O hai guise, this is Dijo, in my last English-Only article of the year.
It’s been a nice, nice year after all. I’ve translated songs, made videos, cooked and posted recipes, had a new dog, had a nice birthday, built a small computer, began my Amazon’s store and got money from Google Adsense. I guess I should start from the very beginning.
I started this blog a year and nine months ago, when I had the chance to spend six months in Vancouver, BC, to improve my English. I did improve, a lot, actually, so I can finally speak and write fluently in this awful language. What, did you expect me to say English is a beautiful language? English sucks! It’s true, but so does every other language in the world, so what? Anyway, I started this blog so my family could follow my adventures. I expected this to be a short-lived blog, kind of a private journal. During that time it was a journal. However, it suddendly had people following my adventures, people that wasn’t part of my family. When I retuned, triumphant, from Canada, I wanted to kill the blog. After all, I didn’t need it anymore. Buy my followers convinced me to continue. So I kinda killed my old dramatis personae and got a new one, both avatar and blog. I was expecting it to be another short-lived blog, yet, somehow, people started pouring even faster and money started to roll into my Adsense account. So I chose to get a third season, this one.
I had to do something different for the season. I decided to start a few experiments so I could chose which ones should work better, and Batchat and Filler were the most succesful ones, despite being the most awful. The Batchat shows Batman and Joker discussing serious business. Or at least discussing: usually Batman says something, Joker replies and Batman ends with an awful joke or a non-sequitur. Filler just says child jokes to an adult audience. Both comics are so bad they’re good, at least according to my, let’s say, “customers”. I don’t know if I will continue showcasing Batchats and Filler, their format is so constraint and difficult that I have problems to get new “jokes” that work for them. If I could draw I’d have no problems, but I can’t.
Anyway, let’s move on. I just recently started writing in English. I tried to start another blog, in English, but, alas, I had lots of things to do and it was very difficult to do so. Because I wanted to mantain a daily posting frecuency, and thinking of different things at the same time it was very difficult. I solved this a couple months ago with this one. I could write this every Saturday or Sunday, instead of my Saturday or Sunday post. This proved to be easier, because I could just write a summary of the previous week or the theme I was saving for the day. As a matter of fact, I like writing in English, so I will continue doing this for the following year. I’ll continue writing in English as Dijo for the next year, while in Spanish my dramatis personae will change. Who he will be? I don’t know, and it’s just two days from today.
Anyway, I hope I could sustain and mantain this rhytm in 2009. I need to pay all my debts and start my business, whom officially I will start on the Second of January, and if I save enough money I’ll go to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympic Games by March, 2010. I hope this year will be my year; it’s been 7 years of bad luck and I’ve hit rock bottom, so the only way is going up.
In the end, for you, my fellow readers, I wish you that the new year will be worse than the old.
Cheerio, partners.
Dijo.
An atheist, a freethinker, an engineer, and a good man. He loves to write, but sucks at it. And, of course, English is not his mother tongue, but was learned as a second language.
