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These winter sunsets are just getting better day by day, as well as our bouldering level. Today, we have sent a lot of old unresolved 5.11 problems and the creativity exploded into new exciting problems in the 5.12 range.

Some of them could be done, others need more work, but we’re definitely getting closer to the next grade…

We started climbing and forgot of all the people there (we had enough music to listen). As time went by, we stayed alone at the place, except for some people who were putting candles all over the top of the wall’s circumference.

When I finished my 2nd lap, I couldn’t resist to ask (to a beautiful girl, of course…) the reason of so many candles. I asked her if they were going to take some photographs by night or what. She nicely answered to me that they were doing it because her friend was going to give the commitment ring to his girlfriend. “What a nice idea!” I said, “Poor man… he’ll commit suicide!” I thought. I continued for another lap while avoiding all the candles in this beautiful altar of sacrifice.

We finished training and left the place. We didn’t want to be there when the slaughter began. I’ll end this post with a memorable reflection by the late Derek Hersey:

Well, I’ll say this: climbing can kill you, but women can destroy you. There’s a big difference, y’know.

After that, I went to the conference’s closure dinner. There I was with a lot of good friends: Gunnar, Alex, Tacvbo, Little Bear, Damog, Pepe, etc. Foreign speakers (Randal Schwartz, Ismael Olea, Fernanda Weiden, Gustavo Noronha, etc.) got an excellent and funny tequila overdose which entertained us for hours.

I can’t wait for CONSOL 2006

I also talked with Alan about Zori (his software for quantum Monte Carlo calculations) and offered him to port it to FreeBSD. Now Zori will be ported to 2 Linux distributions (Debian by Gunnar & Gentoo by Tacvbo) and to FreeBSD (by me). This will be very interesting…

4 o’clock and I started my talk about Free Software in Bioinformatics. It ran smooth, and I could finish some minutes before schedule for answering some questions. People got interested and I received some feedback and some other questions outside the auditorium

Later, I attended Cicloid‘s talk about Xbox hacking, very very interesting! After that I returned home for having some rest.

I arrived there by late morning and kept working on my slides for tomorrow while talking with Little Bear, Gunnar, Mig and Tacvbo.

I didn’t had lunch at mid-day because I was still working on my stuff. By the afternoon, I attended Pepe‘s great (and fun) workshop about financing possibilities for Free Software projects, then Alan‘s talk about parallel computing and photosynthesis.

It was a nice start day for the conference. The downside for me, is the self-induced autism due to the incredibly long city travelling by subway (from Satélite to Xochimilco).

This time I was there… again. Up on the wall… exposing my yearnings and their fruits. The silent wall that receives me whenever I need to talk/argue/fight with myself. The rock against which I crush my soul so frequently. The same therapy over and over… never ending.

anathema – lost control

life has betrayed me once again,
i accept that some things will never change.
i’ve left your tiny minds magnify my agony
and it’s left me with a chemical dependency for sanity.
yes, i am falling…
how much longer till i hit the ground?
i can’t tell you why i’m breaking down.
do you wonder why i prefer to be alone?
have i really lost control?
i’m coming to an end,
i’ve realized what i could have been.
i can’t sleep so i take a breath
and hide behind my bravest mask,
i admit i’ve lost control.
lost control…

After that, we sipped some mocha coffee and ate some tortas cubanas at Coyoacán.