Martes

El tiempo, viene y se va.. El trabajo esta tan y tan lento.. No estan anunciando promociones, que quierre decir no hay ventas, que tambien dice que el dinero baja de cantidad! En estos tiempos es que le doy gracias a Dios que tengo diferentes talentos, porque si dependiere de mi trabajo unico estubiera jodido!

Estoy por recibir mi pantalla nueva para el estudio de video.. no puedo esperar estoy como un niño en una tienda de jugetes :) Cada vez que pasa el camion de UPS, corro sobre la ventana a ver que no es UPS, jaja! Este monitor nuevo me va a dar la oportunidad de editar video en alta deffinicion o como los gringos dicen "High Deffinition" voy a poder aprovechar de la claridad que ofrece alta deffinicion, para que todo se vea mas bonito.

vamos a ver que pasa....

Nightline segment on special forces in Algeria (03.22.06)

Interesting segment of special forces throughout the Sahara Desert, they are in Algeria training Algerian government special forces.

This segment also shows some details and use of the UAV we see commonly in the videos coming out of Iraq.

File information: WMV (Windows Media) - Size: 18mb - Runtime: 5m/35s

http://www.oxyshare.com/d/W...pecial.forces.wmv.html




















From now on I will be posting interesting segments, commercials, reports on here to make it more interesting and fun while you visit this blog.

Phone Caps

\-_-/

Friday came and went, I called the place and no camera still. Soo much for trying to be patient for a bargain. I am going to hold off for a while and do some research. I always believe when things happen this way they are not meant to be.

On the other hand, everything else went well this week; work, studies, etc.

The new phone rocks it, big time.

..paz en este mundo tan frio, Dios mandame calor..

يوم الإثنين

Another week starts, what it will bring..? only God knows.

Today started very calmly.. I got to work and decided to call the place I tried to purchase the camera from and they still haven't received it. I decided to be patient and give them till Friday.

I decided to treat myself to a new mobile phone and I went out and got the new T-Mobile MDA:
























On another note, I finally got a hold of a copy of Paradise Now on DVD. I have been waiting to see this film for some time and I finally have it! I peeked through it a little bit and the Arabic conversations I heard I could understand them! so this is going to be really cool to watch.

Official Film Site

Work has been slow for the past week and its still slow starting this one. I hope that changes soon. Speaking of work I received change to get a drink from the vending machine and ran into this dollar bill with this on it:









It had a web address on it www.wheresgeorge.com, when I came home I decided to check it out and found a website full of people with nothing else better to do than track money all accross the country. Pretty interesting.. I went ahead and logged my bill, check it out here.

Till the next post.. Adios!

Crooked Cops in Cali

This is the story of Elio Carrion in San Bernandino, California just back from serving in Iraq being shot by police after being pulled over:














A San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy who shot a suspect three times while being videotaped was charged today with attempted voluntary manslaughter and faces 18½ years in prison.

San Bernardino County Dist. Atty. Michael A. Ramos announced that charges have been filed against Deputy Ivory Webb Jr. It is the first time that Ramos' office has filed a criminal charge against a law enforcement officer involved in an on-duty shooting.

Webb shot Elio Carrion, an Air Force police officer who had served in Iraq, after a high-speed chase that ended in Chino. Carrion was a passenger in the vehicle.

Full Story Here

I have a better version of the video available HERE
**Warning Video is Graphic**

What's Next..?

So what's next.. Life lately has been pretty much the same everyday, with exception on the weekends and even that is being the same. Usually that means time for a vacation, my last vacation was September '05 in Chicago, IL (*sigh* I <3 Chi-town).

For those that care, I am still working hard on my new language skills, especially Arabic. It has been a very interesting and fun journey. New friends and also understanding a culture very similar to my Spanish heritage but different at the same time. I dedicate about 1 hour a day to it (1/2 hour spoken - 1/2 hour written) Italian is very similar to Spanish and I have put that on hold until I am deeper into Arabic.

My day job is starting to get old, I have been doing that for 2 1/2 years and its time for something different. Easier said than done specially when you get along with everybody and the money is very good and easy. But we will see what happens.

Yes, I wanted to vent about my camera buying experience soo far. I still don't have it! to be short the camera I want retails for $1000 big ones @ the store.. so I shopped around online for a better bargain I found a few stores for $800 so I decided to go with one of them. It's based out of New York (red flag #1) I usually don't like to shop New York cause most horror stories come from there but the price was to good to pass, plus I have shopped myself there with no issues.. yet.

Placed order, received call from a sales rep. trying to sell me extras "..no thanks.." x3 then I ask I can be expecting my new camera sometime around tuesday or wednesday hence 2-day shipping..? Oh no sorry he says the camera is not in stock at the moment and they wont have any till tuesday-wednesday for shipping.. I said the website said in-stock? he said sorry we over sold them (right! - red flag #2) then persued to try and sell me a external battery charger and I said no thanks.. he asked hey how are you planning to charge it..? I stopped and thought hmm he has a point and then I asked you are telling me Sony sells this camera w/o a charger? he says no they do but they dont recomend you charge the battery in the blah blah blah.. I said no thanks and is that it..? he said yes and thank you..

I hope I don't get f**ked over and have to wait weeks for a $200 savings :-( Hopefully my next post will be about how fast it got here and how nice it is, but dont hold your breath!

/end vent

I am out, I need to relax.. hope all is well!

Rafraf from farfaR away..

We have a new comer to the blogsphere..!

It's Rafraf, the cool Iraqi chick studying here in Tampa FL USA

I wrote about her here and she responded. Now she has her own blog and wants to be heard, stop by and say hello:

http://rafrafrbarrak.blogspot.com/