{"id":11083,"date":"2008-03-14T02:22:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T23:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/14\/catching-up-2\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T02:22:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T23:22:02","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/14\/catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Once again, so many things and so little time&#8230; Here is a catch up post with a few highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Olga and Maxim are still in Russia.\u00c2\u00a0 I miss them a lot, but, considering the circumstances, they should rather be there than here.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, miss them a lot.<\/li>\n<li>Our cat Cappa has been sterilized. I know it&#8217;s for the better and all, but I&#8217;m still filled with guilt.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not right to do this, even if it is for the better.\u00c2\u00a0 That was the first and last time that I did it.<\/li>\n<li>I am still going to the gym.\u00c2\u00a0 Lost a bit of weight (about 3 kilos) in the last couple of weeks. Exercises are still boring and painful, as they always were.<\/li>\n<li>I am doing a lot of training at work.\u00c2\u00a0 At least 2 hours per week in group sessions, and at least another 4 hours in individual ones.\u00c2\u00a0 Topics cover everything from how computers work, through PHP\/CSS\/MySQL\/HTML, to SEO and web promotion.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice to see some sparks.\u00c2\u00a0 Not fires yet, but we aren&#8217;t finished yet.<\/li>\n<li>I still write plenty of code.\u00c2\u00a0 In the last week there was a huge leap from WordPress and home made systems to <a href=\"http:\/\/cakephp.org\">CakePHP framework<\/a>. This framework is truly wonderful, but I have a lot to learn about programming MVC-kind. Including some of the terminology.<\/li>\n<li>I am watching a lot of movies. There happen to be a DVD rental right next to our office. I am so out of touch with movies world that I can grab a handful of movies, that I haven&#8217;t heard anything behind, in less than a minute.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll post some short reviews right after this post is online.<\/li>\n<li>I have totally abandoned photography, which I am truly sad of. I need to get back to it one of these days.\u00c2\u00a0 Especially now that I got invited as an official photographer to one of the upcoming events.\u00c2\u00a0 More on that a bit later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s my life in a nutshell.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Once again, so many things and so little time&#8230; Here is a catch up post with a few highlights: Olga and Maxim are still in Russia.\u00c2\u00a0 I miss them a lot, but, considering the circumstances, they should rather be there than here.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, miss them a lot. Our cat Cappa has been sterilized. 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