Now

This is a now page. It’s my public declaration of priorities. You can see when it was last updated under the title.

I recently got a new job, so I am focused on doing it well. It’s a technical writing role, just like the previous one, but it’s no longer cybersecurity but identity verification.

On the side, I am still working through my cybersecurity certification (the CPTS). I am currently on 91%, and have just two modules to go before I can take the exam. Hopefully, I’ll find the time to do this this year. It should be doable, I think.

I am still living in Zagreb and I do quite a bit of DIY in my spare hours. There’s quite a lot of maintenance to be done on the house, so when I’m not typing away, I’m shoveling gravel, mowing grass, organizing stuff in the shed, etc. My next big project is to fix the garage floor and pour a new layer on top; after that, run electricity throughout, so that I can move my home office into the garage.

Otherwise, I am frequently rucking, riding my bicycle, doing calisthenics and working with a kettlebell, generally trying to keep myself healthy and moving.

I also play the drums. I try to play every day for at least 15 minutes, sometimes up to an hour. It doesn’t usually happen, but I get a couple of good sessions every week. I think I’ve developed a pretty good ghost note technique, and also my heel-toe technique has gotten good. Stylistically I’m all over the place, but I realized that I dislike playing much of the music I like listening to. Like grunge for example, or sludge. Feels much better to play trap, funk, jazz(y) stuff.

I am reading more than before, and better books too. I’ve read Jane Eyre recently, and am now reading The Count of Monte Cristo (in French!). I am considering buying other classics in other languages, like those “parallel readers” so that I can also learn the language while reading. Russian and German feel like easy wins: excellent literature, and I already speak languages which are really close to them (Croatian and Swedish).