Sep
3
It Wasn’t The Swine Flu!
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I was dead sick the last 4 days and it wasn’t the swine flu. Just a cold that did not want to go away….Bi$%”! It’s over thanks to few antibiotics and good drugs. My dad is back on regular working hours and my brother is starting his new position as a teacher for the public service since he passed the exam. Things are more normal for everybody but me :). My sister has finished her training position with the french national tramway system: SNCF and is looking for a job.
I kind of like the stock markets. I am still hesitating to put all my saving on the table and make it a regular business. I will wait for a month and see what I can really make out of 5k before I go higher.
Aug
28
Strange is life
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I invested in two stock options on Wednesday and Thursday and made a potential gain of $700. I only spent 15 min reading about these stocks. Lucky! I will split my 5k in short term and long term investments. Let see how things go. I went to play WoW, watched movies and even had a run in the afternoon. I can get used to this type of life.
Tired of working for people who have no idea about what they are doing…I want to work for myself! It has been 10 years that I was trapped in some strange science business game. I was very frustrated.
Aug
26
Getting Colder!
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After the heat last week, the weather has been colder over the weekend. I quickly recovered from a very minor cold which triggered a sore throat. It disappeared promptly. Still no news on the job side, probably because I have not sent many applications yet. I am aiming more towards the IT side. I am also going through my 30’s crisis. As many of my crisis in life, they usually come late. I am feeling more lost than ever before. I have no real idea about what I want to do.
I watched two movies: Knowing and One Week. Coincidently both are about death that comes too early yet as a certainty. I was a bit deceived by the ending of Knowing and was rather relieved by the other one, not as dramatic as usual! I also saw the trailer for Avatar, Cameron’s new Sci-Fi Flick. I liked it very much. It starts on December 16 2009 though.
I am very annoyed by my astigmatism as it does not allow me to concentrate too long on a screen to read. I cannot wait to get this problem fixed. The apointment is for September 07. I am wondering why my savings do not go down. The funny thing with this economical crisis and the fact I had money in Australian dollars created a strange phenomenon. When I had more savings, the Euro was high so I had less euros when I did the conversion. Now the trend is opposite and with less savings, the conversion rate is in my favor. Also because I live with my parents, I do not pay rent as I should. I still contribute as I do not want to be dependant.
Aug
21
This is something that happens all the time in France and I really do not enjoy it. The alternance between hot/cold weather in August, usually towards the end. It makes me sick. I have a red throat and it is a bit painful now! People are always surprised to find me sick when it is that hot. In fact, I just forget to close the window overnight and of course I get sick. I am a bit down this week. I do not know why. My dad is working a nightshift and things are a bit strange. I stay most of the time in my room anyways. Without internet, I would dieeeee!
Aug
19
It is almost painful to go out today. It is heavy, hot and no air is moving around. It is extremely unpleasant to do anything out door. I will not run for sure. I opened a saving account called, PEL, with my bank today. It is a special saving account that allows one to borrow money if that person wants to buy a house or an apartment. Anyways who knows if I won’t need one in the future. I have saving that doesn’t do much because the interest rates are particularly low so why not put a little bit in this type of account. The money will be blocked for 4 years.
Aug
17
Hot Weather!
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It has been quite hot over the weekend. Lovely sky but a bit too heavy. I ran and my left achiles heel is a bit painful. I proabably put too much pressure on one side as usual. My sister and her BF came back from their weekend at Cannes. Her BF has relatives there. They stopped by and ate quickly. They also had to drop the little black rabbit called, Civet. Very smooth and smart rabbit. It does chew on anything it can find though destroying easily tables/chairs, etc..
Aug
14
Testing
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It looks like that it was a bug that prevented me from inserting pics and the last update has corrected it. It was indeed annoying not to be able to do so since it improves the blog display. I am trying to fix every little detail that annoyed me but I did not have time to fix since I was too busy playing WoW. So this is the nice view I enjoy everyday while running around the lake.
Aug
10
Fixing Things!
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Over the weekend, I was playing with the french internet provider that gives us 10 Gb location for webstorage. I moved my blog and figured out few technical details concerning phpadmin and url/homedir location. All is working fine now. How could I say no to 10 Gb webstorage. I also bought a 3 m HDMI cord for my PC, I was tired of moving the one used by the Freebox, plus a new mouse and a fancy electrical plug with 8 inputs…70 Euros!
A head hunter called me on Friday for a possible IT position. It was crucial to him that I was french because of the nature of the job. It seems that it is highly oriented towards defense and security. Who knows! I might end up doing what I am really good atand what I like most: computers. Maybe it is time to make a living with it.
Two months home! I should admit I enjoy the area around my parents’ town. It has developped from a small suburb town into a nice are near Paris with everything a quiet person like me needs…Food is also excellent and internet is very fast.
Aug
6
Once a Runner…
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Always a Runner. I went for a run today. I wanted to get used to drive my parents’ manual car, to go out a bit and to enjoy the weather and the sun. So I went running around the lake near my town. Such a pleasure to get back on my feet. I missed it I should I admit and I shall do it regularly again. It forces me to practice more my driving skills anyways.
Aug
5
Little Things
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The astigmatism is getting worse on my left eye, I am quite annoyed by the weird effect. I see things in two different planes. I took an apointment but every french opthamologist is on vacation during August so the first spot available is on September 07. I have to wait until then and endure the disagreement silently.
My Dell laptop’s price has increased by 150 GPB. Funny! Indeed, I bought it when the government is giving out money to help businesses. Now that the business boost is over, Dell had to increase all its prices and even decrease the specifications. So you can buy a weaker laptop for 150 GBP more! Usually I see prices decrease so I am quite happy withe the deal, especially because I love my laptop and because it works like a charm.
I upgraded my wordpress yesterday, I am glad nothing bad happened. For some reasons I cannot post pictures directly to the blog. It just hanged when I tried to do so. Maybe I shall move the blog to the french serveur. My provider is giving 10 Gb to do so. It is probably wiser to use it.