20110228

3 years! - part one of two

Hydrate or Dry... Or Die!
Hurray, Jorgex's MTB points of view reached the 3rd year!

Today I did not pedal. I went to the local cinema house and watched 127 Hours with a couple of friends. They laugh about it because the main character uses a camelbak or a camel bladder just like me! Yes, Jorgex goes to work with The Don 2010 from camelbak.

The Don is far from perfect, however it does carry lots of useless stuff like:
  • 3L of H2O
  • Nokian N78 cellphone
  • Wallet
  • Smart Wallet (Lezine tire levers, Topeak Mini 18+ and a Leatherman)
  • MacBook Pro 13.4"
  • WB external something 3.5" 2TB (on week end) or a 16GB pen drive (during week days)
  • Interweb from Vodafone
  • Deoderant
  • ZON paper work
  • ZON neck leash - wasabi color
  • 2 notebooks
  • 3 pens (2 blue and 1 black)
  • 4 chains (Wippermann and a Rohloff S-L-T 99)
  • Buff, cap and a black mountain bike rain coat from AGU
  • Wallkman 1060X, USB cable and AKG Q350
  • ZON's Stress Ball (super useful before, during and after customer phone call)
  • 1 or 2 Ramen to dinner at work, with 1 bowl and a fork
  • 1 orange/mango juice
  • Power bars
  • Always carry one magazine like MBR, TopGear or portuguese mags like Exame Informática (to outsmart/retain ZON clients), Visão.
  • Home keys

In the end, I carry to many things inside The Don. It's a well made frameless pack. By the way, The Don is very stable when the bladder is full (of water or air)... I forget what I was thinking.

Anyway, my friends and colleagues from work are starting to understand the way of Jorgex. (^_^")

P.S. - Unlike the main caracter from 127 Hours, I hear crappier music. Recently I start hearing Rhapsody, Death and Blood Stain Child. I'm a sucker for metal.

20101229

Humans are among us

Usually my nickname is Jorgex, but at work I'm TeleJójó!

20101217

Christmas

Guess what, it's Christmas time. Time to get your presents lists ready to dispatch to old Santy Claus over on the North and get ready for the new year approaching. We wish you all the best gifts possible, let all of us get merry round-shaped presents, cardboard boxes from CRC and the like and then start enjoying all the new kits, parts and gizmos for 2011.

Merry X-Mas everyone!

20101214

Crappy life...

In the end of the day, this is my life:
Poor Sushi and I...
I'm a few inches away from poorness. The only kind of work I do/find is telemarketing and I receive 2.5€ per hour, which is very low to survive in Portugal. By the way, I'm living in a friend's room. I can't rent my own apartment!

I worked many years as collaborator in windsurf events (national and international), 1 year in an atelier doing serigraphy (does this work exists in english?), 2 months in Decathlon (cycling department) as salesman/mechanic assistance, 4 months in telemarketing doing inbound (selling snail slime, reader's digest, herbs/teas, ear devices for two companies, plus outbound in ZON in prospect department (selling ZON cable tv for people that never had cable tv or had the competition) and right now I'm in retention department (holding back our clients). 


Although, ZON offers the best TV, Phone and Interweb services, the portuguese population thinks that the competition is best when ZON was the lowest prices and most benefits. How can I fight against old people that are with PT phone for 30 or more years and PT (MEO/Sapo/TMN) offers a very basic 3 play services? It's very hard to convince this people. There is a moral code that once a portuguese sign a contract, they are loyal to the end.


I also work a lot with Adobe Acrobat CS4 and PhotoShop CS4. I do a few things in Illustrator CS4 and I dominate MS Office 2007 and MS Office 2008 (Mac), yet no one want's this photoshop services.


Did I tell you that I'm a finalist in Materials Engineering? (O_O)


Life is unbearable in Portugal and IMF is coming in March 2011...


I have an empty life. :(