Today has everything to be a normal day, with no big surprises and a lot o work ahead. Leaving aside the fact that I woke up late and I not even remember what I put in my lunchbox, it definitely seemed that all I’d have to do today was fighting against my TODO list. Well, it wasn’t exactly that what happened.

Right at early morning we had a meeting from 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM, and soon after another one that went up to 10:30 AM. The first one went smoothly to me: many surprises and me trying to imagine how long would it take to build a time machine or having a clone three. The surprise of the day would came later during the second meeting (nothing related to work, actually). Around 10 AM someone knocks on the door and tells me there was a friend of mine waiting for me carrying a luggage. WHAT?!

Well, that’s it. At that time I trying to think about all people I knew that could be there, even drunks and crazy people (don’t try to know why, ok?). I left the meeting room and outside there I saw a long hairy guy with a backpack and huge luggage looking like someone who had travelled the last 24 hours on the back of a truck. It was nobody but Luiz Capitulino, a guy who had worked with my wife in Curitiba, during the times of Conectiva/Mandriva. We had exchanged a few messages during the last months and I remember he mentioned to me that he’d spend a few days with us here in Québec. Guess what? I forgot =) Lucky me that my wife has a good memory and left the guest room in the basement cleaned and ready.

Poor bastard. I told him to leave his stuffs there with me and taking a walk in old Québec surroundings. I gave him ultra simple information about how moving around there and what he could see. Fortunately, in spite of being extremely tired since he straight from Vancouver and hadn’t slept yet, he was able to move around downtown, even under those 30C in Québec City. We had agreed to meet each other again at 4PM~4:30PM and then give him a ride to my home so he could leave his stuffs there and we’d go out to have something for dinner. Well, my quota of surprises hadn’t finished yet. At the time I opened home’s side door I saw what seemed to be a was scene: the dog had opened one of those grass seeds bags I had bought that week to use on the backyard and which I innocently forgot on dinner room’s chair. Not satisfied on having opened the bag the carried that stuff all over the living room, the kitchen and the dining room! Damn son of a b…! There was me having to clean up all the floor before going out for dinner.

After that slavery moment, me and Capitulino went out for dinner, when I introduced him to the famous Scores‘ Back Ribs.

By the way, just explaining what happened. Luiz and his wife are considering moving to Québec sometime in the next 2 years. They currently consider going to Gatineau or Québec City, but they’re not yet decided about it. Because of that and since we’re living here, he decided coming here to gather as much information as possible about the city and from people who live here to help deciding taking that decision. He’ll stay at my place until next Monday (22nd). Let’s see if I can help him with that in the next days.