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zoutke gave me an iMac. So far I'm loving it. There are still some things I don't know and do wrong, but so far everything has this feeling of being "right" that I never got on windows. I decided to go for the full monty including iMovie, iDVD and iPhoto and found that the things I'm missing seem to be available as little utilities for a modest price. The fact that I can just switch language like that (just like in KDE) is also a major selling point that I never found on the apple site. Now what to install except Xjournal and Missing Sync?
We also went to see the Xmas market in Brussel which was pretty nice. We also went on a giant wheel. We were scared sh*tless but Matteo enjoyed himself a lot. He of course got any gifts with still more to come.
Besides these good things, the holidays and the visit of the in-laws also bad things went on. Today I had to go to the funeral of the father of one of my friends. In some ways this is too close for comfort, on the other hand my father died almost 20 years ago so the pain isn't very acute :-).
Still there was a full blown service in an overflowing church, with a preach (or some talk about the deceased) from the priest that was pretty good. So good I wanted to applaud at the end, but I caught myself just in time as nobody else was moving. Sometimes I feel pretty lost during religious ceremonies because I'm such an outsides who doesn't know when to stand or when to sit and that was one of those times. As far as I understood the preach it was that life does not consist only of Hollywood or advertisement induced reality but that suffering and pain actually is a critical part of what makes us human. And except the religious references I agree. People now want life to be 'merry ever-after' while this is simply not possible.
I morn their loss, and that I didn't get to know him more. He seemed a guy that always knew where his towel was.
zoutke gave me an iMac. So far I'm loving it. There are still some things I don't know and do wrong, but so far everything has this feeling of being "right" that I never got on windows. I decided to go for the full monty including iMovie, iDVD and iPhoto and found that the things I'm missing seem to be available as little utilities for a modest price. The fact that I can just switch language like that (just like in KDE) is also a major selling point that I never found on the apple site. Now what to install except Xjournal and Missing Sync?We also went to see the Xmas market in Brussel which was pretty nice. We also went on a giant wheel. We were scared sh*tless but Matteo enjoyed himself a lot. He of course got any gifts with still more to come.
Besides these good things, the holidays and the visit of the in-laws also bad things went on. Today I had to go to the funeral of the father of one of my friends. In some ways this is too close for comfort, on the other hand my father died almost 20 years ago so the pain isn't very acute :-).
Still there was a full blown service in an overflowing church, with a preach (or some talk about the deceased) from the priest that was pretty good. So good I wanted to applaud at the end, but I caught myself just in time as nobody else was moving. Sometimes I feel pretty lost during religious ceremonies because I'm such an outsides who doesn't know when to stand or when to sit and that was one of those times. As far as I understood the preach it was that life does not consist only of Hollywood or advertisement induced reality but that suffering and pain actually is a critical part of what makes us human. And except the religious references I agree. People now want life to be 'merry ever-after' while this is simply not possible.
I morn their loss, and that I didn't get to know him more. He seemed a guy that always knew where his towel was.
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Same here
Date: 2007-01-06 11:24 pm (UTC)It's nice to hear that pain and grief are essential parts of human life. Missing those (or not listening to the signals) is like skipping some important part of life