Two years gap

It's been more than two years between my two last posts on this blog. That's far away from my initial attempt to write one post a week.

It's not that I need to justify it, but I'd like to recall what's been going on in my life during this two years.

• My first son and second child was born in April 2013. We are four, and we are happier than before.
• I found a new job at Ericsson, as a research and development engineer. I joined the company in January 2012 and I'm currently playing a role as a technical team leader for a development team in SAPC.
• I had and overcame cancer. I had a rare kind of cancer: liposarcoma. I got a fat tumor removed from my right armpit in February 2012, followed by 6 weeks of radiotherapy between April and June. I currently have regular reviews and everything is fine. According to statistics, the probability of the tumor coming back after treatment is 5%, and decreases along time.
• I completed a Master in Software Engineering that started in February 2012 and ended in July 2013.
• I learned about Coursera and its wonderful course offering. I accomplished the course Functional Programming Principles in Scala in November 2013.

The main reason for not writing any posts during this time is that I was too busy taking care of my family, my own health, my job and my training. So almost any spare time that I could spend using my computer at home was devoted to studying.

I hope I can write here regularly from now on, but one post a week is probably a too ambitious goal to meet. Let's see how I get by and go on with it.

Paternity leave

So it's been a while since I wrote my last post here. The reason is that I've been too busy since February 20th, when my daughter was born. My wife and me have been taking good care of her and that, as any parents already know, requires a lot of time and energy.

This blog is a personal project, thus one of the first things I had to take aside. It's been almost two months since then.

I'm glad that I had the opportunity to invest all those time and energy in my family. It's been hard to adapt to the new situation. Now it's time to take it back.