Bulls & FTP site
I took Thursday and Friday off work last week and went down to see ma and grandma down in their home town, about 150 km south of here...
A friend of mine came up Wednesday, we went to dinner, and he went to bed while I packed and did some computer stuff... When I leave for
some time he stays here taking care of the kitties and getting some use of the pool and whatever. Anyway, after dinner on Wednesday, I started
thinking that since Thurs and Fri were huge holidays here, that my planned leaving time of 9 - 10 am on Thursday was going to result in me
stuck in a bunch of traffic in the hot Spanish sun with no A/C (duhhh, bike). Make a long story short, I ended up waking him up, letting him
now I was leaving then, and heading out of here 2:30 am. I got there at 3:30 and cruised around the deserted city until I found a cheap hotel
with a garage. OK, so this place was like 10 square yards, if that, but had a TV, AC, comfortable bed, a small bathrrom with shower off to the
side and everything. and EVERYTHING worked. Even the bedside table drawer was smooth. Optimized to the max. Anyway, I was ammused... At
10:30 the hotel brekfast ended, so I woke up at 10:00, went downstairs, had breakfast, and went back to bed, waking up at 11:30. I showered
and went to the meeting point where I had arranged to meet Laura to go to granny's birthday lunch with us. This is the first girl I remember
in my life on this planet, as we used to "play" together when I was very young, we were around 1 or whatever... I put play in quotes because it
consisted of me taking all her toys away and not paying any attention to them until she wanted them, and then grabbing them and playing with
them. I was able to track her down through her grandmother, who gave me her mother's phone number, who gave me her email address.
It was great to see her, as we hadn't seen eachother for many many years. We hit it right off and right away started
to crack mean jokes at eachother, mentioning that "la confianza da asco", which kinda means (Place translation here :) ). So lunch with granny
went well, as a cousin of mine also came down for the event, so it was the 5 of us, and we had a blast with the paella, the wine & the cake at
the end. Saturday was rather different, as it was the "Festa Major" here (festivities), which involves, among other things, letting a bull "loose" in the streets and a huge crowd running behind
and in front of it, wherever the bul choses to go... again, loose is in quotes cause they have a rope around his horns that is attached to a
straight rope that is held on either side by people, and is used in case it gets too close to he people on the other side. It was a blast, people
where shouting the whole time, throwing water from the balconies, and many bars had free drinks in front of their bar in a huuuge tub with plastic
cups next to it. The color of the drinks was brown in some places and green in others... At first I was sketchy, but since nobody died after the
first stop with free drinks, I drank some at the second one. It was sweet and had alcohol, so I had a few more. When that ended I went back home,
packed, visited a few relatives, and headed back to Barcelona, arriving there a little after 1:00 am. SUnday was spent lousing around with Victor doing nothing :)
PS. I got an FTP site up and running. If you want an account email me at amauri_bcn@hotmail.com.
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