Daves Random Ramblings

As I sit here with words flying round my head trying to put some organisation or structure to them.  I mentioned in my previous post which, full disclosure I forgotten that I had started to write so I hurridly wrapped that one up just so I could put this one down to hopefully be some form of catharsis. I mentioned meeting someone in 2022. I'll just refer to her as "J".  Have you ever had that feeling where you really genuinely thought you had found your person? Billions of people on this planet and you find that person you seriously connect with. So you start bringing down your emotional walls we all have to protect us.  Life wasn't perfect, I mean who's life is? But I loved her. This post isn't going to go on about the in's and out's of a ducks arse in terms of mine and J's relationship.  We had moments, we talked, we connected. We integrated with one anothers families.  She met my dad while he was still with us. She came with me to the hospital t...

Its been one hell of a break between blog entries hasn't it? I'm writing this to vent.  To be honest 99.9% of my blog entries are me "venting" where my brain gets the urge to let off some steam and articulating my feelings helps to a certain degree. So lets recap and condense my life since the last entry just over 2 years ago. Career recap In August 2022 I left TMA and joined Codurance as a senior software craftsperson In December 2023 I left Codurance and joined ENSEK as a Lead Software Engineer at the start of 2024. Meeting someone About the same time of joining Codurance, I met a lady.  Genuinely thought it was one of those "defining" relationships, long terms plans being made and what looked like an amazing future together.  Unfortunately, after about 20 months, that ended in the first half of 2024. But it would seem that despite it now being well over a year, I'm still processing things. Running Well now thats a story in its own right.  In my last e...