop. Unfortunatelly Tony called me and wants me to buy him some weed in the projects, maybe I can steer clear.
Then on my ride to the class with the Peruvians I was hammering. This week I finally got into the habit of riding at 90%. Last year I was going at 100% but that's too painful and exhausts me. When I go 90% I can feel my lungs get played out (which doesn't take long now), and my legs get burnt a little bit; and it feels great. I watched all the Top Gear videos on metacafe, and now I feel like a super car riding around. I start off the line with a sprint and get up to like 45 k/h in like 5 seconds and then cruise at like 40 until I burnt out and then settle into like 30-35. It's so fun just knocking down those gears like I'm switching gears in a Ferrari. One guy pulled up to me in a car today and told me it must be cool to not worry about gridlock and that he envied me and I smilled at him and then took of running the red light. Tony called a little bit ago and wants to go mountain biking tomorrow. Last weekend we went over to Dave and Sandra's house for the first time and played some game like Poker called Lyer with them and Tony and Andrea. Peace out.
Wednesday 5-03-06
Man its already May. Time is flying. Last weekend we went to Pichilemu and stayed at Andrea's house with Tony and Andrea, Julius and Macareda, and David and Sandra. We stayed there Saturday and Sunday night because Monday was a holiday, and Andrea and I worked on Saturday. I started taking classes on Saturdays, now I have two back to back on Saturday.
The trip was fun. Paola and I went surfing on Sunday for about 15 minutes until she got tired. She said she was hung over. Hopefully next time she will actually go into the water beyond where the waves break. Then we went horse back riding but Paolas horse wasn't cooperating, but we were lucky enough to find a nice man who knew how to ride horses to ride it back for us. Horses are cool. All eight of us piled into Julius' Subaru Outback and checked out Punta de Lobos, which looked totally awsome to surf. I would like to go there one day if my car is ever ready.
The problem with my car is I had it taken to a mechanic in a town called San Fernando which is about two hours south of here in August to get the engine installed but the guy decided to not do it. I have been waiting for the guy who sold us the engine to go pick it up, but he is procrastinating also. I have been thinking about sending it back up here myself, but it will be expensive.
I have a new class starting today. That's cool. As far as my websites going, I'm working on the opinions of other countries pages.
Friday 4-28-06
I did about an hour of weights and stretching today. Paola wanted to drink Pisco sours with me last night but just wanted to fight so I took the bottle and got drunk and lifted weights. About 20 seconds after I left Grisella ran in sobbing because Francia had been taken home from a friends house an hour ago but didn't show up yet so she thought she got kidnapped or raped. She totally went nuts and half a dozen people were standing outside listening to her scream at her parents to get out so she could hit Francia for getting in the car.
After all that we watched the first part of the 10 commandments. We bought 55 bootlegged movies the other day from the neighbor. I feel likes its Christmas.
I got two new students and am starting to do classes on saturdays now, so the money situations going to get better. I gave Paola her first class yesterday. and it looks like we are ready to start doing them. I feel like my lifes finally coming together after just over four years here. I didn't realize that my four year anniversary my arrival in chile was on 4-20.
Wednesday 4-26-06
I ordered another computer from Ken last night because it looks as if my other one I sent back got lost in the mail.
I lifted some weights in my room and stretched yesterday which made me feel sick, and then I slept until one today from exhaustion. I guess I'm out of shape.
The house got flooded yesterday because Paola left the faucet on, and last night her dad got drunk and passed out on the kitchen floor, so Jerry and I carried him to his room and put him on bed. I didn't know how hard it is to pick up fat people. He wasn't actually passed out though, I think he was just playing with us because he was winking at me and shook my hand.
We are fixing Paola's site www.paulapounds.com because she has a new found interest in doing something with this Yesoterapia business with Aromatherapy. She had a treatment yesterday.
I think I will spend the day writting.
Monday 4-24-06
I feel like my personal web site is starting to take form. During the weekend and today I have decided what I need to write about. I created new pages to write about various Christian and Muslim denominations as they are the most populated religions and I added a couple more religions. I also created my own religion. To write about all of this will be incredibly time consuming but possible, and when I am done I will have expressed the thought forms of the worlds of the world thoughoughly enough to be able to distinguish exactly what is good and bad about all of them in terms of the world we live in today and create my own complete and up to date religion. I also began writing about the issues. It was hard yesterday because I was stoned and it was hard today. Now that I am at a place on my site that I will be mainly writing I hope I will be able to access my thoughts easily enough to continue and have a rough draft of all of my pages within a month or so.
I spent a lot of today responding to emails people wrote me because I was featured in an article about English in the Mercurio yesterday. I also got an email from Larry Brown, or ''Pound". That is the guy I met in the Embassy when I was there last month with Paola and then went on the mountain bike ride a couple weeks ago. He is coming down here to get married with his Argentinean girlfriend and wants to teach English.
Saturday 4-22-06
Cool making entrances four days in a row. Maybe this will become a habit. I had a bit of a crisis last night. I couldn't decide if I wanted to put the stuff I wrote in college in with the songs to try to transforme them later, or erase them. I decided in the end to transform a few of them and erase most of them. then I coulnd't decide if I wanted to change the homoe page or not, I finally decided to go ahead and change it after fiddling around a lot. Now all I want to do is write. For some reason I keep finding something other to do other than writing. I was going to read what I wrote about reincarnation but I decided against that and just keep writing rought drafts to everything and then go back and look at them when they are all done. that way everything on my site is on the same wavelength. so here goes. If I can actually stick to writing and not get myself distracted with something monotonous it will be a fucking miracle. before I was thinking that I should write sober but now that I'm stoned I'm thinking maybe I should do it stoned. I was thinking maybe they would be too hard to proofread like the stuff I wrote ten years ago. But maybe the problem was that I wrote it ten years ago and I just not on the same wavelength anymore. The main difference is I want to write with logic and save the emotion for the songs, and writing pure emotion but no rhyming is in some kind of limbo place that I don't want anything to do with and I don't think I write like that anymore. I wonder if that makes any sense... I'll check later.
Later. So I finally did it. I figured out how to actually start writing the arcticles that I set out to write. All I had to do was just do it. Write them out and leave them to be fixed at a later date. I don't know if I will be able to understand what I wrote when I am sober looking at them, but they serve their place anyway. It is much harder than I thought to place all of my ideas into a solidified truth. You really have to think about a concept to put it down on paper, or to crystalize it onto the world medium.
I came up with brilliant idea about a half hour ago after I downed a bottle of Pisco and got all crazy. Over the last couple of months I came up with the idea of setting up a solar panel energy system on my apartment in Boulder, but it is harder to set up with solar power in an apertment because you are more hooked up with a system involving other people, and the real benefit of setting up a solar power system involves people who live in houses. So I came up with the idea tonight of setting up a solar system on my house here in Santiago. So I called a solar panel place and now I am determined to get a solar system going here on my house here in Santiago. I am rather excited about the whole proposition. I will be sure to keep you posted.
Friday 4-21-06
I got up at 1:30 this afternoon. I did the laudry and Paola got some chinese take out. I was looking at my site and erasing the stuff i wrote in college because it is just incomplete thoughts like i wrote them stoned. But then I realized they work well as prototypes for songs so I got some weed and I'm doing that.
I have some new stupid Chilean stories: Jimi and Jerry got arrest warrants today for being drunk in public and vandalizm. Her dad was in jail just last month for forgetting to fix an old warrent. Paola's been trying to get Claudio to sign a paper for the last couple months so she can take her son out of the country, but he says he is always too busy. She offered to meet him at his place about a month ago so they could go together but when she got there he had already left. Today she went to a notary to see if they can go to where the person is to sign the paper and they can do it for a extra 18 thousand pesos, which is more than thirty bucks. But it looks like she'll have to do that. It's ridiculous. A couple weeks ago Paola went to the disco with Juan Pablo, Eva's 'boyfriend' and when they came back he forced himself on her and grabbed her tits under her bra, so she got pissed and keyed his car and took his winsheild wipers off.
Thursday 4-20-06
So today's weed day. I was mistaken yesteday. I was kind of tired today. After my morning class I took my bike to the shop to get a new front derailer, rear tire, and water bottle cage put on it. Then I went home to work on the computer but couldn't keep my eyes open so I took a nap. I guess I'm just tired; I don't know what for, I haven't done anything and I got plenty of sleep last night. Maybe I just needed to sleep to stave off a flu. After I picked up my bike I rode way up to the top of alto Manquegue for the first class of the year up there for the Oscar, Lawer Marcela's son. Tonight I'm just going to put together my calender for 2006. Peace out.
Paola's dad is completely wasted and babling non-sense. I think I'm going to take advantage of it and record him so I can put it on my site.
Wednesday 4-19-06
Oh I didn't realize it's weed day. If I had of known maybe I would have bought some. Today wasn't my day. I just slept all day, drifting in and out of dreams until about three. I think I may be coming down with a fever or something. I couldn't think or anything and I don't even feel like writing now, but it's cool to be in the habit of keeping a journal entry so here we are.
Saul came over today but just sat around doing nothing; which is a common past time in developing countries like this one. Paola was pissed off today because supposedly people don't help her around the house, but she's fine now. I had a class today at 8:30, which went fine. I have a little bit of a temperature now.
As far as world news goes, I was thinking about that Masouri guy who helped with 9-11. He's clearly mentally ill and I don't think he should get the death penalty. I think he can be rehabilitated if he's locked up somewhere making license plates for the rest of his life. And working he can help out with the economy.
Monday 4-18-06
So now I am going to finally fix all the stuff I wrote ten years ago on my old Macintosh laptop. The stuff got so corrupted in the transfer that some of it might not even be legible, but I'll try my best to fix it all. I can usually go about three weeks in one project; maybe I can finish it by then. Maybe this project will end around the time mom gets ready for me to do the Agorra cart for her.
Last Friday we went out to eat at the fish market for Easter Friday. Tony and Andrea found us there and we hung out. On Sunday I helped Hugo move his jewelry factory to the center and we had the Easter Sunday seafood meal which is the tradition here.
Friday 4-14-06
Here I am doing spell check on my entire site. Apparently I forgot to do it before when I put it up, so I went and bought weed to help me through this monotonous shit. It's Easter and they were giving away two for ones down in the projects which is cool, although they weren't actually two for ones because they were smaller than normal.
After I did the 20 pushups the other day I slept until two in the afternoon from the shock to my body. A couple days later I did some exercises and yesterday I did some for almost an hour and I already grew some muscles back and I feel great. My lungs really hurt this week but were getting better until I bought some more weed for this spell check bullshit. I'm so sick of this monotonous stuff I swear to God I'm only going to write from this point on. No more time consuming projects where I have to get stoned to get me through.
Monday 4-10-06
OK so Kyle blogy blog is back. I went up to the roof and did 20 pushups and twenty curls and stretched for a half hour or so, so I'm back in business on the exercise front. Last weekend I managed to start writing my opinions about reincarnation too so I'm rocking it in the part of the web site that is interesting.
My brother got back from a year and a half in Nepal and my moms moving back into her town house from our apartment and my brothers are moving into our apartment so I'll start getting some rent from them which is cool. I missed a class today because Paola took my keys with here somewhere and I couldn't unlock my bike. I didn't have their number so I couldn't call them and they didn't call me, so we'll see if they call me again. I guess I'll have to make copies and hide them somewhere.
Friday 4-7-06
Since the last time I wrote in here I got the idea to make my own statistics page which has been taking much of my time. My classes have basically picked up again and the temperature is down pretty much all of a sudden so it looks as though were back in teaching season. That happens a lot actually here in Chile and it has never ever happened out of chile as far as I remember. Its harder to come across good food here, pretty much the only places I eat here are American fast food places like Mcdonalds because everywhere else takes too long, is too expensive, and tastes like shit (ie, Churasco).
I was thinking about the holocaust today and looking at pictures of Auschwitz and spent a few minutes pretty much realizing the fact that the Nazis were only warming up with the Jews due to the fact that German Jews look just as white as they do, and if they were doing that to them they surely must have been planning the extermination of all non white races from the face of the earth forever. Its crazy to think about why people would think like that so strongly. Then I opened up yahoo and saw the headline saying that they were planning it in Palestine. Kind of crazy Psychic shit going on there. I am hoping I can start writing pretty soon, unless of course I get the idea of doing some other time consuming project for the site. I don't really want to be in that mode anymore though because I'm neglecting a balanced life such as lifting weights and stretching and preparing better for my classes....and eating. However that would be awesome if I got the motivation to do something great for the site.
Sunday 3-26-06
OK I am pretty much done with the links pages and am now ready to do the writing part on my site. This is going to take forever and will be a whole new thing for me. So Here we go....
Sunday 3-19-6
OK I don't want to write long. Last Friday I left at midnight to do the big 'ol ride that Tony and I tried to do the week before. I got up to almost Farrellones and got groggy though and fell asleep on the side of the road, and when the sun came up I had lost my motivation to do anything other than stay in my room and work on my personal site until I start working again. I spent the last week finishing up the sacred texts pages and working on the links and site map pages and stuff. I did go out one night for Margaritas with Tony though. ok gots ta go!
Wednesday 3-8-6
Yesterday I got up and started to work on the computer but ten minutes later the electricity went out so i dropped my computer off at the shop and then visited Dave at his new office at plaza de armas. Then i went home and the electricity was still not up so i went to the roof for a bit but wasn't very motivated to work out so i started packing up stuff to do a two day bike ride but the electricity went on again so i stayed and did my computer work.
I set up a date applet on my home page. Then i put up a countdown timer. I set the date at midnight on the first of may which is date i told paula and my mom when we would go back to the states when they demanded i set one. when i looked at the timer on my home page lo and behold it said t- 420 days and three hours! I have a pretty cool relationship with 420. when my dad died my mom looked at her watch and said, ''well he died at about 4:20''. and i was like ''wow''. I remember another time i was riding my bike in australia and i looked at my watch for the first time in about three hours, and what do you know it said 4:20:00, i even took my eyes off the watch before it hit 4:20:01. Swear to god. I also reorganized the google adsense on my home page and put up the google search bar and the google promo button.
Paola dragged me out of bed at about 10:30 this morning to go to the embassy to get the visa papers she ripped up last week when she had a hissy because i was acting too relaxed about getting her a visa. Then we paid the internet and phone bill and went to mcdonalds.
Monday 3-06-06
All right. well my sites been up for a couple weeks now after it took forever to get the registrar and server changed for my sites. So much happened I don't even want to write about it. I'll just let that part of my life stay in my mind for now.
As far as what I'm up to now. I think I have my head wrapped around Agora, so all I have to do about that is wait for my mom to get her side of things in order. Until then I think i'll start mountain biking again.
I've got another weird problem going on though. The other day my 60 GB hard drive died and so I installed my backup 10 GB hard drive, but then that seems to have died so I put my big one in again just for the hell of it and voiala it works again. So I'll wait to take that computer into the store until it dies again which it probably will. I have a disk drive that died and came back to life also. So some weird shit is going on with my computer. I'm gonna get another backup to the backup hard drive as soon as I can. I'll call Ken later.
Well, now that I'm writing in my journal again. I should also start exercising again. So I think I'll take Paola up to the roof.
Monday 12-20-05
I was going to go mountain biking on Saturday and had just gotten out of the shower and was about to go to bed so I could get up early, but Jerry showed up with Matias and his bong and they wanted to get stoned with me. Matias is a high school kid who lives across the street and wanted to hear about my traveling and wanted to travel a lot too. He got the travel bug when he went to Spain to visit his father for a month. His father is the same guy who paid for Paola to go a couple years ago. They were there until almost two and I couldn't get up on time on Saturday, so I spent the day reading about coppermine online photo gallery program, adsense, and wordpress blog software.
On Sunday I went with Tony and Julius is Julius' new Subaru Outback to Yerba Loca to ride 17 kilometers to the Glacier but we forgot to bring extra clothes and got cold and had to turn back after a few kilometers. I don't know if we would have been able to do it anyway though, because we still had a long way to go and they were really tired afterwards. The ride back down was a blast as we tried to ride through the difficult sections of the really technical trail.
When I got back I really wanted to get stoned for some reason so I tried to get Paola to go to the ''poblacion'' (government housing slum) that is three blocks away and get me some dubbie, but she didn't want to so she told Jerry I had something to ask him so I asked him and we went and got me some weed and we got stoned with Daniela. Jerry did some free-style rapping to his beat songs. He's really good. I think about half of what he raps is actual free styling. I'm impressed because he's really fast and he rhymes well. I tried to do it but I am the worst ever. I think I'm so bad and slow that it is funny; I want to put a recording of myself trying to freestyle on my site one day. I asked Daniela if she freestyled but she said only when she argues with Jerry; she said she would show me next time. I think she's full of shit but at least she tried to tell me she's a rapper, that's amusing enough.
Today Jerry was at work and stole Hugo's car and crashed it into a Telefonica pole and drove it into a store and freaked out and fled the scene. So the store owner called the cops and they tracked down Hugo and he found out about his car from them. Meanwhile Jerry ran off to Puente Alto and then was hiding in our living room from his mother for about an hour.
I tell these stories about Paola's family because although they are sad to the people involved, they are fucking hilarious to me. Not like I'm the kind of person who takes pleasure in other peoples pain, I'm just not superstitious about the karma of laughing about stuff like that, and I've already done so much for this family I don't owe them any sentimentality just for the sake of sentimentality. The best way for me to cope with the craziness around me is to just talk about it and tell it as a type of comical story.
Today I got up late and spent the day reading about Coppermine and blog stuff. I was telling Paola about how I just found out that my server doesn't support php and my sql and that my moms server does, so she said I should just use my moms server and I was like, duh, so this week I will switch over.
Friday 12-16-05
I had a pretty uneventful week. I was unmotivated from the end of the year coming up. Mario told me Wordpress is the best blog program to make my forums, but I can't get it to work so Guess I will just wait till I see him again on Wednesday.
Last night I went with Paola, Claudio, and Jerry to Daniela's seamstress graduation ceremony at her high school and then we went to her house and her mom cooked us up a meal. A guy was singing a song and then they named the graduates and they shook hands with the principal. The school was pretty small. Then we came back and Jerry went and got some dubbie and we smoked and drank wine and saw Scary Movie 4 until three but I passed out before it was over. It wasn't nearly as good as the first three, it must have had different producers.
Today I did my group class and then picked up 40 g at the agency from the commercial way back when. I wasted most of the day banging my head against the wall about this Wordpress thing and sleeping.
Monday 12-12-05
I wasn't sick anymore on Saturday but I needed a day to sleep to get my energy back. On Saturday night Paola had a party in the living room with Lorena and Miriam. She played rap and then some techno. I think I figured out Emenim He's less about talking shit, and more about just expressing free speech.
I got to bed at about three but I could still hear Paola's music so I put on my jukebox and listened to music for a couple hours. I got up late the next day and was still drowsy. I did manage to take off on a ride at two in the afternoon to Lagunillas. It took me an hour and a half to get into cajon del Maipu, and I vowed to never do that again. From now on I will take the metro and the bus up into the cajon. I only had an apple and a couple bananas to eat that day, so I had a few hamburgers when I got to the dirt road that goes to the ski resort. Then I took off up the road at about five. I got to Lagunillas at 7:45 and then got home at about 10:50. I did 152 kilometers and climbed from my house at 1,700 up to Lagunillas at 7,300 ft. I barely made it, but I did because I took it steady.
Today I got up at about 2:00 and spent the afternoon writing my mission statement for my website.
Friday 12-09-05 Later on
Paola was telling me something funny tonight. Apparently her mom is in a bad mood and is accusing Jerry of not having ever payed anything for utilities but he says he pays her every time, so Paola told him to write down every time he pays her so he can show her later. Last night Paola borrowed her moms phone for an hour and she came tonight accusing her of steeling her phone and replacing it with another one. Paola's dad is on a drinking binge. He has been singing all day long for the last few days. Last night he was arguing with himself in his shed next to my room. I was going to go out there and listen to him but Jerry went out and found out he was talking to himself and then I forgot. Claudio's still at his fathers, which is cool. This is the first time he has been with his father for a week since like a year. Paola wanted me to get some wine so I got a liter for like six hundred pesos.
I took the metro and roller blades to my class tonight, but I feel perfect now. I think tomorrow I might feel alright. Maybe I can even go on a ride tomorrow. My shoulder is heeled also. On Wednesday I pumped my tire but the air just poured right out of the nozzle, which is weird because when I came home it was perfect. I had to take Paola's bike and the front brake wasn't working and the rear brake barely worked. When I was in the center and passing cars who had stopped at a light, a guy opened his door and I couldn't stop and rode right into it and it broke skin but didn't bleed. It hurt like hell, and for the rest of the day and most of the day after that I couldn't raise my arm in certain angles from the pain. I could just hang out here though and fix the links on my site.
Friday 12-09-05
Last Saturday I couldn't get up to do the ride so I wanted to punish myself by just laying in bed all day. Unfortunately it wasn't a good day to do that because Claudio was there with his friends Daniel and Gabriel and having a temper tantrum after he talked to Paola on the phone, apparently because he didn't want to go to his fathers house because he wanted to play with his friends. That didn't make any sense because there was nobody at the house to make him go to his fathers house, but that didn't stop him from throwing stuff all over the living room and yelling and banging on the walls. Then I didn't let him call Paola again because he had already yelled at her for like five minutes and I didn't want to hear it again and have to pay for it, so he said that this house was pure shit and kicked the Styrofoam wall in. I didn't get mad at him like I normally would because I was depressed, and I know him well enough now that all of that was mainly just a show to impress or entertain his friends. I didn't get any sleep that day because Claudio and his buddies kept walking through my room even though I told them not to. When Paola came back and said her mother told her I had a fight with Claudio because he was angry when he left, but I told her that I didn't say anything to him, I just didn't let him call her on the cell phone.
Paola told me that to avoid any more problems like that we should move into his room in the back that I made for him a couple months ago. Until then I had never thought about doing that, I had always been perfectly happy having an open bedroom right next to the living room. But after I thought about it for a couple hours, I suddenly had to move immediately. Before I started I bought some weed and two 40s of beer as I like to party it up when I do monotonous work like that. Paola went out to the discos or something that night, so I got to feel the excitement of moving all by myself, which is good because I don't think she was totally into the idea yet because Claudito told her over the phone that he didn't want to move out.
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High as fuck up in da fog on da mountain |
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The third and final switchback section to Valle Nevado |
When I finished at three in the morning I was totally fired up to go mountain biking. I wanted to to the ultimate ride over Valle Nevado and over the 4300m pass into Olivares valley where the biggest glacier in central Chile is. I left at 3:20am and took off up the road listening to crystal clear techno music because there were no cars to obstruct the sound. The perfect combination of the beer, altitude, exercise, techno music, and the exhilarating sensation of finally being up there led to pure bliss as I rode up those thirty or forty switchbacks to farrellones. The sun had just risen from the peaks at about seven when I got to Farrellones, and I was tired and cold because I wasn't protected from the wind anymore and I was high in elevation. I put on all my clothes and sat down on the road to smoke a bowl and warm up a little, but I passed out and didn't wake up until eleven when a car drove by and parked near me. I smoked the rest of my weed and ate about eight of the twenty or so hamburgers I brought, and continued up. I was really stoned and so elated to finally be riding again. This was my first ride alone since like April. The view was perfect because the tundra was still green and there was a lot of snow left on the mountain sides. A little to my dismay, it was really overcast, but It got really cool as I started riding through the thick fog at Valle Nevado. I was going slow because I had about thirteen hamburgers on me and I brought five liters of water with me in case there was nothing open at Valle Nevado, which is what people had told me; but I felt great because I had rested and had a big breakfast.
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One of the last switchbacks before Valle Nevado |
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I couldn't see so I followed the sticks |
When I got to the top I was pleased to see that there was a restaurant open there so I got the six thousand peso buffet which was awesome. I felt great and could have kept going all the way to the pass if I wanted to, which was different from the time I didn't it three years ago in 5:30 hours when I barely made it because the altitude sucked all my energy. It is a hard core climb. My house is at 1,700 feet, and Valle Nevado is at 9,700 feet, and that 8,000 feet was climbed in just 65 kilometers! I couldn't ride any higher because the snow hadn't completely melted and the dirt that was there was all mud, so I went back down.
When I got to Farrellones I felt good so I rode up to La Parva to ride into Valle Yerba Loca and ride up to the glacier. When I got to the top of the valley that descends into Yerba Loca the fog was so thick that I couldn't see more than a hundred feet, but I saw a trail with bamboo markers so I figured that was the one. It went in the wrong direction though. For some reason the people who made it wanted to completely traverse to the stream before going down to the valley. There was some fun hardcore mountain biking, but it wasted my time so I went straight home instead of going up to the glacier.
When I got home Paola was over at Miriam's house across the street because Lugito was having a birthday party. They had cakes and hot dogs and Pisco which was cool. I met Miriam's brother and his Indonesian wife who I talked to a lot because I was the only person there who could speak English, and she doesn't speak Spanish as she is just visiting from the States. I was totally thrashed but I still had energy and felt great.
I slept in on Monday and spent the rest of the day finishing moving into the back room. I was so excited to be doing that because it had been so long since I had my own secluded space where no one can bother me. I was baffled as to why I hadn't thought of it earlier. I had Paola get me some more weed to ease the monotonous work and help me think creatively in the decoration of the place. I finished at about two in the morning.
When I woke up the next morning I was deliriously sick with the flu, but luckily Eduardo and Christian called and cancelled. If they hadn't I would have gone to class and stayed sick longer. I was sick all week long. I managed to go to three classes on Wednesday while I was feeling OK from all the pills, but as soon as I got home I was in agony again. Today I feel much better, tomorrow I may be well. I am a little apprehensive about a new class I have today at seven because it is way down in La Florida, but I'll just leave an hour early and take my time.
Thursday 12-02-05
Hee haw, I remembered to do the blog thing today. I'm tired so I'll have to make it quick. I was really tired yesterday because the night before I obliged Paola and got some wine and got drunk, then the next day which was yesterday I rode 72 kilometers getting around, and rode way up to my new class which is the second highest house in alto Manquegue up the steepest rode imaginable. I remember going up it and being in pain and wondering how the bike racers do it as a job. I showed up 20 minutes late and then was 20 minutes late to Saulo's class after that but he was cool even though he had to go early. Last night I was tired as if I had ridden a hundred miles and slept in today until three. Then I talked to my mom and did some web work for her and then got the stuff to fix the pool and then did my class with Josepha. So that's what I did today.
Tuesday 11-29-05
Woopsi daisy it's bee a few days since I did myself the blog. I've been writing the journals in my site so that's why. I have been smoking a lot of weed lately, which is something I like to do when I am working on something incredibly time consuming and monotonous, and when I am doing something new. I am warmed up now and am planning on getting a balance going. So I'm going to quite again. That's really all I have to say, just been writing writing and writing. OK I'm outy five thousand.
Mo 11-21-05
Ok, so I guess my web sites up now that I pretty much put my web photo album up last night. So today I got up at like two thirty and did my class with Caroline which only lasted 45 minutes and then I went down to pick up my check at the agency. They were asking about classes and I gave them my card. They said the money for the commercial that I got kicked off the set would be ready on Friday which is weird because she said it was ready like a month ago.
Then I went to Subway and the casting for three commercials at Manuel Montt.
Then I came home and surfed the web a little and then went to class with Saulo.
So I rode up the pyramid two times today. I was kind of tired today, I did it in ten minutes.
So tonight I'm gonna fix the links on my site and update the calendar and put this stuff up and bada bing I got me a personal web site. I wonder if I will have the consistency to keep this stuff up to date.
Tues, 26-4-2005
I got up at nine this morning and went to the post office to mail the computer, router, and cds back to my mom. Then I went to the Mercurio to place the ad for English teaching, but the predictable happened, the women working there didn't know their job. They told me it would be cheaper to just place an add in the internet than in the newspaper also, but to do that I had to place the add through the internet. So I went home and tried to place an add, but there was a problem with the word count so I called the Mercurio. The woman I talked to told me that it is impossible to just place an add on the web, I have to place an add in the paper also, and it is %10 cheaper to pay in cash. So I went all the way back to the center and told the woman there about the misinformation she gave me and how she wasted my time, and she just shrugged her shoulders and said, 'ok'. So I hope she remembers to tell the next person.
Today was rather stressful for the house because Grisella, Jimis wife (Jimi is Paola's brother) supposedly got kicked out of the house and Paola's mom had an apparent heart attack. And then when they where having a house meeting with the whole family about kicking her out there was a fire two houses down where the woman killed her mother and buried her in the back yard last year and Paola was interviewed for it and was on TV.
I did some more exercises with Saul today. I am really sore from yesterday so it wasn't much. I also watched a little TV for the first time in what seems like a couple weeks, Two and a Half men and Smallville.
Oh yeah, I forgot, I also went to Business City to talk to the Human Resources director, but she was in a meeting. The receptionist gave me her number, but I wrote it on the business card that I gave to him, so I will get dressed up and go there tomorrow, then go to other places. Paola talked me into getting a liter and a half of wine, I hope I will be ok tomorrow. The bottle of Pisco I drank last night gave me the worst headache today, I really sucked, really painful for a couple hours, I still have some of it. OK, I'm outy.
Mon, 25-4-2005
Last night I let the child sleep with his mother and watched a little tv in his room with Saul. I was looking at various videos in the net also, and actually never got to sleep until they got up at six thirty. Paola needed to borrow my bike as Saul came with none, and they were to go on errands together today; so I couldn't do my errands. I felt down with motivation so I just slept until they came back at about four. Then I bought the paper for my business cards and made a few. So today was a very uneventful one. I really need to get work. I am losing my motivation to do anything.
I was doing weight training and stretching with Saul for a couple hours today. I am doing a different technique now that is more relaxed. Before I was using the sand clock and my stop watch to time my stretches, and when I lost those I was kind of lost. But last night I saw a video about Bruce Lee, and he was saying you need to be the water and flow and forget about structure and style. Before when I was lifting weights I was doing it like the bodybuilders, very slowly. But after watching Bruce's speech I thought to do it the way I did if before, where it's just throwing the weights around. So today I was just screwing around and it was fun, I could do it all day every day now. Ok, I'm out.
Sun, 24-4-2005
This is my first Journal in Santiago. I want to try to do this every day if I can. This is a time of new beginnings so I want to start the journal along with the other things I am starting. I am finally done with my English Teaching web site and will advertise it in the Mercurio tomorrow. For twenty thousand pesos ($30) a month I can put it in the paper and keep my site on their web site.
Yesterday I started lifting weights and stretching again. I feel in the worst shape of my life. I also organized the other room. I will stay in that room as much as I can from now on doing my exercises. If I am writing strangely its cause I'm stoned. Saul went out and bought me some weed the other night so I could be high when I finish my site. I am very happy about my site. I feel like I can keep improving on it, and I am now excited about figuring out and setting in place the things I need to get my personal site off the ground...hence I begin my journal.
I was watching some videos last night on the web about Ramtha and ufo researchers and people filming ufos. I want to start watching videos on the web more and more, I find it relaxing.
I slept well last night and got up at about two today and finished my site. Later on I finished my business cards with Paola. I did some exercises today also. Ok, see you tomorrow!
