Dateline 1-4-2017

Last night I finished my final set of classes for my first Android App Development Course, now all I have to do is complete the final assignment to become a certified beginner!!! After that, I will move on to take the advanced course that comes with job placement help upon graduation.

Dateline 1-3-2017

It's only three days into the New Year and I am already feeling way more optimistic about my future. I'm still uncertain about the future as far as this country and the rest of the world goes but barring some sort of apocalyptic catastrophe, I do feel that the path that I've been building towards a better personal life now has a pretty solid foundation to build upon.

Dateline 1-2-2017

Last night I started my mission to watch every episode of Saturday Night Live ever made in an attempt to find my favorite sketch. I have to say, I love having this as an end of the day activity. For one, I get to watch an entertaining show every night, but mainly I like it because it draws attention away from these daily posts which I feel will subconsciously allow me to have more fun with what I have to say.

Dateline 1-1-2017

Happy New Year's everyone, today marks my four year anniversary of writing nonsense here at TheWickerBreaker.com. Sorry that this last year was a little lame, filled with these daily updates on my mundane existence. Though I didn't accomplish much challenge-wise, I did get into the habit of publishing content on a daily basis whether or not I had anything to say, which I'm considering an accomplishment, especially since I still see this site as a training ground for finding my voice as an online entity.

Dateline 12-31-2016

Happy New Year's Crickets!!

Dateline 12-30-2016

Two more days until this dumb year is over!!!

Dateline 12-29-2016

Well, the last couple days have been pretty productive. Yesterday I was informed that there was more work for me so I put in a 12 hour day. I would have put in more but I was barely able to keep my eyes open for the last hour or so. It's a good thing that I fit in as much work as I did because the task was done by the time I woke in the morning.

Dateline 12-28-2016

Alright, just a couple more days until I start my new Wicker Breaker experiment that will subvert The Daily Breakers back to being a secondary feature of this site, the way it was meant to be. Until then, I just learned the work source site has another task that should keep me busy for at least a couple days.

Dateline 12-27-2016

I'm kind of excited to start the year. Right now I feel like my computer when I set it to restart. The monitor warns me that the computer is about to shut down only to stay in a state of limbo while the background memory wraps up its final actions and braces itself for a fresh start. Sometimes this process takes so long that it leaves me wondering is my computer will ever restart at all.

Dateline 12-26-2016

Alright, Christmas is over, now all I need to do is make it through New Year's so that life can normalize for a few months until next year's festivities. Don't get me wrong, I don't despise that family based holidays as I do the celebratory events but a lot of the same logic goes into why these "special" days don't bring out the enthusiasm in me the way they do with others.

Dateline 12-25-2016

As promised, here is the quick sequel to yesterday's post...

Dateline 12-24-2016

Well, today's a Saturday while also being Christmas Eve. It's also been a long time since I've taken a break from rambling in these posts so I'm going to make this short and sweet...

Dateline 12-23-2016

Damn it, how come every time I seem to fall into a groove the rug almost instantly gets pulled out from under me? Last night, I discovered that my short term job may be even shorter termed than I thought. The hiring agency claimed that it would go until the end of the year but could go a little longer due to the fact that it's a batch assignment, meaning the work's not done until the batch is done and the assignment could run long.

Dateline 12-22-2016

I might be getting repetitive but I really, really, really, really, hope that I stick with this trajectory going into the New Year. I love this new job of mine and am so bummed out that it only lasts a couple weeks. That said, I am very hopeful that the company that hired me will like me enough to hire me for similar opportunities in the future. Since the gig is so flexible I would accept the offer even if I was working another full-time job.

Dateline 12-21-2016

Time for another app update!!!

Dateline 12-20-2016

Oh, how I wish this could be my permanent job...

Dateline 12-19-2016

Oh, today's turning out to be a great day. I woke up to a pretty normal day, a little earlier than usual but I did go to bed earlier than usual last night so everything was worked out in the wash and I didn't feel tired. 

Dateline 12-18-2016

Yesterday ended up being pretty productive, especially for it being the weekend. I have a large chunk of the structure of my latest Android app assignment laid out to where it's functional when using a test target site to filter information from. Now I just need to tweak the code to handle the true target content and figure out how to display the information that is pleasing to the end user.

Dateline 12-17-2016

I have a weird relationship with the end of the year. I've never cared all that much about the celebratory aspects of New Year's, and the Leap Year Baby bitterness in me has led me to look at time as a man-made construct that has robbed me of my annual me day where the totems of time's passage doesn't bear all that much weight with me... well... at least not when I think about it logically.