From 2017 to 2018

It has been a full year, fuller than anything I can remember.

The situation, from my point of view, is not good. Everything around me has been going downwards, with few exceptions. Factories have had a very bad year. More and more people just waste their money and life on, pointless jobs and most of the time, a 2-room temp housing. Damn they are not even real houses. Talked with my dad the other day, asking about industries in my hometown. Nothing. What's still left kicking are those with government or military ties. Even those, have been struggling day to day. And my father would quit his job next spring. I don't really have many friends working in IT sectors so I really can't say what they are doing there. But, IT has lost its charm, on me at least.

Another thing that bothers me a lot in 2017 is the actions and attitudes of the government. All I can see now is the gradual tightening of control over people's lives. What people see, read, watch, play, listen, everything. Not to mention other social events happening in the past year. It is frankly increasingly suffocating. With the mounting tensions both from the inside and outside, I could see a path for war. It's not like, wars are not the way out, they normally are. But the madness of people, and suffering, are not what I want for life.

The internet will be broken sooner or later. I should start pulling all my data from cloud services and start to prepare for the worst. The worst will come.

My job has not gone very well in 2017 neither. There could be many reasons I could find to justify this but, hey, maybe it's just I have not given my best. Maybe another year. Maybe.

Personally it has been fine this 2017. Could not ask for more.

As for the coming 2018, what I want is really simple. Continue my research, and continue to learn new things.

And hope for the best.