New Computer!

Saturday February 6th 2010 11:00am

That is right, yesterday afternoon, Freddy and I finally went to the store and picked up the new laptop. I am currently typing on a nice new Dell that has Windows 7. I've yet to really explore much of it, because I spent most of yesterday night and some of this morning installing various drivers and anti virus software stuff.

The keyboard is a Spanish keyboard, which is different than an English one in a number of ways. A lot of the symbols are switched around, for example the & and the / also the ? and the - I'm not really sure why. The only one that is really killing me is the shift key is split in half, with the half closest to the rest of the keyboard as making this sign:\ This happens to be the part of the shift key that I use most frequently. \so if this post is riddled with capitalization errors, please forgive me.

Yesterday was a really good "me" day. I felt a lot of love and support from comments, emails, messages, any way that people could communicate with me to let me know that I am in their hearts and prayers. I am so blessed.

After work, I started working on setting up my computer, but decided around 7:00 to head up to Plaza to go see a movie. The only one playing at the time was Zombieland, and I hadn't seen it yet, so I decided to watch it. For those of you who haven't accompanied me to a movie theater, it is not uncommon for me to laugh very loudly at some parts that might not be so funny to everyone else. This happened again while watching Zombieland. Not because the parts of the movie were particularly hilarious, but because the Spanish translation at the bottom was so horrendously misleading as to what the characters were trying to say, that I couldn't help but laugh very loudly. The scene was kind of funny anyway, but only in English. I felt very obnoxious.

I came back and tinkered with my computer for a while before reading some of Catch-22 and heading to bed.

This morning, I was up early, and with a phone call from Luis Felipe, I was reminded that I did not have to go into the Seminary this morning, because my class wasn't going to be starting until next week. I was already up, so I decided to head up to the roof and get some exercise in. There had been some work done on the work out facilities (three machines) and a TV was added to the area. I hopped on the bike, turned on the TV, and watched most of the second half of Pocahontas in Spanish. The songs were still in English, and I was glad that no other tennants came up to the roof to the sight of me bicycling while singing "Savages, Savages, barely even human..."

After a shower, I began making a list of things that I needed to get done today in preparation for tomorrow. Thats right. Superbowl Sunday. I am throwing a small party for my office friends, and want to do it the right way. So far, I have:

Pigs in a Blanket
Chicken Wings
Chicken Fingers
Skyline Chili Dip
Nachos
Salsa
Chips
Chex Mix
M&Ms both regular and peanut
Cheese
Crackers
Pretzels
Vegetables and Dip
Doritos
and a Football Shaped Cake

Now in our household, I'm pretty sure the cake years were only for when Dallas was in the Superbowl, but this may be one of the few times these Honduras get the chance to eat a football cake, so I decided to go for it.

So it appears as though the rest of my day will be spent trying to get things ready for this epic Superbowl Party. It turns out that most of my co workers are torn on who to root for also. Normally, they don't watch, but if they do, they root for the team from the city that they have heard of. This year, they have heard of New Orleans because of Katrina, and Indianapolis because that is where Global Ministries is headquartered. It should be a good game.

Am I missing anything that is a neccessity for Superbowl parties?