It’s still January.

What a long January.

It’s been a good January so far. A lot of work. It was a busy week. A crazy week. After the hospital craze, I had a couple tours. One on Friday, it went wild. One on Saturday, it went wild. I have to do the social media video posts for those tours.

So much work to do. February starts with a tour. I still have so much merch to sell. I still have to clean my apartment.

So far so good for 2025, despite the fuckiness of it all. Yes. Fuckiness. I did plenty of tours for the first month. I got plenty of tours for the rest of the year.

Photography is left behind. Writing I’m trying. Music shall be back. My band Donkichow (or Donkey Show) shall restart. And I need to play more classical.

The busier I am, the better.

It’s Monday.

I write on Mondays. And I also clean. It’s like a Sunday to me. After a long weekend of heavy partying (I mean… working). Both clients were awesome. The ones on Saturday gave me a nice tip. No money concerns at least for this week. I shall be fine.

Clean the kitchen time.

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Oooof.

Extensive clean and I’m not even 30% done. Kitchen was filthy. The laundry room was worse. And there’s a leak in my ceiling. The roof is also falling apart. Let’s see what the landlord says. Sorry, landlord.

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I got 18 more days of DotA.

Me puse una peDotA on Saturday.

I drank a lot over the weekend.

My iMac is really old and doesn’t do upgrades anymore. Steam is going to stop soon.

I have many other video games to play anyway. Like the new Zelda. And I just found out I can buy Shadow of the Colossus on PS4. One of my favorite games ever.

DotA can wait. Thanks friends for playing with me.

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Friday tour. The Ramon dad and son (with Jacob). First guys to eat the scorpion at La Ruta del Borracho. This what the tour looks like:

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I took too many tequila shots. I was going to go home and play some DotA but I passed out immediately and it wasn’t even 9 pm. I woke up at 2 am and watched It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for hours.

I woke up again at 10:30 am to find out my next group of tourists was already on their way. Jeramiah’s birthday with friends, this is what that tour looks like:

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OOOOOeeee!

After this tour, I woke up feeling fine. Though I drank more… I paced it better. I’m a professional alcoholic.

I didn’t drink Sunday. Let’s see what happens this week. I have a tour this Saturday. That’s how February will start.

Thanks clients!

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I barely got done with one video. Doing reels is not as easy as it looks. And I can still do better.

This won’t get posted until tomorrow. I’ll have more things to write about by then. And both videos will be complete.

What goes viral is weird. One on Instagram barely reached 5k views while on TikTok it went over 45k. Then random ones hit over 100k or even a million. If I mention the border, it gets more views. Especially with how things are now. I should cross and do a video of it. I have to cross soon to send some shirts.

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Tomorrow came and went. It’s Friday now, but it’s still January.

February starts tomorrow and I have an early tour at 11 a.m. It shall go fine. I sold more tours. I have money in the bank to the likes when I had a job. I’m sorta doing it. I still need to do more work. Write way more. Make the merch shop. Expand the business.

But it was a good January despite the fuckiness of it all.

There’s more fuckiness. What would be my stepfather-in-law is in the hospital. It’s not looking good. I haven’t seen my girlfriend in two days and it feels like an eternity. Especially when the days are so slow.

I’ve done nothing but reels and social media bullshit. I completed the two reels above. I sold more tours. I did laundry. Besides that, it’s been slow. Depression is no longer a constant thing though.

I also cleaned and backed-up pictures from my phone and iPad. I explored my hard drive with my girlfriend. I have so much fucking content organized neatly into dates. Am I sicko?

Probably.

This blog needs a picture. And I need to remind myself to take one interesting picture at least once a week. I did. It’s nothing grand. But I still love stupid wide-angle lenses. Review of the Osmo Action 5 Pro by DJI coming next blog. This is Calle Segunda right by my place:

I need to make more space in this blog to upload better looking pics. But you get the idea.

Or I could buy more space. I’ll buy more space if you donate:

No one has donated through that. And that’s fine. People have donated through Venmo or Zelle. If you would like to donate through that, just search for me as Matingas. That should work.

Content is now video. Backing-up video is more time consuming and it takes more space in my hard drive. I need a new computer. It’s fucking 2025 after all.

I’m doing better financially. I’ll get there. Perhaps the new iPhone first and then we’ll see.

Or travel.

Bring it 2025.

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