Looking to The Future
June 9, 2009 @ 22:17
It’s been a big few months, hence the lack of blogging!
In the this time I have:
- Left my job at Mendeley working on a cool piece of research software. It was time to move on to other things and there are no hard feelings on either side, hopefully my work on there will continue to be well received and more Linux people (although Windows/Mac are also supported) will check out the cool Qt/C++ reference manager.
- Moved back from London to Edinburgh. I’d been away in Ipswich and London since leaving university and the call of Caledonia became too strong to resist!
- I proposed on the top of Cairngorm to my beautiful best friend and girlfriend. It was here that we’d had our first long chat while walking down seven years ago this summer. She said yes so we’re now planning the wedidng for 2010 and are both very excited!
Here’s a picture of us a few minutes after getting engaged (more and bigger photos to follow on my Flickr):
All this stuff has got me thinking more about the future so I’m trying to do the following:
- Plan my wedding and try to find a marital home for my fiancee and I. Also, buy a very cute puppy for us to have.
- Nail the currently freelancing I’m currently doing for my secret dream employer so that it will become a permanent position.
- Not install Linux on my new Macbook as it’s not fully working yet and I want to try and avoid wasting time fiddling and force myself to help the KDE Mac project.
- Stop wasting time messing unnecessarily with my computers when they work fine. Stop reading blogs that aren’t incredibly interesting. Stop following people on Twitter that aren’t incredibly interesting. Possibly stop using Twitter altogether for this reason
Generally I just want to try and start to make the most of my life a bit more, focusing on the things in life that matter (my faith, my fiancee and meeting actual goals with KDE/bass-guitar-playing rather than messing about).
It’s a bit of a random time for resolutions but hopefully this is a time when I can turn over a new leaf and start being a bit more useful again. If I’ve not achieved anything public in music or software in a few months then I want someone to slap me!
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Congratulations!
Comment by Angel Blue01 — June 9, 2009 @ 22:43
Congratulations
Comment by MoRpHeUz — June 9, 2009 @ 23:03
Cheers mate!! And congratulations ^_^.
Comment by Zeke — June 10, 2009 @ 00:33
Good for you!
Hope it works out!
Comment by Max — June 10, 2009 @ 02:23
Congratulations and good luck planning your wedding
As far as the slap is concerned: I am sure you will find somebody who will take the responsibility to do it if necessary.
Comment by Adrian — June 10, 2009 @ 06:44
Welcome back, in many senses of the phrase.
I’ll set a diary note to remember and slap you. Gladly….
As for the rest of it – you’ll figure it out.
How is staying with your ‘rents working out?
Comment by theWeir — June 10, 2009 @ 07:29
@theWeir: Renting a flat in town now, staying with parents went well thanks. Looking forward to your slap
Comment by Mike — June 10, 2009 @ 08:04
Congratulations.
Comment by Lawal Adekunle — June 11, 2009 @ 14:18
hey dude just catching up on yours stuff… congrats, but you know I said that already
Comment by BenJam — June 25, 2009 @ 06:30
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