While looking for something in Google Maps (a heliport on top of my building, if you must know) I noticed that as of the time of this writing, the satellite imagery does not yet have the new and fancy The Domain shopping center accross the street.

Instead, right where Starbucks and the Apple Store now stand, you can see a beautiful soccer field. Back in 2001 we used this field to play and get kicked out every week. This is where the AMSA powerhouse NI Eagles was founded. This is also where I met many friends, including: future Polla winner Anand Narayanan; fellow blogger, drinker, and often The MKX® commenter Jaramillo; crazy marathon-running iron man Chris Griger; among many others.

Change is the only constant. That’s why I’m going to have to climb up to the roof to look for a newly built heliport.

Another interesting Google Maps tidibit: The satellite picture of my house shows a bunch of solar powered cells that were installed by a previous owner. Go find it!

It’s been now a week since I had that little accident. I can now mostly get dressed, eat, and shower by myself. I can now type with one hand. Vicodin is my new best friend. Thanks to everyone who’s helped me out, called or visited. Especially my parents who came over to help their crippled son. My mom is in a cleaning streak, you can eat off my toilet seat and believe me, it’s yummy.

Daniela took these crappy cellphone pics back at the hospital:

IV Painkillers…

I’m sooo… relaxed… happy…

We’ve got a pretty good team this season. Visit the Official Website. Click on the photo to see a larger version in flickr.

We didn’t take a photo of the team during the Fall Division 1 season of the Austin City League. I’m partially to blame for that.

In any case, we played a friendly match today, a few weeks before the summer season starts, against a team from some chinese church (I’ll try to find more details about them). The NI-Eagles won 3-0. Here’s the photo of the guys who made it to the game. Click for larger version.

Emergency landing

Originally uploaded by kirsch.

When falling down, use your hands and not your head to break the fall.

This is me after our last soccer game. As you can see, I had sort of a rough landing. This picture was taken about 1 hour after the event.

Next time, I’ll do my best efforts to land on a softer part of my body.

And before you ask:

• My name is Marcos.
• The score was 2-2 (or so they say).
• Today’s date is January 16, 2006.
• No, my nose is not swollen from the fall.
• Yes, that is its normal size.

Thank you for your wishes.

It’s been a while since I posted anything about the NI Eagles, Austin’s top soccer team (approximately).

We are one game away from the end of the Spring 2005 season. We are now in Division 2, having moved up all the way from Division 5 (which is pretty good considering that we are largely the same group of players). The top 2 teams will go up to Division 1. We are now in second place, tied with the Screaming Sparks. The Aardvarks are close and have two games left.

This means that, if we beat Sky Sports on Sunday, we go to Division 1, otherwise we stay in Division 2.

We will be missing quite a few players too, as Jaramillo, Chaparro and Mota are flying to Puebla for Muleiro’s wedding, and I’m going to Monterrey to get constipated eating matzah (and other beige food).

I’ll keep you updated.

[UPDATE 4/28/2005] Well, NI-Eagles won with a convincing 6-1. See you in First Division!!!