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SCUBA Diving, biking, possible car putting-to-sleep and music

This weekend Cris and I almost made it to the end of our Padi Open Water Scuba Certificaiton, which we’re now finishing off with the Alpha diving school in Barcelona, but didn’t manage to finish it off due to a minor technicality : my trusty steed (a.k.a. Opel Corsa) looks like its finally given up on me. There was a general engine warning light followed by the engine stopping and refusing to start again. We were on our way back from Tossa, were we’d been doing the first two of four dives we had to do to finish it all off. Anyways, its not the end of the world as this way we get a rest before doing the last two, which we’ll be doing this Sunday, which might not be such a bad thing seeing as the week’s runup to the dives had been mental with long classes, an exam and several pool dives that left us, by the end of the day on Friday after the sea dives, completely exhausted and generally aching. Its quite a lot of fun but the amount of equipment and the weight of it all is pretty mental.

As far as the car is concerned, I’m still talking to the insurance to try and see what to do about the car. Its kind of at the point were if the repair is too expensive, it might be time to send the old Corsa up to the place were my turtles and budgies went, so now I need to find a massive toilet and… :P

The long easter weekend ended up being quite chilled in the end as lots of resting was done. Still been out on my new bike and getting more and more into it. Been getting a bit more fluid on the downhill tracks I’ve been doing and started getting into dirt jumps a bit, albeit small ones at the moment, and still trying to get my landings dialed proper. Its good fun though and the fact that catching the train and funicular gets you pretty much to the top of the hill makes it all that much easier to evolve as you can keep going back even with just a couple of hours to spare.

Been getting more and more into the home music making and hope to have some more tracks done soon. Still have my tracks pretty much split down what I consider electronic and analogue/acoustic which looks like the way I’ll be going for the time being.

Hope everyone had a good long weekend…

Mountain Biking

Got me a new bike last weekend and already went off to some mountains to test it out. Going back this weekend. Amazing! Did a little bit of a trail around the Montseny and discovered a site with a whole load of routes (CICLOIDE) so looking forward to going and trying some out. What is obvious is that both I and Cris are what you might call “city folk” and so we need to set out bread crumb trails or something like that to find our way back! :) Either that, or have a GPS like some people on their bikes…seems a bit excessive though…time will tell.

New Bike

Porridge is THE breakfast

I’ve recently made porridge my breakfast of choice and what a breakfast! Its pretty easy to make and its got all those vitamin and amino acid type things in it. I make it only with water, no milk, as I’ve decided to avoid milk completely when possible (humans are the only species to drink milk past infancy : yes I hear voices). Anyways, its an excellent breakfast, good for you, cheap and heats you up on cold days if you eat it 1 second after its made. You can also let it cool off a bit for those hot days. I was having a cake thing for breakfast everyday but mount powlow is not getting any smaller, and so the switch. :) Usually mix it with some chopped fruit for a vitamin kick first thing in the morning. Obviously, after that I have an expresso coffee and a fag, so its not all healthy but hey, its pretty good! I’ve managed to halve my smoking recently which I’m quite proud about, seeing as it was a bit out of control and unnecesary. Anyways, what do you have for breakfast?

Crack Go Them Bones

The sound of my back as I get my bones back into alignment… I’ve been seeing a really good osteopath lately and its going really well. She’s definately magic and I always leave much much better than when I arrived and notice it for weeks after. I’m well on the way to recovery and getting better every day, but it is taking ages. I’m soon off to Punta Cana, in Dominican Republic, on a trip Cris won at her work : all expenses paid trip with palmtrees and as many mojitos as you can drink while soaking in the jacuzzi watching the sunset through the open door of your cabana on the beach…

Anyways, getting ready for all the stuff we’ll be up to and trying to sort out a trip to Lisbon on the long easter weekend, possibly driving there and coming back by plane. This will mean a stop in Madrid for a night which should be a laugh if we manage to meet up with people (as in hopefully they haven’t left on holiday too).

A big happy birthday to Pablo who is now officially more than over the hill! I’m on the way and will soon catch up mate! We can meet up on the easter weekend and exchange old war stories and stuff like that…

Quanto tempo sem escrever uma actualização

Finalmente já estou no caminho certo à recuperação das minhas hernias e o pinçamento do nervo ciático. Amanhã começo com a fisioterapia e, juntamente com os kilometros de natação que tenho feito, vai ajudar muito muito.

Entretanto, tou num trabalho novo mesmo no centro de Barcelona, onde começei hà uma semana. Tá-se muito melhor e até posso ir a casa almoçar :)

Tenho estado a ver se começo a usar algum calendário agora pra organisar as coisas uma beca. Queria também ver se descubro os aniversários de todos pra ter um calendário que todos possam consultar pra saber esse dia importante…Já sei algums aniversários, completamente ao calhas, que já tenho no meu calendário do google : digam-me o vosso aqui num comentário!

E pronto, vou começar a escrever aqui regularmente outra vez por isso fiquem atentos.

Quanto tempo!

Quanto tempo sem escrever uma actualização!

Finalmente já estou no caminho certo à recuperação das minhas hernias e o pinçamento do nervo ciático. Amanhã começo com a fisioterapia e, juntamente com os kilometros de natação que tenho feito, vai ajudar muito muito.

Entretanto, tou num trabalho novo mesmo no centro de Barcelona, onde começei à uma semana. Tá-se muito melhor e até posso ir a casa almoçar :)

Tenho estado a ver se começo a usar algum calendário agora pra organisar as coisas uma beca. Queria também ver se descubro os aniversários de todos pra ter um calendário que todos possam consultar pra saber esse dia importante…Já sei algums aniversários, completament ao calhas, que tenho num calendário que podem ver. Se o vosso grande dia não estiver, digam-me qual é num mail!

E pronto, vou começar a escrever aqui regularmente outra vez por isso fiquem atentos.

Ai as costas…

Tenho estado a ver muitos filmes e a ver se organizo um bocado a musica do casamento. Agora ando com um cascol a cintura, pra dar calor aqui a zona lumbarr, que ate pareco um toureiro ou um fallero. Sr. Pirotecnic, pot comencar la mascleta!