With work on my Online Reporting System at Zak in Asp .Net proceeding rapidly, I thought that it was time to give it a name – Grond. I’m a big fan of Tolkien, and in his book, the Silmarillion, he mentions Grond, as being the Hammer of the Underworld. So now, it’s Grond Online Reporting System. Ha, I’ve created a brand name!
It’s odd. I feel as if I’ve made something that is outside me, and can be referred to by others. This sort of feeling reminds me that one day, I’m actually going to pass into nothing, and all urges to leave something behind, and make a mark, are symptoms of an imperfect acceptance of that simple fact.
Meanwhile, my Tai Chi is doing good. Some peaceful hours in the morning doing it, is really very soothing. Right now, I’m on an up curve. I’m active, I’m creating, and I’m doing things, with not much time in between to think. But sooner or later, this will break. I’ll start getting contemplative, face an existential crisis, and then who knows what direction I will take. I might as well enjoy the up curve while I’m on it.
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I spend 70% of my day at the office studying. It’s amazing how much I’ve learned over there. My online system in ASP was just the beginning. Now I’ve started using .NET, and what not. And I’m getting paid for this! Of course, I could do this at home as well, but in the office, I have a goal – My online reporting system. A practical, usable purpose. At home, I have no such goal.
My firm has some roadshows planned on the 4th, 5th, and 6th of April, in Bombay, Delhi, and Chennai respectively. I just hope that they don’t drag me along with them for it. Three days of misery, if they do. I’m not very hopeful though.
I did my Tai-Chi today, but I’m finding that I run short of time, if I do my Tai-Chi and play my guitar at the same time. I think I’ll need to shift my guitar to the evening for a few minutes. No choice. Also, I need a little more time in the morning for Tai-Chi. Got to perfect the left hand side of the movements as well. Then, the movements with the eyes closed, and finally, something I’ve never done, the movements with a vessel balanced on the head. I’m crazy. Completely.
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Sunday was pretty rotten. Was down with a headache, but gone now. I’ve decided to do some Tai Chi every morning before playing my guitar so that I can keep some modicum of flexibility. It’s done me a world of good in the past.
Also cleaned out my room. Swept the floor and all. And most of all, in spite of the headache, I finished ‘Insomnia’. Interesting book, but I think the theme could have focussed more on insomnia, and it’s horrors instead of diverting to greater plans and purposes. He could have built a horror novel just on mindless insomnia, like he did with one theme in ‘Misery’.
Downloaded the Canturbury tales by Chaucer, ‘The Monk’, and ‘Brothers Karamazov’ by Dostoevsky. I’ll start reading one of them. Also started the short stories of Tolstoy at home.
No eggs this morning, so I’m going down to the show where I usually have breakfast, and have a couple of omlettes. Tea too.
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I’m reading Stephen King’s ‘Insomnia’ on my Palmtop. Whew! I never realized how important sleep was, and what a blessing it could be. Can’t take my eyes off the screen. Guess I’m not completely done with modern books yet.
The cook is now shelling the eggs, so I get more time saving. Tea also, I make at home now. Back home early today. Was feeling so tired in the office.
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I’ve decided to have breakfast at home. This way I get more time to play my guitar, and my chess. I take considerable time to shell the eggs though. Maybe I can ask the cook to do that for me as well, so I don’t have to waste all that time.
After years, I’m finally using an email client for mail. Thanks to Thunderbird, I can now access my free Yahoo! mail accounts with webmail extensions. Fantastic piece of software. And the Adaptive junk mail filters are something else!
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I’ve just put on four kilos. I hope it’s not the beginning of a trend. I’ll check my weight again on the 10th of April, and see. I’ve asked my mother to remind me via her diary. I’m now 57.5 kilos. I’ve never been this heavy. If this continues, I’ll have to join the rest of the world in dieting. Aaaah!
But I can’t say I’ve not had luck. I’ve eaten just about everything till now, and not had problems. Maybe it’s time for even me to have some problems. Let’ see. Meanwhile, I’m keeping up with my pledge to myself to play the guitar. The haiku need some dragging out though.
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When I was in Jabalpur, I would never have believed that I was capable of working the way I’m working now. Yet, life’s not bad. I have some free time at the end of the day, and I’m learning new technologies at work. But it’s not my real life. I don’t really know when I’ll get tired of it, and take a break from it all. Let’s see.
I just have 20 bucks in my wallet, and I don’t have time to go to an ATM. Let’s see if I can manage my lunch in 20. I’ll have to skip breakfast.
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Mass of flesh and bones
That once were meant so much more
Something from nothing
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I’ve developed an online system for the firm I work for. It’s an online reporting system. It sucks up all the marketing activities from the executives, and feeds it into a MySql database in Canada. I’ve developed it in ASP which I learned for the purpose. I’m very proud of it, and look at it with great affection.
Yesterday, my employer said that the system, fantastic though it was, was distracting me from my real work, and said that my particular skills require me to contact top firms, which others will have difficulty doing. There is no danger of course of the system stopping, since the benefits are tremendous. However, I did feel sad that I can be pulled off development whenever the firm chooses to. Should I get too attached to my own work.
I’ve learned a great deal with this system. I’m now going to migrate it to the .NET platform. So much learning. Perhaps, the good of the system is inside me, since I made it. It by itself is nothing. The animating force behind it, is myself. I suppose that if others take over the task of maintaining it, it’ll begin to have it’s own life separate from me. Like a child that has grown too big for it’s parents to take care of any more. I will fight to see that it does not die, but should I be so selfish as to say that no one else can take charge of it?
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