Spain, Day 24

Andres has no internet. He has to use the hotel computer. Everything is in Spanish. The keyboard is too. Now he can do awesome things like this: ñ¿çÇǨ´+^++ºª\º.

Actually, it occasionally frustrates him when certain letters and characters are not in their proper place. Also, this Computer uses Internet Explorer, which means no spell check. Oh Mozilla, ::sigh::

Furthermore, this means no picture uploading (because he is too lazy to drag the USB cable from his room, and also does not wish to upload his pictures onto a foreign computer). Also, the unpredictable computer access suggests that it is highly probable that there will not be daily updates. Instead, Andres may have to take up napping during nap time, since reading NYTimes, playing with the blog, and checking facebook were how he occupied his time when Spain shut down [editor´s note: Friday may or may not have included a three-hour (or longer) nap, which recasts the Thursday afternoon ¨pass-out¨(c. 1.5 hours) as more of a cat-nap. Thankfully, Saturday has been nap-free.].

Of course, anal Andres cannot bear a disturbance in his perfect sequence, so chances are that even if the blog is not updated daily, every day will be accounted for, if only to avoid going straight from Day 23 to Day 25, as he was close to doing today.

Now, to conclude this act with a final trick, Andres will produce the elusive ¨@¨that so often eldues him on foreign computers (he is not even going to bother trying to figure out how to delete the above hyperlink, seeing as how he cannot even imagine how to say ¨hyperlink¨in Spanish...).

Adeu

p.s. Daniel Barenboim and lang lang (asian, can you tell?) are in town, but Andres didn´t bring appropriate clothing to attend their concert, and he is much saddened. He is tempted to shop for some but would rather spend that money on food. Thankfully, he has seen both musicians perform sufficiently.