The past week was a mess: 14h work days, almost never leaving the office (and my office is at home, so you do the math – heck, there where days I did not even leave the pajamas!).

This rhythm is not good for any kind of existence apart from work – the so called “social life” (hehehe).  So I guess this is part of the reason why this Wondeful Blog has been oh so still lately. It has always been an outlet to talk about my social interactions and now, that work has taken over, I feel like I’ve lost my voice (socially speaking).

Anyway, today I was trying to work (after a late work night last night – went to bed at 6am), but my brain was way too tired to produce anything it was being forced to produce. So my mind wandered away and I got caught by the unstable weather today: one minute it was raining, the next the sun was shining bright!

Those two photos above are not from today, but they embrace the concept of what I was seeing and feeling. You can see both original photos, the rain and the sunshine, both shot from my living room window, on my Flickr photostream. You can also check out a photo I actually snapped today of a Beautiful Rainbow that showed up!

So, to spoil my dear readers a bit, I’ve prepared the composition you see above in a large format (2048×1536 – it fits both standard and widescreen resolutions), so you can embellish your computer desktop!

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Hope you enjoy it.

Peace and much love ;)

“And I Heard” – Jill Scott (live)

You seem to have a mystery of me
I am here to broach it.
I am he who resides, in everything growing and glowing
I am not one to try and hide
I am here and I show it
Make no mistake, Satin is the father of lies
But I am father to him, and all of them, and you are light

Do you understand what you feel inside?
Let me light you let that guide you know I got your side
Do you understand what you feel inside?

And I heard continued. And it said

Wow, wow, wow, wow, look at your life. Bright!
Do you know how bright you are to me?
You’re a home made star in my sights
And I’m guiding you, constantly moving
There is a reason for your life
You’ll never understand it, it’s my plan
Just have faith in me, with all your might
Just have faith in me, and you are light!

Do you understand what you feel inside?
Let me light you let that guide you know I got your side
Do you understand what you feel inside?

And I heard continued. And it said

Before each breath, an out an in, before that I begin
Let your light guide let your light guide
No biases, no prejudice
I am the blood flowing against gravity, hear me
Before each second, before each blink
I am the millisecond before the millisecond it took you to think
I am the glory, I am the light
Understand that I brought you all hear tonight

Do you understand what you feel inside?
Let me light you let that guide you know I got your side

With absolutely no dedication to no one, welll, except maybe to me… Do you understand?

Peace and much love ;)

I hope this year I manage to go again to San Francisco for the ‘09 WordCamp… Wanna Join me?

Peace and much love ;)

Peace and much love ;)

I left Pismo beach, which was awful, and headed down to Los Angeles! It was a beautiful road-trip, got to see the ocean side and even had some sushi in a little town called Carpinteria, east of Santa Barbara, where the waitress asked me if Portugal was to the north or to the south of where we were… hahahhaha!

When I got to L.A. I was excited about it – The city where dreams come true! But I found a chaotic little inferno! Anyway, I managed to head down to the Hollywood Bowl for the Donna Summer concert! W-O-W the woman still has a fantastic voice (although she’s old and fat) – she rocked the house!

When the concert ended the hell lit up again: it took me more than an hour to get to the Hotel (it was pretty close) – the traffic was unbelievable!

That day ended with a proposition for a three-some (with a friend of a friend who I’ve never even met), which I politely refused, and let myself fall asleep on the fabulous bed on my fabulous hotel in fabulous West Hollywood!

Next day I got a call by that same guy, who was really embarrassed by last nights proposal, and we agreed to get together for breakfast! He took me to this little charming bakery called Champagne, were we got to know each other and talk about L.A. and our friend in common (a Portuguese friend who lived there some years ago). I told him my plans for the day – to go see the Santa Monica Beach and peer, maybe see downtown, etc – and he promptly said “those things are too normal. You need to go to this bar, than that bar and there you’ll meet these kind of people and have *caugh* fun, bla, bla , bla”… GOD! Can you believe this??? Don’t get me wrong, the guy was super nice and friendly, but just because I’m a gay man, do I need to do that kind of program while I’m visiting a new city????

So, I decided to simply do my original plan and Go to Santa Monica beach and peer. Well… what a mistake! It took me forever to get there. Then, when I did, it was so crowded I felt nauseous and decided to get back which, guess what, took me forever! So, I went to the Hotel, got to the Hotel’s pool and relaxed the whole afternoon! So my L.A. experience sums up to Santa Monica Boulevard, The Hollywood Bowl, Santa Monica peer and the delicious hotel Ramada West Hollywood!

I guess it’s safe to say I HATED L.A.!

The next day, I couldn’t get out of there fast enough! Went to Starbucks for a coffee and hit the road down the 405 Freeway to San Diego!

On the way decided to stop by Laguna Beach and Newport Beach (”welcome to The O.C. bitch!”), just to check it out since I’m suck a big fan of the tv series “The O.C.”!!!! It was beautiful! OMG I wish I was filthy rich to have a villa there!

Continued my trip ’till I got to San Diego at about 3pm. Oh man, I’ve missed this! Got to the Studio 819 – the same apart-hotel I stayed back in 2002 – and went directly to the local Whole Foods Marked to stock up my fridge! All set up I decided to head down to the Culture Shock Dance Center, where I got to see Angie and Joe! It was so good seeing them again after 6 years! The day ended with me having a wonderful dinner at Mo’s (former Burger Mary’s where I used to hang out while I was here) with this cute guy I met online – Brian. He was fun to talk to and we had a great time having dinner. Oh, the photo you see above is of the word map they have at Mo’s where they placed my polaroid to represent Portugal! I was mapped!

Today began with me almost suffocating in my room (no AC here), then headed down to an Outlet Shopping close to the Mexican border, supposedly to buy some Adidas sneakers… instead I ended up buying a pair of jeans and a really cool Sony DSC-H50 digital still camera! (oh, and it was soooo cheap!!!)

After that I kinda got a bit stressed trying to come back because of the fuckin’ GPS, but I eventually got to the Culture Shock Dance Center to have a meeting with the directors. It looks like I’ll be teaming up with them to build their new website! I’m super excited!

Now is time to get my things in order because tomorow I check out of the hotel, and in the evening will drop my buddy – the Mazda 6 car I rented for this trip – and get on a flight to NYC for the rest of my vacation!

Again, you can always follow me on Flickr and Twitter!

Peace and much love ;)

As you might have already noticed, I’m away on my 2008 Dream Trip across the United States! It all started a week ago and so much has happened!!

Here’s a drill down on what I have been doing:

• Got to San Francisco
• Attended WordCamp (view photos)
• Attended An Event Apart (view photos)
• Had a wonderful time in San Francisco (view photos), including a visit to the Museum of Modern Art (view photos)
• Rented a car a drove to Santa Cruz (view photos)
• Continued my road-trip (view photos), down the 101, untill Prismo Beach, where I am right now!

Tomorrow I’m heading down to L.A., gonna see a Donna Summer concert and more news and photos will follow!

You can check out my Flickr account (a new found love). See and comment my photos as I post them daily! I’ll try to keep up with updates here on the blog, but the Flickr account will be updated daily! Oh, I’m also trying to update my twitter as much as possible, so join me up there! ;)

Peace and much much love ;)

The conference is amazing and i’ve been meeting amazing people! Jim is one of these amazing people I’ve just met and, after we found they had some wordpress logo fake tattoos for everybody, he had the idea of replacing the “W” on my “Mr.WannaB” tattoo, with the fake sticker tattoo of the Wordpress logo “W”! Check out the Flickr group to see other users tattoos!

What do you think of it?? Are we geeks enough? hahahah!

Later I’ll write about my trip to San Francisco…

Peace and much love ;)