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Mi primer post, mi primer retoño: Rebeca

2011-08-25T10:57:00.001-05:00

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30th Bday Party!

2009-12-07T10:27:00.001-06:00

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Fotos del Cowboys Stadium

2009-12-07T10:15:00.001-06:00

> Aq > uí > le sigo calando a ver cómo funciona esto del Posterous, publicando ahora desde el correo del Outlook...
Aquí les van algunas fotos que tomé en el nuevo Cowboys Stadium, en Dallas.

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Imprimir somente si é necessario é uma açao com valor

Printing only when it’s necessary, creates value

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Posteando en Blogger mediante el Posterous

2009-12-06T23:59:00.001-06:00

A ver si jala.

Foto con Woody y Buzz, en Hollywood Studios, Orlando. Junio 2009

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2009-12-06T23:38:00.001-06:00

That weird gym-smell

2005-03-09T11:48:00.000-06:00

Last night i worked out a little bit (WOW! i know, that's a miracle, you would say...);

Since i'm in consulting, i hardly ever get time to work out; if i ever have some spare time, i would just hang out with my girlfriend (if i'm home) or just lay back and watch some DVD's.

But now i have a firm commitment of exercising regularly... so, last night i went down to the hotel gym and ran for 18 minutes, then went on the bike for 5 minutes... it feels sooooo good that right after you take a shower, you feel a bit tired, and a little bit loose, you know, relaxed... oh it feels great...

Well, i realized last night, that all gyms smell the same, and i hate it! i hate that "gym" smell... it's like the way hospitals smell, it's not nice, it's not bad, but i hate that every single one smells the same...

I guess it took me back to the gruesome days like 4 years ago when i went to the gym to work out, but really work out, you know, weights and all that, not just running and pedalling... that painful routine of eating a lot of protein, and those awful super-dense (and extremely expensive) milkshakes, and all the gatorade, and all the tuna... aaaggghh, hate the memories... those 3 months were not good at all... i did get a better body, got out of being a skinny boy and became a "regular, well-toned" guy... hehe... or so i would think...

But anyways, that smell, reminds me of all the 2 hour routines that i had, daily at the gym.

It seems that there's just something ubiquitous about all the gyms across the world, u know, the fake promises of looking better, thinner, healthier... all the self-shame accumulated in one place, with all the white-colored apparatus lined up into place, and again... that smell!

Really, last night when i just got into the gym, smelled that particular smell, and right there, i just felt tired... and my mind went someplace else, displaced itself to go on someplace better, just left my body there, to the gruesome tasks of body-building...

then it just hit me... these people here feel just like me, that they need the look/feel better about themselves and their body/athlethic condition... that's a bit awkward, in a way, it's like a AA meeting, but in a good way... at least you can share it proudly...

And don't even get me started on the gym-fanatics and gay guys hitting on straight guys at gyms... a whole 'nother story...

Well, as you could see, all this triggered on my mind just because of that weird gym-smell...

I guess i'll have to live with it... lets just hope i can keep it up...

cheers!

Ahead the wave...

2005-03-07T12:29:00.000-06:00

Well, I finally got my hands on a couple of the Stand Up, Speak Up, Nike wristbands, waaaay before people even get to know about them here in this continent...

as you should know, these wristbands are a smashing hit down at europe, they are sold out as soon as they hit the stores... and they are also, a bit overpriced, don't you think so?

eventually, as always happens, these wristbands will be a hit over here also, but not in a month or two from now, at least...

so, as you can say, i'm a little bit ahead the wave... feels cool... hehe

chaco: i'm sorry man, i know you're sad because you still don't get yours on the mail (or do you?...) gotcha!

c ya!

Fun by the hour...

2005-03-03T13:16:00.000-06:00

Last night a bunch friends and I went to Dave & Buster's.

We had a decent dinner and some beers and then played a while on the arcades. I bought 1 hour of gameplay for about $9dlls, that means you can swipe your card on the arcades once each minute, that gives you max 60 credits, quite a lot.

I almost finished the "Time Crisis 3" shooter, and also played a lot of Mo-Cap Box... MAN that got me tired! We finished that one... hehe... That game made me realice that I need to start working out, because I have no athletic condition... AT ALL!!!

This consulting job, travelling around all the time, every single week, doesn't live much space to exercise, but anyway, I HAVE to make me some time available... it's up tome now... let's see if i can keep it up...

Anyway's... i'm flying home tonight, it feels sooooo good, being able to spend some time with my girl and my family, let's just hope we don't catch any turbulence on the way home... see you there!

Stuck in the elevator... ephimerous hero

2005-03-02T09:43:00.000-06:00

Good moorning... as everybody should say... NNNOOOOTTTTT!!!!

I got up, took a shower, head on to the hotel lobby i'm staying in,
and the elevator door starts closing veeeerrrrrryyyyyy slowly, and
then opens up again... it does this a couple of times and finally
closes the fourth... i'm going down to the lobby... and then the
elevator jumps a little bit, kind of awkard, like a hicup, and then
goes up to the 20th floor... What the hell! I was going down! not
up!... well... a couple guys come in... starts going down again...
stop at 19th and two more get it... door closes, goes down a little
bit... another little jump, and suddenly it stops moving, at all...

This is the first time i got stuck in an elevator... i pressed the
alarm button, and the one to call the operator, told the lady we were
stuck apparently at floor 17, because that was what the elevator said,
and she told me that the maintenance guys were on their way...

Five minutes later, no answer at all... one of the guys tries to open
the doors, but it can't, he really even tried that hard...

Ten more minutes and no answer... we try calling the operator again,
no anwer this time...

After 20 minutes of being stuck, i reach the doors, get a grab on
them, and start to pull them open... as i'm opening them, i realize
we're like 1 foot below the 19th floor, so we get out, and i'm the
hero, of course, everybody thanks me... i guess we could have benn
there for an hour...

Of course i went to complain to the manager, but he wasn't there, so i
wined at the assistant, and he was taking it like it was no big
deal... i got really pissed off, ánd late, so i got out and took a
cab... i'll go back to the manager tonight...

Well, to pop the cherry on my cake, traffic was insane, i got to work
1 hour late...

Nice way to start up the day... but anyway... i was a hero... at least
for a while...

Stand Up Wristbands

2005-03-01T18:38:00.000-06:00

stand up wristbands
Originally uploaded by ivankj7.

This are the wristbands that everybody is going nuts over down at Europe. A friend of mine will bring me a couple next week (hopefully).
For now, they won't be available on this side of the world, so, yo can try to snatch one over @ Ebay... man! they are pricey!

Flickr

2005-03-01T18:19:00.000-06:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Leaving town...

2005-03-01T14:36:00.000-06:00

It sucks that right after college, a lot of your best friends leave town to take on a job or to get a masters degree, most of them, even out of the country.
It sucks that right when you are hanging a lot with them and building a stronger friendship, they just vanish... sucks...
Because I was getting used to seeing them, to talk to them, to have fun with them...
It's not that i'm running out of friends to hang out with, but anyways, for every single friend that leaves town, they take a piece of your heart with them...

Switch...

2005-03-01T11:44:00.000-06:00

I just got my brand new iMac G5, with bluetooth keyboard and mice... sweeeet huh? I just got it sunday night and i barely got to do the initial setup and installed iLife 05... couldn't play more with it because i had an early flight monday, and won't be home 'till late thursday, so i'm looking forward to it... I'm eager to start building my iPhoto library, and build a couple of slideshows DVD's... alright then, i'll keep you posted...

Back on track...

2005-02-24T14:57:00.000-06:00

Well, after a couple of months without posting, i'm finally devoting some time to post my thoughts here...

Quick news, i just bought an iMac G5, i'll be receiving it this sunday, so, as I play with it, I'll keep you posted...

On some other things, everybody knows what a LIVESTRONG wristband is, and all the hype it generated, among the dozens of rip-off's and so many charities and NPO's (Non Profitable Org) that made their own wristband to come up with funds... So, now the next big thing in the "wristband craze" is the new NIKE Stand Up, Speak Up wristbands, which support anti-racism, mainly in soccer. These are actually 2 wristbands in one, a white one and a black one that come interlinked. This is It's being used for top soccer players such as Thierry Henry, Roberto Carlos, Rio Ferdinand among others... but, it's only available in Europe and its HOT right now, it's already sold out in the UK... so if you ever get to be one of the happy mortals to get one, please share...

Just a test

2004-11-05T19:29:00.000-06:00

this is a test to see how fast FeedBurner and Bloglines detect an update to my blog

Feedburner

2004-11-05T19:03:00.000-06:00

I'm using Bliglines to keep up with my several blog and RSS suscriptions... When I tried to add my own Blog, it would just show up 3 posts, the very first 3 posts that I made, and never the recent ones...

So, i re-published my blog thru FeedBurner and now its showing correctly on Bloglines... Maybe I was doing something wrong...

Try it, if you have problems with your feeds, give it a try...

XBOX Bash Tonight!

2004-11-05T18:07:00.000-06:00

A bunch of friends are getting together to have an XBOX Bash tonight... we gonna try out the FIFA 2005 game and also the leaked Halo 2 (french edition) a friend of mine found on the web... let see how it goes...

XBOX, Beer and chips... sounds fun for a guys night out... (even though girls are also coming...)

Having my car towed...

2004-11-05T17:47:00.000-06:00

Last night we got together to celebrate my friend's birthday... Rayados (Monterrey soccer team) also played and we watched them tie the game at the last minute...

So we were at "Tucano's", a nice cozy bar where a lot of people hangs out thursday nights... this is the place to see and to be seen... a lot of fine girls...

We were the last ones to get out, and when I head out to the place where my car was parked, it just wasn't there... BIG SHOCK... for a few moments you get scared as hell... you think your car was stolen... and after a few more seconds you realize that it might have been towed... I called the transit authority and actually, the car was there... it was towed...

I had to pay 70 bucks for the towing truck service and for the ticket... but my car spent the night at my house instead of the junkyard it was in, where they usually get damaged and even some parts stolen...

Anyway... the good thing was that I was able to get my car out of the junkyard... at 3 o clock in the morning, thanks to the people working at the transit authority office overnight...

l8r

Go SPURS Go

2004-11-04T13:20:00.000-06:00

I hope the Spurs do well this season... with the all-star team the got, they sure will...

Tim Duncan
Mani Ginobili
Brent Barry
Tony Parker
Malik Rose

They GOT to do good!!!

Need more music

2004-11-04T13:10:00.000-06:00

I have my 20Gig iPod with 7gigs to spare... don't have more music to load it with... maybe you can give me a hint of your few favorite tracks... thx!

Tigres indoor, a fair franchise?

2004-11-04T10:19:00.000-06:00

Well, i want to let out some toughts that i've been rounding up in my head for the past few days.

Regarding the recent entrance of a Tigres indoor soccer franchise in the MISL (Major Indoor Soccer League), let me tell you that i find this a bit unusual, suspicious if you want...

First of all, months ago, the major soccer team Tigres, made an offer to buy the Monterrey Fury pro indoor soccer franchise. Fury's owner said "NO"... As the days went through, the league's commisioner, disaffiliated the team, citing "constant administrative and economical failures", whatever that means... as a response, the Fury's owner appealed the decision and got no response whatsoever from the league...

A couple of days later, the MISL commisioner announces that they don't want to leave Monterrey without a team, as it is a great fan base and a great city, so, as he says, he went on the look for potential investors who wanted to buy a whole new franchise... and guess who he found... Monterrey Tigres, a team that plays in the major soccer first division, a VERY popular team.

So, as it went down, the Tigres signed a contract to manage the resulting franchise from the recent disafiliation, that means, that the player contract from the now extinct Monterrey Fury, belong to the league... so Tigres will cease control of it, with the option to actually buying a franchise and staying in the league.

The newly formed team will go by the name of Tigres Indoor, to differentiate it of the actual Tigres, that play regular soccer...

What I think of all this, is that the Tigres organization, after getting the offer to acquire Monterrey Fury rejected, went behind the back and contacted directly the MISL league's commisioner, and practicly asked them to get them a franchise... as the commisioner realized the actual investment and organizational power the Tigres had, decided to give them a franchise, as they were a better organization all-around, would attract a larger fan base (including the actual soccer team fans) and therefore bring more money to the league's pockets. So, the league was convinced Tigres deserved a franchise, and monterrey was no place for two MISL teams, they simply disafiliated the Fury, as i cited above...

So, Tigres got their indoor franchise, the league got a better organization running the Monterrey franchise, and by the way... bigger bags of cash...

I'm not saying that this is good or bad, it's surely good to Monterrey's indoor soccer culture and to the fans, but this wasn't necesarily the best way this could have happened. I feel Tigres indoor was born in a dirty fashion... not to be reminded proudly...

My toughts on the issue...

DELIVER, DELIVER, DELIVER!!!

2004-11-04T09:51:00.000-06:00

as the usual in the consulting business, you spend all night up finishing stuff for a next morning presentation. i'm tired of it, with all the pressure on your back, your head is on the line... DELIVER, DELIVER, DELIVER... it's all about delivering... they don't care if you waste your life at the job, just do it...

it's crazy, at the same time the consulting firms claim that family is the most important thing, that we dont live to work, we work to live... YEAH RIGHT... when it comes down the time... the hell with family... DELIVER!!! and finally, we become the things we do...

anyway... talk 2 u l8r on

A sad day? & Tigres Indoor...

2004-11-03T19:38:00.000-06:00

Bush apparently won the elections... is this a sad day? again? as half the americans claimed in 2000? Well, really dunno if it's good or bad, but for me, it's almost the same... Anyway...

It's freezing cold here in Saltillo, I miss working @ Monterrey, I dont have a life here, from work, to bed, to work, and so on... booooring...

Looking forward to playing some more FIFA 2005 on XBOX, i've been playing for just 11 or so games on my career... it seems it will take AWHILE before I get somewhere... FIFA 2006 will catch up before I do... hehe

The pro indoor soccer team from Monterrey, that plays in the Major Indoor Soccer League has just been recently suspiciously bought by the Monterrey Tigres (tigers), a major soccer team... this newly acquired team will go by the name of Tigres Indoor... let's see how that works... it's just weird, Miguel Garza, Vp of the regular soccer team, is the former president of the now-extinct LA RAZA pro indoor soccer team, that used to play in the CISL (Continental Indoor Soccer League)... so, I know he has some experience managing pro indoor soccer teams... now i get it... more comments onthis tomorrow... a lot to tell, so little time...

Last note...
Tigres is also planning to open up a franchise on the MSL (Major Soccer League) @ San Antonio, Texas... talk about an "expanding" team...