Family, friends and foes (I)

There are 5 types of people around you and they daily influence your freaking life: family, friends, foes, mate and others. If I were to categorize people from my obtuse angle, those 5 would be it.

Family
Almost everyone has some special people which fall under this category. Most likely everyone puts here their blood relatives (and perhaps include their mate). My criteria is not special, it's just like this and perhaps any other regular Joes out there.

I could fill endless pages about them, you could as well... some funny things, some cushy ones, sad and joy... all is there... in the unwritten pages.

But what I'll write about them is how interesting my view is or rather how they influence my life. They are "out there", far away, as I have departed on my own path.

Short description:
- mother: kind and smart, hunted by her mother's genetic legacy (cheap and selfish)
- father: kind and extra smart, overweight and sensitive to emotions lately
- brother: 8 years older, has "it's own family", genetic inheritance: stubborn, kind, family guy
- cousin: 4 years older, has "it's own family", always in debts, scary face and muscle mass, also kind
- my father's parents: either love them, either hate them
- my mother's mother: she's quite a character...
- my mother's sister: also my god-mother at the wedding, very kind, lovely character, good friend with my future ex wife.
- a few others...
- me: 1000km away from them!

Well, with all the distance... I can say they still make quite a stir in my life. Of course everyone is bound to the unsaid rule of helping the others in need or doing it without asking. And from this bounding is getting out all the interesting things.

For example my folks are trying to give me advices on what to do with my upcoming divorce... of course I kindly reject their opinions since they have absolutely no clue how things actually work in my world. I'm still glad I haven't said anything for an year or so to them about this separation between me and my wife...

Get your head straight, find out what you want - then share it with them. Otherwise... they'll pawn me with their opinions: you should do this, you should go there, come back from where you are, don't buy that car - eats too much gas, have you been to the dentist? when are you moving to a different flat? and etc... I believe the word is nagging :)

But no matter what they say, no matter what they do: they are my family and I'll go right over everything... perhaps say "chill" or pretend I didn't hear something... and go back as being family.

The point of where they stay in my universe is "there". For some reason I like being far way and yet I enjoy seeing and hearing them. Perhaps is the good times that lure me into it and most certainly, somehow, a distance must be kept.

Only by keeping a distance I can go on with my plans and life in general with as little influence possible.

My father get's influenced allot by "his folks"... sometimes good, most of the time not that good. And they sure like getting involved...

Everything get's me thinking: how will I be with my kids? Ok, I know I'll be scary dad for them until they grow up... I'll do it for their sake of course. But what will happen afterwards: will I be a control freak? will I manage to let go and keep the balance between nagging and giving a good advice when needed? Will I be referred to as a good parent by them? Will I be in good terms with my brother even when I'll be 70 years old and senile? :D

Would you?

One thing is sure about family... time passes by and at a certain point I'll wish to have spent more time with them.

Feeding Time and Vinton Cerf

It's feeding time and the first steps to feed this bloggy are apparently setuped: blog, feedburner, facebook.

It's interesting how the world goes around within internet. Companies and respectively their web pages learn to coexist and collaborate.

Thumbs up: thank you Vinton Cerf, ARPA made the world a better place!!!

Friday 13-th

Well... sometimes coincidence is funky.

Friday 13-th.
I'm updating the blog with a MEGA post... I'm writing for about an hour with all the interruptions from my friends asking me stuff... Yes, I was home, having my "morning" coffee and ideas were flowing into words like the amazon rushing towards the ocean.

It would have been a nice post, you would have like it for sure, acidic and sublimely funny... but Friday the 13-th kicks in and my unsaved almost finished post dies with the browser... WTF I ask my self... no matter what I wanted to write... WEIRD shit was happening with my "things" on the screen. I check the processes for some weird Trojan or other viruses (the mouse was still working)... nothing... I'm saying stupid Windows and restart the comp.

PC is starting and jams at the boot... "Shit" I say to myself boiling with anger. After some shut down and reboots... I'm at the windows log-on screen, trying to type the password... any letter typing... ERROR - Bad password... WTF!?!

Aha... so the keyboard is dead, fried and screwed... damn it!

My flat colleague takes the keyboard for a test... works like new... I put it back at my PC... works fine... oh - and yes, I was unplugging it out and in of the PC before...

So no MEGA funny acidic post no more, thank you Friday the 13-th.

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A few hour later... I get to work for an other night-shift. The guy from the late-shift says:
- our Manager will be changed for 1-st of April (I had a deal with him concerning my salary... mega sucks)
- we have 1 person to many in the team for our current workload (somebody might get booted... sucks)
- we will move to the second floor (we are alone here during the night so moving there would mean lots of other people around... sucks)

What can I say... THANK YOU Friday the 13-th, I'AM NOT A SUPERSTITIOUS GUY BUT YOU SURE ARE TRYING YOUR BEST TO PROVE ME I'M WRONG...

Therefore: YouTube of the day

Day one

Some times you just ought to be there.
There is most certainly a cloud of virtual stuff. Among those I can mention a few but I'll just mention facebook for the moment.

I started using facebook about 3 weeks back and I did it just to contact someone for a certain collaboration (I'll get to this later). While I was setting up the account "facebook" recommended me a few people which I might know... how in the world did he knew about them... I'm still puzzled. I'll not go into details about it but it's damn suspicious :D

And so, I got facebooking... and crawling through it just to see what it is all about. I can say that it surprised me in a pleasant way... now friends which are updating their status 3-4 times a day doesn't seem that off now-a-days. We're "playing" games together, sending each other stupid flowers or sweet teddies, songs and posters, jokes and so one... it's catchy and it's out there: facebook.

Btw, after this 3 weeks I remembered why I joined facebook in the first place and asked that person what I intended back then.