Need a new mic.

For some reason my mic had stop working :-( Just when I started. I’ll would have to install the programs in my laptop instead!

See more progress on: Complete the Italian, French, German,Japanese,Arabic and English Talk to me CD courses I bought

Steps taken...

-Installed Gas water heater instead of electrical one.
-Disconnect all appliances when I’m not using them.
-Grow my herbs and vegetables
-Don’t let the shower on all the time it takes to shower.
-Reuse plastic bags
-Use the public transport system more often.
-Walk instead of taking a cab
-Using the stairs instead of the lift

See more progress on: Go greener

Gas heating

Got one installed past week.

See more progress on: Go greener

Two more payments and I'm done with BAC!

Two more and I’ll be able to close the BAC card.

It feels goooood!!

See more progress on: pay off credit cards

Shame on me!!

Hahaha, I could only complete 10 mins of Cardio!!!

Well, that means I’ll need to push harder.

See more progress on: Work out more

At least!

Did the test again and I scored well.

The hardest part was being on time.

See more progress on: Increase my OWEI dependability score

Half-day trip

I went home on tuesday. Took the express at 12:00am and arrived in Chiriqui at 6:00a.m. Mom was happy to see me. I went with her to her work, she just took me from one office to the next showing me up to the people that works with her. She has a lot of pictures of me in her desk. Later we went for breakfast and doing errands. At 12:00pm my plane was ready to leave for Panama city. It was great to spent those hours with her. It’s a pitty I couldn’t stay the whole day.

See more progress on: spend more time with my mother

On the pain of Avalokitesvara

I remembered her, she was smiling and laughing the first time I saw her
She shined in the innocence of her thoughts
A “Special”, as the “normals” say
Her joy was so contagious I started to shine myself

Her left hand handling pieces of lottery for sale
Her void eyes looking sad and ashamed at the floor
Her thoughts wandering about more happier times
Her light was shunned out

I remembered her
My eyes started to flow with tears
Mom told me her old mother had died
And now she had to see for herself

I remembered the light
I remembered her joy
My heart ached

I’m a failure because I can’t help others the way I want
I’m a failure because I’m unable to help them
Mine is the pain of a father, unable to help his children
Mine is the pain of Avalokitesvara

See more progress on: change someone's life

Barbados!

The Celtic Festival in Barbados. I was in the bathroom at the Ships Inn, and then this guy with a kilt going in and having a pee at the both next to me. It was so funny hahaha.

See more progress on: attend the Scottish Festival or a cultural event in my state

You'll need to be very sure about this though

Is not for everyone, so if you are not ready is probably you won’t enjoy it.

You must be very confident with yourself, your sexuality and above all, an open mind.

Don’t do it with someone you are emotionally linked too if you hadn’t had a talk beforehand.

See more progress on: have group sex

It allowed me to have a good laugh at myself!

It was my birthday! I was horrible! hahahaha. I guess then I realizad I’ll never win a grammy award hahaha.

See more progress on: Sing at least one karaoke song (in front of people)

Boquete

Boquete is a coffe producing town up in the Chiriqui Highlands. I found this great article about it.

I’m going to Chiriqui next weekend to visit mom. I’ll try to update your maps with the coffe stores I’ll find there. In the old times, before the US/EU retirement fever catch upon Panama, you’ll have coffe at a friend’s home, just fresh from roasting in the backyard or at an old small pub near the town’s plaza straight from the 50’s. It was bought and remodeled (I miss the hot chocolate they prepared there), it had lost its 50’s charm :-( , now there are “coffe shops” everywhere, targeted for tourists at premium prices, well, guess that’s the price of progress.

See more progress on: find 10 people who are passionate about coffee and want to collaboratively post great sources of whole beans and brewed coffee on a map.

10 Things about myself

I was net hoping and found an interesting blog. It’s called I will teach you to be rich. And it has and interesting proposal:

What would happen if you tracked these things?

1. How much $ you spend per month
2. How long you spend talking to your family per month
3. How much time you spent working on the thing you say is your “passion” last month
4. How far you walk every day
5. How much you read NOT from a computer
6. How much time you spend organizing your life (bills, etc)
7. How many calories you eat per day
8. How much time you actually work at work
9. How much time you spend watching TV per month
10. Which of your goals you accomplished last year

See more progress on: Track 10 things about myself that would surprise me

Today...

1. Di sleeping at my side.
2. Eating the breakfast Di prepared for me
3. Thinking of Di

See more progress on: list three things every day that made me happy

Needed Good deeds are everywhere....

You just need to watch carefully. There’s always someone needing help, in any form, money, food, a little talk, a smile, a touch.

See more progress on: be a mysterious person who performs good deeds

I'm trying the following guidelines:

-Used my experience with GTD to stay focus at the tasks at hand.
-Use a timer that reminds me every 5 minutes to stay focused.
-When feeling overcome by it, do zen, in order to take control back.
-Take sleep pills in order to get to sleep.
-Meditate, Meditate, Medidate

See more progress on: Channel all the extra energy of my episodes towards positive goals.

A fall by other name?

When I was at the peak of being a bipolar, at least I knew how to identify a fall. Now, everything seems to be right, everything seems to be ok, and I feel completely lost, as if suspended in a moment in time while outside everything moves on at increasing speed.

I’m manic?

See more progress on: Find out why even everything seems to be ok with Life I feel disconnected of it.

At least I started in this one...

I found an old copy. So I’m using it as a base to start a new one.

See more progress on: update my CV

I'm giving up!

Some books are impossible to get, even in the internet :-(

See more progress on: Read the twelve books that changed the world

I completed my first project!

I signed up at Rent a Coder

It’s great when you win a bid, and then when the buyer accepts the finished work!

Also, is a source of great inspiring work and keep my mind working. Since for each bid that attracts my interest I build a prototype to show the buyer.

The User interface is a little cumbersome, with a lot of text, wished something more compact. But the site is great.

I also got into trouble because I started bidding without learning to use the interface first. They should have sort of a sandbox for newbies.

I’m 2,875 dollars away of my goal.

See more progress on: Freelance trough RentaCoder.com to buy me a laptop.