Masa's Journal: Oh, wow! A time-warp

Hmm... That's odd. Last journal entry seems to be from "02 May 2003" which is over a year ago. Well, it's time for a little catch-up.

Happened since the last episode:

I spent six months at the military training. It was interesting, intensive and frustrating experience. But I learned a lot about phones and telecommunication stuff (among other things). But I don't want to talk about that or anything related to this subject.

I bought a new laptop. With Windows XP Home Edition. And I'm still using the XP at the machine. Which is pretty creepy. I'm worrying myself. Fortunately, I still have my good old Linux box, so there is still hope.

I'm still working at the same old "big bad corporation" as a software engineer. This time my job is to examine old C code and improve it and make some house-keeping (bug fixes, cleaning up, documenting). I could write a whole rant, how terrible it is to try to read other peoples code. But I won't, because I've ranted enough.

The last year or so has been extremely hard both physically and mentally. A lot of bad things have happened to people around me and I have had to re-evaluate my values and views of life. I think, that now I can truly appreciate life itself and my loved ones. And I have realized, that work isn't everything. Fortunately, things seem to be getting better step by step and hopefully the summer will be great and everything will be OK again.

Slashdot seems to be the same old nest. Some things don't ever change, I suppose.