Frustration...and other things.
So I was just working on some Datacamp stuff. I quit because I got frustrated with it. I got frustrated with it because I couldn't figure out the answer and had to take a hint, which cost me experience points. The points themselves are meaningless except for my ego, so I shouldn't get upset over them but I do. I have trouble letting go sometimes. I've been banging my head against Python for a year now, and while I know I've made some progress I still don't feel like I have a solid understanding of it yet. And I have this book, "Fluent Python", which appears to have been written for people who are well-versed in other programming languages, know the lingo, and are coming to Python with a background that I don't have. It's all frustrating at times, but for some reason the points bother me more than anything else. I'm back at work after some vacation time away in Oregon. We had a weird incident yesterday with someone who wandered onto the property. He eventually left after being told that he couldn't be here. He didn't appear to be homeless but spent a couple of hours sleeping in his car in the parking lot. It's not the first time we've had someone randomly show up here, in the past it's been homeless people with mental issues but this time was different. I'm going to have to be more vigilant about who comes onto the property. I have two switches sitting in my cabinet on the floor that I need to rack and finish configuring. I've had them for a few weeks and haven't got around to doing anything with them yet, but I plan on using them to replace a couple of other switches that I do have racked and running right now. The two on the floor are a newer model and support SSH, whereas one of the racked switches I have doesn't, so it's going to go in the e-waste pile whenever I get around to it. I have an IPv4 block from ARIN that I'm not really using at the moment and I plan on reconfiguring all my Cisco gear to use it, so whenever I can get to it I'll be setting all that up. Hopefully I can find some time this coming Tuesday to work on it. Things are going pretty well overall, I have to say. I talked about this in therapy last week, and it didn't hit me until then that the last few months have been pretty okay. I think I'd gotten used to being stressed out all the time and so I carried tat feeling over into the time when I didn't really have anything to worry about. All my bills are paid, I have some money left over, I have a dependable vehicle and a roof over my head, etc. It's a big difference from years ago when everything was in flux. Used to be, I had a beat-up old car that didn't run very well, I was sharing a bedroom with someone I didn't get along with, and was working at a part-time job that was revolting much of the time. I've come a long way since then.