A Notice

by Bryan

6 comments

1 Kryten42 { 08.29.08 at 9:44 pm }

Good luck with the project m8! 😀

And curious timing! I have a meeting today (finally!) with the person whose project I am working on to nut out the details. 🙂 So hopefully, that means I’ll be somewhat busy also.

Serendipity again? 😉 😀

I have had to adjust the way I work quite a bit however. Since the breakdown I had over a year ago, it’s taken a while for my mind to be able to focus on anything more complex than *what’s for lunch*. 😀 But I have found the way I used to work is no longer possible. I can no longer multi-task as effectively (I get confused easily, especially if working on quite disparate things, though that seems to be easing slowly), and my memory is definitely a problem, and it seems to be much more difficult than previously to learn new things, etc. However, thanks to my good friend who still has faith in me, I have something to work on so I can get back to having a life rather than simply existing. 🙂 On the plus side, I now am actually looking forward to this as a challenge rather than as *more problems I really don’t need now* which is how I felt when he first approached me with the project some months ago. Was too soon I guess. 🙂 I’m actually quite pleased with myself that I have been able to adjust my thinking this quickly and accept the way I am right now (though I do not accept that I will be this way for long!) The rehab people I have been working with the past 9 months are very pleased with my progress. The initially expected me to be in rehab for 2 years. I’m aiming for one year! 😉 LOL I like a real challenge, though if it takes a bit longer, so be it. 🙂 I’ll never stress about anything again! And that’s a promise.

You may have noticed some improvements in my linguistic skills since I first commented here (and some attitude adjustments). 😉 LOL I have more fun now, especially annoying some people a tad. 😉 Heh… Life is way too serious! And too short.

Anyway, again, good luck and try to take it easy. 🙂
Cheers!

2 Bryan { 08.29.08 at 10:51 pm }

As with most things, clients work on their own schedule. I blocked out time last month to do this, and the person I needed to get the approval from took off on another project between two vacation trips and the hour I needed of his time wasn’t available until this week.

It’s nice that you are slowing down, because it doesn’t pay to screw up your life sweating the small stuff. You need time to recover so you can make it to the end. I went through the “life is a series of sprints” a while ago and decided it was a marathon and you need to pace things.

It’s a lot easier to do it right the first time than to try to fix it later, and it actually takes less time overall. You can’t convince the sprinters of that reality, but they’ll find out.

You only get one shot at life, so you might as well enjoy it.

3 Steve Bates { 08.29.08 at 11:40 pm }

Bryan and Kryten, hang in there, both of you. And yes, Kryten, I’m glad to hear you’re learning to pace yourself. Bryan is right: it is possible to burn oneself out early. I am (barely) living proof of that.

4 Bryan { 08.30.08 at 12:53 am }

In case you haven’t noticed, Steve, I’m a little stressed right now.

5 Kryten42 { 08.30.08 at 7:21 am }

Thanks Steve, Bryan.

It can just happen with no real warning either Steve. I thought I’d get some warning before my brain and body just decided it was time to stop working. I mean, I was tired a lot and other things, but I was very busy and was planning on a break soon. I guess my system was on a different schedule. I literally just collapsed crossing a major street in the city center June last year the day after a law exam (which I found I’d got a very high mark for). I don’t even remember how I got home or the rest of that day. I discovered the next day I’d done a lot of damage to myself when I collapsed on the hard and very rough road. I could barely remember my name. Went to the Doc, who had me in Hospital for tests etc for a couple days and discovered I was a diabetic and other problems. Now I’m on a lousy disability pension that barely covers my living expenses. Extra incentive (that I actually don’t need, as I’ve always been a very self-motivated person) to get some decent income. Luckily, I’ve always been very tough, and always realistic and honest with myself. So, after a month of self-pity, I got fed up with myself and got back into gear. LOL

So, that’s me in a nutshell. 🙂 And more than many want to know I’m sure. 🙂 We all have our problems to face in our lives, some people already have, other have yet to.

I don’t know how to quit or give up. *shrug* I figure that will happen the day I die. 🙂 Until then, I only know how to move forward. 🙂

I had a nice day off with my friend today, which he really needed as he’s working himself to death *sigh* So I feel a little pressure to get going to hopefully make things easier for him. And for me, that’s better motivation than money. After surviving Cambodia almost 30 years ago, I learned without any doubt whatsoever, that nothing is more important than good, reliable true friends. And I am lucky to have a couple that have been with me 30 years or more.

Bryan, cut yourself some slack my friend. Just do what you can at a realistic pace and let nobody try to force you to work any other way. It’s just not worth it! I know. It’s what I have to do also, and it sounds as though Steve has learned that too. Sprinters don’t last as long as pacers. 😉

Thanks to stress and my *accident* last year, I’m also on telmisartan I’m told for the rest of my life, and metformin for the diabetes, and a couple other drugs. I hate drugs, have I mentioned that? LOL

Oh well… life does indeed go on! Forward… 😀

If there’s anything I can do to help Bryan, just ask. Sincerely. You have my email address. 🙂

6 Bryan { 08.30.08 at 11:50 am }

Thanks for the offer, Kryten, but I’m converting some legacy stuff that was originally written in the 1980’s to an entirely new platform, and most of the work involves manipulating the data so nothing is lost in translation.

My questions were on the new data formats, so I couldn’t do anything until they were resolved.