Using swype. The new keyboard for my Evo

I am trying a new keyboard called Swype. It is very intuitive to use. The learning curve though difficult at the beginning gets very easy fast. The trick is to slide your index finger over the keyboard. I have been using it for ten minutes and is becoming my favorite input method. If you have a touch screen device try it,  you are going to love it!

Simon Aristeguieta-Trillos

Leandro's latest experiment

Leandro explains his new theory

Leandro's summer swimming class

Leandro is enjoying the summer swimming at UTK.

Simon Aristeguieta-Trillos

Caleto is visiting

This week Mr. Caleto came to visit from Houston. He drove the entire day and made it into Knoxville by 10.30pm. Next day, we were able to watch the World Cup. We were especially interested to see the Argentina-Nigeria match. Argentina won by one goal; however, the final score did not reflect what had happened during the match. Argentina was superior and the score should have ended by at least a three point difference in favor of Argentina. The argentinians are looking like favorites to be in the final four of the tournament.

Caleto will stay few more days to enjoy soccer before heading back to Venezuela with a stop in Houston.

Simon Aristeguieta-Trillos

Playing Warhammer 40K

Leandro and I are spending this evening playing a strategy game called Warhammer 40K. It is nothing like the games I used to play when I was a kid. This game which it is impossible to understand for a first timer like me; requires a great deal of reading, imagination, patience and funds too. it is indeed very interesting to see how the dice does not have the same known function that it did when we played board games. In this game you measure by inches and you move according piece worth and what you get in the dice too. More about the game later; when I understand what's going on!

Getting ready for Lost and the summer!

Tomorrow the Lost last episode will be aired on TV. There are millinos of people who will be watching how the Hurley, Sawyer, Kate and Jack will end up. I am one of them; I started to wacth Lost only two months ago; which made me one of the lucky one; I didn't have to wait years to see how the Lost adventure was going to end. By the same token, the official summer break has strated for my kids. It means a lot of swimming and other outside activities. Leandro and I have planned to practice a lot of baseball to get him ready for middle school. Isabella wants me to go to the pool every day. Though I will be working, I trust my ability to perform and fulfill my kid's expectations. So Lost is over and summer is here, what a great timing: less time sitting down and more time outside.

My kids will appreciate time spent with their parents; and we will appreciate them forcing us to move farther, harder and faster. The king has died; long lived the King!


******Did I say we are having a big celebration tomorrow?*****

- Simon Aristeguieta-Trillos

Lost

I have to thank my friend James "Jimmy the boy" for hooking me and Susana with Lost. I remember hearing about the show few years ago; however, we never watched it; why? I really don't know. We never put much attention to what is going on TV. So finally, five years later, Jimmy got the best of us and the magic of the show did the rest.

What took millions of people six years, has taken us around two months; we are almost there: we are currently watching season five. We have sumerged ourselves in the magical world of Lost.

Our imagination revolves around numbers, Jacob, Ben, Sawyer, John, us and the others. I guess Lost is a parody of life, of our life, of your life and the life of the others.

To live is just as fantastic as it is the polivalent world of Lost. We are navigating a process which purpose becomes the road to cover. It appears that the goal of the life is life itself. Sometimes I wonder about the millions and millions of people who have already done the trip and have been forgotten in the anonimity of history.

We too will forget Lost until the next time we meet Jimmy Boy, who without hesitation will hook us with another virtual adventure until we become Lost!

Simon Aristeguieta-Trillos