important note to add to small update below

major event in past month that totally deserves a mention:
Champion's League Final

BARCELONA - 2
MAN U - 0

the game was watched under much tension but eventually unwound into great joy. Barça completed the tripe, first ever by a spanish team. won the league, won the league cup, and won the european cup. what a season! and i raise my glass to the boys! VISCA EL BARÇA!

small update

while still on sabbatical, i have been motivated to post a few of my comings and goings.

the comings have been to America, and in particular, Indiana. I have been blessed with the blessing of spending quality time with my family over a rather extended stretch of time, during the course of which my sister has graduated and passed her nursing exam (round of applause please) and my brother has graduated from high school (another round please). The great thing was that we had all four kids home for the first time in while. My grandma who lives on the west coast spent the month of April in our house. It was great to have her around.

i have also burnt my back not once but twice, gotta love yard work and an under-awareness of how long one has been in the sun! i worked a couple of days which was a couple of days more than i expected to work due to the currant economic climate. one of the major activies was an endeavor to learn court vocabulary, not only in Spanish but in English in order to get certified this fall to be a court interpreter. it'd be a great job, so i'll be working on that. just gotta get my legal jargon sorted out first! i met a guy who does it for a living and went along with him to watch how it all happens a few times. great experience.
i fixed up my dog's kennel and dug a firepit with the helping hands of a couple of siblings. unfortunately no fireball has been played yet. though some good games of settlers have as well as scrabble! participation has been had in two trips to chicago, both 5 stars, one to wrigley field for a bit of america's pastime and the other to the botanical gardens to celebrate my mom's birthday early! the gardens way exceeded my expectations, hit it up if you are ever there. i have hung out with some good friends and read some good books. the most recent being "The Chosen" by chaim potok. it comes to you recommended. know you know. and now you know. the previous sentence being an mistake but i liked it and so i left it. sometimes an attitude of 'what's done is done' is a healthy attitude to have.

anything else? well this coming monday i return to spain for a month for festivites, wedding, generally good times with friends, a bit of beach and hopefully a touch of random unexpected. it will be good. then when i arrive back its off to the west coast for a month and something to work for my uncle out there and west coast it a bit. and my cuz is getting married. and finally its back to indiana to start up the degree finishing process... it will be time to hit the books. and then it may be time for another update and perhaps, just perhaps, another startup, a return from sabbatical. but let us not get precipitated, nor ahead of ourselves. for now its goodnite and may his face shine upon you.