{"id":7488,"date":"2025-08-04T00:15:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=7488"},"modified":"2025-08-04T00:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:15:59","slug":"cerrado-por-vacaciones-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2025\/08\/04\/cerrado-por-vacaciones-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed for vacation (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little over a year ago (thirteen months, to be exact), I wrote a blog post with the title <a href=\"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2024\/07\/08\/cerrado-por-vacaciones\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/es_es\/2024\/07\/08\/cerrado-por-vacaciones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Closed for vacation<\/a>, from the same place where I am right now: my happy place (thanks a million, Javi and F\u00e1tima, for welcoming us these days). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that article, I wrote about the many changes I was going through at the time, and the new phase that was beginning for me and my family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year (and a month) later, again I feel it\u00b4s been a hectic year, full of changes, and with even more changes on the way, some of them chosen by us and being planned for, and some that I\u00b4m sure will come along to surprise us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" data-attachment-id=\"7487\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/img_20240710_222150\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?fit=4000%2C3000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4000,3000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.75&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;AC2003&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1720650110&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.745&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_20240710_222150\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?fit=676%2C507&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?resize=676%2C507&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo of a swimming pool at sunset\" class=\"wp-image-7487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?resize=16%2C12&amp;ssl=1 16w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?resize=676%2C507&amp;ssl=1 676w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20240710_222150.jpg?w=1352&amp;ssl=1 1352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(I\u00b4m a year behind with my photos... This one is from last summer, and it still doesn\u00b4t do justice to the gorgeous sunsets in this place).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next school year is going to be interesting, with two university students at home (we\u00b4re so excited about you joining us, Isabel, we will sorely miss you, Quique), and a few other things I\u00b4ll tell you about in due course. For the moment, we still have the month of August to enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not surprisingly, I found a quote that I think fits perfectly with today\u00b4s topic. I heard or read somewhere that<strong> we don\u00b4t come to this life to be happy, but to solve problems<\/strong>, and I completely agree, though I also think that through those problems we solve and those challenges we overcome we acquire the ability to be happy, no matter our circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, <br>but whether it is the same problem you had last year.<\/p><cite>John Foster Dulles<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hace algo m\u00e1s de un a\u00f1o (trece meses, para ser exactos), escrib\u00ed en este blog un post titulado Cerrado por vacaciones, desde el mismo sitio en el que estoy ahora: mi lugar feliz (mil gracias Javi y F\u00e1tima por acogernos estos d\u00edas). En aquel art\u00edculo os hablaba de los muchos cambios por los que estaba &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2025\/08\/04\/cerrado-por-vacaciones-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Closed for vacation (II)<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3116429,"featured_media":7487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"BinaryWords - Cerrado por vacaciones (II)","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A disfrutar de agosto \/ Enjoy August everyone","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diario-journal","category-general","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DPtR-1WM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9519,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/08\/03\/cerrado-por-vacaciones-iii\/","url_meta":{"origin":7488,"position":0},"title":"Closed for vacation (III)","author":"binarybea","date":"03\/08\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Como ya viene siendo tradici\u00f3n en este blog, escribo mi post vacacional desde mi lugar feliz, al que tengo la suerte de haber podido regresar un verano m\u00e1s (puedes leer art\u00edculos de a\u00f1os anteriores aqu\u00ed y aqu\u00ed). 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