Stuck on stupid

10/8/25:

Canceling out. This was a silly dream.

10/6/25:

Python course is completed. Now on to Linux.

Update later: I'm moving through Linux pretty fast. There's a crap load of courses to take in this project. It will take quite awhile, even at this pace.

10/4/25:

Getting close to the finish line for the first subject of this course.  So close that I can smell it.   If anyone's curious, the first course is Python.  Python is a computer language.  I'm so out of it with this coding business that I don't know what good Python's for.   It's been over 20 years since I did any coding at all.  A lot of catching up to do.  I'm so old that I could remember writing code in Fortran and Cobol.  Plenty has changed from those days.

10/3/25:

The going's getting rugged...  It's already near noon, and just now I'm getting to this blog.  It's because it is so doggone time-consuming to do programming.  This blog also is time-consuming.  Therefore, posting is going to suffer a bit.

Bottom line is this:  If the blog doesn't pay $$$, then I need to find a way to make some money.  Life as it is too-constraining without the $$$ to do things.

No intention to monetize blog, but that could change.   However, I won't do anything to lose my independence to say whatever I please.  Bear with me on this.  It really does look like time-management may be an issue.

10/2/25:

Rut roh! Another toughie popped up on my radar, and it shot me down! Ayeeeeeeeee! I must've lost some pep in my step or something. That one shouldn't have been tough as it was. The solution seemed "elegant", but I've got a headache now.

10/1/25:

Actually, I am plowing through this course pretty fast.  The online course keeps track of your progress, and compares it to others' progress.  Stimulates competition, I suppose.  Anyway, I am catching up pretty fast.  It may take awhile to see how I really stack up.  Compared to the beginners, which I am NOT quite that, but a beginner with regards to the course material itself, I am kicking butt.

But I won't get too proud about that.  Heck, it wasn't even my idea anyway.  You know, all this competitive stuff isn't always a good thing.  It's like Murphy's Law.  It's not always best, but that's the way to bet.

9/30/25:

As I dilly-dally my ways through the muck and mire of modern life, I am sometimes struck in the head by something from somewhere unknown.  ( don't take me literally )

This morning I had a helluva time solving a moderately hard programming exercise.  In the old days, there was just one time in which I could't figure it out on my own.  This morning was a repeat of that experience.  I said "uncle" on the problem because I didn't want to make a career out of a programming exercise.

After awhile, the commonalities of the old days and the current day came back to me.  I was stuck on stupid.  That was why I couldn't solve the problem.

Maybe because I'm not physically up to par this morning.  But what was the excuse back in the old days when I was a young whippersnapper?

Sometimes there's just no excuse for being a dummy.  Just trying not to get stuck on stupid.  The fail-safes didn't work this morning, drat it.