Miguel Bracamontes

I'm not going to lie; I certainly like not having a lot of work these days. I am getting to know what the holiday season will be like in my new job, and so far, so good. Even if we don't get the day off, we are as close to it as possible. I took it as "a day off with pay" because of how it came to be. It was super relaxed, not because we decided to ignore the job we had, but because there was literally nothing else to do for the day. It was beautiful. We are expecting similar days until the new year, albeit not as inactive as December 25, but certainly way calmer than normal. On the other hand, I've been using all the free time that came my way in what I feel is a "productive" way. I say it like that, without much conviction, because that time did not produce anything per se, so I am stretching the term a little. But I really think of learning something as having produced knowledge, so getting to read about something new and learning about it counts as a...

I better start practicing writing simpler entries, quicker thoughts and short texts if I'm trying to start (again) to publish my blog on an almost daily basis. Firts of all, I would like to have the record straight about why I am saying that I'll be starting this "again": that's because I've tried this uncountable times before, but I have never achieved something past a couple of weeks. Rough, I know, specially when my ambitions had always include being able to hold and come back to memories and moments preserved for the future. I have a little piece of an historian inside of me, and I have been consistently letting that historian down by not having the writer nerve to just write stuff up regularly. This topic is, in fact, one of the recurring topics I'd be mentioning throughout my past entries in the old blog: my inability to keep up with my hunger for preserve stuff. But here's for one more try, one more opportunity and the right drive to get far wit...