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Naturalization: Interview results
Today I drove from Austin to San Antonio to have my naturalization interview and test. I left around noon, stop for gas, water and snacks and headed south. Traffic was very good and I was in San Antonio before 2pm. My appointment was at 2:30pm and the notification I had said that it was ok…
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Super Awesome Firemans #4 Ultimate Fitness Program Cancelled
It is with both great sadness and great relief that I have decided to cancel the “Super Awesome Firemans #4 Ultimate Fitness Program” today. The reasons for canceling the program are: The lack of desire for drinking a beer I get some days The absence of Firemans #4 beer in some local bars in town…
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Donación de cabello
La última vez que me corté el cabello muy corto, fue en el verano del 2007 antes de irme a la boda de Eva y Niv en Puerto Escondido, México. Desde ese entonces llevaba aproximadamente 2 años y medio dejándome crecer el cabello, tiempo en el cual solo en dos oportunidades lo corté un poco.…
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Susto a las 4 de la madrugada
Anoche me encontraba durmiendo placidamente cuando comencé a escuchar ruidos afuera de mi casa. Inicialmente pareció que alguien tocaba en mi ventana, luego en la puerta de la cocina que sale al patio y luego los ruidos se intensificaron y alguien definitivamente estaba tocando la puerta pricipal. Además comencé a ver luces dentro de mi…
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Chichipanguanorrea goes Spanish
A deep apology to the english native speaker readers of Chichipanguanorrea, but this is going to be the last english-written post you will read here. I’m now going to write in spanish because it is my native language and I can be more eloquent at it. However I will still publish english versions of some…
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Medellín 2008: The trip
View Larger Map It all started on July 30th at 3:30am when I get this phone call: Me: “He…mfff…llo…bmgrrr?” Cab driver: “Hello are you Mr. Jaramillo? I´m the cab driver and I´m waiting for you outside your house” Me: “Dude! I asked for a cab for July 31st! You came 24 hours too soon!” Cab…
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30 years and counting
It has been almost a month since I wrote my last post two days before my birthday. I have to thank everyone who made it to my birthday party. It was really fun. I also want to thank all the friends and family members that sent me happy birthday wishes through emails, instant messages, phone…
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Life in Austin: Update (not worth reading)
There is a time in every blogger’s life when you simply don’t have much interesting material to post about, so you decide to create a post about the last few things that have been going on. Unfortunately this is not the first time I do this, so feel free to drop some hate comments and…
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No more FARC in Austin
This coming February 4th: join us in the mobilization against FARC. It is really sad to see how the “Colombianos en UT” group have changed the main objective for the mobilization. Here is the text they sent through the “Asociación de Colombianos en Austin”: Please join us Monday, February 4 2008 10:30 am at South…
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My new MacBook
Finally I can tell you all about my new MacBook. I bought it last November but I couldn’t publish anything about it in this blog because I wanted to surprise my mother because I gave her my previous laptop as a present. I’m very pleased with the MacBook but I have to admit that there…