Christmas vacation

I just had two days off from work because of Christmas.

This year, I did not follow the Christmas custom of going to the movies and eating chinese food.

Instead I went to Houston on Thursday (Rony Levinson was in town), and him, David, Betty and I went to one of those parties they have every year.

Then we drove back to Austin for another one of such parties and to play FIFA (mostly to play FIFA).
note to self: I’m no longer undisputed king, I must practice, defeat gives me shilshul.

Then we drove back to Houston for yet another one of these parties. Which actually turned out to be a lot of fun.

The “can’t get much lower than this” highlight of the night: A vietnamese dude showing off his calf in a Starbucks at 3:00 AM. Although it might have been a nightmare. I’m not sure anymore.

As a closing thought for this post, I want to say that whoever I told what I was doing (the back and forth traveling thing) would ask me the same thing: “Why would you do that?”. I wish I had a penny for every time I heard that. But even more so, I wish I had an answer.

iTunes milestone

No, this is not about iTunes selling 200 million songs.

It’s about me having listened to every song in my iTunes playlist at work at least once.

That is, as of today at 1:52 PM, 3708 songs, that can be played without repeating for 10 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes and 57 seconds (give or take). For those who care, that’s 17.36 GB worth of music.

Monterrey Campeón

I just posted some pictures from the final in the Tecnológico Stadium where Monterrey flipped the 2-1 score against them and defeated Hugo Sanchez’s Pumas to become the champions of the Apertura 2004 tournament.

�Duro Rayados!

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Guillermo Franco celebrates his third goal against Pumas in the final

Franco can’t contain his tears of joy while Urdiales stares in desbelief at the new champions.



People went to the streets to celebrate the championship.

Team members on their way to pick up their trophy.

Herrera’s short career as a coach has given him his first championship.

Monterrey is in the final!

Semifinal away game (Estadio Azteca): Atlante 2-4 Monterrey
Semifinal home game (Estadio Tecnol�gico): Monterrey 3-1 Atlante

Finalists: Monterrey VS Pumas UNAM.

Should I fly to Monterrey for the game? (who am I kidding?! Of course!)
Update: I just bought my plane tickets. Monterrey Campeón!
Update 2: First leg: Pumas 2-1 Monterrey (shit). Things will be intense on Saturday.

No ugly people were harmed making this blog.