A month and a half since my last post. And another full month before that one. I haven’t had much monakhosy stuff to say in a long time, so let’s just start writing.
My old job ended. The company decided they didn’t really like our product and would rather use a recent acquisition’s version of the same thing. Some people stayed behind to support the old product and work with the new one, but about half the team had to find new spots. I could’ve stayed in the company in another division, but I happened to have already had my resume out, so within two days I had a new job. Interesting that the first time I had seriously applied for a job was three days before I actually needed to find something. Well, I didn’t really need to find something, I could’ve moved in the company, but you get the point.
The new job is nice. As opposed to cubicles, we have one big room and big tables we sit at. It may sound like a downside with no personal privacy, but after a few years in a cramped cube, having open space is nice. And it’s not like anyone is looking over your shoulder, so the privacy matter is really a non-issue. My old job was shirt and tie and later business casual. This job is casual. Flip-flops, jeans, and a t-shirt. That’s nice too. Some people say it gets old, but I don’t really mind dressing up occasionally, so when I feel tired of it, I can. It’s a lot more creative environment and a lot smaller too (8 people in my group and 50 in the company as opposed to nearly 100 and 5000 total.) I’ve been there about three months and I’m loving it.
Music. Lots of music lately. I got a nice old vintage Ludwig kit off of craigslist to replace my current Gretsch bop kit. The jazz sizes just weren’t doing it for me anymore in a rockier atmosphere. Synthesizers. I like them. I’m currently almost done building a basic one from synthesizers.com. Until I add more modules at the end of the month I’ll have a nice little two oscillator modular analog synthesizer. A lot of cool sounds come out of that thing and I’m sure I’m only at the tip of the iceberg.
I like languages. But I never seem to get around to learning them very well. Hopefully that’s in the process of changing with Esperanto. I’ve been working with Jon lately and attending the club he started. It’s pretty easy to learn (I really started studying Sunday and already have a vocabulary of 150+ words) and a good stepping stone to other languages. So should a refresher on French be next or my dream of Russian? Who knows. I probably need a few more months of this first. Check it out. I know Jon’s talking about making some of his pages Esperanto, so there will be plenty of material to practice reading!
There’s other stuff, like the crazy movie Holy Mountain I watched last week. I doubt you’ve heard of it, but it’s really interesting if you don’t mind violence and [lots of] nudity (it was made in the 70s and isn’t rated.) It’s all about a quest involving mystical traditions, the occult, and alchemy to achieve immortality. It may be hard to find, but Netflix has it as does the Naro!
Anyways, maybe I’ll write more often now. I certainly remembered how to write a blog post judging by the size of the scrollbar.
