Dateline 10-21-2016

Last night was another sleepless night. The thing that sucks is that I even tried to play into the insomnia and kept working until 4:00 in the AM. I waited until I felt so exhausted that I couldn't focus any longer, then I headed over to bed where it took another two hours before I finally found slumber. Four hours later, I awoke and tried to roll over in an attempt to fit in a couple more hours.

No such luck.

After about a half hour I decided to give in and got up to face the day. Now I'm feeling exhausted, not exhausted enough to sleep but exhausted enough to slow any efforts toward being productive. Maybe a jump in the cold pool will wake me up enough to really get this day going. 

That said, I am making some pretty solid progress on my latest app assignment. I find that I'm getting understand Java enough that I can use trial and error to solve complex issues without having to resort to online searches for solutions. Though figuring things out on my own may take longer that hunting for solutions, I'm seeing the benefits as I don't always understand why the searched solutions work.

I plan on spending the rest of the day working on the assignment. This one has taken me a lot of time just to feel interested in the concept of this particular app but now that I'm into it, it's game on and all I can think of.

Hopefully, I'll be able to finish the assignment by the end of the weekend so I can move on with the course. I can't wait to finish so that I can ease up on the learning and move on to making a living at this because I'm tired of feeling stuck in this underemployed, underpaid life of a middle-aged student, but I do feel way more hopeful than I did this time last year.

Time to get to work!!!

Talk to you tomorrow,

The Wicker Breaker