Uruguay + Festival Undernet
After a long trip, I'm finally home in Uruguay. The main purpose of the visit, aside form celebrating my birthday and seeing family and friends, etc, is bringing back with me to Berlin some of my old stuff, namely books. I came with a practically empty suitcase (which I will have to replace, because some time during the trip it got broken) and left a few days empty of activity so I can devote the time to filtering and selecting, which will be very hard. The books I always imagined bringing back are my Borges' complete works, which now I think I'll leave behind simply because they are so big and heavy, and that weight could be used instead to bring 10 or 15 smaller books. These difficult decisions I'll put off until absolutely necessary.
Meanwhile, to celebrate my birthday and, at the same time, get to meet some people from the Uruguayan open source community I've only talked to online, I got help from one such person to organize a gig/fundraiser. I'm very excited about it, as it really is a multiple birds with one stone kind of thing. In addition to the aforementioned things, I get to see a number which I missed early this year in Carnaval and everyone was talking about.
I always really enjoyed celebrating my birthday. I think this I inherited from my mother, who always had great ideas for invitations we could make together. There are still some around here, very artful in idea and clumsy in execution. My mom died before my tenth birthday but I continued with the birthday enthusiasm ever since. Eventually I stopped making invitations to give out and started making something like flyers to share online instead. Because this year's celebration is double-purposed, there are two flyers: one to send out to people I'm inviting to my birthday, clumsily made by me, and one to publish in social media and invite everyone in the world to the show, made by a graphic designer with far more skill. I think both have something going on for them, so I'll share them:
It's nice to be back, even if it's a bit colder here than anticipated!
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