So summer has passed without a blog post due to other activities and hobbies. Once graduation hit I decided that I needed some new hobbies to keep myself busy. I have been engaged in watching a
telenovela entitled Al
diablo con
los guapos (the devil with the good
lookings) and find it very interesting. Here's the break down, a mother died at child birth and left her daughter with a necklace, but the girl (sometimes mistaken as a boy) really wants to know who her father is. On the other side of things, a dad recently killed his wife and his son's girlfriend and now his son is in a wheelchair and hates the dad with a passion. A friend of the family starts falling for the orphan girl who uses so many crazy ways to get by, like selling cards with saints on them and selling soda pop at baseball games. Oh, and you don't want to miss the coach at the baseball games, he is always good for a laugh. The series is heating up and one can only hope that everything gets solved in the 15+ hours left I have to watch of the show.
Another hobby that has been keeping me busy is running. I'm the kind of guy who you see running really fast on the street and say to yourself, "there is no way he can keep that pace up." well, you are correct, seconds after passing me you'll probably notice me slowing to a walk in your
rearview mirror, I make sure to run on the busiest roads so as many people can see me as possible.
I've also become an avid reader this summer or as i like to call it story time. I like novels, especially Clive
Cussler tales, for those of you who don't know Clive, well let's just say they are like Indiana Jones meets the ocean meets diabolical plans to take over the world. Pretty great stuff. The latest story I leafed through was about a bunch of people trying to control population growth by leaking viruses on cruise ships. Let me tell you, the action did not stop for a page. The funny thing is, this crazy novel was talking about population control just as I was reading another book about population growth, talk about contrasting views. Anyway, the basic concept is that the more humans there are on the earth, the more geniuses will be among us. Say if there is one genius per 1 million people, then we will have more geniuses. That is why it took man (according to scientists) thousands of years to progress so little, any invention that happened was rare and took a long time to disperse among other groups of people. So as the world becomes more crowded, there are actually more intelligent people on the earth to solve overcrowding, urbanization, and depleting resource problems. I also read that ten percent of the people who ever lived on this earth are alive right now! Think about it, the population has doubled over the last 30-40 years. That is incredible to contemplate and who knows how accurate it really is, but I like telling people that and I never have been questioned, so make of it what you will.
It's funny how prayers are answered through the strangest ways. A few weeks back I was going through something that some people might consider a difficulty and found it hard to be at work, anyway I prayed seeking an
answer for this issue and was blessed with the comfort of a 50 year old
mexican named Lupe. He started taking me under his wing for some reason and offered me solace and humor that I never expected. I'm way grateful for that blessing.
I have been pretty busy this summer, there are some things that I wish I would have done and others that I'm so glad that I did. It's always great to connect with old friends and seemingly not miss a beat once you've reunited, especially when you thought you would never talk to them again. Some relationships seem to permeate any things or distance that may come between them and make you feel happy just to say you know that person. Sometimes the greatest surprises in my life come from such simple things and make me so happy.
harge of this adventure because no on else wants to do it and I enjoy it (this may be why I was so happy or maybe because I'd talked to an old friend the night before, I'm not sure). Anyway, one of the first things that happened was Lupe's arrival. He was picking up product for his son and his friend and ended up with 18 cases of soda. There was no way to accommodate all of that soda in his little car, so he brought a huge truck to work and directed me and another co-worker to dump it all in back of his truck. We did so and I could not stop laughing. Below is a picture of Lupe sleeping in a chair. Lupe then had me check to make sure he had all the right product and I gave him a hard time because it was all mixed up. I was about to take the papers, but he indicated he wanted them so that if the f------ cops found him he could prove that it was his soda. I really could not stop laughing and allowed him to take the papers in case the law came after him for soda stealing. So Lupe left and it was on to a certain employee who does the exact same thing every fortnight (two weeks, the period of time in between soda sales). She can never seem to find a certain product that is usua
lly right in plain site and always beckons me to help her. Then she plays the long face card and asks me to help her take the stuff out to her vehicle. I wonder if this is her idea of flirting or just to be annoying, but it has the same effect on me. We are not usually supposed to help people take product to their cars, but I usually cave and do it anyway. Later today I was given a young Polynesian apprentice named Emmett. He is a way nice guy and quite large, he could smash me into pieces but he is nice so he doesn't. Anyway, I was showing him the ropes of employee soda sales and began to introduce Emmett to all of the females who came to pick up product. I would say, "this is my friend Emmett, he is more than willing to pick your order and help you out to your car with it" The strange thing is that no one took me up on my offer of offering Emmett. I think it was fear because 
of his stature. One lady looked at him and shook her head, it was hilarious. Emmett would later say, "man, I don't think that any of these people like me." It did appear that way. That was mostly everything that happened. It was a really fun day and I enjoyed doing soda sales and talking to everyone at the office. Here is a picture to show how happy I was.
