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/><geo:lat>43.485116</geo:lat><geo:long>80.484314</geo:long><feedburner:emailServiceId>LiveFromWaterloo</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29401367.post-7087169016104934982</id><published>2012-01-29T04:53:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T04:53:02.922-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fun" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Musical Sundays" /><title type="text">Musical Sundays #13 – Les Luthiers</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(En español más abajo)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lesluthiers.org/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lesluthiers.org/getfoto.php?ID=629&amp;amp;ON=0" width="560" height="243"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;A great picture taken from “&lt;a href="http://lesluthiers.org/"&gt;Les Luthiers de la Web&lt;/a&gt;” – Gran foto sacada de “&lt;a href="http://lesluthiers.org/"&gt;Les Luthiers de la Web&lt;/a&gt;”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="USA" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCRY9hySI/AAAAAAAABJY/v34Mk4HXjwM/United-States%5B4%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;I can not believe that I haven’t dedicated any post to the wonderful &lt;a href="http://www.lesluthiers.org"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Les Luthiers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; yet!!! This incredibly talented Argentine comedy-musical group is very popular in all of Ibero America and has been performing for over 44 years. Founded by the late &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardo_Masana"&gt;Gerardo Masana&lt;/a&gt;, this group has been making incredibly good music and brilliant comedy for many years, with the aid of very peculiar instruments. Each one of its current members are very talented and highly recognized (almost revered) artists on their own: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_L%C3%B3pez_Puccio"&gt;Carlos López Puccio&lt;/a&gt; is an extremely accomplished violin, viola and cello player, but he’s also one of the most prestigious choir conductors in Latin America. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Maronna"&gt;Jorge Maronna&lt;/a&gt; is just about the best guitar player (and bass, banjo, charango, etc) I’ve ever seen; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cort%C3%A9s"&gt;Carlos Núñez Cortés&lt;/a&gt; is a superb piano player, but can also play all kinds of wind instruments. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Rabinovich"&gt;Daniel Rabinovich&lt;/a&gt; is the multi-instrumentalist of the group, and also a great comedian, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Mundstock"&gt;Marcos Mundstock&lt;/a&gt; plays the solemn host with unparalleled talent (besides having a wonderful baritone voice). &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Acher"&gt;Ernesto Acher&lt;/a&gt;, who left in 1986, was –like Rabinovich– somebody who could play pretty much anything, and like his former colleague, was outstanding with all of them.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Their wacky instruments are legendary, like the ‘latin’ (a violin made with a can of ham from Switzerland) or the ‘bass barriltono’ (a double bass made with a barrel, and that can only be played by getting inside of it. Oh, and it has wheels). In many cases, the instruments are specifically created for one song (like the ‘bolarmonio’ that you will see in the third video). Sometimes, however, they barely need of any of these instruments to make fantastic music, like you will see below.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;I firmly believe that Les Luthiers are among the finest contributions of my home country to the World Arts. I hope you enjoy their music… and their humour!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="420" height="315"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/55Av31NO-Hw?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/55Av31NO-Hw?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8040"&gt;“Lazy Daisy” from 1977/78 – Not a great quality… but what a beautiful tune!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Lazy Daisy” de 1977/78 – No tendrá la mejor calidad… pero qué hermosura!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="380"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YmHENxZe5NQ?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YmHENxZe5NQ?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="380" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8000"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Añoralgias”, a catastrophic zamba that I love to sing with Gaby and my brother Fafa&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Añoralgias”, una zamba catástrofre que me encanta cantar con Gaby y mi hermano Fafa&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;No puedo creer que no les haya dedicado ningún post a los increíbles &lt;a href="http://www.lesluthiers.org"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Les Luthiers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; todavía!!! Este increíblemente talentoso grupo argentino de comedia y humor musical es muy popular en toda Iberoamérica y llevan tocando juntos más de 44 años. Fundado por el fallecido &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardo_Masana"&gt;Gerardo Masana&lt;/a&gt;, este grupo ha venido haciendo increíblemente buena música y brillante comedia por años, siempre con la ayuda de sus extraños instrumentos. Cada uno de sus miembros son muy talentosos y reconocidos (casi reverenciados) artistas individualmente: &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_L%C3%B3pez_Puccio"&gt;Carlos López Puccio&lt;/a&gt; no sólo es un muy diestro intérprete de violín, viola y cello, sino que también uno de los directores corales más prestigiosos de Latinoamérica. &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Maronna"&gt;Jorge Maronna&lt;/a&gt; es mejor intérprete de guitarra (y bajo, charango, banjo, etc) que yo haya visto; &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cort%C3%A9s"&gt;Carlos Núñez Cortés&lt;/a&gt; es un fantástico pianista, pero también toca instrumentos de viento; &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Rabinovich"&gt;Daniel Rabinovich&lt;/a&gt; es el ‘comodín’ del grupo, tocando muchos instrumentos, pero por sobre todo un gran comediante, y &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcos_Mundstock"&gt;Marcos Mundstock&lt;/a&gt; juega el rol del presentador solemne con talento sin par (además de tener una gran voz e barítono). &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Acher"&gt;Ernesto Acher&lt;/a&gt;, quien dejara el grupo en 1986, era –como Rabinovich– un instrumentista muy versátil, y podía tocar prácticamente de todo; como su ex-colega, era brillante en cada uno de los instrumentos que tocaba.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Hablando de los instrumentos… son legendarios, como el ‘latin’ (un violín hecho con una lata de jamón de Suiza) o el ‘bajo barriltono’ (un contrabajo cuya caja es un barril, y que sólo puede ser interpretado metiéndose dentro de él. Ah, y tiene ruedas). En muchos casos, los instrumentos son creados específicamente para una canción o se escribe la canción alrededor del instrumento nuevo (como el ‘bolarmonio’ que verán en el tercer video). Hay ocasiones, sin embargo, en las que apenas si necesitan de esos instrumentos para hacer una música increíble, como verán más abajo.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Creo firmemente que Les Luthiers son una de las mayores contribuciones de mi país de origen al Mundo de las Artes. Espero que disfruten de su música… y de su humor!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="380"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZKARUbkvyTA?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZKARUbkvyTA?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="380" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8000"&gt;Fantastic performances by Núñez Cortés (piano) and Maronna (bolarmonio)!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;Núñez Cortés (piano) y Maronna (bolarmonio) se sacan chispas aquí!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;object width="420" height="315"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xSOP2G7k3wg?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xSOP2G7k3wg?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8040"&gt;My favourite one. Maronna, Núñez Cortés and López Puccio play all kinds of&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8040"&gt;instruments in “Pepper Clemens sent the messenger, nevertheless the Reverent left the herd”&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;Mi favorita. Maronna, Núñez Cortés y López Puccio tocan toda clase de instrumentos&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;en “Pepper Clemens sent the messenger, nevertheless the Reverent left the herd”&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="315"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VXBEzrUn25I?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VXBEzrUn25I?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8000"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Concerto Grosso alla rustica”, one of their first compositions, played with the Camerata Bariloche&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8000"&gt;It features an amazing solo by López Puccio and Mundstock near the end!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Concerto Grosso alla rustica”, una de sus primeras composiciones, junto con la Camerata Bariloche&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;Incluye un solo increíble de López Puccio y Mundstock al final!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153,201,255)"&gt; &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:62be1f69-e70d-4521-b3fe-cea50451f655" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Musical+Sundays" rel="tag"&gt;Musical Sundays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29401367-7087169016104934982?l=www.lfwaterloo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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But I didn’t fly this time! After finding out that it would actually take longer for me to get here by plane than by car, I decided to drive down here. But I brought a travel buddy!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Juan is staying with me and we’re having a lot of fun. Having him in the car was great for me, the 8 hours of driving just flew by. I love having the chance to bond with him for a few days. He loves the eating out and staying at a hotel part, of course… plus having Dad all for himself.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;We checked in at a Holiday Inn and we got a room with a Jacuzzi. We both went in and watched TV from it for about an hour; then Juan got up to get out and… the water level went down. We sprayed the whole room with lots of soapy water, though most of it went straight into my face! :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Juan loved the Jacuzzi so much that he went in again just a couple hours later. 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Pero esta vez no volé! Luego de darme cuenta de que iba a tardar más en avión que si venía en auto, decidí manejar desde casa. Pero me traje un compañero de aventuras!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Juan se está quedando conmigo y la estamos pasando genial. Tenerlo de copiloto fue buenísimo, se me pasaron volando las 8 horas de viaje. Me encanta tener la chance de pasar unos días con él. Y a él le gusta salir a comer y estar en un hotel, por supuesto… además del hecho de tenerlo a Papá para él solo.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Estamos en un Holiday Inn y nos tocó una habitación con Jacuzzi. Nos metimos y miramos la tele desde ahí por una hora; cuando Juan se levantó para salir… el nivel del agua bajó. Los tubos de agua quedaron al descubierto y salpicamos agua con jabón por toda la habitación, aunque la mayoría de los chorros fueron directo a mi cara! :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;A Juan le gustó tanto el Jacuzzi que se volvió a meter un par de horas más tarde. 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Suddenly, you’re surrounded by a menacing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;group of people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;You’re totally harmless… or are you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Take off your sweater and take a HUGE breath.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Shirt buttons can be as deadly as ninja stars!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;Cansado de tratar infructuosamente de perder peso, elegí el camino más fácil y en su lugar me armé una listita de algunos beneficios de seguir igual…&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;table style="width: 480px" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#003300" align="center"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="480"&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Reutilización de la ropa (2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Son las 3AM y está caminando por una calle oscura y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;desierta. 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She spends hours every day singing in front of the TV, while listening to her favourite CDs or just singing by herself, for the fun of it. Being around her and listening to her beautiful voice is a delight; it’s something that has been very hard to forget, even after she left back home two month ago.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Here she is singing a song called “How to get an elephant to sleep”. Watch her as she goes from normal voice to ‘angry’ voice, then an extremely high pitched one, then a silly one, then back to ‘angry’… she’s so funny. She even had time to tease me in the middle of her singing! She called me ‘Willy’ (my older brother’s name) for the entire two weeks she was home. Once my brother Willy arrived too… she called him ‘Gabriel’! &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;I hope you enjoy this video as much as we do. There’s more to come!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red"&gt;16/Nov/2011 – Sofía (2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;A mi sobrinita Sofía le encanta cantar. Se pasa horas cantando en frente de la TV, o mientras escucha sus CDs favoritos, o simplemente cantando ella sola, por puro placer. Estar con ella y escuchar su hermosa voz es un deleite, algo muy difícil de olvidar, aunque ya hayan pasado dos meses desde que se volvió para su casa.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Aquí la tienen en plenitud, cantando una canción titulada “Para dormir a un elefante”. Miren cómo pasa de una voz normal a otra ‘enojada’, luego a una altísima, luego una voz de payasa, después otra vez a ‘enojada’… es tan divertida! Si hasta tuvo tiempo de bromear conmigo mientras cantaba! Me llamó ‘Willy’ (el nombre de mi hermano mayor) durante las dos semanas que estuvo en casa. Cuando mi hermano Guillermo llegó de visita también… a él le decía ‘Gabriel’!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Espero que disfruten este video tanto como lo hemos disfrutado nosotros. 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When I asked him about a guy his sister liked, however, he did feel like talking:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Dad… Come on, he’s like two years older than her!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;I asked what the problem was with that.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-You don’t go out with girls who are younger than you!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Well, that depends. Back in the 80’s, when I was your age, I &lt;u&gt;would&lt;/u&gt; go out with girls who were two or three years younger than me… Girls are normally more mature than boys of the same age, you know.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Well, Dad… you’re talking about 30 years ago; society has experienced a few changes since!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- (Thanks for reminding me of my age!) I know… Look at my grandmother, for example. She got married when she was 15, and by the age of 16 she had already given birth to my dad and his twin brother. That was totally normal back then.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Oh, wow… Now you’re talking about the wrong eighties…&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Yes, the 1880’s… (laughs)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;Oh, what a smartass!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Santi y yo habábamos de una chica que yo creía que le gustaba a él (OK, no estábamos hablando sino que yo lo estaba indagando, porque Santi en su vida confesaría algo así). Cuando le pregunté por un chico que le gustaba a su hermana, sin embargo, sí tuvo ganas de hablar:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Papá… En serio… es como dos años más grande que ella!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;Le pregunté cuál era el problema con eso.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Cómo vas a salir con chicas que son más chicas que vos!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;- Bueno, eso depende. En los ochentas, cuando yo tenía tu edad, yo por lo general salía con chicas dos o tres años más chicas… Las mujeres son más maduras que los varones de la misma edad, sabés eso.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Bueno, Pa… estás hablando de hace 30 años; la sociedad ha experimentado algunos cambios desde entonces!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;- (Gracias por recordarme que soy un viejo choto!) Ya sé… Mirá el caso de mi abuela, por ejemplo. Se casó a los 15 y para los 16 años ya había tenido a mi papá y su hermano gemelo. Eso era totalmente normal para esa época.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Ah, bueno… Ahora estás hablando de los otros ochentas…&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;- ?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Y sí, hablás de 1880! 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Me, my brothers and my cousins have not only enjoyed the many shows and events that are normally offered during those days (second week of January) but also have taken part of the festival, as we have been on the floats that were assembled by the Liga de Madres de Familia (something similar to the American Family Assocation, but less conservative) of which my grandmother abuela Haydée was a very active member. &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p align="justify"&gt;With the years, friends of mine who are dedicated to the arts (like my friend María Marta) would visit my hometown and alternated work and pleasure (though few things bring more pleasure than working for kids). Interest decreased over the last few years, something that many quickly blamed on the municipal governments, because (in a typical &lt;em&gt;necochense &lt;/em&gt;fashion, regrettably) they didn’t seem to care too much about tourism and offering good services to those visiting our beaches. That’s how the festival began to languish, less artists were interested in coming, and less floats would be taking part of the parade. But there was no way to predict the shameful events that would shock necochenses around the world would feel a couple of weeks ago.  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;This year’s edition was marred by the use and abuse of political propaganda during the inaugural parade (something that, as &lt;a href="http://ecosdiariosweb.com.ar/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=14594:con-el-festival-infantil-no&amp;amp;catid=38:editorial&amp;amp;Itemid=33" target="_blank"&gt;the local newspaper “Ecos Diarios”&lt;/a&gt; points out, is a special skill the current government has; they can turn &lt;em&gt;anything &lt;/em&gt;into a political event).  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;Right from the beginning, many artists and other workers began to complain about the horrific conditions in which they had to work… and live. Some were placed in a hotel that had been closed years before over safety and health issues. They didn’t have water (or fire extinguishers, for example). Shows and events were virtually not promoted, which caused most of them to be very poorly attended. That wasn’t all. The venues had many sound and hydro problems, to the point that actors had to yell for people to hear them.  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-phGDDvKwZes/TxhSqtXydtI/AAAAAAAABGY/Vo2NbZEQapc/s1600-h/yo13.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="yo1" border="0" alt="yo1" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-slaU4oLkXq8/TxhSr4v6xII/AAAAAAAABGg/Jq16MytsF_w/yo1_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="484" height="326"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8000"&gt;My brother Martin getting ready for the parade (1975)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;Mi hermano Martín listo para el desfile (1975)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;The artists made a mistake they would regret: they had dignity. They complained to the Municipality through the Secretary of Tourism. The Necochean government took over about a month ago, and is aligned with the party in power at a national level. Their response was also very true to the style of the governing party: violence and intolerance.  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;A group of goons suspected to have links to the Secretary of Tourism showed up at a restaurant where one of these groups of actors that had complained were eating and beat the living daylight out of them, in front of everybody, with the impunity of those who know they’re ‘protected'. None of the important or respectable local media even mentioned this news, something very suspicious. Just a couple of little online tabloids, that was it.  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;This group of actors and crew went to the police and pressed charges; then they immediately left a city that had given them such a bad welcome and never cared to protect them. The attacks and threats continued, so the rest of the artists left soon after and the festival came to a screeching halt. It was a huge scandal and a very sad day for my hometown, which many try to ignore, either because it’s convenient or because they’re afraid. With charges pressed and everything, there are still no news about any possible consequences for Secretary Trobo or her acolytes, because in Argentina, like the wannabe mafia cheef in charge of the Argentine Soccer Association likes to say, “everything passes”.  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;What won’t pass so easily is the damage this people have done to the most important event of my hometown. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 2013 Edition of the Festival ends being cancelled due to the lack of interest.  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;Because… who would go to a place knowing that not only they will live in inhuman conditions, but also will be forced to performed on unacceptable venues with virtually no public? And even more, knowing that if they dare to pretend to have decent living and working conditions, they might end in a hospital?  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;I keep on saying that even after so many years and in spite of the fact that I’m so far away, Argentina hurts. But Necochea hurts even more these days.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.carteleranecochea.com/nota.php?id=12" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://www.carteleranecochea.com/f3e908fbb281a711c1272b4818d44518festival-infantil-necochea.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://www.carteleranecochea.com" target="_blank"&gt;Cartelera Necochea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;Con más de 50 ediciones a cuestas, el &lt;a href="http://www.necochea.gov.ar/festival/" target="_blank"&gt;Festival Infantil de Necochea&lt;/a&gt;, mi ciudad natal, es ya mucho más que una tradición; es una de esos eventos que definen a una ciudad, como lo es el &lt;a href="http://www.carnavaldelpais.com.ar" target="_blank"&gt;Carnaval en Gualeguachú&lt;/a&gt; o el Oktoberfest en &lt;a href="http://elsitiodelavilla.com/oktoberfest/ " target="_blank"&gt;Villa General Belgrano&lt;/a&gt;. Tanto mis hermanos, como también mis primos y por supuesto yo mismo no sólo hemos disfrutado de los muchísimos espectáculos que se brindan durante esa semana (la segunda de Enero) sino que hasta también hemos sido parte de ellos, desfilando en las carrozas de la Liga de Madres de Familia, de la cual mi abuela Haydée era una muy activa participante. &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p align="justify"&gt;Con los años, amigos míos que se dedican a la actuación (como mi querida María Marta) visitaron mi ciudad natal y alternaron el trabajo y el placer (aunque pocas cosas sean tan placenteras como trabajar para los niños). En los últimos años hubo un decrecimiento en el interés que genera este festival, por el que muchos se apresuraron a responsabilizar a los gobiernos municipales de turno, que (bien a la usanza necochense, lamentablemente) parecía darle muy poca importancia y relevancia a la cuestión turística. Así fue que el festival comenzó a languidecer, menos artistas se acercaron y menos carrozas desfilaron. Pero nada presagiaba la vergüenza y el escarnio que los necochenses de todo el mundo iríamos a pasar un par de semanas atrás.  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;La versión de este año estuvo manchada por el uso y abuso de la propaganda política en pleno desfile de carrozas (como bien dice el &lt;a href="http://ecosdiariosweb.com.ar/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=14594:con-el-festival-infantil-no&amp;amp;catid=38:editorial&amp;amp;Itemid=33" target="_blank"&gt;editorial del “Ecos Diarios”&lt;/a&gt;, es una habilidad especial que tiene el gobierno de turno esa de convertir cualquier cosa en un evento político).  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://www.necochea.gov.ar/festival09/Festival%20Infantil%2009/slides/DSC02069.JPG"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8000"&gt;The parade, a few years ago&lt;/font&gt; – &lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;El desfile, hace unos años&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;Ni bien iniciada la Edición 2012, muchos artistas y talleristas comenzaron a quejarse de las horrendas condiciones de trabajo, y de vida. Algunos fueron alojados en un hotel que hacía tiempo que había sido clausurado y en el que no tenían agua (ni matafuegos, por ejemplo). La promoción de los espectáculos fue nula, lo que causó que la mayoría de las funciones se hicieran a sala prácticamente vacía. No terminó todo allí. Las salas contaban con innumerables problemas de sonido y energía, al punto que más de una obra se tuvo que hacerse a los gritos pelados. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="justify"&gt;Los artistas cometieron un pecado imperdonable: tuvieron dignidad y se quejaron a la Municipalidad a través de la Secretaría de Turismo. El gobierno necochense asumió hace sólo un mes y es afín al gobierno nacional. La respuesta municipal fue bien al estilo del partido gobernante: violencia e intolerancia.  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;Un grupo de matones que se supone responden a la Secretaria de Turismo irrumpió en un restaurante donde se encontraba cenando una de las compañías que se había quejado por las malas condiciones y los molieron a patadas delante de todos, con la impunidad de aquél que se sabe protegido. Ninguno de los medios importantes de la ciudad se hizo 'eco' del asunto, algo muy sospechoso.  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;Esta compañía de artistas radicó la pertinente denuncia y se fue inmediatamente de la ciudad que tan mal los acogió y nunca los protegió. Los ataques siguieron, así que muy pronto se fue todo el resto yel festival quedó trunco. Una verdadera vergüenza que muchos callan, por conveniencia o por miedo. Con denuncias de por medio y todo, aún no se habla de que vayan a haber consecuencias para la Secretaria Trobo o sus secuaces, porque en Argentina, como bien dice el pichón de mafioso que está a cargo de la Asociación de Fútbol Argentino, "todo pasa".  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;Lo que no va a pasar así nomás el es daño que esta gentuza le ha hecho al evento más importante de mi ciudad natal. No me extrañaría para nada que el del año que viene se termine cancelando por la falta de interés.  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;Porque... quién iría a un lugar donde sabe que no sólo va a vivir en condiciones paupérrimas, sino que también va a actuar en escenarios no aptos y sin público? Y además sabiendo que si tiene el tupé de pretender vivir en condiciones dignas, es posible que termine en el hospital?  &lt;p align="justify"&gt;Siempre digo que, aún después de tanto tiempo y a la distancia, Argentina me duele. Por estos días, Necochea me duele mucho más.  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-hJy721Fizns/TxhSsZKOBWI/AAAAAAAABGo/HABeQaZpr_Y/s1600-h/festival_infantil_014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="festival_infantil_01" border="0" alt="festival_infantil_01" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-NrrfRxrocqA/TxhSsiLcJ4I/AAAAAAAABGw/mqCbD4g5Lsc/festival_infantil_01_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="368"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153,201,255)"&gt; &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0c77fb96-e509-4006-adee-cc511286cb8a" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Necochea" rel="tag"&gt;Necochea&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/kids" rel="tag"&gt;kids&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/violence" rel="tag"&gt;violence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29401367-5165643436738419632?l=www.lfwaterloo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I had averages of 140/150 visits per day and many friends and blog buddies would come to leave their comments very often -or just to heckle me! :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Then my blog was hacked, and it was very hard to come back. In fact, the main reason I did return and continued blogging was the overwhelming support I received from the same friends and blog buddies who had been reading my blog until then (plus, of course, those who have been with me always, regardless of whether they ‘read me’ or not). I did come back, but my blog would never be the same. My mood was a big factor here too. I struggled a lot to keep it floating and I even managed to get near to an average of 100 visits per day during the summer. But after that, it was another free fall.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;I love stats, and my numbers right now are horrific. I guess it’s a combination of me not writing at the crazy pace I used to, a decrease in the quality of what I write, and the fact that I’m not as active as I used to be. I’m not complaining about the results, it’s something you can expect.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;But when I resumed my blogging last week, I had a goal: I want to bring LfW back to life. I know it’s going to cost me dearly, but I also know that I can do it. One of the short term goals I self imposed were to make it to 100 visitors for one day. I had to be patient… but it finally happened!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-mP2nltE_oCA/TxeTbL3u3_I/AAAAAAAABF4/aRNQiO_XuUY/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-NQCWOKpFzZc/TxeTbtriywI/AAAAAAAABGA/-UakNoWOims/image_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="364" height="416"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;The next short term goal is &lt;em&gt;‘write something that actually has some value’&lt;/em&gt;, of course. We’ll see how I do with that… :-) &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Hace sólo un año, mi blog estaba en la cúspide de su popularidad. Tenía promedios de 140/150 visitas por día y muchos amigos y blog buddies pasaban por aquí para dejar sus comentarios muy seguido –o al menos para verduguearme! :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Luego mi blog fue hackeado, y fue muy difícil poder volver. De hecho, la razón principal por la que continué blogueando fue el impresionante apoyo que recibí de esos mismos amigos y blogbuddies que habían estado leyendo este blog hasta tencons (más, por supuesto, esos que han estado conmigo siempre, me ‘lean’ o no). Si bien terminé volviendo, mi blog nunca volvió a ser el mismo. Mis ganas (o falta de) fueron un factor importante. Me costó un perú mantenerlo a flote, y apenas si llegué a rascar un promedio muy cercano a las 100 visitas diarias durante el verano. Pero luego de esos meses, me vine en picada.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Amo las estadísticas, y mis números hoy en día son horribles. Es una combinación de haber bajado ese ritmo insano que tenía para escribir, un decrecimiento en la calidad de lo que escribo y el hecho de que no estoy ni por asomo tan activo en la blogosfera como supe estarlo. No me quejo de los resultados, porque me parecen esperables.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Pero cuando volví a bloguear la semana pasada, me fijé una meta: revivir al pobre LfW. Sé que me va a costar mucho, pero también sé que puedo hacerlo. Una de las metas de corto plazo que me impuse era la de volver a tener 100 visitas en un día. Tuve que tener paciencia… pero finalmente ocurrió!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-QH4_Y-ic6po/TxeTb-epFLI/AAAAAAAABGI/ywXpwUkfI2s/s1600-h/image%25255B8%25255D.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Ti78Bx_WOhs/TxeTckoVLqI/AAAAAAAABGQ/nyb5J6QXtzQ/image_thumb%25255B4%25255D.png?imgmax=800" width="484" height="458"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;La próxima meta es por supuesto ‘&lt;em&gt;escribir algo que tenga algún valor’&lt;/em&gt;. Pero bueno, para eso falta, che! :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153,201,255)"&gt; &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ca91a6cc-301b-4b1e-a6b8-f518da756466" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/blogging" rel="tag"&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/statistics" rel="tag"&gt;statistics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29401367-3133242319403081390?l=www.lfwaterloo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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It basically means creating a censorship procedure on the internet that is very similar to those used in countries like China and Iran, and that will allow the Government to prevent people from accessing websites that they have determined are violating copyright laws by sharing music, movies, games, etc.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;br&gt;The US Congress has already announced that they will not proceed with the voting session on Jan/24th due in part to the backlash of negative reactions from sites like Google, Reddit and Wikipedia, which has even shut down its site for today.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;As the article (in Spanish) I read at ‘La Mascarada’ says, sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc would be forced to establish self-censorship mechanisms to avoid being banned by the government. This meaning, irresponsible actions from users will eventually affect the service provider instead of those who actually broke the law, something I find unacceptable.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;There are many opinions about this, and it’s of course a worldwide trend on Twitter (though there is people making all kind of incredible claims). I agree with the idea that sharing movies and music over the internet should be at least regulated (and if not, penalized), but I think this project is just a badly camouflaged version of good ole censorship that makes the US Government look pretty bad, as they took a censoring role that has many similarities to those played by enemies like Venezuela, Siria, Iran and others.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;For more information, please check the links above. &lt;a href="http://en.wikinoticia.com/Technology/general-technology/103774-soup-how-it-affects-teachers-students-and-libraries"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://www.wikinoticia.com/images2//s1.alt1040.com/files/2011/12/infografia-otra-vez-sopa-mafalda.jpg" width="560" height="372"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Image Source: &lt;a href="http://en.wikinoticia.com/Technology/general-technology/103774-soup-how-it-affects-teachers-students-and-libraries"&gt;WikiNoticia.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mafalda is one of the most popular comic strips ever in Argentina. She hated soup (‘sopa’ in Spanish)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;SOPA (iniciales de Stop Onlince Piracy Act) es un proyecto de Ley que se está debatiendo en estos días en el Congreso de los Estados Unidos. Básicamente establece el uso de un método de censura sobre internet muy similar al que es usado en países como China e Irán, y que permite al gobierno impedir el acceso a websites que el gobierno determine están violando la ley de propiedad intelectual, ya sea compartiendo música, películas, juegos, etc. &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;br&gt;El Congreso de EE UU ya ha anunció que no van a llevar la cabo la votación originalmente establecida para el 24 de Enero debido en gran parte a la reacción de importantes sites como Google, Reddit y Wikipedia, que ha hecho un ‘apagón’ virtual en protesta.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Como bien dice el artículo original citado por el website ‘La Mascarada’, muchos sites como Twitter, Facebook, etc se verían forzados a establecer mecanismos de autocensura para evitar ser bloqueados. Es decir, las acciones irresponsables de los usuarios terminarán afectando al proveedor de servicios en lugar de al que comete el delito, algo que a mí me parece totalmente inaceptable.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Hay muchas opiniones sobre el tema y es, por supuesto, un TT en Twitter (aunque hay gente alarmista que dice cualquier barbaridad). A mí, más allá de que estoy de acuerdo con el hecho de que compartir películas y música original por internet debería ser al menos regulado (y si no, penado), me parece que este proyecto es una locura y que hace quedar muy mal parado al gobierno de los Estados Unidos, porque lo pone en un rol censor al mejor estilo de sus países enemigos como Venezuela, Siria, Irán y tantos otros.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Para más información por favor chequeen los links dejados arriba.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153,201,255)"&gt; &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ac9d6c8c-0ed4-4038-9060-11243ef1fdd8" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Stop+SOPA" rel="tag"&gt;Stop SOPA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29401367-2715851238945897059?l=www.lfwaterloo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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You can use it to cover &lt;br /&gt;your minivan when it snows.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="11" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px;" width="191" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img align="left" alt="Argentina" border="0" height="30" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px;" width="30" /&gt;Acá vamos de nuevo… Cansado de tratar de perder peso, elegí el camino más fácil y comencé a listar los beneficios de seguir igual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;table align="center" bgcolor="navy" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 480px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="480"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reutilización de la ropa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recuerda esa camista que compró el verano &lt;br /&gt;pasado? 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~4/nNRHvVYOYUE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/feeds/2673592077640827057/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2012/01/when-being-big-is-not-so-bad-02.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29401367/posts/default/2673592077640827057" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29401367/posts/default/2673592077640827057" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~3/nNRHvVYOYUE/when-being-big-is-not-so-bad-02.html" title="When being big is not so bad – #02" /><author><name>Gabriel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02518586278759253084</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="24" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nYq3XSAYXS0/TZXrPivjL0I/AAAAAAAAABI/f_jWAebV5EE/s220/live%2Bfrom%2Bwaterloo.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-L4JC4adnp30/TwpU9dNbjvI/AAAAAAAABC0/nlrRyfjAo0U/s72-c/family_guy-12592%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2012/01/when-being-big-is-not-so-bad-02.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29401367.post-4503961687629143514</id><published>2012-01-17T02:01:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T02:02:09.294-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Silly Monkey stories" /><title type="text">Silly Monkey Stories #179 – Meow</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(En español más abajo) &lt;br&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;.&lt;a href="http://www.3garnets2sapphires.com/search/label/Silly%20Monkey%20Stories"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S3qlqHLe4zI/AAAAAAAAKto/-s6uJN0Rlm8/image[3].png?imgmax=800"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="USA" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCRY9hySI/AAAAAAAABJY/v34Mk4HXjwM/United-States%5B4%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red"&gt;15/Jan/2012 – Carson (3)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;I was having dinner –alone– at an Applebee’s near Greenville, South Carolina. A few minutes after I walked in, a young couple sat right behind me. They had a &lt;u&gt;very&lt;/u&gt; active little boy, who introduced himself to me by making cat noises as loud as I could, this close to my left ear. I was tempted to bark in return, but I didn’t, thinking that I might scare him.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;The kid continued to be as loud as he could, and bossed his parents around the whole time. Still, and for a strange reason, he wasn’t as annoying as you would expect. Kudos to his parents too, because they never lost their cool and would even say things like &lt;em&gt;“I love you”&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;“You’re such a gorgeous kid!”&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;But I could soon tell they were starting to get concerned about me. I mean, the restaurant was almost empty and they had just chosen the table behind mine… When the kid started to yell again, the mother tried reasoning with him:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0080"&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Carson! Please stop yelling like that! It’s not a nice thing to do…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;The kid’s answer was hilarious:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;- Don’t worry, Mom, the noise doesn’t scare me.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;I was still smiling by the time I was getting in the car (not before he waved goodbye to me).&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red"&gt;15/Jan/2012 – Carson (3)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;br&gt;Estaba cenando –solo– en un Applebee’s cerca de Greenville, South Carolina. Unos minutos después de que yo llegara, una pareja joven se sentó justo detrás de mí. Tenían un chiquito &lt;u&gt;muy&lt;/u&gt; activo, que se presentó maullando como un gato lo más fuerte posible, así de cerquita de mi oído izquierdo. Estuve tentado de contestarle con un ladrido, pero no lo hice, temiendo asustarlo mucho.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;El angelito de Dios continuó su show, gritando y mandoneando a sus padres todo el tiempo. A pesar de ello, y por el motivo que fuera, no me resultaba tan insoportable como debiera, hasta lo encontraba gracioso a veces. Mis respetos para sus padres también, porque nunca perdieron el control y hasta le contestaban cosas como &lt;em&gt;“Te quiero”&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;y &lt;em&gt;“Qué lindo nenito que sos!”&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Pero pronto pude ver que se estaban preocupando por mí. Es que el restaurante estaba casi vació y ellos justo se habían sentado en la mesa detrás de la mía. Cuando el tesorito comenzó a vociferar de nuevo, la mamá trató de razonar con él:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0080"&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Carson! Por favor no grites más así! No es algo lindo lo que estás haciendo…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;La respuesta del nene fue muy graciosa:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;- No te preocupes, Ma. Los ruidos no me asustan.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Todavía me reía cuando me súbí al auto para irme (no antes de que el chiquito me saludara al pasar).&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2a4f1985-574d-4dfb-b1fa-dcde4da466a7" class="wlWriterSmartContent"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: #99c9ff"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Silly%20Monkey%20story" rel="tag"&gt;Silly Monkey story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29401367-4503961687629143514?l=www.lfwaterloo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Suddenly, two kids walk by. One is in full Batman costume, the other is Spiderman.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;My nieces are still recovering from that sight, when their father proceeds to open his shirt and reveal that he’s one of them too!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Huh. A normal day when your lastname is Almada.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i55.tinypic.com/2h681op.jpg" width="460" height="614"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;Domingo a la tarde, mi hermano está en el mall con su familia. De la nada, se aparecen dos pibes caminando. 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~4/lIKUzMATlM4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/feeds/5506455141312615581/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2012/01/superhero-among-us.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29401367/posts/default/5506455141312615581" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29401367/posts/default/5506455141312615581" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~3/lIKUzMATlM4/superhero-among-us.html" title="A superhero among us" /><author><name>Gabriel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02518586278759253084</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="24" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nYq3XSAYXS0/TZXrPivjL0I/AAAAAAAAABI/f_jWAebV5EE/s220/live%2Bfrom%2Bwaterloo.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://i55.tinypic.com/2h681op_th.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2012/01/superhero-among-us.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29401367.post-4388915047425552497</id><published>2012-01-13T11:54:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T11:54:46.111-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Frequent flyer" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="travel" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fun" /><title type="text">Frequent flyer rules – #05</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(En español más abajo)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Other posts in this series: Frequent flyer rules: &lt;a href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2010/04/frequent-flyer-rules-01_6705.html" target="_blank"&gt;#01&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2011/06/frequent-flyer-rules-02.html" target="_blank"&gt;#02&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2011/06/frequent-flyer-rules-03.html" target="_blank"&gt;#03&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2011/09/frequent-flyer-rules-04.html" target="_blank"&gt;#04&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="USA" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCRY9hySI/AAAAAAAABJY/v34Mk4HXjwM/United-States%5B4%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;I haven’t written any posts for &lt;a href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/search/label/Frequent%20flyer"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in a while, but I really enjoy it. I travelled a lot (two whole days) this week, so I had time to remember and put a couple more ‘rules’ on paper. Here they are!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;This rules are of course based on my own experience. Do you have any of your own? Send them in!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;table style="width: 500px" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#000040" align="center"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="500"&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Finding your seat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;This plane is mine, mine, mine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;I love these people who rush to get on the plane as soon as possible and put their carefully folded jacket in the overhead compartment (sometimes not even on top but next to their bags), only to have to get up and retrieve such jacket a few minutes later, because other people will obviously need the space for their own belongings. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Most of the times, this individual will have a window seat, which means that whoever is sitting next to him (one or two persons, depending on the size of the plane) will have to unbuckle, get up, wait, and then sit down and fasten the seat belt again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;They’re lovely people. Really.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;table style="width: 500px" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#400000" align="center"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="500"&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;On your way there&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Morons in a perpetual state of connectedness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;The plane is about to take off, so we receive the customary message: “At this point, we request that you turn off all electronic equipment, including cellphones, iPods, etc. Once we reach an altitude of 10,000 feet you will be able to use them upon our notification” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Every single time, there will be one or two idiots within your sight (and this is a plane, so we’re talking about four or five other passengers you can see) who will refuse to turn those damn things off, covering them instead. Even more, if they’re playing with their iPads (what other thing would you do with an iPad, work?) they will hide them as the flight attendant walks by, only to resume their activity once they’re out of sight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;It’s OK, we don’t want the safety of 100+ passengers interfere with your Angry Birds, dude… &lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;table style="width: 500px" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#002000" align="center"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="500"&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Arriving on destination&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Always a bridesmaid, never a bride&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;You made it safely. You get out of the plane (not before you let a few very anxious people sitting behind you go first) and you walk to the luggage pickup area. You wait, and wait, and wait… about 20 minutes later, you hear the buzz and the luggage starts to come.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your suitcase will &lt;u&gt;never&lt;/u&gt; be first. Never. If anything, that bag will be the property of either:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 1. That very annoying guy who was sitting just across the aisle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 2. The&amp;nbsp; person standing&amp;nbsp; right&amp;nbsp; next to you while you wait&amp;nbsp; (there’s a good&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;chance we’re talking about the same person in both cases here)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;font color="#ffffff"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S8vNfrGyzeI/AAAAAAAALAM/3hD_rAWvxK8/s1600-h/image%5B3%5D.png" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S8vNllp-S7I/AAAAAAAALAU/F5ZSvTeAD1E/image_thumb%5B1%5D.png?imgmax=800"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;Picture from &lt;a href="http://www.picshag.com/pics/112009/big-guy-on-airplane.jpg"&gt;PicShag.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Otros posts de esta serie: Frequent flyer rules: &lt;a href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2010/04/frequent-flyer-rules-01_6705.html" target="_blank"&gt;#01&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2011/06/frequent-flyer-rules-02.html" target="_blank"&gt;#02&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2011/06/frequent-flyer-rules-03.html" target="_blank"&gt;#03&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2011/09/frequent-flyer-rules-04.html" target="_blank"&gt;#04&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;No había escrito posts para &lt;a href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/search/label/Frequent%20flyer"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;esta serie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; por unos meses, pero me gusta mucho. He viajado un montón (dos días enteros) esta semana, así que tuve tiempo de recordar y poner un par de ‘reglas’ en papel. Aquí están!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Estas reglas son absolutamente subjetivas, por supu, y basadas en mi experiencia. Uds. tienen alguna para compartir? Envíenmela!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;table style="width: 500px" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#000040" align="center"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="500"&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Buscando tu asiento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;El avión es mío, mío, mío&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Adoro esa gente que se apura a meterse en el avión lo antes posible y pone su muy prolijamente doblado abrigo en el compartimiento para equipaje (a veces ni siquiera encima de sus cosas sino que al costado), sólo para tener que levantarse y recogerlo unos pocos minutos después, porque hay otra gente llegando a sentarse y necesita ese lugar para poner sus bolsos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;La mayoría de las veces, este individuo va a tener un asiento de ventanilla, lo que significa que quien se siente a su lado (una o dos personas, dependiendo del tamaño del avión) va a tener que sacarse el cinturón, levantarse, esperar y luego volver a sentarse y atarse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Son gente adorable, en serio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;table style="width: 500px" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#400000" align="center"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="500"&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;En camino&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Imbéciles en un estado de conectividad perpetua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;El avión está a punto de despegar, así que recibimos el mensaje de siempre: “Requerimos por favor que apaguen sus equipos electrónicos, incluyendo celulares, iPods, etc. Una vez que lleguemos a una altitud de 10,000 pies los notificaremos para que puedan volver a utilzarlos”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;En cada oportunidad, va a haber uno o dos idiotas dentro de tu campo visual (y eso es mucho hablando de un avión, porque uno puede ver a cuatro o cinco nada más) que se van a rehusar a apagar esos malditos adminículos, y los van a tapar por un ratito. Si están jugando con sus iPads, por ejemplo (bueno, y qué más podría hacer uno con un iPad, trabajar??), los van a esconder cuando pase la azafata, y luego van a seguir jugando una vez que no hayan más moros en la costa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Está bien, no quisiéramos que la seguridad de más de 100 pasajeros interfiera con tu partido de Angry Birds, man…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;table style="width: 500px" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#002000" align="center"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="500"&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Llegando a destino&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;Cebollitas subcampeón&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Llegamos lo más bien. Salimos del avión (no sin antes dejar pasar a un par de tipos muy apurados que se sentaban detrás de nosotros) y caminamos (y caminamos…) hasta llegar a donde se recuperan las valijas. Esperamos, y esperamos… unos 20 minutos después, escuchamos la chicharra y comienzan a salir los equipajes por la oscura boca de una rampa que viene de las entrañas mismas del aeropuerto.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tu equipaje &lt;u&gt;nunca&lt;/u&gt; va a ser el primero en salir. Nunca. Es más, las chances son de que esa primera valija sea de:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 1. Ese tipo tan insoportable que se sentaba justo al lado tuyo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 2. La&amp;nbsp; persona que&amp;nbsp; está parada&amp;nbsp; junto&amp;nbsp; a&amp;nbsp; vos&amp;nbsp; mientras&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;esperás&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (hay&lt;br&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: white"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; muchas posibilidades de que estemos hablando de la misma persona)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S8vNsmO2fPI/AAAAAAAALAY/Bsl4UiExY8w/s1600-h/image%5B7%5D.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S8vN0wVfMOI/AAAAAAAALAc/zlM5H97YID4/image_thumb[3].png" width="580" height="383"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://blog.silive.com/sinotebook/2007/09/whos_that_next_to_you.html"&gt;Silive.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:184c7ed5-9ceb-41f0-be56-c0a74ed55772" class="wlWriterSmartContent"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: #99c9ff"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Frequent+flyer+rules" rel="tag"&gt;Frequent flyer rules&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/travel+stories" rel="tag"&gt;travel stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29401367-4388915047425552497?l=www.lfwaterloo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Me being the pragmatic guy I am, I have long ago abandon such a stupid idea. For example, I am (always) trying to lose weight, but I didn’t set any goals for 2012 at 12:01 AM last Sunday. Instead, I came up with a short list of advantages of being big, since I anticipated that I wouldn’t be that successful with my weight thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Here’s number one…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" text="text"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;table align="center" bgcolor="navy" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 480px;"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="480"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When travelling to unwelcoming countries, it’s safer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for my company to send me instead of others. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Big people are &lt;u&gt;way&lt;/u&gt; harder to kidnap.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="11" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px;" width="191" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img align="left" alt="Argentina" border="0" height="30" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px;" width="30" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Muchos hacen resoluciones de Año Nuevo, como si el mero pasaje de un año a otro pudiera obrar milagros en sus conductas y compromiso. Yo, siendo el tipo pragmático que soy, he abandonado esa estúpida idea ya hace mucho. Por ejemplo, estoy (siempre) tratando de bajar de peso, pero no me puse ninguna meta para el 2012 a las 12:01 AM del domingo pasado. En su lugar, decidí armarme una mini-lista de ventajas de estar excedido de peso, ya que anticipaba que no me iba a ir muy bien con este asunto de adelgazar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" text="text"&gt;Aca está la primera…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" text="text"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;table align="center" bgcolor="navy" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 480px;"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign="top" width="480"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A mi compañía le conviene enviarme a mí a &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;no muy amigables, en lugar de a otros colegas.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;La gente de mi tamaño es &lt;u&gt;mucho&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;más difícil de secuestrar.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29401367-6602629450879118712?l=www.lfwaterloo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I only had five minutes to get dressed, wash my face, brush my teeth and hit the road to take Santi and Caro to school. As I was leaving, Florencia told me that her my birthday gift was just by my bed, so I could pick it up later. When I got back home, I found this on top of my CPAP device…&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red"&gt;09/Ene/2012 – Florencia (8)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Hoy me levanté tarde, a eso de las 7:45 AM. Sólo tuve cinco minutos para vestirme, lavarme la cara, los dientes y salir como tejo para la calle a llevar a Santi y a Caro a la escuela. Cuando me iba, Florencia me dijo que mi regalo de cumpleaños estaba al lado de mi cama, así lo agarraba más tarde. Cuando volví, me encontré con esto encima de mi máquina CPAP…&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-aZhGp-7h8eg/Twu4vD7yIdI/AAAAAAAABDc/5dPS59tQ2rc/s1600-h/IMG_00000122%25255B4%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="IMG_00000122" border="0" alt="IMG_00000122" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-mUkL4ls3W9s/Twu4vnkL7UI/AAAAAAAABDk/GGqlnPkIcIc/IMG_00000122_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="319"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Canada" align="left" src="http://lh4.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCNo9hyHI/AAAAAAAABIA/UVlWr4UKdIs/Canada_thumb%5B2%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;It was a very beautiful and carefully closed envelope, with three tiny figurines on top. I couldn’t make out what they were exactly, so tiny they are, but they looked to me like a small boat and two people (maybe Flor and I?) &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;Era un sobrecito hermoso y muy cuidadosamente cerrado, con tres muñequitos encima. No pude determinar exactamente qué eran, de tan chiquitos, pero parecían un barquito y dos personitas (tal vez Flor y yo?)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-n30qTu2Mdgo/Twu4v1xE7HI/AAAAAAAABDs/tJJsw4qNsGA/s1600-h/IMG_00000123%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="IMG_00000123" border="0" alt="IMG_00000123" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-JNweYJmdSOU/Twu4wuj4PYI/AAAAAAAABD0/krvpqDSviyo/IMG_00000123_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="319"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Canada" align="left" src="http://lh4.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCNo9hyHI/AAAAAAAABIA/UVlWr4UKdIs/Canada_thumb%5B2%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;I flipped the enveloped. On the other side, there was a purple unicorn (probably representing me, due to the color) and a smaller green one (which I figured it would be her). You could also see the words of the song sung by the little girl in the ‘Despicable me’ movie: “Unicorns I love them, unicorns I love them”. &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;I opened the envelope and I found a note.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;Di vuelta el sobrecito. Del otro lado había un unicornio violeta (seguramente me representaba a mí por el color) y otro más chiquito de color verde (que calculé sería ella). También estaba la canción que cantaba la nenita de la película ‘Despicable me’: “Amo los unicornios, amo los unicornios”.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Abrí el sobre y me encontré con una cartita.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-v1n3lilv3Uk/Twu4xKxqcaI/AAAAAAAABD8/dcaaarUhuko/s1600-h/IMG_00000124%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="IMG_00000124" border="0" alt="IMG_00000124" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4Loq6GkgUlE/Twu4xjENIZI/AAAAAAAABEE/LIpPDXudLp8/IMG_00000124_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="319"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Canada" align="left" src="http://lh4.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCNo9hyHI/AAAAAAAABIA/UVlWr4UKdIs/Canada_thumb%5B2%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;The note was very carefully written and folded. The message, very simple yet beautiful. &lt;font color="#ff0080"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Dear Dad, Happy Birthday! I hope you have the best one yet! Love, your dear daughter, Florencia”.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;It is the best one yet, Flor, it is. :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;La cartita tenía escritura muy cuidadosa y muy delicadamente doblada. El mensaje era simple pero hermoso: &lt;font color="#ff0080"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Querido Papi, Feliz Cumpleaños! Espero que sea el mejor hasta ahora! Con amor, tu hija querida, Florencia”.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;Fue el mejor hasta hora, Flor, sin dudas. :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-zpvb-wodRhk/Twu4yFWUrjI/AAAAAAAABEM/X4uzZhHneDY/s1600-h/IMG_00000125%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="IMG_00000125" border="0" alt="IMG_00000125" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-N6D9k2KCXhc/Twu4yjP4ziI/AAAAAAAABEU/av-nBq6HbJg/IMG_00000125_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="319"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2a4f1985-574d-4dfb-b1fa-dcde4da466a7" class="wlWriterSmartContent"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: #99c9ff"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Silly%20Monkey%20story" rel="tag"&gt;Silly Monkey story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29401367-8729019376107635529?l=www.lfwaterloo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I pretty much &lt;em&gt;had &lt;/em&gt;to take time off, because I had too many vacation days left; hadn’t I booked some days, I would have lost them! I don’t remember being off work for such a long period of time in the last couple of decades (I’ve been on holidays since Dec/21st), but boy have I enjoyed it!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;We had a beautiful Christmas Eve, as I mentioned before, along with our adopted family here in Canada: our friend Laura, her daughters Tathyana and Sileny (who we like to call our ‘nieces’), Sileny’s boyfriend (Daniel) and his two girls. It was a laid back, very special evening, filled with music, as usual.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;New Year’s Eve found us somewhere else, at our friend’s place and along with a big group of people, but with something very different: Santi was not there. For the very first time, our small family was dismembered for the holidays. It was a very difficult (and painful) decision for Gaby, as she would want to have all of her ‘babies’ home for Christmas and New Year. But our babies are not babies anymore… Santi had been invited over some friends and really wanted to go. The place was out of town (quite far away, actually), so I drove him there and dropped him off at around 9:30 PM, not before I talked to his friend’s parents and made sure that not only they were going to be there all the time but also that they were going to make sure everything stayed under control.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;I drove back to our friend’s place, we celebrated the arrival of 2012 (but mostly the fact that a very sad 2011 for my family had ended) and I went to pick up Santi again at around 3:00 AM. He left the house grimacing in pain, because he had just fallen down the stairs (I know…). Since I couldn’t tell whether he had had a good time or not, I had to ask. His answer left me speechless:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Yes, I had a good time, but… you know what? I should have stayed with you guys.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8040"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Because I would have had an even better time.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;I found that comment, so simple in theory, very sincere and showing a lot of appreciation for his family. I considered making some kind of joke about it, but there was more…&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- My friend’s parents were really cool, they’re people like you guys.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8040"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- What do you mean with that? Why ‘people like us’?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Well… they’re like you and Mom, kind, funny and who take good care of their kids and make sure that their guests have everything they need.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;In a matter of minutes, Santi had shocked me with a couple of statements that had left me with no words. I immediately started to think about the fact that this kid’s parents were ‘people like us’. What did being ‘people like us’ mean?&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;Being ‘people like us’ means to work hard and work together to raise the beautiful family that we have. It’s to be honest and straightforward, allowing us not only to teach our kids those values but also to predicate by example. Being like us is to have just one face, to say things face to face and have the &lt;em&gt;cojones&lt;/em&gt; to get rid of hypocrite, hurtful people who do nothing but to create conflict wherever they go, whether they are acquaintances, friends or relatives. Being like us is being thankful to those who lent us a hand when we needed it most, but also being able to tolerate (forgiving, but never forgetting) those ingrates who we met in our life (and there were many).&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;Being ‘people like us’ means dedicating our lives to our kids, making sure that they have everything they need (not only in terms of material stuff but most importantly in terms of things that can’t be measured). It’s knowing that our kids count on us and they can talk to us and ask for advice, even when I’m not home. It’s knowing that they feel contained and protected, that they live in a house where they’re loved and they’re told they’re loved all the time. I make sure that my kids have all those things I didn’t have growing up, for different reasons. With any luck, they will not feel that they had to raise themselves like it happened to me…&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;We’re ‘people like us’ when Gaby comes back from work, beyond tired, and spends a couple of hours in the kitchen because one of the kids invited ten friends over for dinner; or when I go to another town to watch Santi play soccer and then I drive for five hours in the middle of a summer storm to make it to another city where Carolina is playing, arriving just as the game is finishing but happy because my daughter sees me as she’s coming off the field. It’s going out with Juan at 4:00 AM to have a burger just because we want to (and we can). It’s calling Florencia and asking her to sleep with us tonight, with the excuse that we’re cold and we need her to keep us warm because we’re old.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;Being ‘people like us’ means to be able to trust my kids and put my hands on fire for my wife. It’s to be able to leave town knowing that they will be OK because they will care for one another. It’s not needing for them to call me every night to know that they love me and they miss me (Gaby calls me all the time anyway) :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;I love being ‘people like us’. I live much better and there is no conflict or tension in my life anymore. Like a good gardener, I was able to get rid of the weed and the bad seeds and kept the best. In the last few months, we had the pleasure of having a good part of my family visiting us (all definitely ‘people like us’) and Gaby and the kids went to Argentina and had a great time with her brothers, our nieces and nephews, my mother-in-law… all of them definitely in the same category.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;We spent the Holidays with many of our friends, going out or having people home almost every day. In every case, they were what we would call ‘people like us’. We had a great time during these two weeks we have off (the kids are going back to school today). We sang, we got together, we slept a lot and more importantly, we had a lot of fun together.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;It’s not a coincidence that these have been one of the best Christmas of my life. We were surrounded by ‘people like us’ who make our lives richer and happier.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;It’s my 45th birthday today. I have no doubts I have lived more than half of my life already. Has it been all good so far? No, not always, but it couldn’t be better right now. Would I change anything, should I be given the chance? No, because I have learned from every mistake and from every disgrace. What do I expect of the years I still have ahead of me? Simple: to be able to keep living in peace, surrounded by the affection and love of those who care about me; away from misery, envy, hypocrisy and maintaining the same behaviour we have kept until now, so we can still put our heads in our pillows every night and sleep with the advantage of having a clean conscience. It seems easy, but it’s very hard to achieve this.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;But how we enjoy it!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ibkViX9HYTg/Twp_7ujy0JI/AAAAAAAABC8/aHz5WRs6goc/s1600-h/394243_10150537579076014_505626013_11114725_163498361_n%25255B4%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="394243_10150537579076014_505626013_11114725_163498361_n" border="0" alt="394243_10150537579076014_505626013_11114725_163498361_n" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-GF_8y2ZcY9A/Twp_8GApnNI/AAAAAAAABDE/cn259t5vapY/394243_10150537579076014_505626013_11114725_163498361_n_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="424"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8040"&gt;Singing together on Christmas Eve&lt;/font&gt; – &lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;Cantando juntos en Nochebuena&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;Hoy vuelvo al trabajo, luego de un paréntesis de 3 semanas. Me &lt;em&gt;tuve&lt;/em&gt; que tomar las vacaciones, porque me quedaban demasiados días y si no los usaba los iba a perder. No recuerdo haber estado tanto tiempo sin trabajar en décadas (desde el 21 de Diciembre hasta hoy), pero vaya si lo disfruté!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Pasamos una Nochebuena hermosa, como conté, en compañía de nuestra familia adoptiva en Canadá: nuestra amiga Laura, sus hijas Tathyana y Sileny (a quienes nos gusta tratar de ‘sobrinas’), el novio de Sileny (Daniel) y las dos chiquitas de él. Fue una velada tranquila, muy especial, y como siempre, cargada de música.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;La noche de Fin de Año o Nochevieja nos encontró en casa de una amiga, junto con un grupo grande de gente, pero con una novedad muy importante: Santi no estaba allí. Por primera vez, nuestro pequeño núcleo familiar se desmembraba para las fiestas. Fue una decisión dificilísima para Gaby (y dolorosa también), ya que ella quisiera siempre tener a ‘los bebés’ en casa. Pero resulta que los bebés ya no son &lt;u&gt;tan&lt;/u&gt; bebés… A Santi lo habían invitado a casa de un amigo y realmente tenía muchas ganas de ir. La casa era fuera (y lejos) de la ciudad, así que lo llevé en auto y lo dejé a eso de las 9:30 PM no sin antes hablar con los padres y asegurarme de que no sólo iban a estar allí todo el tiempo sino que también se iban a ocupar de mantener todo dentro de los carriles correspondientes.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Volví a casa de nuestra amiga, festejamos la llegada del 2012 como correspondía (pero más que nada que hubiera terminado un 2011 que en lo familiar fue muy triste) y a eso de las 3:00 AM me lo fui a buscar a Santi de nuevo. Salío con gestos de dolor, porque se acababa de caer por la escalera (en fin). Como su cara no me permitía adivinar como la había pasado, le tuve que preguntar. Su respuesta me dejó de una pieza:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- La pasé muy bien, pero… sabés qué? Me debería haber quedado con ustedes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;- Por qué?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Porque la hubiese pasado aún mejor.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;Ese comentario, de por sí tan simple, me pareció una gran muestra de sinceridad y aprecio por su familia por parte de mi hijo. Pensé en hacer alguna broma al respecto, pero había más…&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Los padres de mi amigo son buenísimos, son gente como ustedes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;- Qué querés decir con eso? Gente como nosotros por qué?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Y… son como Mamá y vos, que son atentos, divertidos y se ocupan muy bien de sus hijos y de que no les falte nada a los invitados.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;En el transcurso de dos minutos Santi me había golpeado con un par de frases que me habían dejado casi a punto caramelo. Enseguida me puse a pensar sobre eso de que los padres del chico eran ‘gente como nosotros’. Qué significaba ser ‘gente como nosotros’?&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;Ser ‘gente como nosotros’ es trabajar duro y tirar juntos para mantener la hermosa familia que tenemos. Es ser gente honesta y derecha, que no sólo les enseña esos valores a sus hijos sino que también pueden predicar con el ejemplo. Ser como nosotros es tener una sola cara, decir las cosas de frente y tener los huevos para sacarnos de encima de nuestras vidas a la gente hipócrita, dañina y que no hace sino generar conflictos, ya sean conocidos, amigos o familiares. Ser como nosotros es ser agradecidos a aquellos que nos tendieron una mano cuando la necesitamos, así como también lo es tolerar (pero nunca olvidar) a los ingratos, que los hay y muchos.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;Ser ‘gente como nosotros’ es dedicarse por completo a los hijos, asegurarse de que tengan todo lo que necesitan, no sólo en el plano material sino que por sobre todo en aquellas cosas que no se pueden medir. Es saber que nuestros hijos cuentan con nosotros y pueden venir a hablarnos, aunque yo no esté en casa. Es saber que se sienten contenidos y protegidos, que viven en una casa donde son queridos y se les dice que se los quiere todo el tiempo. Me ocupo muy bien de que mis hijos tengan todas esas cosas que a mí me faltaron, por distintos motivos. Con suerte, ellos no van a sentir que se criaron solos como me pasó a mí.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;Ser ‘gente como nosotros’ es que Gaby llegue reventada del trabajo y se ponga a cocinar porque uno de los chicos invitó a diez amigos a cenar; también lo es que yo me vaya a otra ciudad a ver un partido de fútbol de Santi y luego viaje cinco horas bajo un temporal para ir a otra ciudad donde juega Carolina, llegar justo cuando terminó el partido pero sentirme satisfecho porque mi hija me vio allí cuando salía de la cancha. Es salir a las 4:00 AM a comer una hamburguesa con Juan sólo porque podemos. Es llamarla a Flor a que venga a dormir con nosotros con la excusa de que tenemos frío y necesitamos que nos mantenga calentitos porque somos viejos.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;Ser ‘gente como nosotros’ es poder confiar en mis hijos y poner las manos en el fuego por mi esposa. Es poder irme tranquilo sabiendo que ellos van a estar bien porque se van a cuidar uno al otro. Es no necesitar que me llamen todas las noches para saber que me quieren y me extrañan, porque yo lo sé (igual Gaby me llama siempre, pero yo soy un desastre).&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;Me encanta ser ‘gente como nosotros’. Vivo muchísimo más tranquilo y en mi vida ya no hay conflicto. Como buen jardinero, saqué los yuyos y las malezas y me quedé con lo mejor. En los últimos meses tuvimos la oportunidad de recibir a una buena parte de mi familia que es definitivamente ‘gente como nosotros’, y Gaby y los chicos estuvieron en Argentina junto con ellos y la familia de Gaby, que también entra en esa categoría.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;Pasamos las últimas fiestas con muchos de nuestros amigos, saliendo a comer o recibiendo gente en casa casi todos los días. En todos los casos, son ‘gente como nosotros’. La pasamos genial en estas dos semanas de break que tuvimos todos (los chicos vuelven a la escuela hoy). Cantamos, nos reunimos, dormimos a pata suelta, y sobre todo, nos divertimos mucho.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;No es casualidad que éstas hayan sido de las mejores Fiestas que haya pasado en mi vida. Nos rodeamos de ‘gente como nosotros’, que no hace más que enriquecernos y alegrarnos la vida.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;Hoy cumplo 45 años. Sin dudas ya he pasado la mitad de mi vida. He tenido una buena vida hasta ahora? Tal vez no siempre, pero no podría ser mejor ahora. Cambiaría algo si pudiera? No, porque he aprendido de todos mis errores y de todas mis desgracias. Y que espero de los años que me quedan? Simple: poder seguir viviendo en paz, rodeado del cariño y el amor de aquellos que me aprecian y me quieren bien; alejado de las miserias, la envidia y las hipocresías y manteniendo la misma conducta que hemos mantenido hasta ahora, así podemos seguir apoyando la cabeza en la almohada todas las noches, durmiendo con la conciencia en paz. Parece fácil, pero es bien difícil lograrlo.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;Eso sí, cómo se disfruta!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-r2flcCzbDsI/Twp_8i8ghrI/AAAAAAAABDM/oAAHnFfMQx8/s1600-h/IMG-20120101-00195%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" title="IMG-20120101-00195" border="0" alt="IMG-20120101-00195" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-pi9dAVYamHE/Twp_9CzpurI/AAAAAAAABDU/j3YRIktTJ3Y/IMG-20120101-00195_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="484" height="364"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8040"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8040"&gt;New Year’s Day, 3:30 PM – Flor jumps on top of our bed to ‘wake us up’. &lt;br&gt;Caro and Juan are with us too!&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;Año Nuevo, 3:30 PM – Flor salta en nuestra cama para ‘despertarnos’. &lt;br&gt;Caro y Juan están allí también!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29401367-2339857961681691386?l=www.lfwaterloo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~4/hjMUgEW0CTk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/feeds/2339857961681691386/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2012/01/people-like-us.html#comment-form" title="15 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29401367/posts/default/2339857961681691386" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29401367/posts/default/2339857961681691386" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~3/hjMUgEW0CTk/people-like-us.html" title="People like us" /><author><name>Gabriel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02518586278759253084</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="24" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nYq3XSAYXS0/TZXrPivjL0I/AAAAAAAAABI/f_jWAebV5EE/s220/live%2Bfrom%2Bwaterloo.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-GF_8y2ZcY9A/Twp_8GApnNI/AAAAAAAABDE/cn259t5vapY/s72-c/394243_10150537579076014_505626013_11114725_163498361_n_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>15</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2012/01/people-like-us.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29401367.post-6415077427510109639</id><published>2012-01-07T23:25:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T23:25:20.208-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="self" /><title type="text">Warming up</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(En español más abajo)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Canada" align="left" src="http://lh4.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCNo9hyHI/AAAAAAAABIA/UVlWr4UKdIs/Canada_thumb%5B2%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;After three weeks (OK, ten months) in which I have barely written anything interesting, I’m ready to come back online on Monday, which also happens to be my last vacation day (and my birthday!).&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;I will try to make #felizcumplegabriel (#happybirthdaygabriel) a TT on Twitter. At least on my neighbourhood… :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;Luego de tres semanas (OK, diez meses) en los que apenas si escribí algo interesante, estoy listo para volver al ruedo el lunes, que también es el último día de mis vacaciones (y mi&amp;nbsp; cumpleaños!).&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Voy a tratar de hacer de #felizcumplegabriel un TT en Twitter. Bueno, al menos en mi barrio… :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://images.clipartof.com/small/1044927-Cartoon-Penguins-Warming-Up-By-A-Fire-Poster-Art-Print.jpg"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29401367-6415077427510109639?l=www.lfwaterloo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Sileny was with her boyfriend Daniel and two girls who couldn’t be prettier: Leah(7) and Shiloh (4). Leah is a beautiful –and smart!– girl, while her little sister adds to those conditions a delicious mischievous look.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Trying to break the ice and win them over (I’m a big guy, so I can be scary…), I began to talk to them, and I soon realized how beautiful were the little one’s eyes. So I paid her the compliment:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8000"&gt;- Shiloh! Your eyes are so pretty, what a beautiful colour! Can I see?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;The little one got closer and allowed me to see her eyes… opening them wide using her fingers!!! It was very hard to hold the laughter having this little princes 3 inches away from my face, with her two eyes as big as a pizza! :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/379948_10150551601006014_505626013_11184039_1441831744_n.jpg" width="480" height="360"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8000"&gt;Leah and Shiloh – They’re so pretty! :-)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;Leah y Shiloh – Son tan bonitas! :-)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red"&gt;24/Dec/2011 –&amp;nbsp; Shiloh (4)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Tuvimos la cena de Nochebuena con nuestra ‘familia adoptiva’ en Canadá, nuestra amiga Laura y sus hijas Sileny y Tathyana. Sileny también vino con su pareja, Daniel y dos niñitas una más hermosa que la otra: Leah (7) y Shiloh (4). Leah es una hermosa –y muy inteligente– niña, mientras que su hermanita agrega a esas cualidades una cara de picarona deliciosa.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Tratando de romper el hielo para caerles simpático (soy un tipo grandote y a veces asusto…), me puse a conversar con ellas y pronto reparé en los hermosos ojos de la más chiquita. Entonces le hice el comentario:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;- Shiloh! Qué bonitos que son tus ojos, qué lindo color! A ver?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;La chiquitina se me acerco y me dejó verle los ojos… abriéndoselos de par en par con sus manitos!!! Fue muy difícil contener la risotada teniendo a esta belleza a 10 centímetros de mi cara con sus ojos grandes como el 2 de oros! :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Bu9o834IQQU/TwK1ZHwx9SI/AAAAAAAABCU/Kcy6YBGR1iA/s1600-h/Kitchener-20120103-00200%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="Kitchener-20120103-00200" border="0" alt="Kitchener-20120103-00200" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-n1itY44vaGw/TwK1ZcruB2I/AAAAAAAABCc/rbEsg6AX5Qk/Kitchener-20120103-00200_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="364" height="354"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2a4f1985-574d-4dfb-b1fa-dcde4da466a7" class="wlWriterSmartContent"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: #99c9ff"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Silly%20Monkey%20story" rel="tag"&gt;Silly Monkey story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29401367-966722153761829707?l=www.lfwaterloo.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I had just come back from one of my last trips and was home just for the day. Florencia was at a birthday party and since Gaby was busy, I offered to pick her up.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;We were coming back from the party when Florencia suddenly asked me:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0080"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Daddy, can you roll down the windows?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;I got worried. Was she feeling carsick? I was driving my brand new company car, so I appreciated her thoughtfulness, but… it was &lt;u&gt;cold&lt;/u&gt;. And &lt;u&gt;raining&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;We got really, really soaked for a minute. After that, I asked her:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff8000"&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Flor, are you OK? Do you feel better now?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;The answer, a typical Florencia:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0080"&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Oh, yes, I feel fine. It’s just that we were passing by the bread factory and I love the smell of bread just being made…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ANGt36md_1k/TvlkVX3maUI/AAAAAAAABB0/tSYM7AgdguU/s1600-h/IMG_0061%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" title="IMG_0061" border="0" alt="IMG_0061" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-uMue73Ko1B4/TvlkV8yaZTI/AAAAAAAABB8/GFc3C79gt-M/IMG_0061_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="484" height="364"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red"&gt;08/Dic/2011 – Florencia (8)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;br&gt;Eran como las 8:30 PM, llovía y hacía frío. Yo acababa de volver de uno de mis últimos viajes y estaba en casa sólo por el día. Florencia estaba en un cumpleaños y como Gaby estaba ocupada, yo me ofrecí a pasarla a buscar.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Veníamos volviendo de la fiesta cuando Florencia me preguntó de pronto:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0080"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Papi, podés bajar las ventanillas?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Me preocupé. Se estará mareando? Estaba manejando mi flamante auto de la empresa, así que aprecié su consideración, pero… hacía &lt;u&gt;frío&lt;/u&gt;. Y &lt;u&gt;llovía&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Nos recontra empapamos por un buen minuto, luego del cual le pregunté:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#0080ff"&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Flor, estás bien? Te sentís mejor ahora?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;La respuesta, una típica ‘Florenciada’:&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0080"&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Ah, sí, estoy lo más bien. 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~4/EGpjRc8kWbE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/feeds/384903271750767737/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2011/12/silly-monkey-stories-176-it-smells-good.html#comment-form" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29401367/posts/default/384903271750767737" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29401367/posts/default/384903271750767737" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~3/EGpjRc8kWbE/silly-monkey-stories-176-it-smells-good.html" title="Silly Monkey Stories #176 – It smells good" /><author><name>Gabriel</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02518586278759253084</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="24" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nYq3XSAYXS0/TZXrPivjL0I/AAAAAAAAABI/f_jWAebV5EE/s220/live%2Bfrom%2Bwaterloo.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_63RmJ_PUOLw/S3qlqHLe4zI/AAAAAAAAKto/-s6uJN0Rlm8/s72-c/image[3].png?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2011/12/silly-monkey-stories-176-it-smells-good.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29401367.post-2791904343544300414</id><published>2011-12-25T16:06:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-25T16:06:19.265-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="faith" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Christmas" /><title type="text">Christmas around the world – 2011 Edition</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(En español más abajo)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Canada" align="left" src="http://lh4.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCNo9hyHI/AAAAAAAABIA/UVlWr4UKdIs/Canada_thumb%5B2%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;We had a beautiful Christmas Eve celebration! Can you tell? It’s 3:00 PM and I just got out of bed!!! :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;Here are the pictures sent by those who decided to share their Christmas trees with the world.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R4_iodmoZ2I/AAAAAAAABBc/OAIBoCrpoTg/separator%5B10%5D" width="191" height="11"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Argentina" align="left" src="http://lh5.google.com/LFWaterloo/R6QCM49hyFI/AAAAAAAABHw/F4MPCCgk1PU/Argentina_thumb%5B3%5D" width="30" height="30"&gt;Tuvimos una hermosa celebración de Nochebuena! Con decirles que son las 3:00 PM y acabo de levantarme!!! :-)&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="justify" text="text"&gt;Aquí les comparto las fotos de aquellos que decidieron compartir sus arbolitos de Navidad con el mundo.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-gqY3HLRqKWI/TvePbgyVt5I/AAAAAAAAA58/TkYc4fWLEYQ/s1600-h/Sileny_arbolito%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Sileny_arbolito" border="0" alt="Sileny_arbolito" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-flhmgFI4MtI/TvePcOZgm9I/AAAAAAAAA6E/1G2E0p5fUvw/Sileny_arbolito_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="424"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sileny and Daniel – Toronto, ON (Canada)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-61xGpEpvpEg/TvePcaKquAI/AAAAAAAAA6M/qt42NEogOMw/s1600-h/Agostina_arbolito%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Agostina_arbolito" border="0" alt="Agostina_arbolito" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Ld-y5YGxhyc/TvePc6ZHWmI/AAAAAAAAA6U/9rt52UR7P10/Agostina_arbolito_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="751"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Agos! – Pergamino, BA (Argentina)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-F0bWTF2CO1s/TvePdPlGKwI/AAAAAAAAA6c/xvG1P3md3fc/s1600-h/amy_marvelous_mommy_arbolito%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="amy_marvelous_mommy_arbolito" border="0" alt="amy_marvelous_mommy_arbolito" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-sI-SXYTDBwY/TvePdpdMO7I/AAAAAAAAA6k/VsOBxlts8UQ/amy_marvelous_mommy_arbolito_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="844"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Amy @ &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marvelousmommy.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marvelous Mommy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; – Greater Atlanta, GA (USA)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ZnFGmdkmEGg/TvePdzYO7gI/AAAAAAAAA6s/WaznekDX1mk/s1600-h/Andreina_arbolito%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Andreina_arbolito" border="0" alt="Andreina_arbolito" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-p96CezL9CXo/TvePeRRAlcI/AAAAAAAAA60/OppE209fas4/Andreina_arbolito_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="860"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Andreina @ &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://kuanyin2206.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Poky, Dani y Andre&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; – Mississauga, ON (Canada)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-czNYOuN8mLE/TvePesfRINI/AAAAAAAAA68/-1GMXYYjCdQ/s1600-h/Andrew_Butters_arbolito%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Andrew_Butters_arbolito" border="0" alt="Andrew_Butters_arbolito" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-MTGar6YwMD4/TvePfFBP5bI/AAAAAAAAA7E/NgZX8OzE8Jg/Andrew_Butters_arbolito_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="755"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Andrew Butters @ &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://potatochipmath.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Potato Chip Math&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; – Kitchener/Waterloo, ON (Canada)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-vOafRB9M0Oc/TvePfS93NeI/AAAAAAAAA7M/aBfDixysGPQ/s1600-h/Cristina_Cerezuela_arbolito%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Cristina_Cerezuela_arbolito" border="0" alt="Cristina_Cerezuela_arbolito" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-R4JeuXn83Vk/TvePfjIOdnI/AAAAAAAAA7U/i9LCuLOyqc8/Cristina_Cerezuela_arbolito_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="751"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cristina Cerezuela – Puerto Madryn, CH (Argentina)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-HK3RRGQJ0hQ/TvePfyA6etI/AAAAAAAAA7c/ejYnS08xiW4/s1600-h/Enzo_arbolito%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Enzo_arbolito" border="0" alt="Enzo_arbolito" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Xh4SItjvWyA/TvePgQSHcOI/AAAAAAAAA7k/ErSHvAs2N6Y/Enzo_arbolito_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="844"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Enzo @ &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://cambalache123.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cambalache&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; – Toronto, ON (Canada)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-C93ocKIKz4Q/TvePgms94KI/AAAAAAAAA7s/spvM-m-abYY/s1600-h/Ern_Paez_arbolito%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Ern_Paez_arbolito" border="0" alt="Ern_Paez_arbolito" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-F4WRR_ZlPNM/TvePg4uUxvI/AAAAAAAAA70/bYenEEqs0DE/Ern_Paez_arbolito_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="566"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ernesto Páez – Copenhagen (Denmark)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-sWEgre59glA/TvePhIlKwtI/AAAAAAAAA_c/mPCZMoKYBZs/s1600-h/Fede_Lenkiewicz_arbolito%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-sWEgre59glA/TvePhIlKwtI/AAAAAAAAA_g/MTlpyg_LoeE/s1600-h/Fede_Lenkiewicz_arbolito%25255B4%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Fede_Lenkiewicz_arbolito" border="0" alt="Fede_Lenkiewicz_arbolito" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-hel0Iv9fZsI/TvePiLlLVuI/AAAAAAAAA8I/iJtsrdsJgzc/Fede_Lenkiewicz_arbolito_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="751"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Federico Lenkiewicz @ &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://cba2qc.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;De Córdoba a Quebec&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; - Quebec City, QC (Canada)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-tkRP5sjpSRM/TvePieD2eqI/AAAAAAAAA_k/aFCoYQhE_Ww/s1600-h/Guillermo_arbolito%25255B2%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-tkRP5sjpSRM/TvePieD2eqI/AAAAAAAAA_o/gjfaFyJqtfk/s1600-h/Guillermo_arbolito%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Guillermo_arbolito" border="0" alt="Guillermo_arbolito" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-PBwf3YVjo2c/TvePjLwQwGI/AAAAAAAAA8c/BmN5Mg9TSXM/Guillermo_arbolito_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="607"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Almada-Aiello Family – Burke, VA (USA)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-O4ONgpFhDP0/TvePjW5z5CI/AAAAAAAAA_s/1F9oiZTFn6I/s1600-h/Jelena_arbolito%25255B2%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-O4ONgpFhDP0/TvePjW5z5CI/AAAAAAAAA_w/nEH5Zm3x0WM/s1600-h/Jelena_arbolito%25255B3%25255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Jelena_arbolito" border="0" alt="Jelena_arbolito" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-JDFgo4qPrrs/TvePkZpspGI/AAAAAAAAA8w/wlkYjM6rl4E/Jelena_arbolito_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="564" height="755"&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Vasiljevic Family – Kitchener, ON (Canada)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 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Terrible video [del.icio.us]</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~3/ks2BKjaQIUM/tren-embistio-colectivo-Flores-heridos_0_553744795.html" /><category term="Argentina" /><category term="BuenosAires" /><author><name>lfwaterloo</name></author><updated>2011-09-14T07:10:03-07:00</updated><id>http://www.delicious.com/url/6be855b137c4bd7b42d07fdff00b1615#lfwaterloo</id><content type="html">From Clarin.com, the article and corresponding video of a terrible crash between two trains and a bus that cross with the barriers down (article is in Spanish)&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~4/ks2BKjaQIUM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/6be855b137c4bd7b42d07fdff00b1615</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://www.clarin.com/ciudades/tren-embistio-colectivo-Flores-heridos_0_553744795.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><title type="text">Argentine Legislative Election 2009 - The aftermath [del.icio.us]</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~3/Gs-31soUdZI/argentine-legislative-election-2009_8346.html" /><category term="argentina" /><category term="Kirchner" /><category term="legislative" /><category term="election" /><author><name>lfwaterloo</name></author><updated>2011-09-14T07:00:28-07:00</updated><id>http://www.delicious.com/url/561484e254fdd0859d8c1f62e91e43af#lfwaterloo</id><content type="html">My own analysis of the Parliamentary Elections in Argentina&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~4/Gs-31soUdZI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/561484e254fdd0859d8c1f62e91e43af</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2009/06/argentine-legislative-election-2009_8346.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><title type="text">United breaks guitars (and CPAPs) [del.icio.us]</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~3/YITRQI8odTw/united-breaks-guitars-and-cpaps_660.html" /><category term="United" /><category term="breaks" /><category term="guitars" /><category term="Dave" /><category term="Carroll" /><author><name>lfwaterloo</name></author><updated>2011-09-14T06:58:02-07:00</updated><id>http://www.delicious.com/url/4c73060418c3107e1b9310ca1376fe8f#lfwaterloo</id><content type="html">You must watch this video clip!!!!&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LiveFromWaterloo/~4/YITRQI8odTw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/4c73060418c3107e1b9310ca1376fe8f</wfw:commentRss><feedburner:origLink>http://www.lfwaterloo.com/2009/07/united-breaks-guitars-and-cpaps_660.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><title type="text">Soitenly! 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