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lennys December 05, 2024

It's been a while...

...since I posted anything here. Thanksgiving has come and gone, and I'm back at work after a trip to Oregon for the holiday. I had a good, relaxing time there visiting with Mom and Stepdad. We read books, went for a drive, watched football and ate too much for 4 days. I'm looking forward to going back for Christmas in a few weeks. I've made some good progress with the Scrimba stuff. I worked through the initial JavaScript lessons, and now I'm working through their CSS material. A lot has changed since I first learned CSS in college back in the Dark Ages, so the journey so far has been kind of fun. I'm also trying to put together a new design for one of my websites using what I've learned. I haven't made it very far with that, but I'm poking at it every so often over the last two weeks and hopefully I'll be able to turn it into something good in the end. I'm trying to put together a plan for the coming weekend, to find some fun stuff to do. I might drive out to Half Moon bay again, because when I was there several weeks ago I found a new park with some redwood trees that I want to explore. It's nice being only an hour away from stuff like that, and I should do things like that more often. It sure beats sitting at home staring at the walls. My shoulder injury seems to be healing finally. I had a physical therapy appointment a couple of days ago for it, and the doctor gave me a new elastic band to work with. I have another follow-up appointment with him in January. Hopefully by then it'll be fully healed. I worked it out some at the gym last Monday and didn't have any pain afterward for a change, so as long as I take it easy I think I can start working out again instead of just using the treadmill like I have been these last few months. Maybe I'll even put on some upper body strength while I'm at it.

lennys November 11, 2024

Today I Did

So recently I signed up for a new course online about front-end web development. I wanted to work on my web design/development skills which were quite rusty, and so far it's been a good experience. The tutorials are on a site named Scrimba.com, and I've worked through the initial HTML and CSS lessons. Right now I'm working on the JavaScript portion of the course, and "Today I Did" finish up a small scoreboard project. It has a small bit of HTML and CSS that make up the design, and some basic JavaScript that makes the buttons work. The link is here: https://thunderous-biscochitos-bd3464.netlify.app/ I'm actually enjoying this stuff! I'm going to work a little bit on the upcoming JavaScript lessons today while I'm at work, and we'll see where that takes me. Scrimba's lessons are geared toward training people to become junior web developers, and while I'm not going to pursue that as a career I do want to improve the design of my websites, and hopefully this'll help me learn how to accomplish that. I went to Half Moon Bay last Wednesday, and had a good time. I went for a walk in the Murray Ranch state park and got into a conversation with a local person who told me about another park that was a short drive from there. I went that way but didn't stay long because there was no place to park and I was nervous about parking on the side of the road, but the little bit I did see made me want to come back again soon. The park was full of very tall "second-growth" redwood trees and was beautiful and peaceful. So I'll definitely plan on visiting that place again on my next trip to the coast.

lennys November 04, 2024

Shoulder

So according to the x rays the hospital ran, I have osteoarthritis in my left shoulder, along with something called "rotator cuff tendinopathy". It basically means the tendons in my shoulder got stretched a bit, and it's going to take a long time to heal. And I'll probably still have some discomfort even after it heals due to the arthritis. Getting old sucks. I have a physical Therapy appointment in a few days, I expect that won't help much in the short term but who knows. It's been over 2 months since I got hurt, and while sometimes it doesn't bother me, any time I stretch my left arm above a 90 degree angle it hurts. Not a lot, but it hurts. I started working on some frontend web development courses online last week. I found them through the Mozilla Developers Network. It's a site called scrimba.com, and they have interactive lessons that start from scratch and build up to much of what would be considered "modern" web development standards. So far it's been okay, I haven't got much to show for it yet but its a good refresher for my web design skills (or lack thereof). I bought a year-long membership and I'll be working on it some later today. I already did some DataCamp lessons so I'm keeping up with that too. The cabinet for my toolbox project is fully painted finally. I've been slacking on that project the last week or two. I brought the cabinet in off of the patio so it wouldn't get rained on, but I still have to sand down and paint the drawers. If things go well this weekend I'll make some progress on that. I'm going to Half Moon Bay on Wednesday to get some scenery and sit on the beach for a while. I haven't been there since January. When I went that time, the road to Murray Ranch Park was closed, so I'm hoping they got it fixed by now because I'd like to go for a walk there while I'm in the area. The last day to vote in the election is tomorrow. I'm stressing over it a little bit. I voted by mail this time about a month ago so I won't be going to the polls. I'm going to try and ignore it all tomorrow since I can't stay up all night watching to see who won, so I'll try and wait to find out who won when I wake up Wednesday morning. We'll see what happens, the next couple of months are going to be...eventful.

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