Time flies …

I cannot stop being amazed of how days go by, of how ours fly. Today I was on the bus on my way to danish courses and I was actually thinking about how my day passed. Didn’t exactly get to do a lot of things, although I might have had quite a bunch of them sitting there in the back of my head. After danish, I got home and I started mounting my new 200 GB external hard-disk in its box, and formatting it, and there you go … it’s 11 again. Anyway, among the things I heard lately is an explicit one, and that is the role of Russia in delivering gas to Europe. Being the country with the biggest natural resources when it comes to gas, they have made themselves indispensable and now they are rising the prices in a “feel-it-in-your-pocket” manner. According to recent news, president Putin has visited recently Algeria, another giant gas exporter, where they have probably discussed strategies to milk Europe of money. Somehow, it might seem fair; they are still among one of the biggest powers in the world, they have the resources, it’s theirs, and why not selling it for the price? What the heck… EU people can afford it, and if they can’t, well, that will give Russia the time they lost, in order to catch up financially and technologically. A good plan some would say, as not even USA, can at this point impose any kind of price strategies for Russia. It’s like I have an apple and you want to buy it cause you are hungry. I am selling it really expensive, and you would like to have it as you need it, but you are also free to go and buy one from someone else (like there is anybody else). Discussing recently with one of my Russian friends, he was telling me how rich people can be in Moscow, not that this would be of any surprise, Bucharest is the same on a smaller scale I guess. But enough for Moscow so far, let’s go back to time … tricky problem isn’t it. Soon I will move again, 1st of December, which is good because I will stay there until June/July at least. It’s only one building away, therefore it shouldn’t be too much hassle. Then Paris comes along … 7-10 December … and in another 10 days from that, I’m going back home (is it ?!?) in Romania for 2 weeks, for the Christmas holiday. I wish I could have got more out of it, say 1 month, as I had plans to go in the mountains for a couple of days at least. That unfortunately is not being possible because of work. Oh well, you can’t win them all can you? Haven’t been a lot to school recently, and tomorrow I have to attend the Scandinavian Search Conference , or FDIH, which promises to be rather interesting and informative (and damn expensive to attend to – lucky my company is among sponsors, he he), but then again that means that I have to miss school … again. I have to write an e-mail to a friend now, as I am late with a reply …
‘nite