Thursday, March 31, 2011

The conversation that changed me

Hello!


So I joined the antivirus community, me who never feared viruses, heck when I was beginning in the computer world, back when there were some 67 or 80 viruses, I infected my computer to see how to remove them. I was successful at removing some, the other one I just ignore them because to be honest they were harmless. But yesterday's visit by the Bell Tech and the conversations we had, led me to believe that perhaps it would be wise for me to get an antivirus that supports Internet security as well as additional computers.


So I did! I've could have gone Symantec, or the ever popular MacAfee, or any other of the hundreds of antivirus programs that are out there. But the Bell Tech was really impressed by the Internet security package that Kaspersky has. And so I went with this company, I have installed it on my computer so far and it seems to be good, it's fast and simple to use. Now I will tell my daughter to help me install them on their laptops so that I feel safer too.


And so we have come to the end of the month and I want to thank you for reading my silly blog, you all will get a 25% discount when I write my book.


Take care of yourselves and see you next month!

Come on already, get with the plan!

Hello!


Man I better change the way I am or suffer the consequences with my daughter. You see I am not a very patient man when a call for technical support, billing, whatever, I usually ask something and I would love for the persons that are on the other side of the line to answer that question without adding the whole brouhaha. Case in point today, I called the school of my youngest daughter to find out if tomorrow they had school or not, the person that answered started telling me that this information could also be found on the monthly calendar that I get from the school. The calendar was gonna be coming my way today when my daughter comes home and I should always check this calendar because all the information regarding important dates was there.


Really?? You don't say?! No freaking way, I usually throw those things away! This is the response I should have given her but being the civil person that I am, I just started motioning with my hand telling her to hurry up and give me the answer. Eventually she did tell me that tomorrow there is no school, but she could have saved me from my aggravation by telling me the answer right away when I asked her the question. My wife was listening to me and seeing the act, so she told me that I should start being more patient with people, that I was being a bad influence on my oldest daughter. What? Yes she tells me, your oldest daughter likes to do the same things you do, when calling one of her cousins and asking a questio she will start hand motioning if she doesn't get the answer right away.


Okay, I promised to be more patient with useless persons, sorry with persons, when they are trying to tell me something. Hopefully my daughter will grasp onto this to and start changing her ways.


See you soon people!

This side up doesn't work for me

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How are you guys?


- "Don't how are you guys me!! Tell us about the optical highway!"


Why is it always me? Have I done something wrong? Why must the universe always go against my plans? How I done something wrong in this life? The universe always has it against me! And I don't remember ever having kill somebody or take candy away from a baby. All I can tell you is that there are some peoples that are born lucky and there's some of us that are lucky to be alive...


Yesterday the technician from Bell comes and starts working on my Bell line, he goes out of my apartment to find the main box for my line. Very professional, very courteous guy, he had me up and running in about half an hour. My high-speed was working properly, so he tells me to test it while he goes to his truck to run some final test. So I did, wow! Was it ever fast, I was zooming along at incredible speeds, so what that my upload speed wasn't being met I was still going faster than I did before! I was in heaven, dear Lord finally something is going right in my life!


Walks in the technician! It seems you cannot have that speed, I was doing some tests from my truck and it seems the modem is flaky and might freeze son you sooner or later. No, no! So what are you going to do? He then tells me that he can give me back my old modem and up my speed to 16 Mbps not the 25 that Bell had promised me. So he did! Now I got a faster connection but it's not the optical high-speed I was expecting, apparently I live too far from the optical fiber line which is about a kilometer away from here. Fuck! That's all I can say, my connection is faster but it's not the speed I was looking at yesterday. You know? I could have discovered the cure for cancer at that speed, I mean God knows I have the time and with a connection that fast there was no way of stopping me. So once again the universe wins...

Too far from fiber optic line, Really??

Happy trails people, happy trails...

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The video that never was

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Yesterday my wife was doing Facebook, she was using my account something that she does regularly to check up on me, you know making sure that I get no love letters or indecent proposals from women who might lure me away from her and her kids... Okay apparently they're mine also but in my head I'm still single and hot! Back to the story, so she's using my account and she starts seeing this video clip from a girl doing an interview and she has a wardrobe malfunction! Somehow this video appeared on my account stating that I was watching it. OMG, immediately I started to get "fan letters" telling me how vulgar it was an amazed that I was seeing such stuff! My wife did tell me the story but as soon as she's finished saying it I start getting e-mails on my itouch informing me that so-and-so had left a comment on my wall! So I had to e-mail all these people to let them know that it was my sick wife that was seen these videos and not me, they had already put me in bed so I had no access to the Internet. I'm telling you people can be so critical of a guy on a wheelchair.

And with that said...

(after lunch and half an hour after fighting with the video camera)



Aaaah Fiddlesticks! You get what you pay for! I was trying to do a video of me ranting about how people miss judge disabled persons and sexuality. You know, about how we disabled persons can't no longer think about sex, B.S.! But it turns out that paying 20 bucks for a Chinese camera wasn't a bright investment. The video camera doesn't work anymore, I keep getting pop-ups from Bell security Internet services so I disabled it and now I will have to buy a new camera, you can bet your sweet ass that this time is going to be a Logitech one! Sorry about the video guys, eventually I will buy a camera and videotape myself again!


See you after they upgrade my Internet speed!


Take care

The rice theory conclusion

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Good something to you!


Well the verdict is still out there, I told you about the solution my daughter brought to my wife regarding her submersible iPhone, well I can certify that for my wife it didn't work. But yesterday night one of my readers Facebook me and told me that it does work! What gives? How come he didn't work for my wife's cell phone? Well my reader kept on going, apparently she has a friend that was swimming with his cell phone in shark infested waters and as soon as he got out he noticed that his cell phone was wet, the guy knew about the trick so he immediately grabbed a bag of rice and inserted his cell phone in there. And guess what? It freaking work according to my reader! The logic behind this is that rice absorbs water and for the trick to work you must put the phone inside a bag of rice as soon as possible. So to my reader the trick worked but to me the phone is kaput. By the way, his friend did not swim in shark infested waters, the guy was drowning in 2 feet of water with his cell phone on him.


The theory being said and the verdict still not confirm I will now move on to the activities of this afternoon.


Well yours truly here wanted to join Netflix, so he started to test their movies and he jumped to the conclusion. I said to myself, self if you get Netflix you will have to upgrade your Internet speed because the movies that you are seeing at the current Internet speed suck! Okay, but here in the South shore we cannot get fiber optic speeds yet, bummer! So I called Bell hoping against hope that maybe this technology was available here, and guess what happened? It is!! So yours truly upgraded his Internet speed to... 25 Mbps! Yes, I know that for some places in this world this is turtle speed but for us who are subscribed to Bell Canada, here in Québec, this is top speed. And this afternoon I will have a technician from Bell Canada install a new modem, a fiber optic modem, and apparently tomorrow I will be blazing the Internet highway at speeds I could only dream of.


And what about Netflix?


Well... As I browse their movie selection I noticed that these guys are also back in the 30s when it comes to movies! I thought they were going to have the latest and greatest but when I see movies that are older than my kids, I will step away until they get better movies. My plan was to get Netflix and dump the movie Central as well as the Super Channels saving me a whole bunch of money seeing that Netflix offers movies for eight bucks a month. But you have to be a connoisseur to appreciate the films, I'm talking big time, Eddie Murphy films? Really??


So in a nutshell I will get faster Internet service but I'm not getting Netflix, sorry Netflix...



Take care people!

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The book of programs

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Surprise!


Today the person that brought me my food from Meals on Wheels also left me a book that opened my eyes to a whole bunch of new government programs that I haven't applied for, apparently they are for retirees or low income families (bingo!).


So I opened the book and I fell on a government program that helps people with their rent! Hello? I always thought that that was for people who were really in the dumps, I'm talking like real poor, but after reading the description I called and they told me to call back during summer because last year's taxes showed that I was making too much money for the program, but that next year it would seem that I would be eligible for this one. If you are over 55 then you are a shoo-in but if you're not you have to prove that your earnings are less than a certain amount, I think is $22K this year, don't trust me on this one. So I talked some more with the girl and she told me that it looks like I would be eligible for next year but for the current year my earnings of 2009 had been exorbitant, I'm talking obscene amounts of money here, too much to talk about... Really ashame of it, I made just over... Drumroll... $24K and the limit so that I could join this program was $23K


But this is not what I wanted to talk to you about, I want to talk to you about the whole conspiracy going on here! I mean, do I have to be 55 for a special police to come and give me this book? I immediately called my mother but she denied the whole thing, saying that there wasn't such a book. So my new conspiracy theory here is that older folks know about this but they don't want the younger crowd to know about. They keep these programs secret for them, I think my Meals on Wheels girl will get fired for this one and I will probably get muzzled somehow or another...


Take care people

Aquatic iPhone

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Here's the latest with my family!


Yes as the title says aquatic iPhone 3G, this is the latest phone that my wife has, it's a limited edition one. Basically it's an iPhone that is waterproof, I bet you don't have one, then again were not supposed to have one either but if everything works out we will prove to Apple that iPhones are water resistant!


It's a funny story, my wife was  doing something with water yesterday and "splash" or iPhone fell on a bucket of water! She dried and tried it out and it was working, but it didn't last that long. Soon it stop answering and with time it went dead on us. So we called Rogers communication to find out if we could upgrade her hardware, yes we can but there is a shortage of these things and it would be easier for us to go to hell and come back then to get a free one. The only way we could get one is to go to Apple directly and purchase one. No can do Rogers! We're what you call monetary challenged and dishing out some money for a cell phone is out of the question!


Enter YouTube hero, my oldest girl, claiming that she had seen on YouTube the way to make a cell phone that has been plunged into water come back to life. Yes! Apparently, and please don't tell the secrets to someone else, if you put your cell phone into a bag of rice and leave it there for a couple of days this thing is going to dry up and start working properly! So what does my wife do? Well, my daughter claims that my wife put her cell phone in a plastic bag with rice... Is this awesome or what? I think I am the only sane people in this family!

You on't believe me??



Take care people!


PS but if the trick works I'm going to print this Post and eat it!

Psychologically unbalanced kids

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Hope you're having a wonderful day!


Well the girls are not at school today, they were feeling sick this morning, again, and I'm starting to believe they got my number!


The first one to fell ill was my youngest daughter, her stomach hurte she was feeling body pains and she was very cold. She didn't even want to have breakfast because she felt she was going to throw up. Okay, no problem, I will call school to let them know you are not coming. Two seconds into her illness she was feeling a bit better, true I gave her an Alka-Seltzer for her tummy ache, but the recuperation was borderline miracle. The my oldest came to me and asked me what would I do in case my youngest one felt worse and vomited, I told her not to worry because the other one seemed to be on the road to recovery. When she saw that I wasn't caving into her philanthropics demands, she suddenly became ill! With the same symptoms as the other one, fuck me, so I didn't want to take a chance and have school call me telling me that I am an irresponsible parent, so I called and canceled her day too! Now they are both feeling fine for some weird reason, I really have to stop doing this.


So if you are by any chance afraid of catching something don't read my blog. It appears I have two chemically unbalanced daughters that gets sick out of the blue in with my parent powers I make them feel better!


Here's looking at you sweetheart!

Monday, March 28, 2011

I'm not really evil

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Hey hey hey! I'm not a dark person!?! What I write on my blog is the truth! Today my wife told me about her dream and how she felt that next year might be the end of the world, after that she went to check the mail and lo and behold we got an advertisement for funeral lots and she started telling me about how we should get information and start paying one for us. There's nothing dark there, eventually we will pass away and will have to be buried somewhere. So I'm going to look into that so that my girls can go and visit us somewhere nice and quiet.


Something else happened today, apparently my girls will be going to summer camp this July, yes the MS Society of Canada sponsors children whose parent have MS and it happens that yours truly has this disease! Meaning? My girls will go to summer camp free of charge!! It pays to be sick!


I just got off the phone with my CLSC, apparently they are going to be shipping supplies for the next three months on Wednesday next week. But now everything has changed, they had told me that they were going to be taking care of this but now I'm supposed to call the place that furnishes me with the equipment every three months. They gave me the phone number and I'll have to go on-site to make sure they're providing me with the proper equipment. That's going to be a doozy in winter when the snow is half cleared and sometimes snowstorms don't allow me to go out.


I'll keep you posted on the prices for my final destination...


Sleep tight people!

PS I know it's a hassle to leave comments here so if you want to leave me a comment or a "drop dead I hope you die" note please visit me on Facebook, this is where I'm at I'm here! I love international death threats!

The special of the week

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Well boys and girls,  I always say that the Lord works in mysterious ways but this one takes the cake!


You know how on my last post I was talking about the stupid Aztec calendar? Well lo and behold, my wife goes to get the mail this morning and what does she find? Exactly another payment coming my way! Maybe it's time for me to start thinking of something like this, you know that my wife is really into it and would like to have more information about their payment plans. It will be creepy but I have to tackle this, I always wanted my girls to burn my body once I'd died, but this place looks really cool. This is the type of place I would like to hang out, you know grab a beer or a coffee sit down on a bench and read a good book.

Yipes! Already??

In their options they even have the 2012 special! Yeah, for those who believe the world will end next year? Well their marketing department did a 2012 blitz and for $20,000 you're guaranteed your space for next year. I'm kidding here, I don't want to be sued by anybody. The 2012 special doesn't exist but it's something that funeral companies should probably think about.


Nevertheless I will send for information because it's something that eventually will happen to my wife and kids and I want to be there with a beer or coffee, and a good book, contemplating on my eternity and how it sucks! I hate being immortal...

See you later alligator!

End of the world

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How are we this fine Monday?


Well the end of the world is coming, again! Yeah, had a conversation with my better half this morning about how a group of persons is determining that "yes" the Aztecs were right doing their calendar. Worst, she had a dream about the end of the world last night. So what was her first question this morning to me?


- "Is the world going to end in 2012?"


Oh no, not this again! Once again I had to put my thinking cap on and this time instead of going against the flow I followed its trajectory. I told her that yes the world was going to end one day but it was going to do so billions of years into the future when nobody will ever remember who the fuck she was. I also told her that if one day she goes out the parking lot, looks up at the sky and notices a big round rock covering half the sky then she should come back in the house and basically say goodbye to anybody she knows. She asked why, I told her that this is an asteroid so big that humans will not be able to destroy it, let alone modify its orbit, When this hits Earth it's going to be goodbye Charlie! This is the only way that the Earth is going to cease to exist, this and some nut guy having the power to start a nuclear war.


I hope that this puts an end to all of her doomsday questions... Stupid Aztecs and their calendar.


Happy trails!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

The broom lady

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Well other signs of spring appeared on the horizon yesterday and today. Let me elaborate...


Yesterday when returning from the movies I see a person I have never seen on the building block moving out his clothes, he gives me a polite hello and I answered back. My wife asked me who was that person I had greeted, I tell her I have no idea, I usually answer back any hello that is sent my way. But this guy is moving out! How come I have never seen him before? I'm fairly easy to distinguish, the fat guy on the wheelchair, but this guy? I could have seen him come into the building 1000 times and I still wouldn't remember his face. This morning, I see the same guy again but this time he's carrying out his big stuff and there's new people moving into the building!


Then that night I'm seeing TV with my wife when suddenly I spot a fly! Look, I said to my wife, the first fly of the season!! Why did I say that? No sooner had I finished the sentence then my wife had splattered the poor thing with her shoe. I can see the poor fly now "it's springtime! I'm alive!" Swoosh!! Shoe right to the face!"And don't forget to tell your little friends about me!" Yup, that's my wife for you. If you're an insect and you are inside my house be afraid, be very afraid, my wife will hunt you down and splatter your brains all over the wall, the floor, or like the poor little fly, the ceiling! The woman is fast with her shoes or the broomstick or the newspaper or anything else she might have on her hands at the time when she spots the insect. So if you're an insect and you can read my blog stay outside of my house! You have been warned!



Take care!

Cat nap

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Well the girls are gone off shopping and they should have reached the place by now, now I guess they will shop for a little bit before taking the trip back home.


So what did I do this morning? Well I posted on my Spanish blog an ode to the pupusas and then I started to work on this blog but something funny happened. I went to the patio door where the sun is hitting real nice and you can see that people are all bundled up because even if it's sunny we are at a chilling -7° outside, but that's not the point, I went to the patio door and was absorbing the sun's rays when out of the blue and nap caught me by surprise! Yeah! People probably saw me through the patio door and thought that I was probably dead or something like that, but those who know me probably just said "lucky bastard! Has nothing better to do than to sleep and blog"



Tata...

On the stats today

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Whoa, hold everything! You know how I advance the theory that South Korea Vietnam and Hungary might be the same rich person going from country to country? I take it all back! I must submit an apology to all of those countries, today I noticed that South Korea started to follow again. Well nice to see you around here again, now Vietnam still MIA but hungary has been going up the charts at an outstanding pace taking them over South Korea very soon, now this is one of the rares countries that are following me here and on my Spanish blog also.

Also the US, altough remaining in 1st position, have started to slow down, I don't know if it has anything to do with March madness or what but Canada is slowly creaping up.

And that's the way it is, this is Chuck Guzman signing off!


Take care every one!

Skeleton in the closet

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Happy Sunday to you all!

Hey, later on I will be able to blog a little longer seeing that my other half and my kids will be going off to buy some shoes and other footwear at a factory direct store store from Reebok, apparently prices are extremly low here, so they have created a caravan and they are heading out of Montreal to a town about 1 hour from here.

Knowing them, they will leave at 8 AM they will be back around 5 in the afternoon. BTW, little J and his family will be going too but they have to comeback early because little J father has become a gambling addict and has a poker tournement to attend. The guy already lost pitbull lady's wedding ring and he has to get it back. Poor girl, first it was booze and now this??!!! Hang in there girl, soon he'll discovered JC and he will go and knock on doors selling the good book to feed you guys...


Aaah family! We all got our skeletons in the closet but electromagnetic guru and pitbull lady have a cementary, poor little J...


Take care folks!

Saturday, March 26, 2011

4 star weekend

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How was your weekend?

My was great as I said on my previous post and maybe I didn't sound thrilled about the movie "Paul" this is because it's been a while since I have seen a "plain" movie, meaning a movie where there isn't lasers or some sort of action. These were just actors with an alien and it was funny, I lovef their previou movie, shaun of the dead, and I love this one.

Take care folks!

Weekend outing

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How are you?


It was a gorgeous day today and I took advantage of it to go out with my family. We went to eat at buffet Fulam, it is a Chinese buffet North American style. I had some dumplings that were full of sweet beans I also had Gen. Tao chicken. After this we went to see a movie right beside the place, the movie was "Paul” and I like  it. It was the same guys that did the movie Shaun of the dead, it was original and had some funny moments.


Then we came home and my wife had to go to work. So I took this moment to blog a bit. Tomorrow my wife is going to buy some shoes for the girls and I hope she brings me back my sandals.


Hope you're having a great day!

Friday, March 25, 2011

Last post of the week

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Well my Spanish blog is making some hits here and there, it is a more in-depth analysis of my life, my youth, my memories. I could also write like this here but I think it did that already at the beginning of my blog, this is the place that helped me get over my dark days when I was feeling down because I was like I am today.


I think that sooner than later I will be also writing in a French blog, that would be cool I would be using the three languages that I know and practicing them so I don't forget them. The crowd at my Spanish blog are the ones that I was expecting, cousins from my country, people that don't speak English and other countries I had never had hits here from.


Well I'll be off from now but I wish you and yours a happy weekend!


Take care people!

is not me, it's freaking you!

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Got a call from my nurse at the Montréal neurological hospital she wanted to know how my catheter was going seeing that I have an appointment with the urologist in June she wanted to be kept up to date on my infection and how it was being treated. I told her I was doing fine and that thanks to an error by a nurse that came one night and installed a latex catheter, I was doing dandy!


It seems that latex works fine with me because my wife can de-block it by doing an irrigation. What is an irrigation? Simple really, my wife takes a big syringe fills up with water, sterile water, connects it to the catheter and then flushes water into my bladder, unblocking anything that might have been blocking the pathway of the urine. This is the good news, the bad news is that my CLSC doesn't carry them, they don't believe in them, I guess they rather pay the exorbitant price of a nurse that comes at midnight for emergency purposes then to buy at $26 dollars latex catheter. We'll see what will happen!


Take care people!

I was once a happy camper just like you

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Just finished having my lunch with my brother and he tells me that his little daughter will be going to the same school as my little daughter. They used to go to school together before but then they change my daughter to a special school and one of the reasons why she didn't want to change school was because her little cousin, meaning my brother's daughter, was going to be left alone with no protection. Boy will she be surprised when she hears about it that her cousin's going to be in the same school as her.


Arrrghhh! I'll bet you didn't see that?! I just spent over 40 minutes with useless Bell people trying to solve an invoice question! Now last month, I was told I was going to get a credit of $100 dollars for the PVR so this month's bill came along and I noticed that I hadn't received anything yet so Mr. Guzman here decides to call them. What. A. Waste. Of time! First of all, I happened to land on a trainee so she kept on putting me on hold for ages while she asked somebody else, I know I know, you have to be patient with these people right? I was once one of them but I was a fast learner and I think that this girl is going to take a whole lot of time to train. But back to my story, so after getting all her facts she told me that I should go and check my February statement, that it was here where my credit had been applied already. If she would have started with this I wouldn't have wasted 40 minutes of my life waiting on hold for her to get her facts straight, at this point I feel bitchy and moody and I feel like I was manhandled and there's nothing I can do about it...


See you later folks!

Running the rat race

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How are we today?


Why am I in this rat race?


Today the rat race was real close to me, I have to take meditation or something like that to avoid having this race affect my nervous system. Let me be clear first, I don't participate in it, it's my wife that has to do all the pushing and shoving with the girls, all I can do is listen from down here. I hear her yelling left and right because both girls have their own little quirks. One likes to take long/warm showers, at the end of her shower session there's practically no hot water left for anybody else and this is the one who the dermatologists warn her that her showers shouldn't take more than 10 minutes because she suffers from dry skin. The other one lives in her own little world, time has no hold on her, 10 minutes before the taxi comes for her to take her to school she playing with her rat, okay hamster. What am I doing? There's nothing I can do, this is what frustrates me that I could be pushing and shoving myself, getting one off the shower and the other one down for breakfast! No, I just have to take it in and listen to screaming coming from both parts, it's insane!! At the end of it all it usually all works out but my mind is racing 10 miles a second. I wonder if I was like that when I was a teenage?


I think meditation would help me understand that this is not part of me, this is another world where all I can do is watch the action and hope that it turns out okay...


Take care yourself people!

Weekend plans

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How are we today?

Well another weekend is upon us and my plans to grab breakfast on Saturday have taken shape. So can't wait to go and grab some food with the girls. I admit I am organizing this because I felt guilty about not taken my little one to breakfast last weekend so I want to make it up to her.

I started my Spanish blog and the people that this was inteded for showed up but to my surprise so did the Hungarian crowd! Thanks guy! If you guys keep it up you will take over 3rd place here in the English blog.

Well see you soon!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Another day another post

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Well that fight that was going on in the hallway didn't amount to much, a couple of ladies yelling in Chinese and then one of them going out the door, that's all I can say because I have no way of opening my door nor do I speak Chinese.


So my first Spanish blog has been posted and I can tell you that it did drain my energy level down, to be more specific I couldn't use my hands that well because I had to correct what the translator couldn't. But I think I'll take another approach starting tonight.


You know, I think that my brother is not going to have his son's get-together which means that there's not going to be pupusas for me to eat at night. Oh well, what can you do? I'll have to start planning my weekend, my one-day weekend with the girls, because my wife is taking them on Sunday to a Reebok or Nike factory where they sell the shoes and any other stuff they make a great price, I want a couple of good sandals for summer!


Okay folks that's it for me today. Hope to see you there tomorrow!


Take care!

PS Para los que buscan mi blog en Español aqui esta

My religious experience

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Just finished working on my Spanish post for tonight, take a chill pill I will not be posting it on my life blog but rather on the other blog that I have created just for that language. The first post I am trying to come to terms with errors of the last generation that made me, my brothers and cousins grow up without any contact among ourselves (cousins).


Hey! They're getting tougher! I'm talking about the religion persons that come and try to speak with me, before they would ring the bell and I would just watch them from the patio door or if my daughters were here they would speak to them in either English or French knowing full well that these people didn't speak any of those languages. But now to my surprise they added up 1+1, they ring the bell and when they see that there is no answer they come out and head towards me!! Damn, these people will not give up easily! Okay, let's test the waters, they approach they speak to me in Spanish at answer back in English, they asked me if I speak Spanish and I reply no. Then they move along because no one in their group speaks English, but I'll make you a bet that next time they come they're going to head directly to my patio door, knock on the door and bring someone that speaks English!


Leave me alone people! I should probably tell them that the good book says that if someone doesn't want to be converted that they should just leave him alone and he will eventually go to hell! You know that I could philosophize with them over the good book, I could tell them that the book is God inspired but written by men, that is really not just one book but a collection of the best books that existed according to their leaders at the time, that the first churches were held in the cable kitchens of women who presided over the ceremonies yet today the church doesn't want anything to do with them. But to avoid all of this mumbo-jumbo, I will just tell them that I speak another language than theirs...


I've got to go, there seems to be a fight in the hallway between 2 oriental persons and I don't understand what the fuck they're saying...


Take care people!

The heavy schoolbag rant

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This is what I should have started my morning with, me telling you about my oldest daughter's schoolbag rampage in the morning.


This past week my daughter's schoolbag has been traveling down the stairs on its own, yes, tumbling down the stairs and my daughter yelling out "oops! Sorry about that." So we always thought it was an accident, she's very accident prone so we let it fly by. But today in the rush rush of the morning her school bag came tumbling down but there was no "oops!" Plus her bag was extra heavy so it made extra noise. I immediately yelled her out, telling her that there were other people in the building that were probably sleeping still. Then there was a duo, my wife came into the melee and started telling her that if the school asked for any money because of broken books, they were coming out of her allowance... She apologized and said that her bag was just to freaking heavy.


I agreed with her, in silence, I have noticed over the years that the schoolbags of children are getting heavier and heavier. When I used to go to school I would put my two or three books under my wrists, to look cool, and off I went to school. But today's kids always go with their schoolbag top to the rim and at least 5 kilos more of paper stuff. And we are supposed to be in the age of electronics, weren't computers supposed to replace the books? I would have thought that by now my daughters would take their notebooks to school write on them, come home make a backup and do their homework on those things. I think the school system is lagging behind, I know it's not their fault, our governments rather pay for useless stuff, like wars, then to improve the school system that at the end will benefit mankind. It will improve humankind and we won't have ignorant leaders advancing dumb theories that promote the idea that life did exist in other planets but that imperialism destroy it.


See you soon!

Blogging breakfast

Hello!


How are we today?


Well I was put on the chair early today everybody has left and went about their business. Yes, this morning my daughter had a doctors appointment at 8:30 in the morning so she left the house at around eight o'clock, they had to drop my other daughter in school seeing the public transportation doesn't work for her. So I was left alone to see the news, eat my breakfast and blog a little.


Today is my final bath of the week and then the next three days are all mine, I'm thinking that maybe I'll go see a movie this weekend with the girls nothing major is playing until next weekend when the movie Paul comes out, or maybe that remake of beauty and the beast with the guy that when he looks bad it looks better than me. Yeah what's up with that? I mean here's a really pathetic looking guy that even ugly as he is, he's better looking than me! What a shocker, an ugly guy that looks good?! Wow, only in Hollywood! I think the name of the movie is called Beastly. There's also the one where we kick alien's but again, Battle: Los Angeles, this is something that I think I will wait for the video  to come out. Oh yeah, I promised my little one that I was going to take them and have breakfast at a restaurant in the morning, I still need to convince their mother seeing that it's her day off and she deserves those extra winks...


I'll see you later people!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

New blog ready

Hello!

Well I finished setting up my Spanish blog so that it will house the Spanish posts I will create. I don't think I will write 3 times a day like I do here but I will try to post once a day seeing that is more complicated then this one that for me is a wysiwyg type of blog, except when I put on a video or something like that. Once I start posting on this blog I will post the place where it can be found.

Well I wish you all a beautiful day ahead of you and I would like to thank you again for reading my blog.

Happy tomorrows people!

Recuerdo del Circo: Porque estoy aquí?

Hola!


Un cordial saludo a mis primos y mis disculpas si se sienten insultados cuando lean mi blog.


¿Por qué las disculpas? Porque en este blog voy a estar contando historias que aparentemente ocurrieron y las describo de la forma en que me fueron contadas y mis primos puedan no estar de acuerdo con eso. Yo respeto su opinión y estoy bastante seguro de que estas mismas historias se las contaron de manera diferente a ellos.


¿Por qué estoy aquí? No sé exactamente lo que pasó, que hizo que mi madre saliera del país. Sé que de acuerdo con su recuento de los eventos, ella podría haber emigrado a Costa Rica ya que ella tenía la ciudadanía de Costa Rica, pero ella no se dio cuenta en ese momento. Así que para el norte! Yo habría pensado que el siguiente paso lógico hubiera sido Guatemala, no sé por qué no se quedó allí viendo que su hermana mayor vive allí y en mi opinión le podría haber dado una mano, pero no se materializo. Por último, México me habría ahorrado un montón de problemas puesto que es ahí que conocí a mi esposa después de innumerables viajes a este país. Sin embargo, como lo he llegado a saber, le dijo el hermano de mi madre a ella que el país era demasiado pequeño para que se quedara allí. Lo que sucedió después es algo que nunca voy a entender, en lugar de haber aterrizado en los EE.UU. mi madre lo saltos y aterrizó en Canadá. Dios trabaja en formas misteriosas es lo que dicen y esta vez le puso el dedo en la cabeza!


El Canadá proporcionó a mi madre y a sus crías con una multitud de servicios que ningún otro país en este hemisferio le hubiera proporcionado. Todos mis hermanos y yo tenemos educación, salud y un nivel de vida que ella nunca habría llegado a tener en Costa Rica, Guatemala, México y los EE.UU. Me gustaría añadir que no somos ricos pero sí tenemos paz y tranquilidad de espíritu, una barriga llena y una cama cómoda para dormir al final del día.


Así que me gustaría dar las gracias a mis tíos y tías por haber empujado a mi madre para venir y radicar en Canadá, un país frio como el hielo pero con un corazón cálido!


Cuídense!

Music maestro

Hello!


I was working on my family tree this afternoon, adding a couple of stories here and there when I remembered that I had always had musical talent with me. You know how they say that Mozart composed his first opera our symphony at the age of 4? Well Chuckster here was also a musical genius at that age!


The story goes that when I was 4 I composed a song for my mother. Not really much to talk about, it didn't become a record or hit the Salvadorian charts or stuff like that. Heck, I didn't even get royalties for it! I just did it because of the necessities of the moment. You see, my mother was heading out that day and I wanted to go with her, if I remember correctly it was a raffle at my kindergarten, well you know mothers she didn't take me with her. So what happened next was the frustration that I couldn't jolt on paper, no, this was far to important! So musical me decided to make a song on the spot, while she had me cornered asking to repeat the lyrics and so I did. Please keep in mind that they are in Spanish and I will try to translate them although the complexity of them will probably pay no justice:


- "A la Carmela loca que se la lleve el diablo. Que se la lleve al diablo a la Carmela loca."


What basically this is saying is that the devil should take away crazy Carmela and that crazy Carmela should go to the devil. Yes! I was a musical prodigy, fuck Mozart, fuck Beethoven, I had to learn a musical instrument. I believe I still own the rights of author to this song and one day after writing my books I will take my guitar and create the music for this lovely melody.


Take care people!

Electric 15!

Hello!


Today at lunch I was speaking with my brother about the birthday of his son, my oldest nephew. Yes, he is reaching 15 today and for me it was a special birthday, this was the birthday where I discovered my musical talents! First of all my present for that year was a drum set, then with the money that everybody provided me with I bought two electric guitars and an electric bass guitar. So if you do the math correctly you will eventually find that I was going to start my first garage band. The name of the first band I had was called Everest, needless to say that there was another band with that name and they appear to be more successful than us. This didn't stop me, I had my brother playing the synthesizer, a friend playing the base and I was going to play the drums, I know I had two electric guitars to spare. But we had a band!


So today talking to my brother we realized that time stops for no one, that the same special day I had eons ago my nephew was going to be going through it now. He carries my name but in no way does he resembles who I was, he's an improved version of all of the brothers and I wish him a very happy birthday, may God bless him and may all his dreams come through.


Take care people!

Cradle robber

Hello!


Well I think I'm going to  have to move from this place, either people find my wife super attractive and are constantly hitting on her or I really, really, really look old!


It happened again yesterday, the guy who cleans the snow, a fairly young guy, approached my wife very timidly and struck up a conversation that basically lasted 2 seconds. The guy said that he came from some Middle Eastern country and basically put his killer moves on her:


- "I'm sorry about your dad, what happened to him that he is a wheelchair?"


My wife was surprised and she told him:


- "My dad?!? Oh! You mean my husband!?"


The guy switch to apologetic mode and started to excuse himself telling her that he didn't know I was her husband, that she looked so young. What gives?


What are you calling me? Decrepit old man? Give me a break! You should rather see it differently my friend, just say to yourself "how sexually powerful is this guy that he can attract very young girls?!!". This is the type of thing you should be saying and not how young my wife looks. God! I have gotten so many invitations for me and my three girls to go and have dinner with middle-age Windows that would like to make their lives all over again with my kids and me, and what do I tell them?.... "You mean my wife and my two daughters?".... That's right! Women here thinks that I'm a single dad whose wife either left him or is dead!

It's not only guys, you also have little old ladies that tell her that they are sorry her father is sick (I'm pretty sure they also think I'm dying)!


Geez Louise people! give me a break!!


Take care of yourselves!

Spring signs and a sexy voice

Hello!


Hope you're having a wonderful day!


Well another one bites the dust, my bath guy from Tuesday and Wednesday will be going on his yearly vacation, so he will not be there but he assures me that someone will and that he's going to make sure that someone nice comes to provide me with the bath services on Tuesday and Wednesday. Also, this guy needs help! Today we are at -5°c and he still wearing shorts! He also has taken out his sports car and is preparing it for summer, I tell you you have to live here to understand what we go through! Every spring/summer when it's really nice out there you will see people flocking the streets to take a Sun bath, it never fails, it's like giant lizards warming up!


You won't believe this, but I think I'm catching another cold! I know this because my voice has become very masculine, this is a tell-tale  signs that I'm getting a cold mixed with sore throat, but I sound so good! I wish my voice was always like this, it's like a Darth Vader Junior... I could basically ask for guacamole and I would sound sexy!


Take care people!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Spanish train

Hello!

Yes I know, old Chuck here was writing in a funny language again, the thing is that while I set up my other blog I've decided that I will write 1 post in Spanish at the end of my day so that I could start warming up when I have my new place for Spanish posting. It will have a different feel then the English one, it will be more of a refflexion of life rather then story telling like I presently do on the English side.

Today's topic was about the conversation I had with my daughter about what I wanted to happen with my body once I'm gone. I got some hits, I don't expect my Spanish post to attrac as "much" people as the English ones but it will get me a Spanish crowd...


Take care

Recuerdo del Circo: Mi final

Hola!


Espero que les está yendo bien!


Estábamos hablando de mis planes finales con mi hija, usted sabe los que se hacen cuando uno ya no va etar ahi? Sí, yo le estaba diciendo lo que yo quería que hacieran con mi cuerpo, no mucho realmente, quemenlo . También preguntó qué debía hacer con los restos, le dije que podía tirarlos todos si quería, que yo ya no era parte de eso, lo que tenía en sus manos era básicamente una caja. Le dije que mi espíritu ya no estaba allí y si alguien alguna vez le preguntaba adónde estaba yo, ella deberia decirle que me había parcialmente muerto. Aquí es donde tuvo la mirada muda!


Sí, le dije el cuerpo era una caja para mi espíritu y que yo ya no estába ahi, pero todavia vivía en el interior de ella, dentro de su hermana, en su madre, en el interior de todos los que me conocíeron y me amaban , o me odiaban Le dije que mientras yo había dejado huellas en alguien ya sea positivas o negativas, que todavía vivia....

Cuidensé

Spanish blog and the genome project

Hello!


Well I think I will start a Spanish blog, it's true that it is very hard for me, physically, but I think I found a way to do it faster. The only thing is that I don't want to be redundant, post in English and then just translated into Spanish. Or maybe this is the way to go? I don't know, the thing is that I had so much positive feedback that perhaps it's time for me to start blogging in Spanish and develop my writing skills in this beautiful language.


I know that yesterday I got hits from my country as well as the neighboring countries and Mexico. Either way I'll work on a couple of posts and then I'll put them on my new blog that I would promote in the Spanish world.


Hey! I've decided that I'm going to do that National Geographic genome project, yeah I'm going to dish out $127 dollars for them to send me a kit where I'll put my DNA and they will study it to determine where the freaking place I come from! Last time I tried to do it I gave up at the cash register, I felt that paying $27 for shipping was too steep and therefore I canceled the whole thing. But this time I don't care how expensive it is I am going through with it, who knows maybe I don't come from Europe, Africa or Latin America and perhaps my DNA has never been seen on this planet! Wouldn't that be fun, having some doctor come over to your house to inform you that you're some sort of alien?! I think that it's would make my year, perhaps my lifetime...


See you soon people!

I hate pasta!

Hello!


I just finished eating and it was a crappy dinner! Well not really it's probably me, lately I hate pasta and rice, when my wife's serves me rice I usually only eat some of it, should she serve me pasta!?! I will bitch about it and at the end eat it but I don't like it. Today Meals on Wheels brought me... Spaghetti!! Oh joy, my favorite dish! I just don't like it, I appreciate the service and will basically eat everything they bring except pasta dishes.


Today I was recalling an incident that my wife had just recently, you see she has a customer that is oriental. So with the Japanese earthquake going on she approached her and asked how her family was. The customer looked at my wife surprised and asked her why she asked about her family, my wife told her that she had heard about the earthquake in Japan and was just making sure that everyone was okay on her side. The customer looked at her and told her that she was Chinese and not Japanese, ooops there goes this year Christmas bonus. I told my wife not to feel bad because this is the same person that had asked her if she was from Brazil, my wife had told her no that she was Mexican, so they are even. But forever we will be known as the family who doesn't know how to handle situations, me with the "... I hope you bring good news from the funeral" and her with messing up the countries where her customers come from.


Happy trails people!

The Bermuda triangle and my sick daughter

Hello!


Good whatever to you and yours!


Well one my daughters is "sick", yesterday to have the day off from school she pulled out all the stunts, runny nose, sneezing, feverish, coughing etc. so I gave in, I told her today she wouldn't have school and she could rest so that tomorrow she goes back stronger. So what do you think is happening right now? She's playing up there with her toys and talking to herself and her toys, in other words she's doing fine.


Today another sign of spring appeared at my doorsteps, my bath guy was wearing bermuda shorts and it's only 2°c out there!! No he is not crazy, I'm pretty sure that if I go out there there will be others that are doing the same thing. You see, I think that we are so bundle up during six months that when the sun comes out and the weather feels fine we will basically take out our clothes pieces one by one. Plus, all Montrealers believe that we have the hottest girls in the planet, nay the universe, but this is also because during six months all women are covered up from head to toes, so the slightest skin showing from their behalf triggers this euphoric sensation in men's brain... You got to love spring!


See you later folks!

Monday, March 21, 2011

Spanish review

Hello!

Good something to you!

Who would have known, I do a Spanish post and the crowd goes wild! I even got a cool review from a cousin in my country "..,sad with a hint of humor..." wow! If I do a Spanish book I sure would like her to write a review. The funny part was that after reading her critic I re-read the post and she was right! It reads like a haunting memory of a time that's no longer there and the vestiges of the mind of the child I once was. Awsome, Chuck, just freaking awsome!

Yeah I can smell Pulitzer here...

Take care folks!

Regular programming

Hello!

Well now that I got that of my chest I can now start posting in English again. I posted in Spanish because one of my nephews asked me why I didn't blog in Spanish, I told him that it was because of the ressources that I had, speech recognition is in English and not in Spanish, but I was going to create a post just for him and so I did!

Sorry about that...

Recuerdos del circo

Hello!


***If you can't speak Spanish avoid this post****


To Diego, siempre sueña...


Usted me preguntó por qué no escribo en español, no es porque creo que este lenguaje es menos importante, no, ni me he olvidado el país adonde nací, mis raíces, mis inicios a la vida. La razón de no escribir en esta hermosa lengua es por las consecuencias del destino que están fuera de mi control, el lugar donde estoy, mi enfermedad y las herramientas que tengo para hacer mi blog.


Nunca me olvidaré de donde soy, yo no lo llevo en las mangas o lo grito a los cuatro vientos como algunas personas lo hacen, pero me acuerdo de donde soy, los rostros, los lugares y las situaciones que he vivido siempre serán parte de mi, esto es lo que me hace. Me acuerdo de cosas de mi país que nunca olvidaré, que nunca podría olvidar, cosas que si no existirian yo las tuviera que inventarlas para ser capaz de recordar quién soy.


A veces, cuando estoy triste canto dos pequeñas canciones, en silencio, para recordarme de donde soy y cómo llegué a donde estoy, estas fueron las dos últimas canciones que aprendí en mi país, en mi idioma:


- "La mar, la mar, se puso ya a cagar, cagar, cagar, Yo le dije a manuel,manuel,manuel, que me trajera papel, papel,papel, el muy cabron me trajo carbon. Si no me fijo, el culo me lijo."

- "Se llevaron a mi mujer, que joder, que joder. Se la llevaron a la playa, que canallas, canallas. Le bajaron el calzon, que vergon, vergon. Le puyaron el culito, que bonito, que bonito."


Esto me hace sentirme Guanaco otra vez...

Conspiracy theoriesin and the pupusas effect

Hello!


Today the day and the gloomy weather called for thinking, lots and lots of thinking. It wasn't a depressing type of thinking state but more of a "what the fuck?" type. I mean even the stats are low today so I take it that everybody around the world or at least here in North America must be going through the same thing, I tell you the governments of the world have these gases that they'd like to spread out at night to arrange our feelings next day, a crappy gas, a thinking gas, a depressing gas, a shit load of gases! I'm pretty sure tomorrow I will feel differently, maybe happy, maybe sad but we're always in some sort of move, which leads me to believe that the governments of the world control our mines! And if not the governments, the freaking aliens! I'm telling you I'm full of conspiracy theories that one day I will be able to prove due to the amount of free time that I have on my hands.


My leg is killing me and there's nothing that can be done about it, MS you know? So this week is going to be a slow one but on Friday my girls are going over to their grandma to celebrate the birthday of my oldest nephew and they will be having pupusas a typical Salvadorian dish that is delicious, and according to North American standards, bad for you. But God would I kill for some of those right now, I'll guess I'll just wait for Friday so I can have some as my mother promised me she will send me some.


Okay folks, have a good beginning of the week!

Sweatshop Chuck

Hello!


Well the snow is falling but it's not sticking to the ground, I wonder if we're going to get those 15cm that the weathermen predicted.


Hey! I forgot to mention that I'm now indexing family records. Well it all has to do with my family tree and one thing led to another and I have volunteer to an international association affiliated with the church of later Day Saints, I basically get a batch of old records that I have to electronically convert for posterity and I'm pretty sure they make cash out of this so in a nutshell I am working in a sweatshop! I've just submitted my first batch of records that were from my country circa 1836-1910, I hope I did a good job.


Hard to do these things, handwritten records are very hard to decipher. In the old days people used to write pretty poetic like, calligraphy I think is called, and some names were completely butchered. But this type of handwriting in those days was considered the "in" thing, so I basically did 4 names and submitted the batch back. I want to see if I can get another one but this time I will take something easy, like Canadians shit or stuff.


I think the snow has stopped but there's a howling wind outside the makes the day pretty scary...


Take care of yourselves!

Dr. electricmagnetic guru and the tube lady

Hello!


Happy week to you!


Well it was an interesting weekend, Saturday was really nothing much to report I went to have breakfast with my brothers out of the blue, my oldest brother wanted show me some pictures of Las Vegas and I hadn't seen him in about a month.


On Sunday, it was a whole different ballgame. First of all my wife's relatives came to the house, pit bull lady, electromagnetic guru, little J, my mother-in-law and surprise surprise, my youngest sister-in-law: bartender Maggie (not her real name, but she is a bartender)! Yeah, I hadn't seen her in a while, you know kids these days, they're off somewhere or other making a name for themselves. At this point I know she still bartenders but she is taking on a new venture: pole classes. Yup, she is paying to learn how to dance/exercise on a stripper pole... Try not to laugh too hard, she really takes it seriously and apparently you get a lot of bruises from it. She wanted to show them to me but I told her that I was married and could probably get in trouble for it.


But this wasn't the event of the day, my mother-in-law almost kicked the bucket, seriously! She was  choking on some food and making some sort of noise, my wife went to see what it was and she was going purple on us. So my wife started to do the Heimlich Maneuver but out of the blue came electromagnetic guru! He took over and with one movement he basically un-choked her, the piece of food that was blocking her air tube was cleared so was the dinner from last night! The guy basically broke her ribs, we had to give her some medicine for pain of her bruised ribs, she might have to wear a rib protection thingy for a month or two... But thanks to electromagnetic guru she's alive and kicking today, a bit bruiced but alive! Apparently besides being an electrician phenomenon the guy also likes to operate on little animals on his spare time, he Frankensteins them! But for the record, it was thanks to my wife and him that my mother-in-law is not with a halo or wings playing the harp today, I'll take it I'll have to call him Dr. electromagnetic guru from now on.


See you later folks!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Last cruel practical joke

Hello!


Good something to you all!


It's a beautiful day outside, a bit chilly but the sun is shining and the birds are singing, no, that's not true. It is sunny outside and it is chilly and officially we are going to be in springtime this afternoon, I think, but the prankster she is mother nature is going to be throwing our way one last fart!


Yes yes, I got a weather alert this morning on my itouch informing me that for tomorrow are competent weather persons have decided to issue an alert, I guess they had nothing better to do than to scare people and jinx our day! Freaking weather Canada, all this winter they have issue alerts left and right and they have all been wrong, now spring is about to start and they decide that perhaps it would be fun to throw one last one at us. This is going to be fun, some of us have already changed our winter tires because the law permits it, as of March 15th the rule is that we can change back to our summer tires, obviously some people to beat the traffic that the garages get are basically there on the 15th ready to change them tires! Also it's a psychologically thing, we want to be in summer so bad that we start doing summary things, look my household for instant, yesterday my wife did spring cleaning and I told her today that we were getting 15 cm tomorrow and that look of summer she had.... out the freaking door! And wait till I tell my mother later on, she's going to be happy...


Have a great day people!

consciousness

Hello!


Woe! I just have to blog about this right now because it was freaky! I was in between dreamland and consciousness, I woke up ready to terminate my marriage because in the state of mind I had awoken my wife hadn't come home yet from the store!!! Really!!! She had left to the store to buy something for tomorrow's gathering and hadn't comeback yet!! Honest to God!!! I was 2 seconds from calling her and asking her where the fuck she was!! As I was fumbling around trying to find her cell number on my RT64 I started recalling last night slowly but surely everything started coming back to me, we ended the night seeing Eat, Pray and Love, she brought her mother to sleep over here so that she could help with the preparatios for tomorrow's gathering so she must be here, is she??? I realized that my brain is fucked up and stopped myself pushing the button that would have ended all because of a dream....I will never eat tamales that late again...


Take care folks!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Springtime cleaning

Hello!


It's beginning to look a lot like springtime...Hey, same song different period!


Yes! Today there was a true sign of springtime, my wife was up and down cleaning the house, cleaning the windows inside and out and throwing out stuff that we don't longer need. This is a sign that spring is coming, that we want the sun to come in through our Windows full strength. It's what we here in Canada live for, now we will prepare for six months of snowless weather... Obviously there's always that freak snowstorm we could always get in the month of May, last one I remember was in 1976 when for Mother's Day there was snow on the ground. But in general spring cleaning is the obvious point that winter is over, that and the end of tax season.


Tomorrow we are receiving guests, little J, electromagnetic guru and the pit bull lady along with my mother-in-law are coming over. We are not celebrating anything special, we are just getting together for a family dinner and we will probably see a movie, drink some coffee and have cheesecake... ummmm...cheesecake...... I love that stuff, to hell with my diabetes for one day, I will eat like a pig! Next week my mother will be celebrating my oldest nephew's birthday with a pupusathon, my kids are invited but I will not be able to attend because she lives in a semi-basement with stairs, mortal enemy of wheelchair guys and girls...


Take care yourself people!

Out of the blue

Hello!


Today I had a surprise breakfast meeting with my brothers, my youngest brother's call me up at 7:20 AM to tell me that he had forgotten to mention yesterday about the breakfast this morning and if I wanted to go have breakfast with my older brother himself at a restaurant across my house. Free food? Of course no problem, you'll just have to come and get me up, get me ready to go. But my wife was up earlier than me today so she agreed to get me ready so that I could go have breakfast with the boys.


It's going to be fun! We haven't done this in a while. Then out of the top of the stairs comes a voice asking if they could come with me, I was honest with them and told them that I was going over have breakfast with her uncles and talk adult stuff. She was sad but took it as an adult, so off I went.


At breakfast my oldest brother wanted to share pictures he had taken in Vegas during his last business trip, this guy is a lawyer and has traveled all over the world doing work stuff. He brought a couple of souvenirs for the girls and me and he got a tattoo! My first question was if it had hurted, he claimed that it had hurted a little bit. I then asked him the most important question, was it expensive? He told me that for four words he tattooed on his arm he had paid $300 dollars. (!!!) That's steep! He then told me that this was Las Vegas a tourist place where you pay tourist bucks and that he was pretty sure that here that tattoo would have cost him half the price.


When I came back my daughter hadn't forgotten about it and she asked me if I had fun without her. I promised her the next weekend we are going to go and have breakfast only us.


But it's getting to be gorgeous outside, today is sunny and nice, maybe I will go out later on with the girls.


See you later people!

Friday Mexican soap night

Hello!

Weekend!!

So this evening we were watching a new Mexican soap opera when we started talking about what we would do if our lives were just like in the soaps. Interesting topic for a night of crapy TV, okay hot shot, what's your question?

My wife wanted to know if she was dead and the girls were grown up would I subcomb to the charms of a woman who would be interested in me? I asked her if she was rich, yes she repplied. Ok, that's a real maybe, I said. She asked me why, I told her that I had been married to her and had been happy so I don't know if I would be able to adapt to another person. She was moved...brownie points!!!

Happy weekend!!

Friday, March 18, 2011

Golden years

Hello!


Teenage years, God how I hate them!


So my oldest daughter has a day off today, she planned with her friends that they were going to hang out at the mall. I got no beef with that, but I got a beef with the way she was acting: she wanted help, but she didn't!? Yeah, at around 11 o'clock her friends told her where they were going to be, her first reaction was to let me google that thing to find out where it is. I told her that she could go to the mall and find it on the map there, worst-case scenario you ask somebody at the information desk. She looked at me with these eyes of "God your such a retard! Get with the times old man."

So I told her never to go on electric stairs because if they were ever to stop while she's on board she wouldn't know what to do. I can see her texting and calling people to find out how to get off the stairs, worst I could see her calling her oldest cousin and asking her if she knows the way to go down normal stairs and the other one answering: "I don't know, I've seen people on TV doing it but I think it's fake!"

Yes, she is that technologically savvy but she couldn't tie her shoes without Google it first, Velcro is the way to go!

Then she's confused on whether to take the bus or call her mother to give her a lift: "daddy, what should I do?" I told her that it wasn't me going to the mall but her and that if she needed to take the bus she should go and wait for it. But I don't know where it is she said, okay Google it pumpkin you'll find it, it's right there you pass there every day. So guess what happened? Dad here had to do all the research including at what time the bus was going to pass so that she could go and hang out at the mall, she didn't even use the bus, my wife came and picked her up!


And these are the years of friendship, I still have to deal with the boyfriend ones!


Have a great weekend people!

The Oracle lady

Hello!



AHA!!!! found the culpitre!


I talked to my mother earlier on and she started talking about how things were going get worse from now on. She onced again mentioned that this weekend there were expecting volcanoes, earthquakes and now tsunamis! Yes she had seen this on the news yesterday and it was real scary. This time I asked her what channel she watched this on, she let the cat out of the bag: CNN in Spanish!

What? Yes she claimed, they reported that the axis of the Earth has changed because of the earthquake that happened in Japan. Cool... So at least I had someone to point the finger at, hey it's the 21st century, I could probably find this report on the Internet right?

God bless the Internet! I found the freaking report on CNN Spanish. So I started to see the clip and basically it's true, the axis of the earth might have changed by about 10 cm, about 5 inches, and yes it had increased the speed of the Earth rotation thus making the days shorter. How much faster are we going? How much shorter is the day? Well this is the intriguing part, apparently those measurements are so gigantically small that we won't even feel them! Woman, you're predicting Armageddon and the report has no mention of that!

Then I started thinking, we all like to embellish our stories?! I mean come on, how many times have I said that I'm married to Angelina Jolie because I know I'll never see that person again? I'm pretty sure that you guys have done it also,  in this case I take it that my mother wanted to add some spice to her story and if it happens to come through, more power to her...


See you later people!

PS the link of report is in Spanish, so either take my word for it or get a translator.

The popular side of me

Hello!


Wow!! What is going on?


I was seeing the statistics today and nothing much has changed, the US is way in front, Canada is second to none, South Korea stopped completely yet they remain on third place in some countries have dropped off the list completely. But the biggest surprise of the stats is that there's a country that in less than two weeks has climb up all the way to sixth position and is probably going to be fifth by the end of the day, heck by the time they finish reading this post. That country is hungry for the knowledge I distribute through my blog, please let me fantasize for a second, thank you very much Hungary, I appreciate it very much.


Conspiracy theory time!

You know how South Korea has dropped off, they were there every day, day to day following me, then suddenly they stopped following me but then Vietnam came along and started to rise up. They were going up, up, up but then just before taking over seventh place, they stopped! Minga!?! Couple days later Hungary started following me! What gives? Obviously my brain started to overwork on theories that are far-fetched: what if the Korean blog police crackdown on the poor bastard that was following me in South Korea? Scratch that! Okay, the South Korean guy/girl is a rich business guru that went to Vietnam on a trip and started following me from there, that's it, that explains the following from Vietnam and why it suddenly stopped. But how will I explain that Hungary started to follow me out of the blue? Piece of cake, this is the guy/girl from South Korea that went to Vietnam and was transfer over to Hungary!? This makes sense, yes this and the matter that I am most of the time alone in an 8 x 10' room doing f_all and has time to come up with half baked ideas!

Look, I don't know why you follow but I like to thank every country that reads me constantly. Catching up on  my life and my adventures or the lack there of.

Thank you very much and take care of yourselves!

It's my body not yours

Hello!


How are we all doing?


Ladies, what exactly do you think of your men? Are we your partners or your property?


Yesterday night my better half started caressing my head, my back, my arms and my chest, usually men would take this as a sign of tenderness but I know better than that, I'm married remember? She was looking for zits to pop! I hate that, I hate that with a passion. Even though I tell her that it hurts, that it's disgusting, that dermatologists recommend against it, she still does it! She has a fetish for it and she claims when we were just starting out that's all she looked at in my body, she would often fantasize about popping them. Sick, sick, sick! So yesterday I confronted her telling her that she doesn't like it when I do something or other to her, so why did she do this to me if I don't like it? She told me that I was hers and that I had to do what she wanted to! I told her that this wasn't true, that marriage meant partnership and not submission. I told her that I didn't beat her or made her iron my clothes, okay iron my clothes is far out there I'm basically naked half the time, because I respect her as my partner she is. So what gives?


I know that this is not only her, the wives of my other brothers have their own little thing. So it got me thinking, cats usually don't give a fuck about their owners and dogs are very territorial, so is this why the word bitch stuck to the girls? Because they are very territorial and we guys really don't give two cents about it? are they going to piss on us to mark their territory sooner or later? It's just a question I'm launching out there, as for my master I've decided to use my tilting mechanism more often when she does the popping, making it really impossible for her to get to my zits...


A good day!

J's visit

Hello!

Good something to you!


So it's Friday for North America and we're getting ready for the weekend, party time!!! It's going to be awsome! We're going to have a pretty Sunday, so I am aiming for that day to do something fun like go up and down my street at full speed on my wheelchair, let the breeze caresse my hair...pretty freaking poetic, no?

Well actually plans have already been made, little J and his family are coming over to visit and they are going to be bringing Amber that little bitch, well what do you want? She's a female dog! Yeah, a puppy german shepherd! I love dogs and I hope they keep her as far away as possible from me, I don't want to crush her with the wheelchair, it's 600 pounds of muscles on steroids!!

Well I'm looking forwards to the weekend and I hope your weekend is a beautiful one also!

Write you later!

Thursday, March 17, 2011

The end of an era

Hello!


Well, it's official. The doctor called me today to inform me of the results of the exams I did, basically he said what I was expecting, I'm dying. It was obvious that my first question to him was how long do I have. He told me that he couldn't pronounce himself that I would have to do a whole bunch of exams with different specialists for them to determine how long I had, but he then added at this point does it matter? I guess not! So he will prescribe some antibiotics to at least diminish the pain but like it or not, he said, you will kick the bucket.


Obviously I give myself like 40 more years perhaps 50 or 60. Nevertheless my oldest daughter asked me if she had to inform my readers of my demise. I told her the only thing I wanted was a single phrase:


- "Elvis has left the building!"

- "So you like Elvis,ey?"


No I don't inner voice, I don't like Elvis, I just like that phrase. Going further I don't like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Monkees, Aerosmith... Scratch that, Steven Tyler has a beautiful daughter, so I love Aerosmith, but other than that I really don't like old rock 'n roll. I just don't get it! I mean I have heard my dose of blues and old rock and I just don't like it. Give me Genesis, give me Rush, give me Supertramp, give me Pink Floyd! Now this is music, even JB is better than those guys, okay that's what my daughters say so I really don't know about that guy. I'm a very complicated type of guy for music, I love jazz and I love doom and gloom music, even classical music it's fine with me but the 50s and 60s is an era of music that I would like to be deleted from my head. I know, I know I'm not normal what can you do? But I just wanted to share this with you that when I croak my daughter will write on my behalf  "Elvis has left the building!" and remember I don't like the guy......


Happy St. Patty's day!

Nasty weekend ahead

Hello!

Well I just got off the phone with... My mother! And guess what? Your fucked!!!

If you were planning to go to the beach or to do a walkabout near a volcano, please change your plans. I don't know what channels she sees for the news but that channel must be the apocalyptic channel. She called and basically started off by saying:

- "... On the news I heard that this weekend they are predicting the possibilities of earthquakes and and volcanoes eruptions!"

Okay, I asked her what region was this for, after all if volcanoes are going to go off and the Earth is going to be shaking I need to know because it's going to be difficult trying to outrun lava in a wheelchair, not to mention all that rattling and shaking while speeding away to safety. Guess what she answered? Guess?


- "They're predicting this for all over the world!"

Great! Just great! And I wanted to go and see a movie this weekend, now my plans are fucked! It's going to be hard trying to explain this to my daughters:


- "Hey babies, no we cannot go see a movie this weekend, we're going to have Volcanoes and some earthquakes."

But it's not over, then she tells me that she also heard that in Brazil the beaches were all closed due to giant waves making it impossible for tourists to enjoy the place. I swear if my mother was the president of the USA she would have pushed the Armageddon button a long time ago so that the end of the world took place. Why? Why does she want this thing to end? And it's not only her, my cousin has also commented that come next year she will prepare the Christmas dinner with a special cyanide sauce so that all the family can die happily ever after! The sad part about this is that my wife has a tendency to believe this shit, it doesn't matter how logical I sound it is always "but what if they are right?".

So in a nutshell, stay home this weekend apparently is going to be real crappy out there it doesn't matter where you live, if volcanoes don't get you, an earthquake will definitely hit you!

I hope you guys are there to read me on Monday!

Yuki, Gigi, Amber and Lola

Hello!


Well it seems I touched a nerve when it comes to hamsters, a couple of people wrote on my Facebook wall to inform me that hamsters were nocturnal and if I didn't know this. I answered back that if I would have known this I would have bitch slapped Santa back to the pet store to get something else. Then there was this other post of guy who is still traumatize because when he was a kid he had a hamsters himself and that hamster gave birth to little hamsters, the guy didn't know so he touched one of the baby hamsters and guess what happened? The freaking mother ate him, I think that guy still has nightmares about the whole thing. Well I answered back to him that I wouldn't need to go that gross, that I already had a plan and it was called Lola...

The plan is simple, I will buy an Anaconda and late at night when my kids and wife are asleep I would set Lola free, she will slide up the stairs where the hamsters are and basically destroyed their cages and have a snack. Yuki and Gigi will never know what hit them! Snakes can climb stairs right? Let's hope so!


- "Genius Chuck! But what happens now with the snake?"


Well Lola's work is not done yet, she still has to take care of that bitch that lives in the woods. You know, little J.'s mother, no she is not the bitch her dog is. Remember that the parents of little J. in an attempt to make the kid happy bought him a puppy pit bull? Well it's time to pay the price.


I intend to go to their house bring the snake with me and set her loose. Amber the bitch will never know what took place. I will have an alibi for this, I will act surprise claiming I didn't know that their neck of the woods had snakes! Well what do you want? That's what you get for living so far into the woods, I mean we're in the 21st century and they live in a place where there's no bathroom inside their house, they have an outhouse and basically if you want to go to the loo you have to go out of the house into a small shack, kneel down onto a hole and voilà! They got bear patrols for crying out loud, so if Lola didn't get Amber a bear cub probably would have.


Okay, I'm pushing it a bit, they don't have an outhouse but the place is really really far from here and they didn't get little J. a puppy pit bull but a German Shepherd that hopefully will grow and take care of little J. for a while. But you have to admit, the plan sounds awesome...

Take care people!

happy St. Patrick's Day

Hello!


Happy St. Patrick's Day people!


Yet I know, not everybody knows who St. Patrick is, well he is the guy who got rid of the rats that were living in Ireland or was that the worms? Oh well who cares, I hope you enjoy a nice pint of green beer!


When I think about it that everybody really knows this holiday, I had to get used to it when I came to Canada, millions of freaking years ago, there's a parade with floats and at night you can go bar hopping to see who has the best green beer in town. Do we get the day off? No, not really we just enjoy the parade the weekend after, to me it signifies the beginning of spring. Yes just a couple of more days and I will be in heaven, I will be able to go out without having to worry about the snow, I plan to take videos from outside and share them with you. But no longer said than done and summer will be here, I'd don't know what to think of summer anymore, before I used to love it because I would go to my brother's swimming pool and bask under the Sun all day long. Now I can't go into any pool and when it gets really hot I preferred to stay inside with my AC, the sun and the heat is the enemy for any MS patient.


So what do you celebrate in your countries?


Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Deleting the undeletable

Hello!


She deleted my contacts! Deleted, Just like that! I have had the computer for four years and I have never been able to do something like that, never! I asked for her help and the next thing you know she's asking for my help, she tells me that there are no names there. What gives?!! Every single name, every single phone, every single e-mail address gone! I just asked her to find a name and put the address associated with this person onto an envelope, that's all. She found a way to delete every single contact I had accumulated over the years! Seriously? How did she do that? Well thank God for backups, after playing around for about 10 minutes I was able to restore the contacts and this time I watched her do the job.


Other than that, I haven't heard from a little brother and his job exam, he has to ace this exam to be able to get an interview, if he gets an interview I know he will ace it because like me and my other brothers we have the gift of the gab and we can talk ourselves into basically anything.


So this is how it ends today, I wish you all a very nice day tomorrow morning and remember, kiss me I'm freaking Irish!


Take care people!

The path of war

Hello!


My wife is on the path of war against the tenants of the building, she's furious! Remember how I said that she was the cleaning crew for the building? Well, she went to check the outside today and noticed that people are extremely lazy. They don't even drop their garbage on the containers made for that purpose. They actually just opened the back door and drop it anywhere, making her furious because she has to clean it up. So she enlisted my services, I have to make a pamphlet that says to keep the building clean and to please drop the garbage where it's supposed to go. Obviously these are brownie points for her with the owner of the building, maybe I'll get a reduction on the rent increase next year. I can see the tenants puncturing her tires and putting graffiti all over our walls! Maybe even death threats who knows!?!


On to broader news, my representative to the government of Canada is probably coming up for reelection since I started to see pamphlets from her promoting her good work in Ottawa and reminding us to help the environment by not consuming paper that much! (Really?) So far from this lady I have gotten about three pamphlets, one yearly calendar and this news bulletin paper type of thing. She must' have killed like a forest on her own! And she wants me to save paper? I don't think there's anything left out there! I guess I elected her, so I might as well not use paper...


Happy trails people, happy trails!

Hamster madness

Hello!


How are we this fine day?


Japan, my prayers are with you. Libya, I wish you all a fast conclusion to the events that are happening right now.


So what's on my mind today? I'll tell you what's on my mind, the stupid hamsters from upstairs! Yes I know they're my daughter's hamsters but it doesn't make it less painful when at night they decide to wake up and ride their stupid wheel all might long. I can hear them! My daughters have put the cages on the floor on top of a bath towel to minimize the noise, does it work? No freaking way! I can always hear them, I don't know how my daughters can't. During morning and afternoon the freaking rats are asleep, when we bought these things they never told us about that, I wonder if their normal?


Other than that, I had my bath and my little brother came by early because he had to print something or other for his job interview today, apparently he's going to be doing the Canada Census this year. So I take it will find out how many people lived in this great country of ours, I take it we're probably 33 million for a 9 million square piece of land. Man, where I come from is 6 million people for 21,000 km², pretty freaking dense!


Okay then, I wish you all a very happy Wednesday!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

To pay or not to pay

Hello!


I had a conversation this evening with my mother regarding the situation all over the world, looks like this is it she said. The Aztec were right she claimed, it's over for us, look at Japan's nuclear problem, just another step towards los endos.

Mom I said, I don't think this world is ending. Look at the Y2K, I was on call that night and I had to call Europe to make sure our product was still working! Look the jehovas have been claiming the world will end for the longest time and we're still here, no the world will not end on 2012! My piece of advice for you, when you get your bills on Dec. 21st pay them because the following month you will be late!

I could be wrong....

Take care!

Tomorrow is another day

Hello!


Well I feel much much better, it seems those pills that my wife brought me really work well, plus you get a slight buzz and it's legal too!


My oldest daughter also stay home today she was feeling a bit under the weather so I granted her the day off. My youngest one wouldn't miss a day of school anymore, ever since she's rides the bus there's no way she's missing school. It's beginning to look a lot like summer, we have very mild temperatures and the snow is melting faster than it accumulates. But there's always the Saint Patrick snowstorm that apparently happens every 17th of March, I have checked the weather and so far there isn't a snowstorm on the horizon. Yet my mother and her friend claimed that there will be one. Yeah okay, and the world's going to end in 2012, pay your Visa bill there's going to be a 22nd of December trust me.


I was working with NaturallySpeaking today and I was able to make it so that when I say signature it will put my name. It's called a global command and you can add some to your speech recognition, God I love this thing.


Well I'm feeling better and tomorrow will be a full day of blogging.


Take care yourself!

My father's dildo

Hello!


- "What?! Stop the formalities just freaking post about it!"


Relax, all in due time. It's amazing what drugs do to your brain, I'm currently dosed off on medicine that gave me flashbacks when I was a child.


Impressive the things kids find in different rooms of different houses, I basically have 2 vivid memories of 2 events where I found something that I wasn't supposed to find. In both cases I was too young to know what the hell they were, thank God for older brothers.


On the first event I found a whole bunch of rolled up cigarettes that to me look like firecrackers, I wanted to light one up to see what happened. But my older brother being wiser and much smarter said no and he took them to my aunt, she didn't say much but next day the male servant of the house had disappeared. I found out later that what we had found was marijuana cigarettes and my aunt had accused the servant of being the possessor of these things. She obviously took him to jail where they shaved his head and severely beat him up. With time it was found out that it was my cousins who were the possessors of the cigarettes.


The second one happened here in Canada, needless to say that my mother and father had broken up ever since they came to Canada. He would sleep in his own room and my mother would go to her boyfriends house to spend the night there. So it wasn't a tool that they were using together, but rather my father was using it... I say using it because I dare not imagine somebody using it on him. But how I came into possession of  is the true story. I was playing with my older brother in my father's room when suddenly I bumped into something that was inside a plastic bag. What's a kid to do? I open the bag and lo and behold there was this giant thing that I thought was an exercise tool, once again my older and wiser brother took it to my mother where she had a healthy laugh. Later it was told to us that my father was keeping this for a friend, with time my older brother or my mother, I really don't remember, told me what I had found...eewww.... and I held this in my hands?!? God, parents are sick!


Both of these are true stories that I remembered thanks to the cold medicine...

Take care yourself people!


- "Whoa! You've got some sick dad dude!"