Dateline 9-25-2016

Dateline 9-25-2016

Dateline 9-25-2016

Oops, I just realized that I've been making a big mistake with this site for the past couple years. I've said it many times in the past but I never intended on this Daily Breaker segment of the site to be the main content of the page. In fact, I only created it to summarize my efforts during the 365 Days of Resolution experiment where I set a resolution a day for an entire year then took a year to complete said resolutions. 

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Dateline 9-24-2016

Dateline 9-24-2016

Dateline 9-24-2016

I know that time is a construct of man to begin so it is possible for our way of interpreting it can and does evolve as we grow. When you're a year old six months is half your life where a hundred-year-old could see the same six as a blink of an eye. Lately, I've been noticing more of a blurring of time where I feel that technology is allowing the past and present to coexist in a way that's getting more and more confusing as it grows.

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Dateline 9-23-2016

Dateline 9-23-2016

Dateline 9-23-2016

If you have read more than one of my post then you already know that there are a few common threads now that I'm not doing experiments. I mainly discuss my attempt to find my blogging voice despite my lack of inspiration since leaving behind my life in Seattle. It's either that or a weekly, turned to biweekly, which is now monthly and will probably turn to being a bimonthly post about jumping off the wagon to drink for a day only to find that I've lost interest in alcohol. Or I post about crawling out of a rut, my progress with school, or my quirky sleep schedule and my attempts to find a version of normalcy that works for me.

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Dateline 9-22-2016

Dateline 9-22-2016

Dateline 9-22-2016

Yesterday, I turned in my latest assignment and once again got some really positive feedback. The way these instructors talk about my work is boosting my confidence that I will be able to translate what I'm learning into an actual career once I graduate. This boost in confidence also stems from the fact that this course feels like it is genuine training and not self-taught learning through YouTube videos and amateur instructors that teach with follow-along techniques. 

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Dateline 9-21-2016

Dateline 9-21-2016

Dateline 9-21-2016

Last night I finally finished my assignment and am very happy with how it turned out!!!

The assignment was to create the layout for an audio playing app. We were told to create an app that would either play audio files directly from the user's device, a player that would stream audio or an app for playing podcasts. I decided to incorporate all options into one big device and here is what I came up with...

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Dateline 9-18-2016

Dateline 9-18-2016

Dateline 9-18-2016

More of the same on a Sunday afternoon. 

Yesterday was pretty uneventful but then again that could be said about my life for the past two years yet somehow I've managed to come up things to write about. I often forget that my mission statement for this site, from the get go, has been "I'm here to muse on the world around me in an attempt to make it appear as if I leave my apartment to make such findings." So I guess this segment of my site is far more successful than I give it credit.

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Dateline 9-14-2016

Dateline 9-14-2016

Dateline 9-14-2016

Once again, I am back in my groove. 

I know I go back and forth with being in, out, falling into, or on the way out of ruts, but that's part of the fun of living with a mental disorder. I'm not sure why but I was stricken with sadness starting last Friday, though the sadness didn't last long, it did manage to zap a lot of the motivation that I had built up in me over the past month while taking the latest Android App class that I'm taking. 

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Dateline 9-13-2016

Dateline 9-13-2016

Dateline 9-13-2016

This morning I had to make one final call to clear up the call center chaos that I wrote about yesterday. This time, I knew for a fact that they had all the proper forms so I was hoping it would be a brief interaction minus any more hurdles. Of course, I had to wait a half hour to get a human on the line, but that was kind of an expectation so I was only annoyed to a rational level. This was just a call to verify the receipt of a document, a document that I knew for sure I was correct this time so everything should have gone smoothly...

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Dateline 9-12-2016

Dateline 9-12-2016

Dateline 9-12-2016

Well, this has been a wasted day stuck on the phone with customer support.

For those of you who know me well in the real world, you know that I get hyper anxious when it comes to talking on the phone.  Even if I desperately want to talk to someone, I freeze up when the phone rings and opt to instead text back with some excuse as to why I can't talk at the moment. This is why I've been putting off today's phone call for a little over a week now, and the results have only added my annoyance with the non-personal talking technology.

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Dateline 9-11-2016

Dateline 9-11-2016

Dateline 9-11-2016

9/11 is a weird day.

I was 25 way back when the towers fell which means that I'm old enough to fully grasp the difference in America before and after the events while being young enough to have this be my first major conflict. Though I caught the tail end of the cold war my anxieties about war were more movie based than any close call that I experienced through the news. I did get to witness coverage of the first Gulf War but that felt more like a novelty than a conflict since it was so one-sided.

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Dateline 9-10-2016

Dateline 9-10-2016

Dateline 9-10-2016

I'm kind of torn as to what to do with my current app assignment. I have to build the front end features for a media player app which means I only have to focus on the layout and the button functionality. I haven't been taught how to implement streaming sound or access the metadata for local sound files so I'm happy that they did leave me to my own devices to figure that out. 

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Dateline 9-9-2016

Dateline 9-9-2016

Dateline 9-9-2016

I'm kind of torn as to what to do with my current app assignment. I have to build the front end features for a media player app which means I only have to focus on the layout and the button functionality. I haven't been taught how to implement streaming sound or access the metadata for local sound files so I'm happy that they did leave me to my own devices to figure that out. 

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Dateline 9-8-2016

Dateline 9-8-2016

Dateline 9-8-2016

Of all the areas of my life that I'm a complete failure at, my sleep schedule is the area that I wish I had more control over. I've been watching the series Better Late Than Never, where William Shatner, Henry Winkler, Terry Bradshaw, and George Foreman travel around Asia and trying out some of the stranger tourist attractions the countries have to offer. In every episode, I watch with pure jealousy as George Foreman is able to instantly fall asleep under any situation.   

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