you have to be out on the street

Disclaimer no this will not turn into a diary it’s just that this particular event should be told as one.

Dear diary (hehehe sorry I had to)

I believe it was tuesday went a friend of my mother call me and she said she needed a favor (background detail I’m from Costa Rica and live in Dominican Republic), it turns out her id expired and they ask her to bring two Costaricans to prove that the id is her, this is the kind of thing that needs it’s own post ummm I can write an entire blog about burocratic BS…

So I get to the embassy at 8:30 am and she is already there and we are waiting for the consul and the other witness, they arrive almost together so we went up all together talking.

We sit on the waiting room and my mother’s friend introduces us, so the witness asks what you do, and I reply I’m a software engineer I work at X and do Y,Z,etc. while I’m talking I notice the guy gets really interested (I though he was an economist or something) and I wasn’t really sure if it was anything other then a filler conversation. On the other hand the consul is still listening ones she realized I know about computers she did what all mortals do, hey I have a problem with my machine ….

The economists says I’m a software consultant, and I said to myself see that’s why you shouldn’t say things like “and then you plug the Java Sockets API into the RAM chips and the CPU will be overclocked at 4Gigabytes of storage”, I have a friend who loves to say stuff like that so mere mortal will go “ohhhhh”. Then the consul comes by look my skype is not working I let him (the consultant) know that I’m more interested in him then her (consul) and ask her to give me just a minute.
I’m sitting at the consul’s desk, the problem with skype was a weird tooltip on her spanish version, or at least that’s the best I could find.

I got the consultant’s number the guy is really interested in having me as a contact maybe he will never give me a job because I don’t do .net, but as one scene in this great movie says: (this is not exact, and since the movie is in spanish… by the way there is a copy of it in english

Marcos and Juan are in front of a lot of argentinan pesos (I believe it was the equivalent of 1 million dollars (fake money of course they are con artist))
Marcos: (takes a pack of bills) will you sleep with a guy for 10000 lucas (lucas = pesos in argentina’s popular culture)
Juan: No
Marcos: (takes another pack of bills) will you give him a blow job for 20000 lucas
Juan: No, are you crazy??
Marcos: (taking 2 packs) how about sleeping with him for 40000?
Juan : No, I won’t
Marcos: (taking a bunch of them) 100000 lucas
small pause….
Juan: NO
Marcos: (taking half the money) 1 million lucas
big pause…
Marcos: See it’s not that they aren’t enough faggets in the world it’s just that there isn’t enough money to pay them all.
So this huge quote means that I do .net

Back to the issue, all the paper work is done I say good bye to them all I have a paper folded in 4
2 halfs of blank 2 with numbers, one of the filled says to me small country’s embasy in another small country, cheap maintenance deal and lots of referals, the other filled one says to me international contact and a possible way home…

all this made me realize something that some people had told me but I never experience it myself

“you have to be out on the street”

by the end of the day I had only one blank and I spend 9 hours at work, what will happen if I didn’t?