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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #915 on: December 10, 2011, 06:14:38 AM »
Trying to "absorb" (wanted to thanks "How NOT to live your life" for it's wonderful vocabulary choices.) the working process of nuclear physics and stuff-with-atoms-and-things with my 13-years-old-maths-level, and yek, it's fucking hard.

Wondering a bit why my life seems so "day-to-day routine", even if I do dozen of things every day.
Oh, wait, I just get it.
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #916 on: December 11, 2011, 03:53:00 PM »
I started a Slender man blog... :D First one too, and it isn't gonna be like H(A)unting...
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #917 on: December 12, 2011, 06:46:06 PM »
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #918 on: December 26, 2011, 12:56:44 AM »


This is from the Welcome Home Regimental Ball. The Mrs and Me dressed for success.

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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #919 on: December 26, 2011, 03:24:03 AM »
Nice pic!

I hope everything is going well with your return to "normal" civilization.
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #920 on: December 27, 2011, 02:29:41 PM »
I last posted here over a year ago for what was intended to be the final time. For anyone that still remembers who I am, I finally found what I was always looking for in life. Not going to go into details as it's very early days, but I really like her and its going well so far. Which has made for one of my better christmas holidays in the last decade. I suspect however it may be a strange thing for folks to actually see me happy for once.

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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #921 on: December 28, 2011, 02:50:10 AM »
Rama, I am so glad that you are home with your family.  ;D
Petrarch, what the hell took you so long? lol! Very happy for you too.
BC,.........n/m. lol! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you.
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #922 on: December 28, 2011, 03:33:30 AM »
REALLY glad things are working out for you, Petrarch.  Hope they continue on course.

All we need now is for Turjan to drop back in and things might just look normal!

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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #923 on: December 28, 2011, 01:09:31 PM »
Congratulations Petrarch, glad to hear that things are going well for you.

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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #924 on: December 30, 2011, 03:33:38 AM »
Congrats, Petrarch!
All right, I’ve been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man whose gonna burn your house down – with the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #925 on: December 30, 2011, 04:12:46 AM »
December 7th, I signed up for the Voluntary Reduction In Force at my company. On the 16th, I got confirmation I was accepted. The 22nd was my last day of work, tomorrow will be my last day of pay. (The company has been on shutdown/paid holiday since the 22nd. The layoff officially starts next week.)

I will receive a week of severance pay for each year I've been there (rounded down). Having been there since June 1998, this means I get 13 weeks pay. I also have a bit over 7 weeks of unused PTO coming as well.

The main reason I volunteered was that Liz may have to leave Chicago to get a job once she passes the bar exam, so I might have had to quit my job anyway.

Also, being a Windows programmer at an organization that deals mostly with embedded programming, I'm a bit of a square peg in a round hole there. It's not so much that my work isn't appreciated by those who use it or by my managers and tech leads (many were not happy to see me leave), but that my work ultimately means very little to the company as a whole. That's not meant to be an indictment of them in any way, it's just the way it is. Case in point, it happened more than once over the years I would be asked by other software engineers in a joking-and-not-meant-to-be-offensive-and-not-taken-as-offensive-but-still-endemic-of-the-overall-culture-sort-of-way when I would get around to doing some "real" programming.

This is also a company where productivity tools are valued low enough that apparently one of our in-house developed tools (which I didn't work on myself) had its codebase released to a customer under a contract without any sort of clause pertaining to that codebase being included in said contract and now apparently a version of that codebase is being sold by someone else. Granted, its an outdated version, but since my company doesn't do tools development, apparently we don't care enough about our tools intellectual property to actually protect it.

Not to mention that my manager (who I actually never worked directly for until the last six months or so, being lent out to various tech leads under specific program accounts, in spite of her being my manager for about 3 or 4 years now) has had her funding for the tools group cut to nothing for next year, thereby meaning that once again I have to charge to a specific program. Not that it's anything new, but it's another example of the corporate culture towards Windows tools development.

So since I might have had to quit my company next year anyway; I have very little debt after finally getting rid of my house (and that was the car loan I took out to cover my closing costs, which itself will soon be paid off leaving me debt free); I have no children; my girlfriend has good prospects; the software industry has been pretty good even through this weak economy; I have extensive Windows and database programming backgrounds (though, I lack Web development experience) and am well versed in multiple programming languages; and though I don't have a lot of smart-phone embedded app type experience--a significant portion of the software market these days--I learn quickly and my experience programming Windows GUIs will translate well to that; I'm pretty much at the ideal point of my life to change jobs.

So I took the plunge.
All right, I’ve been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man whose gonna burn your house down – with the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #926 on: December 30, 2011, 10:46:48 PM »
I have extensive Windows and database programming backgrounds (though, I lack Web development experience) and am well versed in multiple programming languages; and though I don't have a lot of smart-phone embedded app type experience--a significant portion of the software market these days--I learn quickly and my experience programming Windows GUIs will translate well to that; I'm pretty much at the ideal point of my life to change jobs.

So I took the plunge.

You gotta be loving how Win 8 is basically made up of web apps now. I was psyched about that but I knew a whole industry of guys was gonna see that as a slap in the face.

On the plus side, it should be standards based, so it'll be a skill that carries over lot more industries once you get it!

Good luck, if you and your girlfriend ever end up in DFW, let me know, I have lots of friends who work in Windows shops (usually .Net).
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #927 on: January 12, 2012, 07:26:40 AM »
I turned 21 yesterday, and my heart cried a bit.

No more acting like a teenager. Not even a possibility of feeling like one.

It's strange to think of taking my first real step into my 20's.

:shutters:

 That just yesterday I could say I had "Just broken the barrier" but now i'm carving the path before me already.
That just a handful of years ago, being in your 20s meant (to me) when you could go into bars and drink away the stress of your piling debt, the screaming baby, and the nagging wife
That these 10 years are the most important of your life, and what you do in them will determine how you live your last 60 or so. Whether you become a runaway success story or someones fuck-up family member theyd rather forget.

It's a scary thought.

/emo
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #928 on: January 20, 2012, 12:23:39 AM »
I'm taking Karate lessons: American Kenpo.

I like it. 

A lot.

Great exercise, helps me focus, and drains the poisons (physical and mental) out of my system.

Ya!
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Re: What's going on in your life?
« Reply #929 on: January 20, 2012, 01:36:12 PM »
We got a kinnect.... kinnect is fun but it really hurts when you're a lazy man