Ricardo Varas’ Blog

November 2, 2009

Changes…

Filed under: Events, Family (tree), GNOME, KDE, Society, openSUSE — ricardovs @ 3:00 am

Right against the grain. I will no longer stay in Santiago de Chile for a job. Last Friday it was my last day at Movidreams S.A., sorry I could not say goodbye to everyone in person. These were fun three months, a lot went on in that time period and now I would like to openly thank Andres Valenzuela O., Fernando Flores B., Rene Toro Quezada, three of the most talented people I’ve ever met and worked with. You made every day a great day at the office. Of course big thanks to Humberto Lobos and Federico Saavedra, for the true oportunity to join Movidreams. Your knowledge and passion is awesome.

Now there are a couple months left in this crappy year (actually it’s not been that bad) so I’ll be traveling between Coquimbo and Vallenar very often. I need to visit Inacap for a couple reasons (sorry, not they aren’t going public at this time, heh), and also plan to meet with old friends to check if there is any job opportunity in the area. I would regret returning to Santiago right now, since I seem to be much more interested in finding a job somewhere else where life quality is better than Santiago’s. Money won’t be on the top of my list in the next 2-4 months.

Although I’ve been testing several Milestones and now the RC 2 is looking great, I will be switching to stable openSUSE 11.2 as soon as it’s out, which should be November 12th. At this point of time, KDE implementation seems to be much better than Gnome implementation. Kinda wished it was the inverse case, but that’s one of the Open Source features: you have choice. Let us wait ten more days =). I also hope to have my @opensuse.org alias once for all ;)

That’s all one changes. Have a lot of fun!.

January 2, 2009

2008 is gone..review (kind of)

Filed under: Family (tree), Random thoughts, Society — ricardovs @ 9:52 pm

It’s just too late for reviews and things like that, but I’m sure some of you would like to read (in brief) about my last year.

Best thing of the year is my first daughter, Antonia. She came into this world on the last day of march, which was a surprise. Since I was working for a MS sell out enterprise at that time, and about 200 Kms away, I traveled as soon as I could to see her. Swear to me she is wonderful, and I see her as a Linux user in the near future as she enjoys so much as I play with Compiz =)

Work was fine while it lasted. Learned a lot of SQL tricks thanks to Alex Albanez, and had fun with Karen (.NET is not that bad) and Aldo (Gnexus genius) as well.   Great people and I wish I still worked with them but when you are not having fun and disagree with so many things such as wrong technology choices, and others that I am not allowed to publish (screw it anyway), the best thing to do is to move on.

Talking about Linux, I became a proud translator for the openSUSE project, and lately joined the marketing team too. Also discovered the wonders of the KDE 4 desktop environment. It feels great giving it back, and real part of the community.

Now I’m looking for a job, so I hope it’s open source related. So far vacations are going well, fun with the family, in the right place.

April 23, 2008

23 dias como nuevo padre.

Filed under: Family (tree) — Tags: — ricardovs @ 8:24 pm

Y ese día fue el día. Luego de que nos sorprendieramos (y sorprendieramos a toda la familia), pues pensabamos que era solo alguna enfermedad estomacal, la sorpresa resultó ser una nueva vida en gestación. Una nueva vida que se demostraba a través de sueños (tanto para mi como para mi polola, y en tiempos muy similares) y nuevas formas de percibir el ambiente (alguien finalmente dejará de fumar? espero que si), cambios que definitivamente nos harían dar una paso más allá.

Y finalmente pasaron nueve meses casi como nueve dias. En realidad digo esto porque nunca esperé que el tiempo pasara tan rapido, no porque no quisiera que llegara ese día pero a veces miro hacia adelante y ni siqueira puedo ver mas allá de una semana, en estos tiempos donde pocas cosas se pueden predecir con exactitud, donde muchas cosas están reodeadas de incertidumbre. Pero ese día llegó, y ni siquiera ahora, 23 días después, puedo describir con exactitud lo sentido al saber del nacimiento de mi primera hija (hija 1, hijo 0) Antonia Catalina, quien llegó a este mundo en la ciudad de Vallenar, pesando 3.320 grs, midiendo 52 cms. y con ninguna falla física. Todos felices.

Como me encuentro trabajando en La Serena (aburrida ciudad del norte de Chile), no pude estar presente en el momento del parto, pero mi polola no estuvo sola, la acompañó mi mamá, quien también pudo tomar algunas grabaciones del momento en que Antonia salió del cuerpo de su madre. El no haber estado presente no me deja con un sabor amargo, pues yo sé que contó en todo momento con el apoyo de mi familia que está en Vallenar, y muchos lo primero que preguntan es que si el padre estuvo en el nacimiento de la hija, y la verdad es que no, pero pienso estar ahí con ella durante el proceso de la vida, lo cual es mucho mas importante que un instante, a menos que la vida sea solo un instante…para mi no.

Estar separado de mi polola e hijita durante la semana es suficientemente dificil, después de todo ahora sé como se siente ser padre, basicamente es una sensación muy humana, protectora, siento ganas de estar el mayor tiempo posible con Antonia, hasta me siento tierno con ella =) Podrán ver imagenes de ella en mi album Picasa.

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