I have squirrels and they're at a rave.
As I was looking through possible ideas for my personal website, I was drooling over this one last August. I creep on her site every so often because she’s awesome and I’m glad she kept the old version! I did notice something looking through there that I’ll definitely be taking a look at as I try to play around with React in the future: https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/building-your-first-react-js-app-d53b0c98dc
In keeping with the events of the last few days, I went to start my car to drive home for Christmas today and I got an error that it was not connected to the network. Went out to the car to find that it didn’t even have enough power for interior lights. It has been about 4 and a half hours and so far I’ve gotten the lights to work in the attempts to get it started. I have both my jump starter battery pack and the neighbor’s battery charger involved at this point.
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Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday with my family. It has always been an event with them, not just a meal. So much so that I was Black Friday shopping with my mom 5 years ago – myself less than a week post-appendectomy and her having just had her chemo port inserted. We are very appreciative of the transition to online sales and don’t go out anymore. 🙂
I still enjoyed it this year, but it wasn’t without some painful reminders. I didn’t realize going into it just how much pursuing a postbacc degree in CS half time would consume my life. I spend a lot less time than some of my peers on actually doing the classwork and I still feel like I’m drowning on a regular basis. My friends have all been pretty great and understanding throughout the process but I’m realizing now that most of my family just doesn’t get it. Grandma even made the comment this morning during breakfast of, “So, what are you going to do when you get home?” I just laughed, and she said, “I suppose sit on your computer.” “Yeah. It’s not because I want to; it’s because I have to.” Work, do homework, eat, sleep, feed the cat. Rinse, repeat. I thought all my years of experience with school would have prepared me, but I was wrong. I’ve come to accept that it’s a sacrificial time of my life that I just have to get through. I swear I’m not intentionally ignoring anyone but I’m just forgetful because I have too much going on right now. :'(
All that said, I am extremely thankful for the friends I’ve made in the program that keep me sane and on track on a daily basis. I couldn’t do it without them.
Are you a procrastinator? You need to read these, yesterday. Procrastination may or may not let you read all of them at once, but at least read the first one. 🙂 I watched a TED talk at work about a month and when he talked about the deep dissatisfaction that many procrastinators have with life, that resonated with me and I’ve been trying to do a little better on the things that I want but do not have to do!
Well, here goes. I really prefer software development to web development, but there’s just something about having your own hosted website where you can do pretty much anything. Well, within the bounds of being cheap and not wanting to pay for a dedicated server! One of my dear friends (and classmate) has been telling me all summer that I should create a sewing website, so this is my compromise. I make no promises on what sort of random content may end up here because I really do have quite the odd conglomeration of hobbies. 🙂 That said, I think my first order of business will be a page dedicated to my favorite websites.