life update
Sorry that it’s been so long since I posted; life has been busy, but fruitful.
At the moment I am trying to get a work visa in Germany, and living with the wonderful and charming Claudia. This features lots of kafka-esque moments, wherein I try to convince people that have no understanding of the work I do that I am sufficiently qualified.
Besides that, my zero-owned-matter quest proceeds apace: I have fewer than 10 physical books now (an enormously difficult thing for me to do), and am in the process of selling off my car.
The clothing-rental thing would work if I were in the states; I haven’t looked here in Europe yet. Unfortunately it is not particularly cost-effective to rent your clothes, and has rather dire consequences for one’s ability to make a sartorial statement.
In any case, once the car is sold the largest piece of matter I will own is an Aeron chair and associated desk. Not quite ready to give up on that, but for the moment it is in the states.
My work is interesting – getting to implement a scrum-like development environment for a web-development firm, as well as improving their toolchain all round – svn, redmine, automated testing, etc. I am enjoying the challenge of moving an existing team towards a better method of working.
I’m still shoveling through my mountain of debt, incurred while attending college, and it seems unlikely that I will be free from it until at least the end of ’09; I am seriously looking forward to a future when I actually get to allocate more than a quarter of every dollar I earn somewhere other than “paying for yesterday”.
June 24th, 2009 at 08:01
Pretty good post. I just came by your site and wanted to say
that I have really liked reading your blog posts. Anyway
I’ll be subscribing to your blog and I hope you write again soon!
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June 24th, 2009 at 20:28
You go Ethan!
We’re behind you all the way, and maybe a bit envious.
Let us know if you do decide to off load that chair and desk back in the states.
All the best,
- Seth
& the CRW team.
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June 25th, 2009 at 02:59
Found your site from erowid…
Your content is so hard to read!!! Why is your main body text set in a light grey font. Seriously… do you want anyone to read this or what?
You should consider changing it to something more legible… and maybe use wordpress’s permalinks for better urls.
Yeah, first time here and I’m ranting. Just trying to help.
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July 6th, 2009 at 20:25
You know so many interesting infomation. You might be very wise. I like such people. Don’t top writing.
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July 14th, 2009 at 15:43
Jeff,
I apologize for the readability issues… it was just a theme I picked, and I haven’t had the chance to improve on it much. I tried a different one, perhaps it is better.
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