I was never too concerned with healthy living. That was until recently, when I had to give up coffee and smoking because of some condition doctors told me could severely damage my well-being. So, I thought it was better to listed to those professionals and tried to cook only healthy recipes, based mainly on vegetables, fruit and fish. After two months of eating like that, I discovered lots of benefits, so I’m going to stick to this kind of diet, although I might skip it during holidays and immediately after, because II just happen to know some great leftover ham recipes that I love to cook and eat after Christmas.

First of all, I feel more energetic and my depressions are gone, hopefully for ever. Then I see that I’m always in a happier mood, I feel lighter, it’s like I’m living a new life. I would have never imagined that some tiny pieces of broccoli, eggplant, pepper and tomato could produce such changes in a man’s life.

Posted: November 18th, 2009 under Life.
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Are you too lazy to move your precious self to the window for opening or closing the blinds? Hey, I really can’t understand those guys who just want automation all over the place: electric blinds at all windows, electric garage door, remote controlled vacuum cleaners… and the list could go on. Good that they don’t want robots as kids. To all my friends who spend big money on automatic household items: guys, you’re playing with your life. I’ve heard this story of somebody who thought to install electric blinds in his bathroom, wired the whole thing by himself, made a nice hole in the wall and mounted a switch. Too bad he places the switch inside the bathroom.

The story goes on in a sad way, I’m not going into details, but all I can say is that he’s still alive, after a long while spent in hospitals. I think it would have been easier to just have a simple curtain at his bathroom window and a long cord to operate it from the bathtub by simply pulling it.

Posted: November 17th, 2009 under Hobbies.
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If you’ve been wondering why I am not writing anything in my blog lately, now I’m going to tell you the secret: I’ve recently become a dad. Yes, that’s a moving moment in anybody’s life, or at least I felt it like that.

Being a dad is cool, except that sleep has become quite scarce lately, with wife breastfeeding to little Tommy five times a night. I don’t know how many times she’s feeding the little one during the day, because I’m at work, but I bet she feels like a milk factory already. At night, the process goes like this: she’s bought a nursing pillow, which is a kind of rectangular pillow with a curved edge and with a LED inside. When baby starts crying with hunger, mom takes the pillow, puts baby on top of it, the light glows nicely, they start the feeding thing, then in a few minutes, the pillow light goes off, so I’m supposedly not disturbed by the baby nursing process.

This is funny: if I was not disturbed, how comes that I know so well what my wife and son are doing all night long? I just pretend to be sleeping, so she feels comfortable, but I can tell you that I feel like falling asleep at the wheel or at my job, which is a dangerous thing to do, taking into account that I’m a heavy equipment operator.

Posted: November 17th, 2009 under Life.
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I would have never thought that the day would come when I’d spend ten hours in front of the computer, with only small breaks every now and then. Well, I suppose I had to discover PC role playing games to finally understand my kid. Before that, I was so upset with him spending so much time inside the house, instead of going out and play with kids of his age. Now I know he was actually interacting with other kids, even if it was in World of Warcraft or in Age of Conan or in Quake, or in whatever other games he’s been a fan of for a while.

You may ask yourself what role playing game made me change my mind: it’s Indiana Jones and the Secret of Atlantis. I’m playing Indiana Jones and I have to recreate his adventures in choosing the best way of interacting with the other characters on the game. If I make the wrong choices, I may never be able to solve the puzzles that would allow me to discover Atlantis. The funniest puzzle so far was the one in which I, Indiana Jones, was driving the submarine and I had to enter a secret cave on the ocean bottom. The entrance was there, but there was no way I could get inside. Each trial ended with a message from the computer that “the entrance will reveal itself only to reverse minds”. And guess what? I had to move the submarine backwards in order to enter. When I did so, I was suddenly inside.

Now, I still have to find a way to open a very old gate in that cave, that’s why this post of mine is going to be short: I need to see what’s next in the story!

What’s your favorite role playing PC game?

Posted: November 2nd, 2009 under Hobbies.
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