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time to move the cyber block

well, cyber + job apps. They aren't working when I do them during work breaks. all it does is fry my brain. I don't know what to do yet, but I will figure it out. Almost every second of my day is optimized, so I will have to get extremely, extremely creative. But if I can resolve this, I will be able to do the full, restorative breaks that Steve Pavlina talks about. DRAFT: Any overlaps you see in time will be multitasks.  4:15 AM - 4:55 AM Engineering 4:45 AM - 6:00 AM Lift  6:00 AM - 7:15 AM Run 7:15 AM - 8 AM Prep for Work 10:45 AM Duolingo and YNAB Break 8 AM - 12 PM Work 12 PM - 1 PM Lunch + 40 Minutes Music (produce or study theory as you do long tones) 1 PM - 4 PM Work 4 PM - 5:15 PM Art 5:15 PM - 5:45 PM Dinner with pokemon, vibration plate, remote job app 5:45 PM - 6:05 PM Cleaning and Reading 6:05 PM - 6:45 PM Writing 6:45 PM - 7 PM Meditation/Break 7 PM - 8:15 PM Code Block, loosely: 7 PM - 7:15 PM Cybersecurity 7:15 PM - 7:35 PM Computer Science Core 7:35 PM - 8:00 ...

You can't beat the classics

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One thing about running 8 miles a day in the winter: when doing pure treadmill days, you can watch a whole movie. But usually older movies, since they're shorter.  I love this movie. Also, I know the sequel is unpopular but I love it too. Ready for the next full treadmill 8-miler. Bonus: I'm not tempted to push too hard on easy days, and I barely even notice that I'm running. 

Each time some company rejects you...

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...and they have no idea what you're building towards and how good you're going to be. 

quick lesson I've learned from beautiful demons

This is a really good series by Sarra Cannon.  One thing I've struggled with in my writing is pacing and lack of excitement, mainly towards the middle of a novel. Partly, I'm trying to make sure that everything logically makes sense and that I'm hitting all the bullet points I've outlined for the chapter. But also, I just spent too many of my early writing years, i.e. high school, rewriting chapter 1 of things obsessively.  Sarra doesn't hold back, though. I feel like there's hardly a moment for her characters to relax, before some sort of metaphorical bomb goes off.  I'm trying to incorporate this more in my own work. So far, it seems to be working.  This has the bonus of decreasing the incidence of my alpha readers trying to find random people suspicious because there's nothing else going on. :')

first homelab project complete on raspberry pi zero w, headless install!

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was it installing pi-hole?  um no. Instead, it was just installing sl:

what does it look like?

In the premajor for CS Animation, I remember walking around the TMCB, exhausted. It was night, the building smelled weird as usual, and I was so tired, but there was more coding to do.  I had no idea if I was going to get into the program or not. I was pretty sure I wouldn't, logically, but emotionally I felt that I would. It was a constant war within. I had backups to my backups, for sure, but I wanted it so badly. I envied those who were already in the program. One person who had gotten accepted already ended up quitting due to Computer Systems. I thought this was insane  and knew I would never do that. If I got in, I was going to complete the major.  I would look at the film movie posters on the wall outside the animation lecture hall. I would look at Rio 2, that's the main one I remembered. I've always liked Rio, even though I hadn't seen the sequel yet.  I would think to myself "Great things are never easy. I will never give up on this."  Nowadays, I prio...