A week has past since my first full day in Canada, after my vacation. Somethings have changed, but others have not. No life changing changes so I can get back to my usual life. Almost everything is back to normal, but I am not quite back to my daily routines. Hence the lack of daily blog posts. Hopefully I can get back to blogging and keeping up with all the small routines I used to do. However, I feel that I’m almost ready to take on a larger project. Unlike last time, I will not try to complicate things by juggling too much. That would be too stressful and too distracting. I do have my eye on getting back to my novel writing though. I feel I’m ready this time to move my projects forward substantially.
Category Archives: Life
Returned from Afar
My plane touched in Toronto Thursday afternoon around 3:15-ish. And officially my regular schedule resumed on Friday. However in reality, I’m still behind on a number of things, and everything is still one gigantic mess. I do plan to get back to blogging on a daily basis. But at the moment I’ve got a ton of e-mails to answer, phone calls to make, meetings to schedule and a bunch of other administrative stuff to do. Hence I’ll keep the updates short and sweet until I can dig myself out of this mess.
Before I Lay Down My Pen and My Head
Things are going fairly smoothly for the trip. Not yet at the point at where I can say I’m packed and ready. And there remains a good chunk of work to do. However plans are proceeding forward.
While I look forward to my trip, lately I’ve felt like my self-esteem has taken quite a beating. I don’t know if this signals a slow but steady burnout. Or rather realization and acceptance of my current position and circumstances in life. I’m a bit disappointed. I still feel I’m far from where I want to be in the near future. And reality seems to close more doors than open them. If some potential opportunity opens, it feels more like a tease than an opportunity. Realistically, I feel I’ve exhausted all the straightforward options without compromising or risking my future on some future high-risk scheme. This realization is quite unnerving. I’m not sure what else I can do, aside from doing what I already am. I’ve never enjoyed the prospect of casting the dice and hoping for the best. This is fine in a game. In life not so much, since for action there are far reaching consequences. In life, a sane logical strategy needs to be in place. Still I can’t see how I can achieve my end-goals, circumstances being as they are. I find solace in my writing, and little else.
I’m still going to blog on highly irregular basis, definitely until after my trip. Or most likely after I finish writing the rough draft of the novel. My novel feels like the only meaningful contribution I can make at the moment. Everything else depends on external factors, beyond my control.
Offline for a Bit
Well folks, it looks like I’ll be mostly offline for the next couple of weeks. It is a fairly busy time at work, and with my upcoming trip to Europe, I just don’t have time to blog. I might blog when I get there, but we’ll see how things go… Anyways take care for now.
Identi.ca Updates for 2009-08-13
- Gonna take another whack at dev work… Hoping more progress this time around. #
- Hmm… feeling productive again. Just need to do a few more things today and I’ll be quite satisfied. #
- A bit more correspondences and write-ups before I can take a wack at creating a !drupal theme for justCheckers. #
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Identi.ca Updates for 2009-08-12
- Going to try using !ubuntu as a sandboxed dev system. It would be awesome to integrate into my development process. #
- It burns!!! I’m not sure why but that last e-mail feels like it was lined with exasperation and a plasma charge. Ouch. #
- If there were no bugs in software, all of us programmers would be out selling friendship bracelets instead. Think about the programmers!!! #
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Identi.ca Updates for 2009-08-11
- OK, going on a mad typing spree for the next hour or so. Lets how much of my novel I can write up in one crazy go. #
- Hmm… chapter one moving along nicely. Still just two pages per hour feels a bit slow. #
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Identi.ca Updates for 2009-08-10
- Excellent! All relevant things done, now on to some writing and hacking. I’m on a roll today. #
- Please ask me about how I feel about denormalized generic data models. Remember to be wearing an asbestos suit when doing so. #
- Alright! Onto dinner and some dealing with some physical world problems. Junglishly hot today. #
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Identi.ca Updates for 2009-08-09
- Hmm… crafting nifty styled docs in OOo for the bro. I should try those things out on my docs. #
- Night. #
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Identi.ca Updates for 2009-08-07
- Awake finally. #
- Managing multiple profiles on different websites is a bit of a pain. Still they are mighty convenient at times. #
- Excellent, refactored my code. Now on to doing the same thing, except modifying the data! I wish there was a identi.ca client for S60… #
- Done and done. Work week over, the homework week begins. 😀 #
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