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While going to the airport, I met Arispides in Madrid’s subway. He is a very nice Puerto Rican guy in their 50’s. This guy is an artist, a painter who come to Spain for a painting course (Although he told me they teach him but he didn’t learn anything!). This guy’s life perspective was fantastic, I’ve never seen a so conscious and positive person. He was constantly smiling and he was speaking with the self-confident provided by the years. He tried to give me advices, telling me to always stay out of the route all the people follow but not too much to prevent derailing.

This guy made my day, I’m happy because of him.

About the plane, nothing really speciall. I had the tipical ultra serious executive I_read_the_economist_but_I_travel_in_tourist_class seatmate and we didn’t really speak about anything.

I needed to wait for the plane in Frankfurt around 2 hours, time I spent trying to find german beer in the various duty free stores. But there isn’t beer, none. Zip. Zero. There were only spirits. I should had bought pacharan in Madrid!

These are the first cookies I’ve ever cook. I tried to use the same recipe as Jaimi but at the end, my cookies taste more like hard bread. Later on I started to experiment with the recipe and make a second round of cookies, these ones quite better.

Yam yam

300 gr butter (liquid)
1 ts baking powder
5 cups powder
1 cup sugar (A lot more for the next time!)
Lots of patience

Plain chocolate or nuts or jam for the decoration

This is officially my first post in English and is also my first post at http://en.david.grajal.net. The reason for this blog to exist is that I don’t want to lose the english I’ve been learning these last months and because in Toronto I was seriously focused on speaking english, up to the point that I never ever made homework. So as now im in Spain and is going to be impossible to speak english with anybody, it’s time to start improving my grammar and my general writting skills by my own.

The last weeks I had been playing with wordpress for Idatel, preparing a system to use wordpress as a backend for the edition of the main website. While I was working on it I realized that maybe wordpress also can be a good platform for my blog which nowadays is using Blosxom, a ultra simplistic blog engine perfect for me in the last years but too old fashioned for me right now. Blosxom is starting to show too much limitations and actually the userbase is migrating to wordpress at a very fast rate.

Installing a new wordpress seems to be the perfect solution in the short run as I dont want to mix posts in spanish and english in david.grajal.net and Blosxom don’t offer me a simple way to support two languages without suffering a time costly data migration by hand. Plus in that way I will learn how wordpress works and I will experience the pros and cons of a possible future migration of my site.

In short, these are the things I have been doing with my laptop, writing in English and starting a new site which can be the seed for the future version of the blog.These posts are the state of the art in David’s imagination, I’m not sure what topics I will choose to speak, so I don’t know what you reader can expect for this blog. We will see.

I hope to have the will to continue writing and don’t get stuck and to improve my skills or at least prevent lost them.