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kittydesadeYesterday was better. Exhausted, but better. I did a bit of cross-stitch, I took it slow and easy, I went back on Twitter and said hi to my friends which was nice and cheerful even if Twitter itself, still a tire fire of horrible news. And I announced my career transition attempt to go to tech, which was met with cheers and encouragement from my friends in tech. So that's really lovely.
Today we went out and did a couple grocery runs at a couple stores since the first one had some empty shelves in weird places. Why was the tomato paste out but not the diced tomatoes, spiced tomatoes, or tomato sauce? Who even knows. We also stopped by the vet, which was deluged with people, and picked up Murdock's insulin refill. Murdock's still under his former weight and he's still having mobility issues, but they haven't gotten worse and he isn't losing any more weight, and his energy is pretty much back to normal, so I'm interpreting that as damage done slow to heal and he's fairly stable in general.
Iiiii stuff. Things. I'm continuing to cross-stitch, I'm currently working on the House Martell banner from Game of Thrones and I have patterns for shittons of the houses. Martell, Tully, Stark, Karstark, Bolton, Mormont, Lannister, Baratheon, um. Clegane. Tyrell. I'm going to put them all up on dowel rods and hang them from, uh, somewhere. And I've got my usual vulgar cross-stitch pattern going too, the current edition is Try Not To Murder Anyone Today. I finished an edition of Fresh out of Fucks.
I've been doing lessons in Python and JavaScript, which is also reassuring me that I can do a job in coding. Not that I expect it to stay this easy for that much longer but the first two lessons were pretty easy, and overall it seems more a matter of memorizing the vocabulary and syntax than anything else. The underlying concepts are the same as I learneddecades a long time ago. I can do this, I keep telling myself, even as I start to worry about it getting harder the deeper I go into it. I can do this. No one's going to expect me to know everything at once. Or anything at all when I start, since it's a school. Plus one of my friends told me that my language skills will work synergystically (my word not his) to help.
It's a big change. It's a huge change, and that's terrifying. It's normal to be scared. Mom says she thinks I'd be the one in ten who can really do it though. ... actually what she said was that in her experience with her co-workers more people think they can do it than actually can, and I'm one of the ones who can. Practically, I'm not sure what that means, but it's sort of reassuring.
And in the meantime I have cross-stitch, lessons to keep me on that path, other projects, the garden. Which is coming through with lots of green tomatoes but they're not reddening. Go red, tomatoes! I want to make sauces! I think the elderberries are starting to berry, the cucumbers are trying to invade everyone else's pots, the parsley really needs to be harvested I may do that after dinner. Life continues to turn, no matter how terrified I am or am not of what's to come.
I may need a hashtag for my adventures in becoming a coder and I'm not sure what that might be. Except I kind of want it to be from either Hackers or Sneakers, because they were my role models when I was a wee bab teen coder. Hm.
Today we went out and did a couple grocery runs at a couple stores since the first one had some empty shelves in weird places. Why was the tomato paste out but not the diced tomatoes, spiced tomatoes, or tomato sauce? Who even knows. We also stopped by the vet, which was deluged with people, and picked up Murdock's insulin refill. Murdock's still under his former weight and he's still having mobility issues, but they haven't gotten worse and he isn't losing any more weight, and his energy is pretty much back to normal, so I'm interpreting that as damage done slow to heal and he's fairly stable in general.
Iiiii stuff. Things. I'm continuing to cross-stitch, I'm currently working on the House Martell banner from Game of Thrones and I have patterns for shittons of the houses. Martell, Tully, Stark, Karstark, Bolton, Mormont, Lannister, Baratheon, um. Clegane. Tyrell. I'm going to put them all up on dowel rods and hang them from, uh, somewhere. And I've got my usual vulgar cross-stitch pattern going too, the current edition is Try Not To Murder Anyone Today. I finished an edition of Fresh out of Fucks.
I've been doing lessons in Python and JavaScript, which is also reassuring me that I can do a job in coding. Not that I expect it to stay this easy for that much longer but the first two lessons were pretty easy, and overall it seems more a matter of memorizing the vocabulary and syntax than anything else. The underlying concepts are the same as I learned
It's a big change. It's a huge change, and that's terrifying. It's normal to be scared. Mom says she thinks I'd be the one in ten who can really do it though. ... actually what she said was that in her experience with her co-workers more people think they can do it than actually can, and I'm one of the ones who can. Practically, I'm not sure what that means, but it's sort of reassuring.
And in the meantime I have cross-stitch, lessons to keep me on that path, other projects, the garden. Which is coming through with lots of green tomatoes but they're not reddening. Go red, tomatoes! I want to make sauces! I think the elderberries are starting to berry, the cucumbers are trying to invade everyone else's pots, the parsley really needs to be harvested I may do that after dinner. Life continues to turn, no matter how terrified I am or am not of what's to come.
I may need a hashtag for my adventures in becoming a coder and I'm not sure what that might be. Except I kind of want it to be from either Hackers or Sneakers, because they were my role models when I was a wee bab teen coder. Hm.
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