End of Year
Well I’m currently sat in work with very little to do, Christmas has been rather uneventful. I’ve spent some quality time with a few of my friends over the past few days. It’s been nice.
2004 has been a hell of a year for me, I’ve finished my university course, I’ve taken exams, I’ve graduated, I’ve looked for a job, and at the begining of this month finally found one and settled into it. From this point of view my life has come on leaps and bounds.
Sure some of it was a little depressing, certain events in the last year of uni have made life difficult, with affects that I’m still feeling and only just really starting to get over.
From a personal point of view, most of this year has been quite sad and lonely. The first two or three months of this year I spent finally getting over Millie, and that I have now done completely. I can’t say I’ve really spoken to her since graduation, but I think that chapter of my life is definatly shut.
Leaving uni made me feel a little lonely, Andy moved to the US, and I haven’t seen many of my uni friends. Infact, I haven’t seen any of them. Which makes me a little sad.
But it’s not all doom and gloom, since March I’ve gotten to know a lot of people in Lancaster. A lot more people then I ever met at Stafford, I find that ironic and at the same time, quite sad.
In the past few months I’ve looked at the long term projects I’ve been working on, and decided that one man can not do them all. So some of them have been shelved, and some, sadly, have been canned.
The ones I’ve shelved I hope to come back to at some point and really finish what I’ve started. I just need the effort to sit down and actually carry these things out, all of them, and I mean all, are well within my capabilities.
Flipping to the other side again, in the past year so very wounderful things have happened to me, but sadly I can’t really discuss any of them here. They’ve given me hope, and a direction to set my life in. I guess in addition to my job, they’ve actually started my life.
I’ve been looking at further education again, perhaps a Masters in Computing. Lancaster would be the obvious choice, however, I’m gonna really look around and give it some serious thought. It’s not only a very important decision, it’s also a very costly one.
So yes, this year has had it’s highs and lows. I think at the end of it, I’ve “won” and ended up on top. I go into the new year with a hope that things will change for the better and will give me even more to be happy about.
I know that there are hard times ahead, and hard decisions to make. This is the same with anything though, there are always things to do and decide that will shape our lives. I’m just happy that in the past two months several major things that shape my life have happened.
I’m not really sure where this blog is going, it’s a little rambly. It is in good spirits though, I’m happy with the way this year has turned out in the end. Looking towards next year gives me hope that the next year will be better then this.
I’m looking forward to a few personal projects and events being completed I guess in 2005.
* hiddenblog.com is to be finished within January 2005.
* nebula.thdo.uk.alastria.net will replace parallax.grfx.nl.alastria.net
* Alastria Networks being assigned it’s first IPv4 /24 by RIPE, with a hope of gaining a production space IPv6 allocation too.
These are the three main things that I will accompish first, there are other things in the works that I can’t write about, but they should be fun.
Well I think I’ll cap this blog here, there really isn’t that much more to right appart from I’m looking forward to next year, which is in six and a half hours. I’m also looking forward to leaving work in thirty minutes.
Adios for now folks, I wish you all a happy new year,
Peter.