Gonna start translating all the new entries:

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Hello everyone. I'm writing to you from Portland, a few hours before the game against Oklahoma, this time at home, and also the second to last game of the regular season. The atmosphere in Portland is impressive, the whole city is counting on what we do these last few games and preparing itself for the playoffs. The past two weeks have been very good in terms of results, but also for me personally. I'm playing all games more or less the same and knowing that I will play regularly helps me out more focused and with more confidence.

This weekend, a friend came to see me in Portland -- lightning trip to see the game against the Lakers on Sunday and we went to the Woodburn outlets, a shopping center 30 minutes from Portland with many brands of clothing, apparently from past clothing seasons. Everything is even cheaper if you count the euro-dollar exchange.

Of course the outlet has been a required stop all the visits I've had during these three years, so in the car I was thinking how many times I've been, how many friends had come and how much dough they spent. Because, of course, the good part about the 'outlet' is that everything is dirt cheap and many of the things that are sold there don't exist in Spain, but also has a bad side: when you go to the 'outlet' you buy three times a much because as everything is so cheap ... It is a great contradiction that is fulfilled by every tourist that stops at one these sites, so at the end all of my visitors have come home trying to convince themselves that the money they spent was worth it.

While all these memories passed through my head, I reached a point where I thought: f***! These outlets should give me a gift card for all the visitors I have taken, but not just for the money that was spent, but because, like a perfect public relations person I caused them to spend three times as much "because it's so cheap.."

A hug for everyone,

Sergio