Ravings of an Undead Cheese Minion

First off, re Oliver Tree: I never had a strong desire to ride in a helicopter and I'm probably just going to avoid them forever now, barring a medical emergency.  I love airplanes though. Well, maybe not how cramped economy is, or how dry the cabins are, or how people always close their windows now, or that one time I got stranded overnight in Vegas.  But generally? Planes are enjoyable to me. I like when they drop in the air! And I like the uninterrupted study time (unless the person in front of me almost destroys my laptop by putting down their seat while I have my tray table up. Dude, really? Breeze extra legroom, here I come.).  I also love roller coasters, water slides, and carnival rides...obviously.  Carnival rides are actually statistically just as safe as fixed rides. Why? They've got to be inspected, by LAW, every time they're constructed. People blow out of proportion the rare incidents of negligence.  Two helicopters colliding? Miss me with that cra...

Think about the type of people who post deeply within coding communities. Not just lobste.rs (hell, I don't even have an invite and I'm just focused on lurking) but even stuff like Freya Holmer's YouTube channel, or open source projects, or various code forums.  Now think about LinkedIn bros. It is impossible to log into that hellscape of a site with your desire to live intact. Increasingly, Hacker News too, though it tends to have both types.  I'm with the lobste.rs crowd all the way. I would unironically rather get paid less and never climb the ladder at all, even stay at L2 forever (though I should HOPE I can become a senior) if it meant I got to dive deep into code every single damn day of my life.  I'm never going into management, unless it's designing and building my own theme park resort. I want to forget that LinkedIn even exists. I want to be so wrapped up in whatever I'm coding that the outside world fades away. 

or is it just not going out for dinner? Lol though. Not giving that up. If my friends are going out for food, so am I. They just weren't today so I doordashed some Rancherito's and DQ.  Ghost at 5:20 AM today. 100% daily value vitamin C and yep, 200mg caf.  But seriously, I studied engineering for 30 minutes, did Yoga with Adrienne for 6 minutes, lifted at the gym for about 45 minutes, then ran 18 miles with the last 2 miles under 7 minutes, then went to Lindon Aquatics Center for 2 slides and the lazy river, then went to Oremfest with a few friends, then studied cybersecurity on TryHackMe and did a few clarinet scales, then went to the church to practice piano for church tomorrow, then did Duolingo, then did art for 90 minutes, then did an hour of reading/cleaning and writing, and now I've only got two work blocks left, one which is 10 minutes of mind work and the other is coding, maybe an hour MAX, probably more like 30 minutes...ending with gaming.  And I haven't fal...

I used to have a spotless apartment in 2019 -- it was a resolution I made to myself. Got out of the crappy Avenues, into a brand new fresh luxury apartment, and kept it spotless. But, I did this in an unsustainable way, cleaning for hours a week. It was often 3-4 hours on Wednesdays and 3-4 hours on Saturdays. Wednesdays I'd get to bed way too late. Saturdays I'd often lose a huge chunk of the day to cleaning, not getting out of the house until the shadows were lengthening. BUT, it did feel pretty amazing to live in such a clean place.  Grad school happened, and I could not hold it. I slipped and it became messy, and it's been that way ever since.  When I read Atomic Habits, I started cleaning a tiny bit every day. When my friend recommended to me the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks, I realized that I could both read (for improving my writing and for fun!) and clean at the same time. Every single day.  But it still stayed messy. I was cleaning every day, sure, but it wasn...

No seriously. They're not wrong that the theme parks will likely improve underneath Josh, but the dude still laid off a bunch of people from Disney. So he's not some saint.  Even so, and even when they insist you can't tour epic in one day (you can), I like that website a lot. It's my favorite source of Disney parks info. DFB is also good but it's more clickbaity. 

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 ...