{"id":3545,"date":"2013-12-31T22:33:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T05:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2013-12-31T22:33:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T05:33:40","slug":"galactic-new-years-eve-20132014-at-the-atrium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2013\/12\/31\/galactic-new-years-eve-20132014-at-the-atrium\/","title":{"rendered":"Galactic: New Year’s Eve 2013\/2014 at the Atrium"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It’s the happiest I’ve seen you since I can’t remember when \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6”<\/p>\n

— more than one friend, to me, October-December 2013<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"DSC00233\"Indeed!<\/p>\n

The last few months have been great: working on an exciting project, and (finally!) hanging out online at a positive, diverse, site with interesting people and great discussions.\u00c2\u00a0 And even though 2013 as a whole was difficult , there were plenty of good times; and excellent progress on my resolutions like spending more time with friends and family, meditating regularly, reducing stress and sleeping better.\u00c2\u00a0 So no wonder I’m happy!<\/p>\n

\"DSC00605\"The first two-thirds of the year was pretty challenging. Things happen for a reason, though, and I certainly learned (and grew!) a lot. Even though it turned out not to be a great fit for me, the role of “Senior VP of Products” running an international engineering and product management organization was incredibly valuable experience – including areas like mobile and web service development that were new to me. \"DSC01141\"<\/a>And while the family health crisis that cropped up just as I was leaving the job wasn’t a lot of fun, it was very fortunate that it happened at a time when I could prioritize what really mattered without feeling like I was letting people down at work \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and even more fortunate that it resolved the way it did, with a full recovery!<\/p>\n

\"\"After all the turmoil, it’s been really good for me to roll up my sleeves and do some programming<\/a> again.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course there’s also the usual frustrations: learning a new platform, database, and programming environment, all of which have their share of quirks, and running into the same kind of annoying glitches that have always been a part of software development.<\/p>\n

Still, what I’m building is attractive, usable on phones and tablets as well as laptops, and has a surprising amount of functionality \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and it’s a great feeling that it’s already at the point where D and I and several friends are using it regularly. Oh yeah, that’s right, I *am* pretty good at this software engineering stuff \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"DSC01486\"As usual we’re kicking off the new year at a psytrance party — Galactic, with DJ Anomaly at the Atrium!\u00c2\u00a0 We shall see what 2014 holds, but as of now I’m quite optimistic. It feels like a very positive trajectory, in contrast to last year (when I didn’t even do a blog post) and even the year before (where I just couldn’t wait for 2011 to get over).<\/p>\n

And it really is the happiest I’ve been in a long time!<\/p>\n

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“It’s the happiest I’ve seen you since I can’t remember when \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6” — more than one friend, to me, October-December 2013 Indeed! The last few months have been great: working on an exciting project, and (finally!) hanging out online at a positive, diverse, site with interesting people and great discussions.\u00c2\u00a0 And even though 2013 as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}