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Self-centred Egocentric Navel-Gazing

Tue Nov 10 21:48:03 2009 · Posted by Hugo · 1 Comment

Suggest some more tautology to add to the words in the title! ;-)

Since I'm drifting in that direction with this 'lil blog, I'm going to stop pushing posts to Facebook and elsewhere. Friends that are crazy enough to be interested in my silly navel-gazing posts are surely already subscribed to the atom feed? Or off-their-rocker enough to actually visit the site on some sort of regular basis. Yikes.

If anyone else is reading this and thinking "I still want to see those silly and absurd posts!", please let me know. (Leave a comment, whatever.)

"Pull is better than push", my general philosophy with regards to blogging and status updates.

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Another On-call Week

Mon Nov 9 22:20:59 2009 · Posted by Hugo · 2 Comments

Time for some more news updates? A quick pair of paragraphs to break the ice that's been forming...

My job has me on two different on-call rotations. One rotation is more hectic/serious but not as often, while the other is every three weeks. This week I'm on-call for both, meaning it will be another one of those weeks in which I don't go anywhere during the weekend. And I will possibly fall back into the bad habit of spending more than 12 hours a day in the office, on more than one day this week. (I'm at one already, today: Monday.) No worries though, I'm not actually working solidly for 12 hours, I also do some relaxing at the office! It's just find it more convenient to stick around.

Anyway, that bad habit is unhealthy and has to be fixed, at least for other weeks. If I can limit it to only about twice a quarter, that should be good.

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One Year and Counting

Sat Oct 3 13:39:45 2009 · Posted by Hugo · 4 Comments

It's been just over 13 months, or 57 weeks, since I relocated. Kinda scary to think back of it like that, especially if you let your thoughts drift in the direction of "life's short"! ;-)

I thought I'll write some more personal updates here. I'm curious who reads these and what they're after: if there's a subset of this stream you would like to read, let me know. I will probably branch out other blogs or something for more focused topics.

This one will become my "I don't care what I write here" outlet again, in terms of having no particularly focused topic anyway. First up, I'll probably write some "life in Europe" updates. Requests and feedback welcome.

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