"Being out on lead is like having a loaded gun pointed at your head all day!"
- Russ 'The Fish' Walling
The lesson learned during these days: my very own version of some prayer found at some place while meditating…
Take my fear and transform it into confidence,
…my suffering …into growth,
…my silence …into adoration,
…my crisis …into maturity,
…my tears …into plea,
…my anger …into intimacy,
…my downheart …into faith,
…my solitude …into contemplation,
…my bitterness …into peace,
…my wait …into hope.
In fact, it wasn’t raining too strong but the clouds were full of static and it became a thunderstorm. I could feel the refreshing rain hitting on my face, an undescriptible sensation while running…
I had to run a bit faster than most of the times, because the trail where I run has high voltage towers by its side. The chance of being struck by a thunder wasn’t very far, so when I approached each tower I had to breath deeply and run for it, simply praying for the lightning to wait a bit more.
I ran 12 km and it felt so good, the adrenaline was very high but comfortable. Now I’ve got bleeding nipples due to the high friction between my chest and the wet running shirt. I don’t care about the pain, I really enjoyed running today… 
Isn’t this landscape simply awesome & inspiring? I want to be there!
Well, maybe one day… 
As soon as we hit the road, we were received by a big amount of cars going to the same place as us. We forgot that today there would be a football game at the university stadium. Fortunately we were going by motorcycle, so it took us about 50 minutes to get there
We headed to Espacio Escultórico just to get another surprise: there was a concert or some kind of event. The place was heavily crowded with about 3000(?) people. It was simply impossible to wait for it to finish, there were so many people… We got really frustrated, just about every square meter of the university had people on it! 
We aborted our mission and went to Coyoacán.
The conclusion: we took our butts to a big city tour without doing nothing. This unfortunate event and the crazy morning that I had definitely made this a bad day for me 
Since its release in January, I was waiting for a copy of this DVD. Today I finally got it.
This video is true “must have” for all the fans like me. The production is much superior than the older A Vision of a Dying Embrace video. A lot of interesting camera angles and an excellent sound mix. The band’s live performance is really awesome. I can’t pick a favorite song, so I recommend you to watch it if you have the chance. The concert was played at Studio Krzemionki, in Krakow, Poland, on January 31st 2004 and the tracklist is:
It also has some bonus material, such as a live performance with a string quartet and some other live appearances. The booklet artwork is really nice also.
unbroken, unchained
relentless to regain what we have lost
a grip on reality
screaming down within me
as i count the costholding on in spite of the doubt
always trying to find it out
that we could find a way
back there
beyond the moon
right through the air……always remembering
We went to Chiluca boulders and had very nice training session. Despite I have this chronic pain in my arms, I could send some hard problems and even a few new ones that ocurred to us at the moment (the miracles of warming up before training). We took a nice sunbath while climbing and as always, the conversation was excellent. After that, I ran back home to continue working 
By the afternoon I felt like going climbing again, but Beto couldn’t join me and Cova would definitely send me straight to hell with my proposal. The only thing I could do: run! I took my running shoes, the music player and went out for a 12 km race. I felt very good, but my right foot began to hurt by the end of the race. I came back home and drank liters of water, the weather is so hot in here!
I called this an atypical training day due to my excessive amount of energy. I just felt unstoppable
Since I’ve been collecting a lot of this phrases and some people seem to be fans of the “Reload” button, I decided to put a simple script to print them all at once. If you have the time and patience for reading them all, here it is. Of course, the phrases file will grow with time, so check it once in a while to read the new stuff 
Note: the phrases in it are ordered by author, not by date, so don’t expect to find the newest ones at the end of the page
I haven’t updated my server’s OS since I upgraded to FreeBSD 5.3. This morning I read that there are 2 new security advisories in FreeBSD. The first one is in the telnet(1) client and the second in the sendfile(1) system call. If you want, you can read the complete reports here:
I CVSup‘d to the latest STABLE sources and rebuilt “world” as usual. Security issues got fixed and the surprise when I logged into the machine:
Last login: Tue Apr 5 10:41:37 2005 from 201.133.86.102
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE (nordwand) #0: Tue Apr 5 12:29:32 CDT 2005
Welcome to FreeBSD!
I went to 5.4-STABLE!
So we went early in the morning to Ciudad Universitaria. We bought some energy food (tortas de tamal & atole) on the road and ate it in the car while approaching the campus. We arrived there with all that “energy” in our stomachs and had a good endurance session at the well-known wall (“endurance” goes to the ability of holding the food in the stomach while doing strenuous climbing 
).
By the time we were finishing, Ana & Poncho arrived in their bikes. They were doing some cycling in the campus and decided to pass by the wall to see if we were there. They joined us to continue training in Filosofía boulders. Our fingertips were shredded and the skin callus began to hurt a lot while sending routes at Filosofía. We trained there for ½ hour and decided to call it “a day”. Ana & Poncho left and we went for a lunch to Coyoacán. After lunch we returned home, it was 2 o’clock.
By the afternoon I called Caro & Gil for going to the movies. We went to watch The Ring 2. The movie was OK, but (as always) nothing better than the first one. I had a nice evening watching Caro bite her fingernails and firmly grab Gil’s arm 
Checking again my SETI@home statistics. I saw that I’ve a new certificate for completing 250 workunits for the project:
Here are a few statistics:
Name: arareko
Results Received: 258
Total CPU Time: 1230 hr 19 min
Average CPU Time per work unit: 4 hr 46 min 07.3 sec
Average results received per day: 3.22
Last result returned: Sun Apr 3 06:37:21 2005 UTC
Now the CPU is working on unit No. 259
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