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24 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!
25Last 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.
26 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.
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2Hee 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.
9Last 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.
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.

12I 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.

16Group class 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.

20I 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.
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