[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ So what's everyone up to these days?

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Well as the title says, what's been happening receintly.

Its fairly obvious that there's not a huge amount of discussion here so this is a good start point ;)


I've been working flat-out for the last 8 months on a project at work. We were meant to have it done in like May, but we were running behind so they push the deadline to next May.
Then they decided to do a massive round of changes to the app (I'm a web developer).
To make matters worse four of the seven people on the project have left the company, and 1 has been promoted off the project.

But its not all been bad, I have been lucky enough to get known as the "Vista Gadget Guy" in the office. We're looking at doing some vista gadgets and I had a bit of a play around in my own time and now I'm the go-to guy for them.

I can't wait for Vista, its looking really really impressive.

In my free time I've taken up chasing a small white ball around a field. Some people call it golf, but they aren't the people that have seen what I do on a course :P

Other than that I'm leading a pretty quiet life, splitting my remaining time with sleep and my girlfriend.

[iBarc0de]

Life has changed in a big way.

(For those unaware, i'm Krip730).

Started a company a while back, now with 8 employees. We are being purchased in February of 2007, so then I will have a holding in the company, but no longer require to work. I'm now 22 (was about 15 I think when I started nforums). After the sale I plan to travel for a bit, a year maybe, not sure. My GF and I are coming up to 3 yrs together, so a good time to travel and see new things.

Apart from work I am heavily based in Power Kiting down here in Australia. Some of you if you been around from the early days would have remembered Gods Kitchen, an old admin of the site and one of the early ones. Well he sent me a brochure back then when it all started, it sat in the cupboard for years, then one afternoon i pulled it out and ordered a kite.

So apart from work, a gf, a house, and trying to grow a sport down under my hands are pretty empty.

I used to love life, now i feel directionless. Its like i've achieved a small number of things I have wanted to do and not sure where to go from here. To people around me I look like the most well balanced, sort out, level headed person. Reality has it that I get bored with things really fast once they are accomplished, I enjoy the building of things, not the ongoings. Probably the reason we are selling our business. But it will leave me with enough money at 22 to buy a house of my own here in the city, and one out down the ocean side as a getaway.

Going to the UK to visit GK and a few of the boys.

@Awai, catch u on MSN, have some work for you :P

I always visit this forum, once every few months to take a look and remaniss (sp?). Sometimes I wonder what would have happened here if I stayed, and kept the ball moving. Then I wonder if I spent that time here, what would have happened outside of here to me in real life. Sometimes I think life is a complete fuckup, other times i think its pretty sweet. It just depends what day of the week you ask me. I'm 22, and half way to 40 and only now realising that life doesn't last as long as we think, and it can be tomorrow that I wake up and find everything has passed me by.... not this little black duck.

Regards,

Krip730

(sheesh its been a while since i used that nic)