lennys May 03, 2025

New update

So it's been over a month since I wrote anything here. No particular reason, I was just busy working on things, mainly Cursor and Scrimba. On Scrimba I managed to finish the main JavaScript section I had been working my way through. I picked up another coding book, this time about JavaScript too. I haven't gotten very far in it yet, but I'm hoping it will help reinforce the basics for me since that seems to be a weak spot. With Cursor, I had to back up and reboot from the beginning like I was afraid I'd have to do (I mentioned this in my last post). But even after doing that I wasn't able to get it working completely, so after much iteration and pulling of hair I decided to 86 the whole project. I archived the code so I might revisit it someday, but not any time soon. To move forward somehow I signed up for another Udemy course on Cursor, and I've found that this course is much more straightforward - instead of building a complete project from the start, we're going over Cursor's functionality a little bit at a time which is helping me understand what I'm doing a lot better than before. I'm about halfway through this course and so far it's much better than the last one. Last month I had an appointment with my primary care doctor where we went over the cath lab report from my hospital stay back in February. It didn't reveal much that we didn't already know. It's still a bit of a mystery why it happened, but since then I've had no repeat issues so I'm hopeful that it's behind me now. Time will tell. I've been to Half Moon Bay twice in the last month or so. I went there last weekend and had a hike through this lovely redwood forest in the hills out there, then got some food and had a walk on the beach. I'd like to move out there when I retire, whenever that will be, but I kind of doubt I'd be able to afford it so I'l probably have to make other plans. But that's still a long way off. I've been applying for jobs off and on for roughly a month now. The only responses I've received are a few rejection letters, but I'm still trying.

lennys March 21, 2025

Not "with it" today

I didn't sleep well last night. Most nights I don't sleep well. Today I'm dragging ass more than usual though, not sure why. I went to bed at a decent hour (for me) yesterday, so I should feel fine but I don't. Just lethargic and tired. It's been a month since I had my little heart issue, and I haven't had any problems since then. I still don't know why it happened, what the cause was, or if it will happen again. I had an appointment with my primary care doctor that got postponed a week, so hopefully this coming Wednesday I'll be able to show her the cath lab report and finally get some answers. So I've been working with a new IDE for about the last 5 weeks or so. It's called Cursor, and it has an AI baked into it that is pretty impressive. I first heard about it at a Python meetup group I attend on Tuesday nights, so I signed up for a Udemy course about Cursor roughly a month ago and have been working through the course material ever since. It's got me building a site that uses Next.js and TypeScript to run. The site has an API key generator built into it that I managed to get working after a lot of troubleshooting and code rewriting, mostly by Cursor. It's also got a tool that uses an LLM to summarize readme articles from GitHub. I managed to get both of these components working on a MVP level, but I've run into a big issue with the user authentication part of it. It uses Google's cloud services, and i can't seem to get the login authentication flow to work right. I think I'm going to have to start the course over again before I can get everything working properly, which sucks, but if it's what I need to do then it'll be good practice with Cursor. Overall I'm pretty impressed with Cursor. You can tell it something like "Build a website that has this list of features, etc etc" and it will autogenerate all the code needed to bring it to life. You can even drag and drop screenshots into it and it can generate code from that which resembles the screenshotted website. It's kind of scary how much easier it is to write code in Cursor, when it works that is. I've run into enough issues during this tutorial I've been working on that I've seen where Cursor can come up short. An AI can get you 75 percent of the way there, but not all the way all of the time. There's this new diet I've been on since January, too. It's called the Mayo Clinic diet, and it's got me eating much healthier now. I haven't lost any weight yet because I've been cheating and eating bread, but the recipes are good mostly. There have been a couple of stinkers I've run across but overall it's been a positive experience. At home I have some chicken in the fridge I made yesterday that's going to be tomorrow's dinner. I have to find a vegetable to go with it though. If I stick with it long enough I might even lose some of the padding I have around my waist. We'll see...

lennys March 03, 2025

Update on my cardiac "event"

So I had an appointment with my primary care doctor a few days ago. I had tried to book an appointment with the cardiologist who performed the catheterization on my leg, but it turned out that he didn't accept my insurance so that didn't work out. My primary care doctor took a look at the test results and other paperwork the hospital had provided from my stay there, and basically said that they didn't show any obvious reason for what happened. So the cause of my "event" is still a mystery. I mailed off a form to get my complete medical records from the hospital, and I'm hoping that the "cath report" will be in there, as that was missing from the paperwork already provided. Maybe it will shed some light on this, I don't know. At any rate, I'm trying to take it easy on myself to avoid a repeat event, and I'm trying to be more mindful of how I spend my time. It's been 11 days since I was admitted to the hospital, and I've found that I fell back into the regular routine pretty quickly. This bothers me because I don't want to pretend like nothing is wrong, and while I don't expect a repeat event I'm still a bit nervous about my health overall. It's got me thinking about how I want to spend the time I have left on this planet, and how to get something useful out of it. For the moment nothing much has changed outwardly, I've gone back to work and fallen into the same routine as before without much trouble. I've worked out a couple of times since then and that has gone okay too. Still, I want to continue work on finding a new job that has better hours, and also continue with the other stuff I was working on before the event happened, but now I also want to connect with other people more than I have been. So I'm looking for ways to do that. I haven't found anything yet that fits in with my current work schedule, but I'm hoping something will come along soon. I checked on pickleball classes offered by the city's rec center, but they're all on my work days and there's no way I could make it fit in my schedule. So I'm kind of stuck until I find a better job, it seems. Hopefully I can make something happen soon, otherwise I feel like I might be stuck here forever.

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