Alcides Fonseca

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The geek leaves his basement for 45 minutes.

For some months now, I spent all afternoons (weekends and holidays included) in school with the guys working in school assignments. And when I’m not there, I’m home working in my basement like every decent geek

Well, haven’t been off home/school for a couple of weeks, I decided to get out a bit and went with my parents to the local shopping. Halfway my dad asked me to come back and lock the door with his key (since I forgot mine). I did it and even got there before they did.

Suprisingly, it was almost empty, weird for this time of the year. Any explanation, or people just flocked to the “most-recent” shopping? I did what I had to do there2 and went home.

I decided to stop by the bookshop on my way home. I’m somewhat demanding towards bookshops. I usually buy books in any of two Bertrand shops near me, where I find instantly everything I want, and sometimes in FNAC where shelves are not exactly how I like, but I manage to find what I want after a bit. But in this one, Almedina, I couldn’t find the book I was looking for. (Yeah, I know where to look, and how to search for the book, but I didn’t had luck.) And I wanted to take a look at Visão mag3 but they had any. I’m really exquisite in this matter, and I have to stick to my current preference, or try the new online shop. Any review after the first week?

Well, all of this was the first 15-20 minutes of the 45. Where did I spent the rest? Ouside my house, since I didn’t have my keys with me, and forgot to ask my dad’s which I used minutes ago to lock it. Dumbass! Luckily I had a fantastic PDA with wireless, but it only lasted for 5 minutes since I forgot to charge it last night. At least I played solitaire till my sister arrived.

Outcomes of this journey to the outside world:

  • Don’t forget your keys, ever!
  • Don’t forget to charge the handy gadgets like phones, music players
  • Get out more! Really!

1 Well, for those without a basement, an attic is also ok. Since that’s what I’m getting in my new house.

2 Actually I went there to activate the internet/tv/phone service to the new home. After a one week delay from Clix, I went for MEO

3 I heard there’s a twitter article coming up ;)