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Today marks the first day of getting back to my old schedule and routine. The transition turned out smoother than I imagined. Hopefully, no new quirk will appear and I get back to working on all my overdue tasks. As things stand:
I’ll continue blogging in short irregular bursts, until my projects start moving forward under their own momentum.
Today I had to go to a summons. I’m grateful for living in a country with a “fair” judicial system, and I’m not going to try to avoid my “civic” “obligations”. But it bothers me, why our dear tax-money fed bureaucrats can’t organize things properly. I see no valid excuse why to flagrantly wasting people’s time by asking until the judges and lawyers graciously call us in. Could such a waste of time and productivity not be fixed with a bit of advanced scheduling? For one this would help the economy, and social morale. It this waiting seems something of a hangover from ancient times, when the nobles could simply “ask” the peasants to put their lives on hold. Or am I missing something?
Why not small pools of potential jurors? Or calling them in at appropriate times? Why ask to place things on hold in a systemic manner?
This past week gave me much to think about, and the long periods of silence that helps guide such thinking. Amongst the many thoughts, worries, concerns and hopes, the hardest realization is facing reality for what it is. Regardless of what people tell you, reality does exist. And its existence is independent of your own. Reality cares very little about your existence and cares even less about how your feelings toward it. Accepting reality for what it is, is paramount… no matter how difficult or painful it maybe. Such is the curse and blessing of realism.
I won’t lie. Accepting one’s place in time and space is not always pleasant. I’m at the same time content and discontent with where I am. But now that I’ve accepted, it is only a question of what is the best thing to do with what one has. Note the emphasis on has and not had or can potentially have. I’m still searching for the answers to my questions.
I’ve always dreamed of going to space. I remember watching space shuttle launches and the Astronomer series on TV, when I was much younger. Those inspired me to hopefully one day go out into the cold void of the cosmos. My dreams unfortunately so far have kept me away from celestial matters. I have few chances of physically flying into orbit as an astronaut. I’d have to first become a millionaire, cause I doubt I will join the air force as a pilot or work as a researcher/payload specialist. Professionally, I could steer my way to getting into robotics and be involved with a unmanned space mission with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratories. Or I could get into astronomy, keeping my feet on my ground and my eyes focused on the cosmos. Right now however, I can always drive up north. Leave the big city and its luminous glow, into the wilderness and just enjoy a clear night sky full of stars.
Well maybe as the Matt Aslett of the 451 Group points out: maybe open source will get us into space. I won’t hold my breathe, but I hope one day I’ll be closer to be out there.
(Aside: Now you can imagine why I enjoy writing a science fiction novel.)
Recently I’ve decided playing a most dangerous and unwise game. A player engrossed in said game may find it so addictive, may throw caution and wise judgement into the wind. Let me present to you the game of snarking.
snarking (v): (1) The delivery of sarcastic but humorous comments. The humour may be lost on the recipient of comment. (2) The humorous practise of using bands small voracious Xen aliens against other Half-Life players. This humour may also be lost on the recipient. Still other players will display amusement watching recipient run screaming through a level, followed by a horde of jumping squeaking snarks. (3) The insanely humorous practise of combining practises (1) & (2).
And that is the game I shall play… Yes, kids this the stuff idle minds come up to keep themselves amused during a workweek.
Some food for thought: Libertarians and stop signs. It may seem trivial and buffoonish to even discuss this matter. But is it? Read and make your own opinions. And remember: Real knowledge is gained by questioning everything, even the seemingly banal.
It is Friday. Feeling tired from the irregular sleep cycles of this past week. I didn’t move forward as fast I wanted to this week. I’ve felt distracted, tired and could not focus. Still the minutae of this week didn’t tie me down. Thanks to a friend my Polish writing improved in leaps and bounds this week. No regrets this week, and many things moved forward. And thanks to the same friend, I can see a positive glimmer of hope in my future. I plan on focusing on making my schedule sane again, and living a fairly active but normal life. No updates on the writing past a few notes, and ideas. No code updates either, aside from a steady tinkering with the justCheckers website. Enjoying using the new Firefox 3.5. It feels so much sleeker than before. Oh and thanks to the fine folks at Fido for having simple and sane contracts. Guess whose service is gonna get recommended to friends?
This week I realized:
Its been another busy day. I’m wishing it was more productive in terms of work. But I did arrange and find out all the information I needed to find out. I wrote some e-mails, learned about EJBs, and a few other odds and ends here and there. I guess it one of those days to inspire and gather the loose bits together, and tie it altogether. Still upbeat and fairly optimistic even thought I have enough reason to feel bummed out today.
I wish could write up something more concrete but nothing comes to mind. Oh well off to play soccer now. That should hopefully clear my mind and refresh my soul.