I delivered an eight hour lecture. When I was done the students actually applauded. I almost cried.

I had a lot of fun with some new friends today and I’m feeling good :)

I’m grateful for my husband, who tirelessly puts up with all of my crazy. I’m so fucking glad he’s around.

My job at Amazon and the opportunity to make my life better.

Was working on an issue for a customer and couldn’t figure something out. Ian offered to rubber duck it with me and we got it figured out. I am grateful for Ian.

My boys. My wife. These are the people who give my life meaning.

Attended a conference today and got to take home 3 swag shirts and lots of food that would’ve otherwise been thrown away.

Very grateful for the warm and sunny weather. Going to sleep now with my skin full of sunshine

my spouse being the person she is.

We’ve been together for 25+ years and counting but almost everyday single day she manages to impress me even more.

I managed to go from not even knowing what topic to write about for a uni assignment to getting the whole thing done in about 3 hours, luckily the second task was mostly about reformatting the first one

Every batch audio transcoder I’ve tried didn’t keep my meticulously curated directory structure. Just threw things around willy nilly often creating directories for artests the files didnt belong to. So I thought I’d build what I wanted.

So I have a new coding project that is forcing me to think differently. Never done any asynchronous python before. Never really needed to, still don’t if I didn’t want to transcode using ffmpeg as fast as possible. In the past I’ve used subprocess to roll my own ffmpeg wrapper. It was only a few videos at a time and not hundreds of audio files.

Only about 8 hours in, two classes 128 lines of code and most of that time was research. Think I’m nearly done. Done with the easy stuff any way. Have the que all set up but nothing’s actually transcoding yet.

By the nine, i love learning, even when I’m stuck.

I upgraded the CPU and memory in my old computer. I’m now on a faster, 12 year old processor instead of slow, 13 year old one and my memory is doubled from 16gb to 32. I’m grateful that the CPU wasn’t DOA since I bought it used on ebay and it shipped from China.

I am very grateful for the peaceful environment I have created for myself. I tend to take it for granted because it’s just my normal way of life now, but there was a time when all I wished for was a safe place to sleep and a job that didn’t make me want to self delete. I have so much more now. I live all my days free of chaos, just at home in the mountains, working part time and spending the rest of the time chillen with my dogs and the butterflies in my garden. I smoke a lil smoke but I don’t party like a rockstar. There are definitely aspects of my life that could be better (mainly the political state of my country right now) but overall I personally am doing a lot better than I give myself credit for.

honestly, right now I’m so grateful not be in significant or debilitating pain - I’m pretty much able bodied, I can cook and clean and do most of my daily activities pain-free.

I’m a month away from a major surgery that will keep me bed-ridden for many weeks and in pain for even longer. I’ve just been through many major accidents and medical procedures, some of which kept me immobile, disabled, and in significant pain for extended periods of time (some for weeks to months).

But right now, everything is sunshine and rainbows and I’m here for it 🌈🌞✨

Luigi Mangione