Late Autumn

It’s been a long time since I sat at a keyboard for my blog, a long time since I wrote any kind of Chinese blog post. Just like that, half a year went by in a blink, and more than a year in the US went by too. Last month I switched the blog’s engine from jeklly to hexo, back to nodejs, which I used to know well. Over this year technology has changed at a dizzying pace, so fast that keeping up has left me a bit tired and helpless.

I know it’s already winter back in China, and it’s started snowing in my hometown, but here I can still wear a T-shirt, so let’s call it late autumn.

Coming to the US gave me a fresh understanding of learning. These days I like organizing things more and more: organizing notes, organizing files, organizing key points. Maybe that’s the American way of thinking: out of a jumbled mess, pick out the few items you need and line them up neatly, ready for when you need them.

They say what goes around comes around

Yes, they’re right. I spent a few carefree years in high school, didn’t care when I bombed the gaokao, and went to a junior college. But what I’m facing now is a university that I think is even harder to handle than the gaokao. A friend says as long as I put my heart into it I’ll be fine. Sure, but putting my heart into it is exhausting.

In the past four months I’ve splurged on a lot of stuff. In order of purchase: first a NAS, a Synology DS415Play, a UPS backup power supply, an R7000 router, a DELL U2415 monitor, an HHKB Type-S, a Magic Trackpad, a Bother scanner-printer, a New 3DS XL… plus some other handy software…