• I have stopped whining

    From Antonio Huerta@21:1/5 to Antonio Huerta on Thu Dec 17 23:27:42 2015
    On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 8:55:55 PM UTC+9:30, Antonio Huerta wrote:
    A realisation has hit me: I have stopped posting the woe stories from
    my work. I cannot believe it. I did it ! (I mean, I did stop posting
    the woe stories on s.r.c.). As a matter of fact, I am not posting them anywhere.

    It is not that everything has sorted out at work. As a matter of fact,
    it is not. Just went hiding, and some of it went into the chronic slowly-burning form.

    Oh, damn ! I have not actually stopped expressing myself on the
    Internet. I am writing to the web-based forum of my compatriots in the country of my current residence. I used to read it and post to it tens
    of times every day spewing bitter wisdom for the benefit of the recent immigrants.

    I am doing less of it now as I realised I have to cut down on my
    addiction. Actually, a couple of months ago, my wife persuaded me to
    buy a kayak. We live about 100 m away from a lake, and about 2 km away
    from the ocean. My wife tells me to paddle in the lake only (yawn).
    She prohibits me from going into ocean, because she is afraid I would
    be taken away by a shark. I think this is improbabale even if a 3-m
    shark was sighted recently near our shore. We will see. The chosen
    kayak (Hobie Cat with Mirage drive) will arrive from the USA to the
    shop later in this month. Actually, I was sailing a 1-person dinghy
    when I was a university student. I have always wanted to buy it. Now I
    can afford it, but my wife prevents me from doing it... for the reason mentioned above.

    Life stabilised for me and became boring over the past 5 years or so.
    I fill my eveneings with playing on-line shooter games. It is another addiction of mine which I want to break. My wife see me suffering, and
    she did a lot of attempts to get me a hobby which I would be doing
    instead. Like woodwork. But nothing sticks to me. I do not care
    anymore. Damn immigration.

    Here in Australia we still have not had the recession we have to have.
    I think it will finally hit us later in the year, that's when the unemployment will go up, and the house prices will go down. It will be
    a fun to watch. I still keep the same job. It is stable. Even if I
    hold the same position of a junior scientist. However, I believe this decision of mine will pay off in the future as I will continue holding
    a job while the others won't.

    Anybody home ?

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  • From Old Pif@21:1/5 to Antonio Huerta on Fri Dec 25 06:12:04 2015
    On Friday, December 18, 2015 at 2:27:50 AM UTC-5, Antonio Huerta wrote:

    Anybody home ?

    Yup. Merry Christmas.

    How things are?

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  • From Antonio Huerta@21:1/5 to Old Pif on Thu Dec 31 21:26:58 2015
    On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 12:42:06 AM UTC+10:30, Old Pif wrote:
    On Friday, December 18, 2015 at 2:27:50 AM UTC-5, Antonio Huerta wrote:

    Anybody home ?

    Yup. Merry Christmas.

    How things are?

    Gee. I cannot believe my eyes.

    Anyway. Last year, I got my first (and likely last) child. This brought me an unbelievable amount of happiness (but difficulties, too).

    In my lab, a restructure started couple of years ago. They kicked out one manager, but the other one got to stay. Anyway, I have retired on the job.

    Still working same place ?

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  • From Antonio Huerta@21:1/5 to Old Pif on Mon Feb 1 05:05:19 2016
    On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 3:57:46 PM UTC+10:30, Old Pif wrote:
    On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 12:27:00 AM UTC-5, Antonio Huerta wrote:


    Gee. I cannot believe my eyes.


    Why? Art and I exchange private e-mails in which we among other things talked about you. In fact, I sent you a Christmas greeting a year ago ...

    I was surprised to see that you look into this forum from time to time. I thought the forum was dead for good. I check it out for new messages every half a year or so. Anyway, I never check my email, so that I never received your Xmas greeting. I am
    grateful to you for it, though...

    Art was already complaining about his health 20 years ago. But he seems to be still alive. I suppose he must be spending time in some part of the Internet, though I do not know where...



    Anyway. Last year, I got my first (and likely last) child. This brought me an unbelievable amount of happiness (but difficulties, too).


    OK. It explains your absence. Congratulations! Keep him/her out of science.

    Who knows what will happen in 20 years, and what occupations will be in vogue ? Anyway, science was THE occupation to get in my home country, but not here... So that I do not think she'll get interested in science... although she turned out to be a smart
    child...


    In my lab, a restructure started couple of years ago. They kicked out one manager, but the other one got to stay. Anyway, I have retired on the job.

    Still working same place ?

    Same place with some interesting variations ...

    I cannot perceive your intonation. When you say "interesting variations" -- do you mean "mind-stimulating and engaging", or "disgusting consequences of restructuring that turned out to be weird" ?

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  • From Old Pif@21:1/5 to Antonio Huerta on Mon Mar 21 20:34:09 2016
    On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 8:05:21 AM UTC-5, Antonio Huerta wrote:


    I was surprised to see that you look into this forum from time to time. I thought the forum was dead for good. I check it out for new messages every half a year or so.

    So do I. It was an interesting place in its bloom. A lot of characters and a feeling of the human touch ...


    I cannot perceive your intonation. When you say "interesting variations" -- do you mean "mind-stimulating and engaging", or "disgusting consequences of restructuring that turned out to be weird" ?

    It means occasional jewels in the pile of shit.

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  • From Old Pif@21:1/5 to Antonio Huerta on Sat Jan 2 21:27:44 2016
    On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 12:27:00 AM UTC-5, Antonio Huerta wrote:


    Gee. I cannot believe my eyes.


    Why? Art and I exchange private e-mails in which we among other things talked about you. In fact, I sent you a Christmas greeting a year ago ...

    Anyway. Last year, I got my first (and likely last) child. This brought me an unbelievable amount of happiness (but difficulties, too).


    OK. It explains your absence. Congratulations! Keep him/her out of science.

    In my lab, a restructure started couple of years ago. They kicked out one manager, but the other one got to stay. Anyway, I have retired on the job.

    Still working same place ?

    Same place with some interesting variations ...

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