New beginnings
Posted by George Wright Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:03:00 GMT
Three weeks ago I moved to Toronto to start my new job at Torch Mobile, and so far it’s been an amazing experience.
With the exception of the in-flight entertainment being broken for the first 3 hours of the flight, the move went fairly smoothly, and I managed to get all my sporting kit (bike, target rifle, etc) over without any trouble - I’m surprised at how easy the whole process was.
So far the job’s been a steep learning curve; it’s been a while since I’ve done much coding, so I’m a little rusty, but it’s nice to get back behind a keyboard and work with the guys I’ve known for half my life. At the moment I’m just doing various bits of random WebKit work so nothing too exciting.
Another KDE person who’s just moved here is Jakob Petsovits who is a great guy if a little crazy (but aren’t we all!). Other KDE people in Toronto who I’ve met so far are Eugene Trounev and Shawn Starr, not to forget George Staikos. We held an impromptu KDE 4.3 release party at my place, but it ended up just being a pizza + wii party which didn’t turn out so bad. Mario Kart is such an addictive game…
Last week I shot in the Ontario Rifle Association’s annual provincial championships meeting, and somehow managed to come off in third place (out of 80+) in the main competition I entered - here’s hoping I can continue shooting this straight! All the shooters here have been wonderfully helpful and I can’t thank them enough for all the effort they expended in making sure I was able to shoot that meeting. One guy (an Olympic/Commonwealth games shooter and all-round legend) even made all my ammo for me for the meeting, and that stuff shot like a laser beam.. If it didn’t go in the middle, it was my fault!
As for now, I’m quite ill with a really, really bad cough (no, Jakob - it’s not swine ‘flu) so I’ve spent most of today sleeping to try and fight it off (it’s been 3 weeks now.. hurry up and go) so that next weekend I can do some more sightseeing with Jakob, not to mention getting back into the saddle and seeing Ontario from my bike!
Speaking of new beginnings, my parents have decided to move back to Australia and are now leaving the UK; what with me here in Toronto, my parents in Sydney and my brother in Beijing it seems we’re a truly international family (again)!
For the uninitiated: Toronto’s subway trains feature a number of (obviously government-sponsored) posters warning the population against the dangers of swine flu, as well as how to avoid and recognize it.
It seems the symptoms are a really bad cough as well as fever. George claims not to have fever, but then again, so can I! Hopefully George can survive his flu long enough so that we can see all the sights and other niceties that Toronto has to offer.
I don’t even want to start to begin to imagine what’ll happen when the fever breaks out in full bloom.
Hey, I hope I can join you next time :D
Welcome to our side of the pond. :)
I’m totally jealous of people who live next to a bunch of KDE folk. I’ll probably never attend a KDE release party unless I move someplace like that.
Hey, I’m in Toronto too!
I’ll be leaving for Kingston in about three weeks, though.
Where are the swine flu posters? I haven’t seen them, though most of the time on the subway I try to sleep, so that might be why.
@Ian: you need to move to Toronto, clearly :) It’s quite a nice city overall. And, it has a Linux café.
why risk it? just take the flu test.
I know when I have flu, and I know when I have a cough. This is a cough.
@girish if you take a test for no good reason, then you’re probably going to get treatments for no good reason when you get a false positive.
hmm, I wonder if I should put up the pictures (and videos!) of the “Infamous” KDE release party @ George’s house… ;)
Will your brother also decide to go to Beijing? I didn’t know that..
good articles