By the time this post gets published, I’ll be flying on my way to Berkeley, CA… to stay. This is after just over ten great years in Austin, TX. I’m staying at the same job – only working at the office over there – and will have the best roommate ever.
For those who care, The MKX® will detail my upcoming adventures. Hopefully it will get interesting. And like a certain famous California ex-Governator says: “I’ll be back”.
Beautiful!
Inspiration…
Thanks co much to everyone who:
…because of my birthday yesterday. So far no tweets and no blog comments, but it’s never too late. Thank you!
Here’s a cute one:
Sometime in the early eighties me and my brothers owned a collection of Disney books, including a magic book called “La Magia de Mickey Mouse”. I read it many times even though I did not understand all the tricks.
This collection of books was passed on to my younger cousin Rosy in the late eighties. I’m not sure where it went from there but eventually they ended up in Miami with my two nieces, Joelle and Liat.
Since I’m the cool uncle, the one who has taken the classic “coin out of the ear” sleigh of hand to the next level – among other breath-taking and mesmerizing tricks – it was me that Joelle thought of when she found and read the book.
It was recently given to me by the two excited little girls:
I’m now supposed to read it and do the tricks to them. At least now I think I understand all the tricks on the book. Little do they know that I had already owned and read that book long before they were born. I don’t think I’m going to be the one telling them this. Maybe they’ll stumble upon this post years into the future and everything will be ruined.
The book itself is actually in surprisingly good condition, maybe that’s the real magic trick.
A large celebration for my Alma Mater’s 75th anniversary was held on Saturday night. I went to Colegio Israelita de Monterrey – the only Jewish school in Monterrey, Mexico. I studied there from kindergarden to ninth grade in a very small class (I doubt the whole school ever reached 120 students at any time throughout its existence).
The event was streamed over a live internet webcast and ex-students around the world got together to watch it. All five of us ex-students in Austin got together at my house.
Here’s one video they showed at the event. See if you can spot me…
Colegio Israelita de Monterrey 75 Años from Jorge Moreno on Vimeo.
Hopefully by now you saw the trailer… Here’s the full story (and videos).
Thanks to a nice discount obtained through work, I signed up for a trapeze class at Trapeze Austin. These kinds of schools are quite rare, and apparently this is the only in Texas and around.
Their rig is located inside Soccer Zone in south Austin. On my class there were a total of ten people, about half of them with some experience, and the other half newbies.
Us newbies went through a small introduction in a low trapeze: how to hang, how to hang from your feet, etc. The we went ahead and took turns in the actual trapeze! I had both a harness, so the whole thing feels (and is) extremely safe.
Read more to see the full videos…
No time right now to write about the whole thing. I will do that later, and I will also post the full videos. For now, I leave you with a little bit of iMovie magic to whet your appetite.
