Category: Live from Android
Ant-lobster
Done
Five years of cooperation squeezed into a 30 page document. I’m taking a lot of lessons learned out of this experience, new insights on work efficiency, hours of Spanish to English translation, a profound aversion towards copy pasted text, and quite a bit of satisfaction – I’m officially done writing this report, and it turned out beautiful!
Dank u wel.
Part 2
Look at Orion!
The office is empty during half of the day today as well, so I’m working from home and spending time with my little speaker. By noon I will be meeting up with the rest of the office for lunch and then return to business as usual. I think I’m starting to get a hold of this work-life balance thing by the way.
Working from home has been a real pleasure, the air that was cleansed by the pouring rain yesterday and during the night has today been warmed up by the sun from a cloudless sky. As a huge bonus, Bibio just released a new album this month. Silver Wilkinson is England-based Bibio’s sixth album, released under Warp Records – and I feel it’s turning away a bit from the unpredictable electro and hip hop sampling I’m used to, and moving closer to a song-based folk-electronica feel in many of the tracks. It’s still deep though, still dreamy, and still intelligent, so while I’m not sure of whether I’m loving Silver Wilkinson the way I loved Mind Bokeh in 2011 it really doesn’t matter – Bibio is back and I’m happy about it.
Being able to do this, to really listen to and being inspired by an album while working, is a luxury in itself that I only realize now I have been missing.
I haven’t listened the album through completely yet, but here’s a tune that caught my mind:
Bibio – Look at Orion!
Silver Wilkinson (2013)
La office :)
Oh Managua, why so mean?
I woke up early today to do my laundry before work. I could walk the four minutes it takes to get to my landlady’s house and pay the cleaning lady 3USD to wash my things in a washing machine, like most people do here, but I just don’t bother calling her and having to wait for my things.
Also, frankly, washing by hand and ironing are things I really enjoy doing. They are kind of like meditation – calm, detached and putting me in a state where I can’t occupy myself with other things and have to resign to thinking of nothing.
So I asked my landlady to hang some cords in my patio so that I could wash by hand and let my laundry dry in the sun – it takes only a couple of hours in this weather and has been a perfect solution where everything is dry when I get home from work.
Today, however, Managua suddenly decided that rain would be a splendid idea. My laundry couldn’t have agreed less.
At least the city smells beautifully now. I will open my windows, relax, light a candle and play La Femme D’Argent by Air to accompany the rain.
