Holy - Days 18/08/25

I have been on vacation for 2 weeks now,

And I have two weeks left. In the past 3 summers, my vacations have been pretty much the same: reading, staying at home and relaxing, and watching movies. My fiancée is a nurse, and she gets the best contracts in the summer so, usually, we spend the summer away from our home, because her job forces us to move out every summer for the past three years now.

The first summer was a bit frustrating but I kinda love it now. I am alone every morning in the summer and just like that summers have become a personal/internal growth and self-focused time. In the 2023 summer, I was focused on reading and gaming. I caught up on some games I always wanted to play like Final Fantasy VII, The Last of Us and God of War. I also read and finished some of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere novels and one of the funniest books I have ever read and I cannot stop recommending, Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. The 2024 summer was about gym and staying healthy (and I also found my favorite fantasy saga, The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb).

This 2025 summer has been about cooking. Yes, cooking. I do not know where it comes from, but I really enjoy cooking. I have made some Spanish traditional recipes (I am Spanish), some Japanese cooking, and my last "performance": tiramisu. Some dishes came out good, some regular and some really great. I was talking about flavor, not about how good the dishes looked. That is my next thing in my to-do list.

What will 2026 summer be about ? Who knows...

Why am I here 14/08/25

Because I love to learn.

I have always tried to learn new things like drawing, playing the guitar, cooking, design... but I always drop the lessons or I feel I am not good enough for what I am learning. This has been very frustrating and I have been quitting new hobbies since I was 15, when I started to take guitar lessons.

Trying to fix this kind of behavior, I started reading and it was a game changer. In 2021 I went to the cinema to watch Dune and I really loved it (I have studied cinema and loved movies since I was 16, but my internship in a TV production was cancelled due to coronavirus back in 2020). I felt so trapped in that universe Denis Villeneuve created that I needed more right after I left the movies. So, I went to the bookstore and bought the first trilogy of Dune, by Frank Herbert (and yes, this is a recommendation for you to start reading :D).

When I finished the first book it felt so amazing, my brain learned how to start something and finish something. It was not easy, because I had never have the habit of reading, so in my first month reading I was doing 6 to 8 pages a day (the first Dune book has over 700 pages). I have been reading to this day and I will never stop, because of how I am programmed: I need every now and then some reminder that I am capable of finishing things (and also I have found some wonderful universes and stories I cannot be grateful enough for).

So, why am I really here? Because I have finished a web developer course. It was easy, just an hour and a half, but I really really do not like web design. I am a developer, I work with Salesforce, so I knew how to code most of the stuff that is going on, but I hate everything about web design (maybe hate is really a strong word, but we will keep it that way until further news).

What can you find here? I have no clue. I will write about my work, the books that I am reading, movies, my life and maybe more. Or maybe less.

Thanks for being there.

See you :D