2017 has passed by, and it feels like it was just yesterday, even though it’s already been more than half a month since the year-end summary meeting. This year brought some gains and some regrets. The most impactful for the future was probably finally learning to swim at the age of 28. As a “land duck” from the mountains, taking this step was a way to make up for a long-standing weakness, though the cost wasn’t low—my spouse and I spent over 2000 yuan on lessons.
In recent years, under the guise of “the capable should do more,” I’ve taken on many tasks outside my department’s scope, one of which is creating PPTs for various units within our organization. The effort involved in making PPTs is something only those who have done it can truly understand. However, the amount of thought and effort invested doesn’t always translate into equivalent recognition. The more you do, the more mistakes you might make. Doing well is expected, and any dissatisfaction can easily land you in hot water.
Having nothing to do today, I found a copy of the political gains and losses in China written by Qian Mu from the bookshelf. The content of the book was written in the 1950s. The usage of some historical terms is slightly different from that in contemporary China.
This is both the best and the worst era of the internet. After being battered by reality, many thoughts and words can only linger deep within, confined to casual conversations over tea, unseen and unspoken online. Perhaps the countless messages sent in WeChat groups, only to be instantly withdrawn, best illustrate this. Hold it in, don’t speak.
On weekends, I took my wife and children out to enjoy the wind. The Xijiang River is the fourth longest river in China (the first three are the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and Heilongjiang River), the second in shipping (second only to the Yangtze River), and the second in overall water flow (the main stream of the Pearl River, which is the third separately)
It was the first time I ran a long distance, and I brought back dozens of bottles of wine and hundreds of catties of vegetables. More than 1,500 kilometers back and forth, a total of 16 or 17 hours of driving, the spirit was highly concentrated, and I couldn’t squint my eyes when entering the service area.
There is a new book shopping center downstairs, which is a good place to take your baby for a walk in the future. My wife said that this broken place finally saw a little bit of culture. →_→
In the training at the Party School of the Municipal Party Committee, part of the course is arranged for outdoor learning, mainly to visit and learn the working mode and construction experience of the Sino-German Industrial Service Zone and the Financial High-tech Zone. I feel that Foshan has finally paid attention to urban construction in the past few years, otherwise the appearance of the city really does not match its economic status.
For unknown reasons, this Gigabyte motherboard has experienced multiple failures. The incompatibility of USB 3.0 drivers is a minor issue compared to the core problem with the SATA3 interface. Previously, upgrading to Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 caused long-term incompatibility with the SATA3 controller chip driver, resulting in the HDD being at 100% usage all the time. Since it was a dual-hard drive setup, the HDD issue went unnoticed until it was almost completely ruined. Later, due to this driver issue, the system was repeatedly rendered unusable. Eventually, after replacing the hard drive and switching back to the SATA2 interface, the system managed to survive until yesterday when, for some unknown reason, the BIOS chip was destroyed, rendering the entire motherboard useless.