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Oct. 15th, 2020 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeOkay! Well. I did absolutely nothing on Wednesday even after resolving to do the scraping part then, but today I voted early, got groceries, got prescriptions for practically everyone in the household who has them, and narrowed down the error to a much more specific question that was answered with "Ah! Yeah. That does that. I'm not sure why it works sometimes and doesn't others, but here's how I fix it. [demonstrates something I've learned already]" "Oh! Okay, I can do that. Thanks!" I stuck around for the rest of the study group and ended up giving a quick lesson on HTML, div, and conceptual boxes.
I got the scrape part working in about half an hour? forty five minutes? A relatively short time, anyway. I put it all together and got it limping along, did some cleanup, got it working better. I've almost got it working all the way through now except one bizarre little hiccup that doesn't impede the clarity very much, it's just... weird. And there. Dangling. So I need to try and address that and then maybe do some refactoring either in the evening code block tonight, or maybe skip it entirely and start refactoring tomorrow before I film the walkthrough. And then hopefully I'll be done with that! Hopefully. We'll see.
Of course now I resent myself for taking all that time dithering and watching videos and panicking and so on. And I'm not sure if I would have been able to do it this smoothly if I hadn't watched all those videos, although I definitely resent the procrastination out of fear and nerves and stress aspect. Still. It's almost done now, I'm not too far behind, and I have more confidence. Enough confidence that I think I could build more programs like this if asked to, although I'd have to do some more review if I was asked to do something with an API call. Apparently we're studying those in more detail further down though.
And I voted today, and we got groceries. I ran out of unemployment on the last tier I was on and I think I was cleared for unemployment on the next tier, so we'll see if I get the next two tiers and then what happens next year. Although Mom also said she'd start bankrolling me now, so between her funds and unemployment I should be pretty okay into the first couple months of next year if I'm careful? And I should still finish up by late February early March, even with the delay, and then it's job hunting, yay. And hopefully a job and a decent income!
I feel better. Calmer. I also feel better about my prospects for life and work in this field now that I've realized a lot of my panic and near-tears the other day was more likely PMS severely exacerbating the course stress than anything else. I took an anti-anxiety pill Wednesday night and felt a lot better at the start of today, so I guess at the next point I'm starting to PMS while doing this course I'll just take a couple anti-anxiety pills for a couple nights and hopefully kick it in the teeth before it holds me up.
Cassius is doing very well in the isolation room; we haven't managed to corral Barton yet but we're working on it. He's still pick-uppable, so that's definitely a positive. I have some ideas involving a configuration of towel and carrier but I want the boy around to help me with that part, so it'll wait a day or so.
And I'm still writing. A little less drawing than I want to be, but still writing. Still keeping on with hobbies. Still generally happy when I'm not having PMS-induced freakouts. Feeling oddly optimistic, given the pandemic is still here and the political situation.
I got the scrape part working in about half an hour? forty five minutes? A relatively short time, anyway. I put it all together and got it limping along, did some cleanup, got it working better. I've almost got it working all the way through now except one bizarre little hiccup that doesn't impede the clarity very much, it's just... weird. And there. Dangling. So I need to try and address that and then maybe do some refactoring either in the evening code block tonight, or maybe skip it entirely and start refactoring tomorrow before I film the walkthrough. And then hopefully I'll be done with that! Hopefully. We'll see.
Of course now I resent myself for taking all that time dithering and watching videos and panicking and so on. And I'm not sure if I would have been able to do it this smoothly if I hadn't watched all those videos, although I definitely resent the procrastination out of fear and nerves and stress aspect. Still. It's almost done now, I'm not too far behind, and I have more confidence. Enough confidence that I think I could build more programs like this if asked to, although I'd have to do some more review if I was asked to do something with an API call. Apparently we're studying those in more detail further down though.
And I voted today, and we got groceries. I ran out of unemployment on the last tier I was on and I think I was cleared for unemployment on the next tier, so we'll see if I get the next two tiers and then what happens next year. Although Mom also said she'd start bankrolling me now, so between her funds and unemployment I should be pretty okay into the first couple months of next year if I'm careful? And I should still finish up by late February early March, even with the delay, and then it's job hunting, yay. And hopefully a job and a decent income!
I feel better. Calmer. I also feel better about my prospects for life and work in this field now that I've realized a lot of my panic and near-tears the other day was more likely PMS severely exacerbating the course stress than anything else. I took an anti-anxiety pill Wednesday night and felt a lot better at the start of today, so I guess at the next point I'm starting to PMS while doing this course I'll just take a couple anti-anxiety pills for a couple nights and hopefully kick it in the teeth before it holds me up.
Cassius is doing very well in the isolation room; we haven't managed to corral Barton yet but we're working on it. He's still pick-uppable, so that's definitely a positive. I have some ideas involving a configuration of towel and carrier but I want the boy around to help me with that part, so it'll wait a day or so.
And I'm still writing. A little less drawing than I want to be, but still writing. Still keeping on with hobbies. Still generally happy when I'm not having PMS-induced freakouts. Feeling oddly optimistic, given the pandemic is still here and the political situation.