I'm currently working on my "Personal Statement" essay that i need to attach to my application for more scholarship.
What are you working on? Can you tell us? should you tell us? Are you excited? Are you avoiding it?
One thing that always makes me excited about Hubski, is that (to varying degrees), we all try our best to be "Doers", movers and shakers, people who get things done.
TI = "Tenant Improvement" or "Tenant Improvement Allowance." That's the money you get to turn the building that is into the building you want it to be. $25/sf gets you new carpet and paint, assuming you have a "warm shell" (HVAC in, electrical in). $45-70/sf gets you walls and plumbing, assuming you have a warm shell. Cold shell? As in, no grid, no HVAC, bathrooms needing to brought up to code, like what we're talking about with this building? $100-$140/sf. In short, we went from "Yeah, we could see investing $94k in making our building suit your needs" to "as is, no guarantees, you're here for 10 years and we're not at all interested in ever letting you out or making the space more attractive to you."
Getting in to a relationship with a landlord as a tenant is important on both a financial and emotional level. You have to potentially be in a relationship with these people for 10 years. That's a long time to be linked to someone that doesn't deliver on the very first promises they put forth. Doesn't bode well for their character. You may want to "break up" with them now, while you still can, right?
Fuckin' A, dood. No doubt. Funny thing is the landlord is in an allied industry so the fact that he's being a turbo-douche is kind of... not good. It's not like bad blood you can just laugh off and walk away from. It's "we're in the same professional sphere in the same market and you shouldn't do this" stuff.
There's got to be a better building than this b.s.. I think they're trying to make the deal bad so that they don't have to have you as a tenant (for whatever reason).
Working on a script that makes images like this for a class. I now have 2 TB of pictures of cats, because the Internet can furnish two types of images in vast quantities and only one of them is appropriate for a class project. The class was less technical and more artsy than I was expecting, and I probably wouldn't have taken it if I had known, but this was pretty fun.
Just swapped the old dead battery, now I'm posting from the seat. I don't have a stand right now so I'm sitting on the bike to keep it level while the oil drains (like watching water boil). Going to change the oil and filter and then going to clay the finish, poly coat it, and polish the chrome. After that I just need to put air in the tires and I'm good to go on the first ride of the season. I thought this would all be done by this point but Michigan weather had been trolling me.
I am working on my startup from an eastern European country while I am south Asian. I am working on trade of recycled materials from EU to Asia. My work is very interesting but also pretty hard since I am working with clients from two completely different cultures.
I'm trying to learn how to program so that I can one day move into a better career. The problem is, I don't have enough time, energy or willpower to really commit my mind to anything because my full time, dead-end call centre job is sapping everything from me in frequent bursts. On most days when I've arrived home from work, I've been exhausted and fallen asleep shortly after arriving home. Then there's lots of other things making me feel like shit and demotivating me hugely, such as my very unsuccessful love life, where I feel like I should give up on dating and ever having any attraction or feelings towards anyone; or the fact that everything else takes up my schedule. Overall, I just feel demotivated, lethargic and tired all the time.
I've been there, more than once. I would suggest not coming home from work (unless it's just to change), and going to a coffeeshop with your laptop. If need be, get a small cup of coffee or some tea with caffeine. Set a very modest code-related goal for yourself, and don't let yourself leave until you achieved it. IMO just being out of the house in the presence of people helps when in such a funk.
I agree with the idea of going anywhere other than home to free yourself of any distractions. However, my shifts are all over the place and I often finish work at times when coffee shops and most fast food joints are closed. Although they are standard 7.5 hour shifts with an hour long break, the hours I start/finish can vary greatly week to week. Is there a way to code on an iPad or a cheap Android tablet? I haven't used my laptop in a while, and I wouldn't exactly trust myself to bring it to the workplace lest it gets stolen. At least with a tablet I could keep it in a bag small enough to fit in my locker while I'm at work. I can't have my bag with me at my desk in the workplace because data protection policies, and the only other place to store it is in a shared cupboard where it might get stolen.
Tonight: Writing justifications for examining blood (rodent and clinical) to study a response to a particular chemotherapy for treatment of brain tumor. I am investigating an endogenous response of the body to chemotoxicity that might reduce the effectiveness of the treatment. In short, we might be able to give something along with the chemo that doesn't let the tumor benefit from a systemic damage control response. Replacing some spells in my tabletop RPG. I'm putting the whole corpus together in one big book, and I have been slowly editing it for that purpose over the past several months. Fixing some Hubski stuff. Toggling off embedded videos in comments shouldn't toggle them off in the post text. I'll also start looking at making gifs paused by default, so kleinbl00 will stop giving me grief. :) Thanks for the tip, bfv. I added a slide to my daughter's play structure this afternoon. I had to build out a platform for it, because no one sells slides for a 60" height at a reasonable price: It's getting out of control. I joked to my wife that I should add a second level. Then I started thinking seriously about it. No no no. Anyone really good at building apps that wants to build a very simple one that is probably useless, yet quite compelling to me and ecib?
This is really cool. A friend of mine has been building a table top board game for a few years. I think they're getting ready to actually sell it soon.Replacing some spells in my tabletop RPG. I'm putting the whole corpus together in one big book, and I have been slowly editing it for that purpose over the past several months.
Thanks. Mongoose was publishing it for a time. They actually still owe me money. I don't know how big the first run was, but they sold it out more slowly than they would have liked to justify running another, and now they are not. I really should know how many books they sold. They are still selling my PDFs and paying me for that. They charge too much for them. It's very confusing. For that reason, and others, I am happy to have selling the game back in my hands. It was never about money anyway. I forgot who said it, but one well known RPG author said: "Become a RPG author, make hundreds of dollars per year!"
I'm using the stuff I learned from the hubskina game and making a bigger one. They say write what you know so I'm doing it on family. Hubskina will probably be done this summer,or..whenever Ramadan starts. And some other stuff. Lots of stuff. Loooots of stuff.
I just completed a weeks long task of completing my professional resume. I'm pretty excited about it. It's interesting to look back at your accomplishments, especially in a profession like mine. There's no "faking" a sales resume, you either hit your numbers, won the promotions, made Presidents club etc, or you didn't. I feel good about the work I've done. I'm also working on some ideas for Hubski that I recently shared with mk. I'm excited about the future of the site. I feel like we've been in a lull for about 6 months now, but we have some big ideas/concepts on the horizon that I'm pretty darned excited to implement. I'm working on an album of music. It's a concept album and I've somehow convinced the AMAZINGLY talented T-Dog and ghostoffuffle to be a part of it. Also, playing drums on it is one of my favorite drummers, a guy named Mike Shea out of Ann Arbor. I'm really in to it and can't wait for fuffle to move in to his house already!!! You get the place?
I've always had a hard time with resumes. I have a very hard time selling myself to other people, mostly because I see that peoples' deeds should speak for themselves. but then again, what is a resume but a list of deeds. Stoked to hear about the album!
Pondering yet another re-write of my undergrad thesis as I work on it. This thing has changed so much since it's inception I'm starting to doubt if my original sources even make sense for the point I'm trying to argue. I have a lot written, but having words on paper is not a guarantee that they mean anything relevant or intelligible. My adviser thinks I have good insight though so I'm trusting her assessment. I'm also mucking around with the idea of including a set of survey questions that could provide a physician outcome affecting insight in specific challenging situations. (Intentionally vague, I have a better idea but want to polish it) However that started about 2 hours ago. I spent the morning playing GTAV trying to perfect my airport ramp flips.
You should get someone who is not you to check the sources. Sometimes, because we have lots of extra knowledge, we can "get" why a source is cited, but to someone not inside the situation, it makes no sense. like some of those words that get used in crossword puzzles. The ones where the question is really obscure, but they've been using it forever so everyone who does crosswords regularly knows the answer right away?
Right now, I'm copying batches of 100 files from a flashdrive to an online database for my dad. Why move them in batches of 100? Because the place puts a limit on the number of files that can be uploaded at once, never mind the insanely small file size. The tedium is terrible, but I'm getting paid to do it, so I can't complain. As far as actual projects go, I'm in the process of planning a return trip to the boundary waters with a few friends from school. We'll stay for about a week, canoe, portage, fish, camp, etc. We've been there before, but it's absolutely stunning wilderness, and we can't wait to get back out there. We're all pretty into camping, so this is really the ideal trip to take for our last summer together!
At one point, just after high school, I spent two weeks (one each summer) in a little cabin in Killarney, ON, with four friends. Easily two of the best experiences of my life. I hope you get to go back sooner rather than later!!
Mostly homework. I'm also writing a cover letter for an internship position.
Dissociating myself from most of what I've been involved in in college, mostly. That and finding a place to live I guess. Nothing very fun.
why do you feel the need to dissociate from what you've been involved in in college?
The things that I've been involved with aren't things that are really "for" me anymore, I guess drifting away from leadership positions and a lot of the people kills the point of being involved, especially when you feel like a lot of your achievements have been forgotten or looked down upon. The organizations I've been involved with aren't ones that I will really be following up with after graduation so might as well prepare for that now. I think the same thing can be said for a lot of the people, as I will be moving across the country and only have so much capacity to keep in touch with people. It might be better than to start forgetting about them now than to have that lingering for however long into the future. This probably isn't the right way of looking at things, but it might be the right thing for me.
I feel you, been going through similar feelings with my girlfriend of 3 years. We talked - just aren't sure we are really 'for' each other anymore. We've pushed through difficulties in the past and gotten through tough times, but 3 years later and we just don't know if we should continue involvement with each other. Anyway... point is that it's quite hard to know when to walk away vs. when to stay. And I think the only way to know what to do in these situations is to accumulate experience, and it's kinda impossible to know what the right call is in the moment.
Professionally? So many things. Feeling incredibly spread thin. I've thrown out weekends in favor of working every day, and I put in 6+ hours daily. The "labor" itself is incredibly rewarding, so it's really not too distressing. Personally? I'm getting over a back spasm, but have been working out the entire time. Naturally, this extends the period of recuperation, but I'd just rather not break my cycle of hitting the gym religiously. Still working on a few music tracks for fun, I might post some demos eventually. Most of my remaining free time I spend with my lovely lady. I'd hoped for a hiatus between work and grad school, but that just ain't happenin'. There's just too much to do, damnit.
This is so weird. lil has a ghost comment just sitting there with no content. mk, wuz up with dat? 
Don't worry: I had a real comment, then was changing it to something even more real and then, as I often do, I deleted the comment altogether -- but quite deliberately left my skid marks. As I've said before, relationships are like traffic accidents. There's a collision. After the wreckage is pulled away -- all that's left are the skidmarks. gorgeous spring day
gorgeous spring day
It sure is! I went for a run today and feel pretty kick-ass! Have a great day and weekend lil.
it had content in it at one point. Maybe she posted it, then reverted it to draft?