Saturday, May 16, 2020

Programming creativity

I’m feeling really pumped today, bizarrely. I only got about 6 hours of sleep, and I didn’t even exercise yesterday. It could be because I was productive and felt motivated yesterday, or it could be that I just resolved last night that I was going to be positive and active today. I played some Tales of Maj’Eyal and tried out Stellaris briefly, but I spent a lot of time on programming. I also started a new Harry Potter fanfiction that was inspired by one of my all-time favorites. In most ways, it’s a lot better quality, but it’s not quite as much fun. I’m enjoying reading it, but I’m not obsessing over it, which is good.

SCHOOLWORK
I took it easy on schoolwork yesterday, but still worked for over an hour, which was my goal. I struggled writing a forum post response. I could have worked on something different, but I think the more pressing assignment would have led to decreased concentration.

JOB
Nothing new.

EXERCISE
I resumed going through the intermediate planking course. The day was really rough though—it started out with 100 seconds of straight arm planking, followed by two minutes of regular planking. I couldn’t even do those two back to back, much less continue on to more exercises. I finished it by the end of the day though. I can tell that I have more definition in my abs, though I’ve still gone a long way to go to be happy with them. The happy point is, I guess, when my abs are defined even when I’m relaxed. I’m not sure that this is even possible.

I expect that at the end of this month, I will have finished the intermediate course, so I’ve started looking for a replacement. I’m considering programming one—similar to the app I use now, but one that adapts the difficulty to the user’s progress and consistency.

SPANISH
I skipped this for no good reason.

DIY
I’ll definitely work on this today.

PROGRAMMING
For my Bible memorization program, I can now save and load settings. I also talked to Mom about the window I need to redesign and made a solid plan for it. There’s one part that I’ve never done before, but I have an idea about how to do it nonetheless.

I also finished the Javascript React tutorial that creates a tic tac toe game. I set up the whole thing on my computer, too. I’m not completely comfortable with all of it, but I think I’ll give it a shot and maybe once I’ve made some progress in another program I’ll come back and be able to understand it all.

BIBLE MEMORY
I studied Psalm 26:8-10.

BIBLE READING AND PRAYER
I read and stayed awake, but nothing really stuck out to me today.

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