Happy New...

It's 31th of December, 2am. I cannot sleep, don't know why -- maybe because of jet lag or because of a bunch of not so pleasant thoughts in my head. Anyway, this year was not boring by any means.

I'm not in a mood to write some lengthy general post, just want to touch professional aspect of my life. I wrote quite a lot of code this year (not very much though, but not bad at all I think). Unfortunately, most of the code ended up being a shelf-ware or ended up only on my computers with me being the only user as I cannot make the code go live because it's not usable for people other than me -- lacks docs, misses general, but not important to me features and so on.

So I really hope to make a dramatic improvement in that sense in the new year.

Happy Holidays to you.

Train Girl

I've boarded the train to Moscow sometime around 4-5 pm or something like that. The only other person in a coupe was a girl. A few minutes after train departed I've started talking to her discussing some gibberish that people usually talk about in trains/planes/etc and eventually the talk became very interesting. You know this feeling, when you're talking with somebody and you have so much things to say and you feel that the person you talk with also has a lot of things to say and basically that it would be fine to have a several discussions with this person in parallel at the same time.

So we've been talking until about 1am and discussed lots of topics, including some personal ones, so, about 8 hours or so, quite a lot of time.

I decided that it's definitely worth not to lose a connection with this person, however I was shy to ask a number. We've agreed to go to the subway (the one that under the ground, not food) together and I though I'd ask number there, but somebody meat her right near the train so I had no chance to ask the number.

So I was feeling quite impressed. I was really really angry at myself that I haven't asked her number. I wasn't able to stop thinking about her for a 4 or 5 days (and it's quite a lot of time for me to think about a girl ;]). I even managed to figure out her last name and address.

But now, a bit more than two weeks later I realised that I almost stopped thinking about her. So, now I'm not sure already if I should try to contact her... blah, on one hand I definitely won't loose anything by trying to contact her, on the other hand it doesn't to be a good situation when you're not sure if you like a person or not, at least I don't like it.

Will see how the stuff goes.

Doing Nothing Zen

Looks like I've somehow managed to master 'doing nothing' skill. When I was flying from Moscow to SF two weaks ago (I guess it's about 12 hours + 7 hours) the time passed very quick, I wasn't even reading a book or watching movies etc, was just sitting and doing nothing. And that is quite unnatural to me, because I always feel a need to do something and sitting in the plane without an ability to move or do something interesting was a pain in a previous trips. I even thought that I have an ac/hd as it was really hard to not change things quite often.

Moreover, being in bart also doesn't bother me much. I don't use laptop, I don't read books -- not because I don't bring them, I always have it in my bag, but just because I enjoy looking through the window (even though I've seen everything quite a lot of time there) and I feel totally OK about it.

That's probably because I'm quite tired and my brain switched to some 'lazy' mode or something like that, or maybe I'm just getting old. :) I hope I will be feeling same on the long way home.

One more thing I have to learn is how to sleep in a plane.