We filmed a lot these days for our TROMhome project tromhome.com/ - and as soon as I have time I will edit them. We finished with the hardest work so now it is going to be easier :).

Quite a different lifestyle I had for the past 2 weeks. I am usually doing a lot of stuff on my computer but lately almost no time for that. I cannot wait to be able to update all of our servers, do some TROMjaro work, and so forth. It will happen is just that we are going through a massive change, at least for me it is.

I also changed my sleeping schedule a lot. I used to go to sleep at 5-6am. Now I go at 1-2am or so. I usually woke up at 2pm and now at 9am...

But anyways, the "TROM online empire" (haha) is still there with the many projects we have, and more will come.

Big changes are usually very uncomfortable, so I experience some of that too. But overall I am super happy with our tiny home. I hope to take us places and to keep us being humans. Curious, engaged with important things, relaxed and having fun. Chase the dark skies, go to events and present TROM, don't let this "spirit" die. ;)

Lots to come.

#motorhome #spain #trom #tromsite

It is now 2 weeks since we talked to a mechanic across the street, literally, to go pickup up the motorhome we want to buy and do an inspection. According to them it takes 1h to do the inspection. This is how "far" they are from where the motorhome is:

We called them so many times. Yesterday they finally took the motorhome for inspection. They supposed to call today morning to tell us the results. No call. They said they will take the motorhome days ago, that they will call, etc.. Nothing.

I swear Spain is the slowest country on Earth to do anything, except the healthcare system that is really great form my experience. The rest is slow as fuck and you always have 1 paper less, so you have to come next time. Appointments take forever, it is always "manana" (tomorrow), it is so unreliable.

Crazy we've spent so long to find a motorhome, to see motorhomes, to get the money for it and all that, and then we get stuck with this car inspection that takes forever.

If you ever consider moving to Spain, mind you the bureaucracy is on a different level of crazy. And do not expect to solve any issues here fast. This will never happen. That's ours and everyone we know experience.

So we are waiting and waiting....

#spain

My experience with getting a driving license here in Spain has been terrible. Started in December last year. Passed the exam in English in February - absolutely terrible translations. Waited till the end of May to start the driving classes. Did 16 hours so far. Insanity squared. They are absolutely draconian with how you have to drive. From how you have to use the pedals, change the gears, or hold the steering wheel - in the exact way they tell you; to how you have to drive in this absolutely perfect way.

I can't properly explain to you now how fucked up it is, but I tell you this: not a single person drives like this. None. Not even the instructor. And she 100% agrees with that. She tells us that she teaches us how to pass the driving exam, that's all.

I've been doing some lessons with another "student". A man from Cuba who had a driving license for a few decades, but in Spain you cannot use it, you have to do all of the exams as if you are new to driving. The poor man really struggles...despite him knowing perfectly well how to drive. That's how fucked up it is.

So far I've spent a bit over 1.000 Euros and I will have to spend a few hundreds more. I hope to do the exam at the end of this month. The vast majority of people fail the first try since it is impossible to drive the way they want you to, and it is well known the examiners are fucking terrible and will fail you.

Therefore very likely I will fail it. Then I need to wait till October/November to try it again and get more lessons (mandatory) before trying....

And even if I get it, it takes around 3-4 months to give you the driving license.

This is so insane to spend so much money and to take a year or more to get the fucking driving license in Spain.

Absolute garbage.

I have taken notes, filmed stuff, and so on. I will make a big article or video about this fucked up situation.

If I knew....I would have never started this. If anyone thinks to do their driving license in Spain, you must love to torture yourself. Never do it. Go to another tribe that can do licenses exchange with Spain, and do it there. Will cost you less and you won't have a heart attack.

#driving #spain #cars

Yeah I see no problem with this....

If the "authorities" are worried that children watch too much porn and these kids then try to porn-themselves-out for pleasure, causing issues since they don't understand that most porn is fake, then for sure forcing people to verify their age when accessing some porn websites will make these kids think twice before accessing any of the millions of worldwide porn websites....

How about you make the life of kids, and people overall, more relaxing? How about you don't force the kids to go to school and parents to go to work, just to survive? Maybe if people were to be more "free" and have time to learn about the world, to have fun, to establish relationships and not worry about wtf they are going to eat tomorrow, maybe we will have saner individuals, ha?!

When the human being is busy 8 hours a day, or more, 5 days a week, or more, with mandatory tasks (school/job), in a society based on trade (consumption), then the easiest and most familiar way to get some "fun" are shallow, fast things. Fast food, fast fashion, fastly-made and dumbed-down media, fast sexual pleasure (watch some porn), and so forth. No time for anything meaningful.

#porn #spain #privacy #internet #TradeRuinsEverything

It is funny, in Spain if you want to legally trade your own services, say you make websites, then you have to become "autonomo" - like self-employed, and pay between 60 to 100 euros a month taxes even if you make no money as self-employed. hahaha. That after you will have to pay a lawyer some 60 more euros a month to deal with the shitload of papers and nonsense.

You know these "taxes" in theory seem like a decent idea: take a bit of money from each citizen, to then put that money into healthcare and other things that will be free for these "citizens".

In practice it is shitshow of corruption and making the rich richer. And a huge pain in the ass for everyone. I would not mind contributing 20% of my "income" to a tribe if I get free healthcare and other benefits, but only if it was made simple and you could see the effect of your contribution.

Spain seems like the capital of papers and nonsense. But the entire world is like that one way of another...

Such a wasted time on the most "unique" planet in the universe. Deal with papers, try to survive, be busy with nothing things... No thank you!

So yeah, in a trade based society is not enough to "trade", you have to do it in a particular way. And if you are poor you are entirely fucked to begin with anyway.

endofrant

#spain #taxes #trade #slavery

We are so surprised to see Spain struggling with one digit temperatures while poor tribes in the Eastern EU are doing just fine with minus degrees outside. In other words, in Spain you'll freeze inside your home in the "winter" even if outside are no less than 10 degrees and sunny, simply because they do not insulate their houses much. Thus, it is a massive loss of energy (and thus pollution), and a lot of discomfort for people. It is not unusual for people here to stay with their shoes on and their jackets inside the house...

UK is in a similar, or worse situation, and now I'm reading "Failure to insulate UK homes costing thousands of lives a year, says report" theguardian.com/environment/20…

Insane! I bet there are thousands in Spain that also die because of this.

So not only that it is a massive energy loss and pollution as a result from using fossil fuels to create that energy; not only it is a lot of discomfort for people. But some are dying as a result, possibly thousands....

And all they have to do is to INSULATE THE HOUSES. Easy!

But difficult if there is no incentive to do so.

Such a stupid world we live in.

#climatechange #climate #waste #winter #spain #uk