Definitely by train. It's something that I really love, sometimes when I'm arriving somewhere by train I think "oh, I'd like 30 minutes more in the train because I'm enjoying being here inside". I like to observe people around me, their conversations, how they fall asleep, the books they read, imagine the story behind them. Also I like to walk all along the train and see the faces of all the travelers. Enjoy the landscapes and views from the windows, the stops in other train stations, the rain, the sun, read a book and listen to music traveling in a train, I love it!

One of the best movies of 2021 was "Druk", a Dannish movie about an experiment of a group of teachers. The experiment is about maintain a certain level of alcohol in blood during the working days. How they act at work, the social and family interactions under the effects of certain amount of alcohol. I think this is a prtty good film for many reasons: good actors and actress, funny moments but mainly and interesting concept about fears, about love in our lifes and works, about loosing passion of regular things arround us.

I'm back! It's been a while since the last time I wrote a notebook. It's because I had the oportunity for the last months to receive english lessens at work, twice a week for an hour. But now, due to the quarantine, I need to continue in contact with English, and try not to forget what I know obout it. So here I am!

Describe your daily work Every morning I receive an email with a summary of the backups, usually everything is ok. After that I start an application where all the incidents and requests of users are registered and look for something critical for me, if there’s nothing critical, I organise the day prioritising maintain tasks and projects. Projects are defined at the beginning of the year. A project is related to an improvement of a service, upgrade a server, deploy a solution, etc. During the year I use to take notes of posibles improvement, procedures of work, the needs of the workers of the company, I use to sit with them and listen to their requests, analyze and then write in a document all the details with a proposed solution. These documents becomes projects the following year. I also have to manage all my server which are virtual machines, create new ones, increase capacity when I’s needed, resolve problems, upgrade firmware of the physical machines, apply patches, etc.

What’s the thing that I appreciate the most at work? There are some basic important things like the salary, an office close to home or at least a distance that can be covered by cycling, a good working schedule, interesting projects and daily work. But one of the most important things are the people you're going to work with, the team, the colleagues you’ll spend the whole day. Interesting and generous people to learn from, people that make me better professionally and personally and could become friends after work.

Why do I want to change my job? Just because I think it would be positive in many different ways. It’s been almost fifteen year working in the same company, I started here as scholarship holder so it’s the only place I’ve been working. I think a change will improve myself professionally and personally. Meet new colleagues, be part of a new department, a new team, learn new procedures and ways of working...and of course contribute with my knowledge and experience. I think it’s negative to change a lot of work, like a new one every year, but also it could be negative to stay in the same place form so many years like me right now, because you can feel fear of changing, fear to face new challenges or fall into conformity. I’ve demonstrated that I’m a reliable worker, you can trust in me for long term projects, but I want to demonstrate that I’m not afraid to continue learning and knowing new colleagues.

Spanish subtitles on my TV shows and movies On sunday evening I was wathching a TV show. I use to use Spanish subtitles to help me to understand the dialogs (it's a british TV show). Everytime I watch it I think, I've to practice my listening much more because I have to read the subtitles to understand everything. But last Sunday something happened. I was ironing, so I couldn't pay all my atention to the TV, but I was listening and I could understand much more than I thought, indeed I almost undestood everything except some jokes and some isolated words. The conclusion was that subtitles in Spanish could help, but also can focus your attention on reading and not to try to understand just listening.

Plans for the weekend Every Friday morning, at work, I use to take notes about what I’ve to do during the weekend. Some of this tasks are mandatory, others are just for fun. For example, this Friday evening I have to go to the market to buy some food, after that I would like to spend an hour or so pranticing my english. At night I would like to a concert, because this weekend there’s a music festival in my city. During Saturday and Sunday I’ve some obligations like: clean my apartament, ironing and shave. But I also would like to go to the cinema to see the film about the band Queen, visit a friend who lives in Mexico but casually is here in my city during the weekend and go to see a football game. I also have to look for some moments to relax, I’m Reading a book and I’m at 90% to finish it. I would like to see some episodes of the second season of The Deuce.

Write about music Some years ago I used to write music reviews about albums that I listened to, of course that was in Spanish. I received thousand of visits and some of them where from visitors froms other countries. Probably they look for the album on the Internet and arrived to my spanish blog. A friend of mine told me to write the reviews in english, but as you can notice I don’t have enought English level to do that. More than reviews I tried to describe the albums, the music style and the compositions. Comparing to other musician or bands to try to help the people to imagine how the album was. I’ve never write about band sor albums that I don’t like, I only write about stuff I loved. Music is abstract by itselt, describe abstract things is very difficult even in Spanish, so trying to do that in a language I’m learning to if a hard work.