Even More HPC Training, Anxious Choices, Languages and Animal Rescue

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First three days of this week were spent at La Trobe University conducting another round of HPC and Linux courses. They were a good class, engaged and interested - at least those that made the effort to turn up were. Next week I have another round except at Deakin University and using (primarily) Australian's most powerful computer Raijin. It uses a different scheduler and resource manager to what I typically work with and has some rather different licensing approaches, so it has also met that I've spent the other two days at work reconstructing the three-day teaching manuals and testing code for the course. Speaking of work, it has been rather grim days. There was a farewell lunch today for several more of our staff as the company begins to move towards a skeleton staff for HPC maintenance alone.

Whilst I am not at the point of public disclosure I must admit an choice issue has been gnawing at me for the past several days (just as well I have been busy), which is generating (quite unreasonably) a great deal of anxiety. Yes, it is potentially extremely disruptive to my life but honestly only relative to this particular stage of my life - I wouldn't be feeling anything like I do fifteen years ago. Worse still, it is somewhat embarrassing because the available choices are extremely beneficial. I apologise to my dear readers for being so cryptic, but I do keep a public journal (even on a now-obscure platform) and as a result I must keep a level of confidentiality. To an extent getting this down is catharitic.

Continuing work on Duolingo goes well. Contrary to some expectations I am not suffering much confusion in vocabulary from taking multiple languages. Attended German class at the CAE on Wednesday and was pleasantly surprised to discover that the Duolingo training had a very positive effect. On the way home we encountered a fledgling Tawny Frogmouth. Not exactly the first wildlife rescue we had conducted in the area we whisked it off to the 24-hour vet, where it's doing very well.

Comments

[iris]

Anxiety is terrible. I hope some clarity has come to you on whatever is bothering you. Best of health!

[tcpip]

The silly thing about it - and I had a cathartic moment when I wrote about it my last entry - was the sense of stress and worry was concerning about making a decision over two good choices.

As it turns out, I've taken the best one. So all's well!

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

I hope you find some relief from the anxiety soon.

There's something to be said for finding similarities between languages, the more of them you learn.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

> There's something to be said for finding similarities between languages, the more of them you learn.

Yes, I've had an interest in theoretical linguistics for a time and now I'm seeing it in practise.

In my ideal language there would still be no articles - let alone gendered articles - and all verbs would be expressed in the infinitive only.

Maybe I should put Tetum up on Duolingo?

[lyca-dimitrova.livejournal.com]

Вы уже видели что произошло в Париже? Я в шоке

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Теперь мы знаем, почему беженцы бегут.

[delphipsmith]

Owls (or "wols" as Winnie the Pooh would say) are the cutest things ever. Sorry for the anxiety but if (as you say) "the available choices are extremely beneficial" then in the end, all will no doubt be well.

Saw Daniel Craig on the Late Show last week; one of his pet causes is removal of unexploded ordnance (i.e. mines and explosive hazards that get left behind after a conflict), and as I watched I thought of those specially-trained rats you mentioned a while back :)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

> Sorry for the anxiety but if (as you say) "the available choices are extremely beneficial" then in the end, all will no doubt be well.

I know, I've been stressing about it for days and really it was in the process of writing all this down that came to terms with how I shouldn't be worried at all because it's a choice between the very good and the very good.

All will be revealed soon.

> Saw Daniel Craig on the Late Show last week; one of his pet causes

I had to look up Daniel Craig, but I see what you did there :)