Well, one more day and it will be over. End of holidays.

It’s not been bad, after all. Two weeks of Paris, one more scuba diving license, a weekend at the beach doing the dives, a visit to Salamanca and Valladolid, some going out, a lot of sleeping… some boredom…

And maybe, just maybe, some more diving this weekend.

Yes, I know I’m posting next to nothing. That I’ve got posts pending regarding all of the above and a lot of photos to show. But leave me alone, I’m in procrastination mode these days… I’ll do it! But for now I’m happy with watching the first episodes of Battlestar Galactica (very good, btw) and buying lustful toys.

I’ll be posting really soon, mmmmmkay?

Update: La Herradura this weekend. Go dive!

These last days I’ve been using Youtube just to search for music videos I used to love 15 years ago, when I was in my teens. By then, my musical tastes were focused in heavy metal; Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Helloween, Metallica, Anthrax and later on more radical speed and death metal like Slayer.

Anyway; there’s so much you can find on Youtube from that era… and I finally remembered a video I used to watch over and over again, from the full lenght concert Judas Priest tour in 1986, called Priest… Live!

It’s a song called Hell Bent for Leather that’s included at the end of the concert, made from a lot of images edited from the full concert. I think it’s awesome. My VHS tape is faded from the amount of times I watched this one.

Enjoy. (Or not, of course).

Other videos from that time that I love:

God Blessed Video (Alcatrazz) (Genuinely funny!!!)

I Want Out (Helloween) (very funny too)

Pour Some Sugar on Me (Def Leppard) (Yes, the drummer’s got just one arm)

Anarchy in the U.K. (Megadeth) (Yeah, I know it’s a Sex Pistols cover. Sorry for the bad quality of the vid)

One (Metallica) (Impressive one, btw. Truly a must-see)

Thunderstruck (AC/DC) (Where’s the Guitar Hero people looking for songs??)

Being at the equator of my holidays, things seem to be going well after all.

On Wednesday I’ll be taking the theory lessons to complete the Advanced Open Water Diver course, and on Friday I’ll be traveling to Mazarron with a friend to make the corresponding adventure dives during the weekend (which I hope will be Navigation, Deep (40 meters), Nocturnal, Wrecked Ships and Nitrox).

Can’t wait.

Now all I need is something to fill up the days from August 21th to August 31th. Suggestions and invitations are welcome.

I’m back.

And now I have to get used to my good old qwerty keyboard. Almost two weeks typing in azerty and now I am changing ‘a’ for ‘q’ and ‘ñ’ for ‘m’ all the time.

Sigh.

P.D. Entries about Paris, Disneyland, etc. coming soon. There’s just too much to tell.

I’ve liked b&w photography from long ago, but I rarely take any.

So, following counsel… here’s two I took today. As before, no cropping or retouching (not that I have tools here, anyway).

A pic at the Gardens of Luxembourg, making use of the full 12x zoom of the S3-IS and auto high ISO.

And another one… guess where.

It’s been four days already, and even though I don’t feel like writing a long post (mainly because I don’t have time and because writing with this AZERTY keyboard is a royal pain in the ass) I think it’s time to post a few photos.

However, posting the typical photos is something I don’t want to do. Everybody has seen photos of the Eiffel Tower. Instead, I will post a few of those weird ones I like to take. As a good obsessive-compulsive guy that I am, you will notice I like patterns, symetry, etc.

All images original, no retouching or cropping. Only reduced from 6 to 2 megapixels and added compressed to reduce bandwidth usage. Best seen full screen.

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