This past weekend was my birthday weekend and I got home from staying at my moms on the 13th. When we were up there we did a tremendous amount of yardwork. When I got home, my grandmother was down to visit. I learned how to make her incredible Kahlua cheesecake and spent time with her catching up. My dad announced on the 13th or the 14th that getting a dog this fall is almost certain. On the 14th, I got a terrible sunburn when me and my girlfriend went out to Saquish to look for moon snails and have a bit of a picnic.
On my birthday I recieved two gifts that I am looking forward to using. The first is an apple watch, which I am wearing right now. The second is a Kindle, which I would like to use to read in bed at night instead of my phone screen. Hopefully the display is not backlit like a normal lcd display and the tablet is suitable for nighttime reading. I also recieved new shoes from my mom which I have wanted badly these past couple of weeks.
As I get older, a birthday just feels like another normal day. If I was asked by someone how old I am, I’d probably respond with 18 accidentally still. This is the reality but fortunately I have not gotten to the point where I say an age from two years ago. I have found some difficulty and trouble trying to motivate to do work. The tasks that I have set out at AirCycler seem very doable and are broken up into bite size chunks but I find the work to be less interesting than that which I decide to do for my own personal improvement.
Some things I wanted to jot down for some note taking:
- I started the cryptography and micro/macro economics course on Khan Academy earlier this summer. And have not been doing that recently. (At one point I found myself needing pen and paper to organize my thoughts for the cryptography and econ quizzes, which made it more difficult to do before bed and such)
- I also have many other books I would like to read and
a Scientific American magazine to get through as well. (10 python books to read) I also want to note that my python script for sending me text from my computer does not work now for unknown reasons. I am unable to connect to gmail’s smtp server.I have not watched youtube in weeks… I’m not sure how long it has been but life has felt more fulfilling, busy, and peaceful recently. I feel like I am taking care of the people around me better and sometimes I feel like I am taking care of myself better (although this morning I lay in bed for nearly an hour, a habit that I am going to start to break)- I want to start reading my next python book on my kindle
- I want to clean the garage
I want to put a roof on the Green’s Harbor trailhead sign (for my Eagle Scout project)- I want to get enough sleep and exercise every day! (Can track these things now using my apple watch)
- I want to work 20 hours a week consistently and put away 25% of everything that I make.
- I want to get more nighttime photography (Was about to last night but instead wrote a summary of campus’ plans to repopulate to my friends)
I want to clean my room again, there is too much on the wallsI want to set up a little stand at the base of my bed for a projector setupI want to write more of these posts. (Am wondering right now if having this private information exposed is a privacy concern of mine.)I want to create a comprehensive todo list focused around my health- I want to set up an r-pi cluster compute server
- I want to get my part 107
I want to play more minecraft with my girlfriendI want to spend more time on discord calls with friend and in-person risk-mitigated hangouts- I want to spend more time around Lillian’s family to connect more
- I want to program guis in flutter to try it out
I want to learn options and market information through Cboe and others- I want to play guitar more
- I want to automate more of my life
I want to plan out Dyken pond trips with my friends this summer.- I want to bike more.
I want to go to bed earlier and get more sleep.- I want to have more time? Make more time
I want to camp and go on more hikes- I want to clean my mom’s car
I want to see moon snails- I want to start my web programming course again on khan academy
- I want to continue my python code-academy course (or find a different service)
- I want to continue learning c and c++
( 6-25-2020 )
- I want to give myself more time
- I want to be the best that I can be.
I want to get right out of bed and wake up earlier (8am)
I want a lot of things in life. And it always seems like there’s just not enought time. One small thing at a time though, and I know it will get done. I know it will.
This could have a ton of tags but because of the nature of this list, I think I am going to keep it with only these.
Till next time,
- Jack