Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Tornados in Milwaukee!

I was in the lab grinding salvia divinorum leaves, when I heard on the radio the warning alert system, I used to hear it in Mexico as a test, but never for a real situation.

This time was different and they were broadcasting a tornado alert, very close to our place to not to worry.

Fortunately my boss was here and I asked him about the possibility of a tornado in this area. He just answered:

"Umm... between summer and winter we have a lot of tornadoes in Wisconsin"

and I was like:

"What?!!"

Then he said:

"I didn't want to tell you this before because you probably wouldn't come to Wisconsin, but don't worry, tornadoes usually kill around 50 people a year"

Am I supposed to be relieved by that?

I barely squeezed through the H1N1 flu to be here and be killed by a tornado?

Come on!!

Any comments would be appreciated, specially on how to make a tornado-proof shelter.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Salvia in Wisconsin.

Hello, I'm back! You're surprised aren't you? You didn't expect me to return again this day, but I did.

I'm in Milwaukee working with salvia now, and I'll talk about this in later posts, but this one is to tell you about my flight experience.

I've never flown before and I was excited about the experience, that's why I asked for window seats. But unfortunately, as I told you in a former post, I didn't make it on time, and they put me as stand-by passenger, without the possibility of choice my one seat number.

My bad luck didn't end there, because I got the seat between the window and the aisle, that also means to be between 2 persons, they were both women.

And as the travel was with one stop in Atlanta to change airplanes, I also had to go in the middle seat, surrounded by, again, 2 women, (not complaining).

I thought that the take-off was going to be the hardest part, but it wasn't, just the taxiing was a little shaky.

Being in the air was pleasant and I could see a little bit through the window Los Angeles night lights. I was impressed, and I was like a kid looking the sea for the first time.

All the time while in the air was smooth and quiet, and being my first flight, that helps my confidence in airplanes.

It was an excellent experience, I hope is not the last.

Now I'm here preparing the salvia that you may be using in the future.

Have a great week, please leave some comments.

Back and busier with salvia extracts.

After exactly 1 month, I'm back by popular demand, now I'm busier than before, now I know how to do salvia extracts and I'm in charge of it.

I can tell why our products are above the average (to say the least) because our production system and lab equipment ensures the highest quality on salvia extracts.

My boss was being humble (which is rare) when talking about the double filtration methode, in fact there's more than that.

I won't go into much detail because we don't want to be copied, but what I can tell you this is profesional grade manufacturing.

My boss is planning to get new equipment to withstand the demand for salvia extracts and ensure that no order gets delayed.

Please leave your comments, I know you missed me, I missed you too.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

My journey to LAX

Well, I was excited to get the first plane flight of my life, but the excitement didn't last much when I realized that I was late to get to LAX.

This is the chronicle:

I woke up at 5 am, because I needed to check if the money I was waiting for was already available at the ATM. With the coincidence that my sister wakes up at that hour to move her car, for another car to go out of the garage. She offered that I drive there instead of taking the bus and come back. So I gladly accepted, it was fast, and the money was there.

Til then, everything was ok, but then everything changed, but in little amounts of time, I have to set clear that there's no other person responsible about what happened than me.

My sister offered herself to give me a ride to the border, which I also accepted, because it'd save me a lot of time, unfortunately, I forgot that ladies don't go out anywhere looking like they just woke up. So she took a bath, I can credit her that she did it fast enough. But then she wanted to pass for her friend because she didn't know how to get to the border.

But guess what! the guy had to take a shower also, and we have to wait for him around 20 mins, it was early enough anyway, but her friend proposed that I should not go without having a breakfast, and then I started hesitating about my time. Unfortunately I make some calculations and I ended thinking that I had enough time to get to the LAX on time.

All this was taking away all the time ahead I had, so slowly, that I didn't realize when it was 9 AM already, even so I thought it was enough time to get to my destination.

Crossed the border, bought the bus ticket to LA, and it went out at 9 30, the lady on the counter said that the bus would take 3 hours to get there, so that would be 12 30 right? Maths don't fail!

Well, they did. It was the traffic hour on the freeway number 5 and it delayed the bus enough to get me desperate, so I thought on a plan B, to get off the bus on Santa Ana station, which also is a train station, to get the metrolink and get to Union Station ( the place where the buses going to LAX depart ) in no time.

So I told the driver that I wanted my luggage because I was staying in Santa Ana, the guy asked me: "are you sure?" I said "yes" and I went to the ticket screen to check what time the next metrolink would depart. It said that the next one would depart 3 hours from that time. I thought: "Damn!" So I checked the Amtrak schedule, which is a little more expensive but it passes more frequently, but the next one was going to leave at 12 30 arriving to Union Station at 1:30. So from plan B, I had to go back to plan A, and I went back to the bus, that fortunately for me, stays 10 mins on every station, so, I did all of the above in less than 10 mins.

I asked the driver if I could go back in, he said that it was ok, he asked what happened, I explained to him that I wanted to reach to the airport the fastest possible, he told me that he could leave me 5 blocks away from Union Station, that he would let me know where.

The problem was that the freeway 5 traffic was heavy, it slowed us too much, as agreed, the driver told me: "this is it, take that street, 5 blocks to the right, and you'll see Union Station"

It was nearly 1 PM when this happened, I arrived to Union Station around 1:15, and the next bus to the airport was leaving at 1:30, my plane was going to take off at 1:50.

So, no chance to get there on time. I got the the airport check-in around 2:10.

With all the shame in the world I showed my printed receipt to the lady in charge and she said that they won't have any planes until 10:30 which is the one I'm waiting for here at the LAX.

I'll let you know some other things I saw here, if other situation, this would've been fun specially with salvia extracts.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

My DL problem.

I'm sorry! I'm gonna start this subject again, and I don't care what you say.

The lack of response from the DMV to solve my driver license problem has a glimpse of discrimination, I sorry to pop up that subject but the repeated cases where I wanted a clear explanation with no results drove me to this matter.

I'm not saying that the whole country is discriminatory, not even a certain part of the population, I'll go directly on some of the public servers that treated me with no ethics nor patience.

I guess they think that if they delay or manage to avoid the delivery of that card would be a good for their fellows citizens. That I will go back to my country or at least make harder my chances to success in the US, allowing with this to some real Americans to get a job.

Nothing more far from the truth, the problem with this is that you already have a problem, you have that guy in your country, and if he's prone to commit an ID theft, what else wouldn't he do? Is that protection to your fellows?

In the other hand, if I've already fixed this problem, that guy would be in jail sooner or later, right after he's caught by the police he'll be identified as the author of an ID theft crime and he would be in jail for a longer time, and perharps even deported.

If you want in your country an illegal guy, who's gonna keep doing DUI and ID thefts instead of a person who went to your Embassy to get a Visa, then to the border to get the I-94, then to the DMV for a DL to abide American laws, so be it.

Meanwhile I'll buy salvia extracts and relax from all this nonsense.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

I dreamed I ...

I had a dream about a month ago. I dreamed something unusual.

I was fixing the front cover of the old air conditioner in my room, it fell almost every day, so I decided to put it back.

But I wasn´t wearing any shoes, the floor was wet and the a/c was connected and working. I tried to pull the cable away from the wall, to avoid any electrical shock.

But then my girlfriend stomp in the room screamming: "What happened?" "Why..."

I answered without looking at her: "Is nothing, I was just..." I didn´t finish that phrase when I hear my girlfriend sobbing and crying.

I had to turn around and I saw her right by my side hugging a dead body on the floor. It was my dead body.

But instead of asking myself what or how this happenned, I started yelling: "Damn! Why did I had to leave her! How could I be so stupid and reckless with the a/c!" "I´m dead, and I left her alone, how stupid I am"

Meanwhile, in the room everything was moving in fast forward motion, I saw that the fire man entered took out my body, the sun was going down pretty quickly until it stationed in an angle that gave a sense of an eternal crepuscle inside the room.

And I staid in that same place in front of the a/c punishing myself with remorse and phrases by being such a stupid boyfriend, dying so early with so many future plans.

I don´t know how weird this sounds, but I guess this is better than being under Salvia Divinorum effects.

If you have any comments, please let me know.

Sorry for the lack of logos, I don´t know what kind of prob this pc has, so I had to leave it like this.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Our page is #1 in Google with: "Flavored Salvia Extracts"

It's been a long time since I haven't talked about my job on SEO, it's time for an update.

This is a great news, but not for my boss. Our page is # 1 in Google and MSN with one keyword, but the funny thing is that I haven't done anything to place it in that rank.

That keyword is: "Flavored Salvia Extracts" I guess that this is a result from my on-site SEO, but I can't be completely sure, because if this were the reason, I would've adapted all the other keywords to my on-site strategy.

I said that my boss is not as happy because he wants our web site to be # 1 in every main keyword, which I failed to do, but we're on the first page for most of them and that's a fairly good job for someone without SEO experience.

If you have any comments, please let me know. I'll be glad to answer any of your questions.

Have a great weekend.