Mission statement

It’s a review free day so it’s a good moment to see where we are and what we are about.

Something that they don’t tell us at school is that to learn something, to really learn it, we simply have to do it, over and over again, till we are good at it. Therefore when I realized that I was terrible at writing in English, and I still am by the way, I decided that I had to exercise.

But why write on a public blog I can hear you ask? It’s because of the funny ways my mind work. See I have problems with exercising for the sake of exercising, I hate running the treadmill and stuff like that. I’m perfectly fine with walking 10 miles to get somewhere but if I have to do it while standing still and watching the wall I fell like slashing my wrists.

I learned to drive in the last few years. I already had a driving license of course but that is just the start of course. I could drive around the block for one hour every day but it would have been retarted. Instead I started driving my girlfriend to work every day, in the morning and in the evening. Obviously I was also trying to be nice but I also needed an excuse to drive regularly. So 20 minutes in the morning, another 20 in the evening is 40 minute a day, 200 a week, 10400 minutes or 173 hours a year minimum of training.

Yes, I got better at driving, even if I think that I can still improve myself.

So back to the writing, I could have done it in my private spaces but again, I need an objective, a purpose, I needed to do something and so here is the blog where any random person could stumble guided by the mysterious hand of google. *waves hand

For now I’ll try to continue with this timetable of updates, posting a review of something daily for the foreseeable future. Then when, and if, I get better maybe we’ll move to something else, only time will tell.

See you tomorrow with more stuff.

The terrible first post

The terrible first post.

Certainly is an act of Hubris to start a blog. By definition you presume that you will be writing something worth reading.

I also decided to write in English, to better my writing in that language. Because I’m not English but I’ve been living for a year in an English speaking country.

So to write something worthwhile in a different language. We’ll see where I’ll get.

Back to the terrible first post.

What prompted me to start this?

The one and only Neil Gaiman.

I love his comics, his books, everything that he’s been doing. I like so much what he does that is difficult for me to express it in a reasonable way. Maybe this is a good topic for another post.

Anyway Gaiman has been writing a blog for years. When questioned about this he answered that for him is like stretching is writing muscles before starting the actual writing and that when it will become an obligation he will stop it.

This is very cool and I think he is right. Practice makes perfect but I can’t start by writing “The divine comedy”, I must first heat up.

The other day he was in Edinburgh for the book festival. Being myself I was too late for the tickets of his talk with Ian Rankin. I thought that I could meet him afterward and get a book signed but the girls in the signing tent told me that I could have a signed copy only after the people with a ticket. This was meaning many hours of queue.

I was dejected but while I was going away I caught a glimpse of the man himself entering the event tent. He even smiled in my direction but before I could even wave my hand he had to enter.

So here I am because if I don’t do this thing now after seeing Neil Gaiman in person I’ll never do it and I’m not ready to give up my dreams.

So long