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The weak will purge themselves.

Still upset over losing one of my writing groups.  My other one is fantastic, so I'll be just fine, but I still keep spinning over this. Did those six years mean nothing  to you people? I thought we were friends.  I guess not.  But the weak will purge themselves. If you weren't dedicated, and you quit when it got hard, then you didn't care enough and you will reap the consequences of that.  When you love something, you dedicate yourself to the pursuit of excellence in it. There is no other option. There is no other choice. You do not bend or break when it gets difficult. It does not matter if you suck. It does not matter if you fail. You pursue and you charge forward and you do not make exceptions or excuses.  In the end, the ones who did not quit are the one who will achieve their dreams.  "It's not the tree that forsakes the flower, But the flower that forsakes the tree."  I don't have a lot of patience for quitters. There is no forgiveness for ...
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TryHackMe sec0 (Pre-Security) passed

The hardest part was honestly the ordering of various steps, such as the steps of TLS. I feel that I need to review it a lot more, especially for when I do CompTIA. Since unlike THM, it is fully closed-book and closed-internet. RIP.  TIME BREAKDOWN Part 1 12:10-12:25 Part 2 1:00-1:15.  Part 3:  1:26-1:36  Part 4 1:41-1:58 (17 minutes, RIP)  Part 5 2:09-2:28 (19 minutes; oof)  Part 6 2:35-2:55 or so SCORE: 580/600
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A bit disappointed in Lagoon a Beach right now

I can't do the Serpentine Slides anymore. The backscratching is worse this year than ever before. All the duct tape is gone, replaced by what appears to be new caulking that has not been properly sanded. It cut into my back and left me with welts all across it. It hurt to lay down shirtless, but having a shirt on made it generally okay.  I don't know what the hell is going on, but it looks like it's going to be just me, the speed slides, and the pipeline tower from now on.  Oh and Pipeline was only running ONE. SLIDE. What the heck? Two of them were totally dry. 
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LMNT electrolytes

Before the Farmington Half, both the night before and the morning of, I drank a packet of LMNT electrolyte drink mix. My mom had gotten me them for Easter.  Cramping? None. Calves felt a tiny bit weird last 2 miles so I didn't pick up the pace that much. But I still cut down from around 6:50/mile to 6:40/mile. No feelings of being faint either, which is huge as someone who can't really eat a lot before races and has to eat everything after finishing.  They are REALLY salty, and that's the whole point. I'm converted. 
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confession time:

every time I listen to "Flashing Lights" by Kanye and he goes I'm more of the Trips to Florida I think about how I'm going to WDW in January and want to go to Orlando as much as possible. This pushes me to work harder. So, yay I guess? Let's feed the machine of CAPITALISM, apparently.  But the morning sun over Epic Universe or walking through the trees in Animal Kingdom or walking into Fun Spot on a starry night...or eating at the End Zone food court, browsing the menus, figuring out which line is the shortest, standing in MK mobile ordering cheeseburger spring rolls and a volcano dole whip... Hell yeah.  And the weather's so breezy Man, why can't life always be this easy? 
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airlearn

I'm sticking with Duolingo for Spanish and Norwegian, but with something like Japanese, Duolingo was just NOT working. The kana writing was disjointed and the grammar was not taught. I could not intuit it.  So even with the weird AI voice and AI generated images, Airlearn is legitimately better than Duo for Japanese. I might even try it for Tagalog just because I was burning out on Mango. Mango is super dry and I am pretty sure it's also  AI-generated. Or spoken by the most bored voice instructor known to mankind.  I need bite-sized, tiny tiny TINY lessons that fit into a busy day. I'm in no rush with language study, whereas I kind of am with other stuff, like art, writing, and code. Hell, I might even use AirLearn for chess instead of chess.com, but we will see. 
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new interviewing/getting a job plan

This starts tomorrow after lunch. So the 8 AM start and time requirements stuff do not count for that first day.  If I get a job this week, awesome. I'll accept it. But we cannot plan on such things.  Continue morning engineering block pre-gym, but make it a little bit longer. Focus strongly on PLCs, math, and Arduino.  Must start at 8 AM, but can do CYBERSECURITY first! Extreme focus on Leetcode/DSA/System Design/SQL (at least 3 hours) Bonus: Kaggle Bonus: Data Engineering upskill cloud certs? Then: Daily CS studies (at least 1 hour) This is our actual curriculum, AND we will do it AGAIN in the evening Secondary focus as a “Bonus personal projects block” Then: Daily graphics studies (at least 1 hour) again, do it AGAIN in the evening Yep, you guessed it. Daily games studies. (at least 1 hour) 1 hour only for job apps, but MUST do 5: 3 hybrid, 2 remote OR vice versa STRONG PRIORITY with GOVERNMENT When I say "again in the evening", it's because 7...
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