lennys July 07, 2024

Cool winds blow...

Well, I broke down and set up the portable air conditioner I had in storage. It's sitting in my bedroom right now, turned off because I'm at work. I had to go get a plank of lumber from Home Depot, cut two holes in it for the vent ducts, and mount it in the bedroom window. I take the plank out of the window when I'm not home. Eventually I'm going to figure out a way to permanently mount it in the window, but for now this is good enough. I've had the AC running at night for the last 3 nights, and I've slept better than I have in a really long time. Last night I actually slept through the whole night without waking up even once, which hasn't happened in so long that I don't remember. I should have done this a long time ago. The Python work is going well. I spent about 2 hours this morning working through some Git tutorials on DataCamp.com, which was a good refresher. I'd used Git and GitHub before for past projects so I was already familiar with most of it, but it was still good practice. I need as much practice as I can get with this stuff. In my Introducing Python book, I made it to chapter 11 so far, which is only about one third of the way through it all. I should have bought this book a long time ago, it's helping a lot in my understanding of things. I'm still not writing spontaneous code like I would like, but I do feel like I'm getting somewhere. That's a nice change from the past with some of the other Python books I've worked through. Not much else is going on at the moment. It's a quiet Sunday morning at work, and I expect it'll be like this for most of the day. I'm trying to decide what I'm going to do with myself for this coming weekend. I was thinking of driving to Half Moon Bay, but I have two switches sitting in my cabinet at work that I need to rack and configure. Plus my truck is due for an oil change, so I'm not sure what I'll be doing yet. Half Moon Bay may have to wait another week or two.

lennys July 04, 2024

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th, everyone. I'm at work so I won't get to celebrate anything today, but that's okay. At least I get paid extra for working the holiday. Right now there isn't anything going on, so I'm working on Python stuff like usual. I've made some decent progress with my Introducing Python book, and so far it has been an okay experience. I'm writing out the code as I go along, much of which I've seen before but it's still a good refresher/ reminder of how things work. The book isn't dry or boring, at least not yet. I'm curious to see how far I can get with it this week. I had a CAT scan done last Tuesday. The drive out to the hospital took a while, and finding parking took longer than the actual scan did. I have an appointment next week to go over the findings. I think I'm in good general health, so I'm not expecting any bad news but we'll see. I had another CAT scan done several years ago because I had numbness in my left arm. The CAT scan didn't reveal anything, and the numbness eventually went away so that worked out okay. I think I had a small blood clot in my left arm which was the cause, but I guess I'll never know for certain. It's been so long ago that I had forgotten about it until after I was driving home on Tuesday. Other than that I had a normal boring weekend. There's a heat dome in place over NorCal right now, and my apartment doesn't have air conditioning so it's been a little uncomfortable lately, but I'm dealing with it. I have a couple of big fans blowing all the time so it's tolerable. I've been debating on whether or not to try and setup the portable AC unit I have in the closet at home. I'd have to open a window to use it and I live on the ground floor, so that worries me but it's been warm enough lately that I'm leaning toward setting it up. It's July and it won't cool of until after August around here, so I think I'm going to make a trip to Home Depot and get what I need. I'll just have to take the attachment out of the window every time I go somewhere, which is a pain but I'd rather have to do that than come home one day and find that someone kicked in the panel and broke into my apartment. There isn't anything worth stealing, but some people will just take whatever isn't nailed down so I have to be mindful of that.

lennys June 28, 2024

"Introducing Python"...

So I'm reading through a new book called "Introducing Python" now. I've made it through to the start of chapter 5 so far, and it's done a good job of explaining the basics like the math operations, variable assignment etc. I picked up this book because after reading through the first 5 chapters in my other book "Fluent Python", I saw that I needed to do some more work on the fundamentals before going any further. Both of these book are from the same O'Reilly series of Python books, so they should complement each other pretty well (I hope). I'm not a beginner at this stage with this stuff, but I still need to do some work to understand fundamental principles better. Between this and the DataCamp stuff I'm doing, I'm spending several hours each workday on Python. Hopefully some of it will stick in my head.

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