I have moved this blog over to www.tarraguna.com/blog along with many of my other blogs. I am going to blame it on the current economic situation. I can’t maintain all of the domain names I currently have. This blog will remain here as is until the domain name expires 12/26/2009. If you wish to buy kyl3.org the domain just email me and we will work something out. This is all part of my liquidating of my assests and decluttering of my life moment that I find myself in. Less is more. And it is all located now some where on tarraguna.com.
I found this neat little photo widget for picasa that reminds me of the flickr one that I love. I found it here and my version with my photos is below. Enjoy.
- http://twitpic.com/1ze04 - T #
- http://twitpic.com/1zegf - near the house in Mexico #
- http://twitpic.com/1zexe - near the house in Mexico 2nd pic #
- still testing about 10 different twitter clients for the G1 and I just can’t decide which one are ones are best. #
- Kyl3 english Blog– 25 Random Things http://ping.fm/OX6l3 #
Inspired by facebook, Veronica Belmont and Sarah Lane I decided to do the 25 Random Things posting. I have joined the other 5 million or so people who have done this meme. Great.
**List is “to date”. I fully reserve the right to change my mind, attitudes, like, dislikes, and the past as I see fit according to my self given poetic license.
- 1. I love chap stick but rarely wear make-up.
- 2. I can not spell worth anything in the English language but make up for it in German and Spanish. I even seem to remember the accent marks. Scary.
- 3. Dyslexia manifests in me as I can never tell the difference between right and left if those words are spoken in English. Say “right” and I will consciously have to think about which way is right. Say “rechts” or “derecha” and it is on.
- 4. I would have been a spy but I realized that as I hate being cold (not snow, just cold) I would have totally caved in the interrogation room if they exposed me to cold for a long period of time. Pull my fingernails out, electric shock, water board me, whatever. It would be the cold that would have me singing like a canary.
- 5. I always misspell the word tomarrow.. I mean tomorrow.
- 6. I studied at the Universidad de la Habana and I loved living in Cuba. But then again I could leave whenever I wanted or needed to as opposed to the Cuban citizens who are not allowed to legally travel. This restriction is placed up them by their own government. Other governments do this and want to say to them “hey if you have to keep people in your country, you must be doing something wrong”.
- 7. I play bass guitar in my band.
- 8. I have a small home recording studio that I love.
- 9. I have owned 3 different motorcycles: Honda Rebel, Kawasaki Ninja and Suzuki Boulevard.
- 10. I love to Scuba dive and will one day probably become a Master Scuba Diver.
- 11. I love to travel, and I am really proud of my gypsy lifestyle. I have lived in Sevilla, Spain; Galway, Ireland; Graz, Austria; Oldenburg, Germany; Havanna, Cuba; Calca, Peru; and various cities in the USA. Please stop me now or I will talk about all the neat differences in living in different countries…..
- 12. I am slightly more introverted when living in the USA. It feels so foreign to me sometimes like I don’t recognize it nor am I sure how to interact in corporate america. I feel like a foreigner.
- 13. I write a lot. Blogs, Websites, Journals, Songs, Lyrics, Snippets to expand later. I hope to write a novel or whatever those books are the are about 250-300 pages. I would like to write one that opens peoples minds, blows their minds in a good way.
- 14. I feel really lucky to have met my husband. We get along great. I hope nothing changes that. I at least will do everything in my power to protect it.
- 15. I am getting bored with this and only want to do 15 random things. Maybe I will update this post later…..
- Kyl3 english Blog– Decluttering the Recording Studio/ Office http://ping.fm/ENTyo #
While working in the studio one day I realized that we had too much stuff. It is fine to have stuff if you are using it. But I was spending too much time finding a place for something and looking for something and categorizing and grouping things. The stuff had started to own me and it should be the other way around.
I spent a lot of time over this past weekend going through all of the stuff and either selling, throwing away or giving a way the unnecessary stuff. At the beginning it was difficult. How do you know what to get rid of and what to keep? I did not want to get rid of something and then find that I needed it later. I wanted to avoid re buying something I had already bought and had gotten rid of. In lieu of just throwing everything out and starting over, I attempted to approach it methodically.
- If I had not used the item in the past year, I got rid of it.
- If I could replace the item’s purpose with a more versatile tool that I was keeping, I got rid of it.
- If I had no plans to use the item in the future, I got rid of it.
- If the item could be easily replaced by inexpensively buying or borrowing, I got rid of it.
- If I had multiples, I got rid of the repeats.
- just like you can only ride one motorcycle at a time, you can only play one bass guitar at a time
- In a home studio there is no need to have the same array of instruments as a pro studio.
- If I could talk myself into getting rid of it, I got rid of it.
Now it looks so great and I feel so liberated.
I have connected twitterfeed.com to my ping.fm account so that when I update my blogs it will send out an update to my various social media sites like twitter. Let’s see if it works….
Whenever I go back and remember all of the things I used to worry about and realize how of little consequence it was to worry and even of how little consequence was what I was worrying about, it helps me remind myself not to waste any time preoccupying myself with worry.
I absolutely love my new cell phone. I have been unable to post here at kyl3 due to my tinkering with my new gadget and also being at the day job way too many hours. I have also launched a blog to keep track of and also help other G1 enthusiast share information of this neat phone. The site is here www.anochezca.com/g1phone.
Testing…1 ..2 ..3
The upstairs neighboors frequently smoke pot. I know this as I can smell it faintly in our bathroom. They used to smoke a lot of cigarettes. The cigarettes we could smell much stronger either because they smoked more of them or used zero febreeze like spray to cover it up as smoking tobacco is not illegal. It is probably a combination of the two. I think I prefer them smoking pot as the smell is less potent but with the pot comes them puking over their balcony and it landing on ours. DISGUSTING.
It is official. I am now a published photographer. Follow this link and it will take you to a photo of the inside of Tucson mall with the photo credit to me: Tarraguña.
Yea, I know you hear people say that. The person saying it is usually the one winning. I mean if they really thought about what it means; you spend the vast majority of your lifetime working (40-60 hours each week * 52 weeks a year * 60 some years working), all that time hiding who you are and what you feel, eventually you would get lost in there, by the end of it all how do you remember who you are? Geez no wonder people suffer from alzeimer’s.
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A lot has happened lately. It just so happens that the majority of the chaos and turmoil that has happened lately involves something that I just should not write about here. I think soon I will elaborate on the chaos just now right now. If you can not guess what I am hiding, it is about something that happened at work and I think I am still trying to figure the pieces out. Reacting quickly is appropriate when catching a baseball, but it is not always the best policy to react quickly without thinking through all of the angles in other situations.
My big news is that 2 days ago I got my new G1 phone and I am loving. I will dedicate a lot of future posts to my new G1.
I have discovered that when I work 60+ hours in one week and find myself in the office on Saturday and Sunday it triggers a zombie effect. I just walk around like I am a zombie and I feel really numb. It is as if nothing else is happening and I am stuck in this groundhog day situation.
Having last weekend off did help a little but it seems as if it takes a long time to come out of this zombie funk. It being 14 degress (-10 celsius) does not help either. I feels as if I don’t want to do anything and even the things that I think I might want to do I can’t bring myself to do them. Spring can not come soon enough.
So I am thinking of changing my template. The first picture below is how my site looks now and the second picture is another template that I also really like. I am mulling over the idea of changing the template so feel free to let me know which you like better.
It never fails. When I am intensely working on something finite and concrete like numbers in excel spreadsheets and money, my creativity wanders off and thinks of some of the greatest ideas for songs or writings. The more a deadline looms and the more intense the stress is, the more my mind wants to wander off and follow creativity into all of its abstract possibility.
This has never been more evident as this past week and half. For the past week and a half I have worked 12 hour days and had to come in on both Saturday and Sunday. This month is the busiest month where I currently work and the more harried my professional life gets, my personal life feels the need to up the ante. Our pick up truck’s battery has died and the back lights need to be fixed. Our other vehicle is leaking antifreeze and I just realized today that our washer does not spin when it is supposed to on the last cycle to get rid of excess water. This is the reason that I have had to run the dryer multiple times per load the last few times. Each of these things would not take to long to deal with but all at once it is overwhelming. Especially considering that this month if I pay my bills on time and make it to work everyday I will consider it a success.
I should re phrase that. My mind will view the month as a success but my heart will not. My heart likes to succeed and thrive and follow creativity a little. It likes to progress and develop. Getting through this month will be just getting by.
