Daily Update – December 2, 2022

Good morning! A pleasant Friday! 🌅

Maybe I should have taken today off but it’s going to cloud up later.

Partly sunny and 30 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☀ Calm wind. Things will start to thaw out at around 8 am. 🌡️

I am waiting with bated breath to find out if I have jury duty next week. 👨‍⚖️ I would kind of like to know, as otherwise I will take off some time next week to head out of town as I’m thinking a long weekend would be nice. Regular Season ends this weekend in the Northern Zone, so it will be quiet in the woods if I head up to the Adirondacks bar the concessional black powder guy, but they are even more rare in the Adirondacks then other places. 🐻 The following week, assuming it’s decent and I don’t have jury duty, I’m thinking of heading out to Central NY for a few days.

I have quite a few more hours to take off before the end of the year, 🏕 so I should plan some time off. The past month though I haven’t taken many days off because it’s been tough to find any extended time periods with decent weather. 🌦 I hate to just take time off to sit at home and do nothing all week. Rather just get work done at work, it breaks up the time, and I don’t have to pay for extra heat or electricity when I’m in the office.

I’ve been continuing to work through that FreeCodeCamp Course. 👨‍🏫 Right now I’m working on one of the credit projects. I think I’m spending too much time working on it, making the CSS sheet look all pretty when the machine evaluation of the code structure doesn’t really care what it looks like as long as the tags evaluate properly. But whatever it’s good practice, though I do want to move on to the more advanced parts of the code.

Installed Visual Studio Code on my Laptop. I’ve been using RStudio and Jupyter and Geany for most of my text editing needs, 🤖 but I’m very impressed with VSCode right now. Maybe it’s time to switch over to it. I like RStudio for it’s speed but VS Code is also speedy too. I need to get a good IDE that I really master for everything, especially as I do more coding these days.

Last night, got my steps in and went to bed. 🛌 Most nights during the winter I’m not super ambitious. Also did some reading and research on a few topics of interest. But nothing too remarkable. The library is closed today for staff training 📚 so I won’t be able to go there tonight.