Juan Céspedes - December 2008 

Like every 31st of december, we celebrated this year the traditional "San Silvestre Vallecana", a 10km run that takes place in Madrid, starting in Santiago Bernabeu stadium and ending in Teresa Rivero stadium (Vallecas).

I went with:

• my father (Juan)
• my brother Sergio
• his wife, Cristi
• my sister, Gema
• his boyfriend, Alberto
• my cousin, Iván
• two of Alberto's cousins
• Jorge (Iván's friend)
• Pablo Sánchez Torralba

...and other 25000+ people.

The first of us to finish was, of course, Pablo (about 47 minutes), next to Sergio (52), Iván (55), myself (1:02:56), my father and Cristi (1:15), Gema and Alberto (1:17).

My previous times in 10km-long runs were:

Yesterday I started solving a jigsaw puzzle thar my brothers gave me a few months ago. And I finished today :-)

It's a 1000 pieces puzzle from Schim Schimmel, and it shows a very nice landscape, with a lake, two houses and some trees, all covered by snow. It seemed to be very difficult because of the sky, the lake and the snow, but in fact there is a way to cheat: all the pieces of the puzzle are written on the back, showing some letters which tells the player which zone that piece belongs to (there are 24 zones with letters from 'A' to 'X').

Appart from that, the pieces of puzzle are very thin and weak, and many of all them have exactly the same shape, so it is very difficult to know if you are placing them in the right spot.

I don't recommend that brand to anyone willing to buy a new jigsaw puzzle.

When Trini and I were coming back home from Navalmoral de la Mata, we called rover to see if he invited us to his home... but he was not there! He was at Kinepolis with Juanfe, Nuria, Isaac, Vane, and two friends of her, and they were going to see the film "El intercambio" (spanish title for "Changeling"). So we went there and joined them to wath the movie.

It's a film directed by Clint Eastwood, with Angelina Jolie playing a role as a mother praying for her kidnapped son to return home.

It's inspired by actual events that occurred in 1920s in Los Angeles, where Christine (Angelina Jolie) fights against a corrupted LAPD after they returned home a boy which was not her son.