Monday, September 22, 2025
This week I turned 41. I’m pretty happy with how everything is, love is good, home is good, career-wise could be a little better but I’m working on it; health-wise all good, apart from a rotator cuff injury that’s really bugging me. If I could say something to my young 13yo self it would be this: There is life after 35 and it is pretty good! In fact it is much better than anything you will live in your teens and in your 20s!
Monday, September 15, 2025
Mom helped me make beans in the Instant Pot! I have made lentils a few times, but failed at beans. Mom shared her “secret sauce” and the beans turned out delicious! It’s the step I needed to stop buying the cooked ones in glass jars and start making my own from dried beans. 🍿 Watched the Spanish movie La Viuda Negra (A widow’s game). We wanted to watch it first because of the main actress, Carmen Machi – she is in ALL the Spanish movies, all of them!
Monday, September 8, 2025
Two days after my Photolab 8 trial ended, DxO Photolab 9 came out and it has local AI masks! I bought it right away. I then spent the next 4 days troubleshooting a million bugs, crashes and performance issues. Note to self: never again buy software on the day of the release. 🐛 Luckily, I found out what was causing my specific issues, and its all good now! I’m a happy DxO PL9 user and LR is done forever!
Monday, September 1, 2025
I will start my week with an honorable mention: I forgot to write last week about our raclette night! It’s still a bit too warm for raclette, but it was so nice to sit outside in the garden and watch the stars while eating delicious melted cheese over mushrooms and sausages and potatoes! Njam njam! 😋 📺 This week we watched Dept. Q — A pretty good show! I made creamy mushroom pasta for dinner on Friday My trial of DxO Photolab 8 ended and I’m devastated, but I will toughen up as the new Photolab 9 is coming out in a month or so.
Monday, August 25, 2025
Vacations are over, nooooo! 😭 Just kidding. This first week back to work was actually really nice. Now that I am self-employed and work as a day trader, work days are always nice and something to look forward to. I actually like Mondays now, because I get to trade again and follow my process. First week post vacations and I killed it with my trading performance! I was so relaxed and calm and focused, a total miracle.
Sunday, August 17, 2025
This week my mom arrived from Brazil. We drove from Valencia to Madrid to pick her up, and on the way back stopped to visit Cuenca. 💚 We visited Mora de Rubielos and Rubielos de Mora, two beautiful towns in Teruel. After visiting a medieval castle and baking under a 38ºC heat wave, I tried getting us into a local Michelin-recommended restaurant, without reservation. Was obviously turned down, but it worked in our favor.
Sunday, August 10, 2025
This week I decided to stop faffing around and just book a date for my driving theory exam. Did the driving aptitude test and I was honestly expecting some kind of Rorschach test (because if I remember right, I did that 20 years ago?!), but instead it was a really cool Atari-like videogame where you control two dots on different lanes using two handles! 👾 Joined Mastodon and Pixelfed!
Monday, August 4, 2025
This week I decided to take my cameras out of storage and put them to work. The visit to Galactica last week was so inspiring, we decided to go back to Aras de Los Olmos to photograph the stars and the Milky Way. I posted a few images here! 🪐✨🚀 Those were shot with two Canon 5D Mark IIIs and the widest lenses I had, a 24-70L and a 35 f/2.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Vacations, finally! Enjoying the alternating weeks of heat waves and cold fronts. R.I.P. Ozzy! 🤘🖤 A few days ago we went to Mercado de la Imprenta in Valencia. Such a beautiful building! I posted some photos here. 📷🍷 This weekend we went to Galactica, an observatory open to the public! We went to see the stars, learn about constellations, and see celestial objects on telescopes. We ended up seeing the Milky Way with our own eyes and it is so much more wonderful and bright and beautiful than we expected!
Monday, July 21, 2025
Finally, a simple and elegant solution to my blogging anxieties: weeknotes! Instead of spamming people’s feeds with short updates on movies and dinners, I’ll collect everything into a weekly post. I still get my little corner on the internet to yell at the void, while keeping my own timeline cleaner. I started following a Mediterranean Diet. I’d like to lose some weight, but my biggest motivation is to eat healthier and try different foods.