Lots of squirrels in the parks there. They can climb up to you if they feel like it, but they are lazy and usually prefer that you thow them the nuts, or just a few dollars to buy what they please.

Dedicado especialmente a Edu... ¡espero que te gusten!

I realized one entry was not enough to talk about crappy food in America.



This was in Hell´s Kitchen. It was not until I ate there that I fully understood the meaning of that name. This DInner´s is the place where Matt Murdock worked in Born Again.

If you take any New York guide, they will advertise a massive amount of restaurants in town that will be happy to serve you... crap mostly. Are the stands on the strret where they serve chorcoiled kebaps included in that list? Are McDonnalds restaurants? What they serve there can be referred to as "food"? This entry is a special on the blasphemies served there as food, and the places where they serve them. Enjoy it... if you can.

And the next morning we woke up with 60 cm of snow. Take a look at this:

The firefighters were in the hotel for some reason. We never knew why, but it was cool to see them.

Sorry for not updating in a few days. I have been to New York, to the 2006 Toy Fair. I did not have internet access over there. It has been a pretty dissapointing trip. I had a better memory of the city, but this time I did not enjoy all that much. However, I got interesting photos, specially in the middle of the blizzard. Stay tuned for further information.
We landed 3 hours before they shut down the airports due to the high winds and snow. Not bad timing. We took the New Jersey Turnpike and I just felt like Tony Soprano in the opening credits of the series.

The ride in the taxi, smashed by my own suitcase.

Our first interview in the fair, with the guys from Diamond Select, and that is me seating in a prototype for a possible high end collectorñs item... the Enterprise command chair!

The Empire State Builing and the begining of the storm.

Times Square, home to the biggest Toys´r us in the world.

And here it is the GIJoe section.

My loot.

Preview to what´s coming the next morning.

This rigsite is built in an area where a protected species of frog lives. They should be hibernating 1 meter underground, but the noise and vibration from the rig may disturbe them. If we start seeing many, and specially, if we start smashing them, the rig will be shut down by the authorities, or that is what they say. Anyway, I was the first on to spot one, last night, and I took it and took it to safety outside of the rig, where only the storks can it it! Here you have a photo of that special limited edition frog.

A Cool cat I saw this morning when we went to Alkmaar to do some shopping.

I had some time this morning and went out to sea the beach. In the way over I saw this cool garden in one of the appartments next to the shore line. The cats climbing up the balcony are cool.
Then I reached the sea, but I did not see much because of the fog. Maybe tomorrow I will ask MiguelMan to blow the fog away with his super breath.

The rig I am working in now is in the dutch city of Alkmaar. This is the most important building in town, the local coffe shop... well, one of them. I will show you the rig a little later, but it is quite far from the center.

And look who came for a visit! MiguelMan! He will not demonstrate his super powers today, but promised to do it in another ocasion. Thanks for stopping by, MiguelMan!

I saw this guy today nex to the rig, in a little channel that was half frozen yesterday. I think it was fishing frogs. Tehre is a particular kind of frog around here that is protected. We are not allowed to smash them. The goverment will make checks and if they find too many dead frogs they will close down the well.

Estoy bastante harto de las chorradas religiosas, la verdad. Las que sean, no hago diferencias. Los dirigentes religiosos son como los fumadores. Exigen respeto absoluto a sus creencias por parte de todo el mundo, pero luego no ofrecen en contrapartida ningún tipo de respeto a los derechos de las demás personas, como el derecho a no respirar humo venenoso o el derecho a la libertad de expresión. O al menos el derecho a no tener que escuchar su basura todo el tiempo, sin ir más lejos.
Me cabrea muchísimo que todo lo que tienen que hacer es acogerse a la “religión” para estar por encima de la ley. Un periódico publica unas caricaturas de Mahoma, y eso está mal. Llamar a que la gente se manifieste quemando banderas está bien. Pues que les den. Ya no estamos en la edad media. Ahora hay reglas nuevas, tíos. En el año 2006 está dentro de la ley decir lo que te parezca en un periódico, al menos en el mundo civilizado. Así que veamos, según el Corán, no se permite hacer dibujos del profeta, ¿verdad? Hasta aquí bien. De acuerdo con el mismo libro, está permitido hacerse saltar por los aires en una “batalla” mientras que te lleves por delante a tantos enemigos como puedas, sin importar el “daño colateral”... bueno, seguramente me equivoco, porque no me he leído el Corán. Lo empecé, pero me aburría tanto que me dormí. Oh, perdón, que a lo mejor no se permite decir que EL Libro es aburrido. Oye, que como ya he dicho no hago distinciones, la Biblia es un puto rollo. Tendrían que hacer unas versiones de “Ultimates” de los dos libros a ver si conseguían lectores nuevos.
Se escucha mucho en los medios de comunicación acerca de las diferentes interpretaciones del Corán que tienen las distintas comunidades, y que por eso algunas personas ven como aceptable los terroristas suicidas, y otros no.
Dejad que os cuente lo que he visto con mis propios ojos. Cuando trabajé en Rusia el año pasado, la tripulación e la plataforma eran musulmanes de Indonesia. Creían que para limpiarse después de visitar el servicio, es pecado hacerlo con la mano derecha, y usando papel higiénico, así que en el proceso sólo utilizaban agua, su mano izquierda, las paredes del cubículo del servicio, el suelo, el asiento de la taza... Tenían un casco de obrero vacío al lado de la taza, lleno de agua, y se limpiaban las manos en el agua después de limpiarse el culo con la mano izquierda, y para limpiarse el resto del “producto” de la mano “impura”, usaban la pared y los demás elementos antes mencionados. ¿Eso lo hacen todos los musulmanes? ¿Puede decirme alguien en qué parte del Corán dice “Te limpiarás el culo con un casco y la pared del Váter”?
Pero por favor, querido lector musulmán, no creas que sólo hablo de vosotros. Dejad que diga algo de los católico, por favor.
Mi amiga Yoli se quejó el otro día porque un cura le echó la bronca por entrar en camiseta a una iglesia, por ser indecente.
Bueno, veamos como va esto. En la Biblia debe haber un oscuro pasaje en alguna parte, del que nosotros los meros mortales no hemos oído hablar, que dice: No llevarás camiseta a la iglesia, pero si violas a niños pequeños durante años, !!!puedes ser miembro de la iglesia y hasta ser sacerdote y oficiar misa!!!
Estos cabrones católicos no soportan el hecho de que están perdiendo poder lenta pero gradualmente, y por eso se han vuelto tan agresivos (con sus amigos peperos) al intentar imponer sus creencias ridículas, antiguas y fascistas, en la sociedad; como el no permitir que se casen los gays, que los divorciados se vuelvan a casar o que se usen condones.
Me gustaría ver un folleto de promoción de la iglesia católica, imagino que dirá algo así:

Hazte cura... Únete a nosotros y disfruta de libertad absoluta e impune para penetrar analmente a niños pequeños. Recuerda, ¡el sexo anal sólo es pecado fuera de la orden!

Bueno, gracias a todos los que hayáis leído hasta el final, que creo que sólo serán los que se hayan sentido ofendidos por mis palabras.

I am sick and tired of religious bullshit. Any religious bullshit, I make no difference at all. Religious leaders are like smokers. They demand absolute respect to their beliefs from everybody, but offer no respect whatsoever to other people’s rights, like the right not to breathe poisonous smoke, or the right to exert freedom of speech. Or at least the right not to have to listen to their crap all the time, for that matter.
It really pisses me off that all they have to do is claim “religion” and they can be above the law. A newspaper publishes a cartoon about Mohammed, and that is wrong. They call out for people to demonstrate burning flags and that is right. Well, screw that. This is not the middle ages anymore. There are new rules in the game, buddies. In the year 2006, it is within the law to say what you want in a newspaper, at least in the civilized world.
So, let me see. According to the Coran, it is not allowed to make drawings of the Profet, right? Fine so far. According to the same book it is lawful to blow yourself up in “battle” as long as you take as many enemies with you as you can, regardless the “collateral damage”… well, I am probably wrong, because I have not read the Coran. I started, but it was so boring I fell asleep. Oh, sorry, maybe it is not allowed to say THE book is boring. Hey, as I said I make no distinctions, the Bible is fucking boring too. They should make an “Ultimates” version of those books to get new readers.
We hear on the media much about the different interpretations of the Coran in the different communities, that is why some people see as acceptable suicide bombing, for example, and other people don’t.
Let me tell you about what I have seen with my own eyes. When I worked in Russia last year, the rig crew were muslims from Indonesia. They believed that to clean themselves after a visit to the toilet, it is sinful to do it with the right hand, and using toilet paper, hence in that process they only used water, their hands, the walls of the toilet booths, the floor, the toilet seat… They had an empty helmet next to the toilet bowl, full of water, and they cleaned their hands in that water after wiping their asses, and then in order to clean out their own produce from their “impure” hand, they used the wall and other elements mentioned above. Do all muslims do that? Can anyone tell me in which part of the Coran says “Thou shalt wipe thy ass with a helmet and the toilet wall”.
But please, dear muslim readers, don’t think I only speak about you. Let me say something about catholics too, if you please.
My friend Yoli complained the other day that a priest lectured her for going into a church wearing a short sleeved t-shirt for being indecent.
So, let me see how this works. In the Bible there must be an obscure passage that we, mere mortals have never heard of in which it says: Thou shatl not wear a t-shirt in church, but if you rape little children for years, you are welcome to be part of our church and even be a priest and conduct mass!!!
These catholic bastards cannot stand the fact that slowly but gradually are loosing power, and that is why they have become so aggressive when trying to impose their ridiculous, ancient and fascist beliefs in society, like reducing people’s freedom by not letting gays marry, not allowing divorced people to re-marry, not allowing the use of condoms.
I would love to have a recuitment flyer from the Catholic church. I imagine they probably say something like this:

Become a priest… Join us and you will enjoy complete unpunished freedom to penetrate analy little children. Remember, anal sex is sin outside of the order!
Ok, this is too long already, I doubt much people has read all of it. I think the only ones who would are the ones who feel offended by my words. That would be cool.

Well, it seems like I made it to Holland. I was lucky and I got a good seat at the plane. Flights were overbooked this morning, even if it was so early, and people was accepting some extreme ways of traveling in order to get home…

So, here is me, in the middle of my frantic activity again, just expecting MiguelMan to pop in the unit any minute now.

My next hitch will not be offshore but to a landrig in Holland, near the town of Alkmaar. I was supposed to travel today but it has been postponed until tomorrow, so while I wait, I will show you some of my last purchases on Ebay. I have note received any of them yet. They are really cool orders.
Orders of Maternal Glory 3rd class, awarded to mothers bearing 7 children, 2nd class, for mothers bearing more than 8 children, and 1st class, for bearers of 9. If you had more than 10 you were awarded the order of Mother Heroine, which I don´t have because it is very expensive.


Medals for 10, 15 and 20 years of Irreprochable Service in the Armed Forces of URRS. All these six medals and orders I bought from a seller in Latvia.

This is the medal for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Militzia (Police) With the accompanying document. This is from a seller in Ukraine.

Then I got this Order of The Great PAtriotic War 2nd Class with Document. A little more expensive than I expected to pay, to be honest. The seller could not give me a better photo or description of the medal, but for the low serial number and the booklet it looks to me like a Type 2, version 3 of the 4th release, produced between June and August 1945. Do I sound like a geek now?

If it is, with the matching document then I will be very happy. If not, well... some interested in buying it? It will be very interesting to see what other medals or orders appear in the booklet.