Wrap-Up: Lets Try to Be Positive Edition

Wrap-Up: Lets Try to Be Positive Edition

It's been a hot minute since I really posted. To be blunt, I am pretty much just endlessly frustrated lately over the state of everything. Particularly the state of politics here in the US. I mean, I knew it would be shitty. I didn't think it was going to be THIS relentlessly shitty, this quickly. Lets take a peek inside the background at some journal topics here... Or not. Lets try to, I dunno, be positive I guess. Whats been going on lately that is not awful. Learning Like last year, I started doing some leader-led training courses after work…
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100 Days of Python, Projects 32-40 #100DaysofCode

Things are ramping up a bit again here.  Now we get all sorts of fancy API calls for real time data.  This will definitely be useful for later personal projects, along with the email notifications.  I will probably be running dozens of scripts on a Pi or my web server by this time next year.  This is the sort of stuff I really dig, keeping notice of what's going on with things. As usual, my Github Repository for all this code is here. Day 32 - Sendmail (Birthday and Quote Email-er) So, I am sure on some level, I was…

Endlessly Learning

One thing I have always done in my life is worked to constantly be learning something. It may not actually be a useful something, but it's something. Back when I was finishing up my degree in 2003, I was telling people that I wanted to get the RA job in the dorms so I could just live there for the rest of my life taking classes. Granted, the RA position only meant your room was covered, I don't think it covered any of the course work expense. Fortunately, we live in a world of connected possibilities, or whatever buzz word…