January 2, 2017 12:27 PM
Happy New Year
I'm sick :/
I have to go back to work tomorrow and I have all these emails to read and all this work to do. I need a vacation after my vacation.
My one new year's resolution: sleep earlier!!! Last night I went to sleep at 12:30am. That's a good enough start, right?
September 14, 2017 10:07 PM
Holy crap, this still exists
Yeah. Just like the title says.
My life has been really good. I love going to work. I can't believe how much I actually enjoy going to work everyday. And I've been so focused on just doing work and then blobbing around afterwards. But blobbing is over. I've got to focus on saving money, cooking, learning, all that jazz.
I'm trying to decide what fun thing to add to this site next. I get a little overwhelmed looking at the ridiculous code that's somehow made this site, and I wonder why I decided to put a website together using C. Since I sort of have a login feature in place, I think I'll try and add a page for me to make blog posts using a web interface instead of this silly little bash script I wrote up.
August 12, 2018 10:23 PM
I wanted to start a blog
Summer is a busy time of the year for me. Somehow the whole summer gets planned out before May even starts and it already seems like we don't have enough time to do everything that we want to do. Summer is when too much life gets in the way of my New Year's resolution, and I neglect to update my site for a few months. Well, things are getting back to normal, so it's time for me to be a productive person again.
I needed a place to keep myself organized and keep track of my goals. I guess I could have used an actual journal, but then I'd have to buy a journal, and one of my goals is to save money. I don't intend on this blog ever being useful to anyone other than myself. We'll see how long I can keep up with this.
Oh, yeah I'll get back to learning more Chinese and updating the site eventually.
August 13, 2018 7:40 PM
Mid Year Resolutions: Part 1
Part 1 because I get super ambitious when I set goals for myself, knowing that I won't reach all of them, but with the hopes that at least one of the goals actually sticks.
I've always been a really frugal person. Growing up, I just figured that if something cost money I couldn't have it. It wasn't until college that I realized I had some money, and I could just buy things. Now during college my goal was just to find an internship so I could secure a stable job where I sat in a cubicle and typed words on the computer for 8 hours a day. And I did that. But shortly into my job I felt bored and unhappy. Was this really what my life was going to be like for the next 40 years? It was at this point that I stumbled across Mr. Money Mustache and learned about the wonders of early retirement. Since then, that has been my long-term life goal. I could just take my natural frugality and put that into overdrive.
That was about 3 years ago. Yeah, I've been saving money and investing it, but I've still been spending way more than I need to. I needed to make more concrete goals.
Spending $30 on food a week
This is the first of what I'm calling my "Mid-Year Resolutions". (I know, the year is more than halfway over.) Why $30? I don't know, it just seemed like a reasonable number that didn't require me to drastically change my diet. I just finished reading On A Dollar A Day in which a couple tries to first eat only $1 worth of food every day, and then tries to eat food based on the average amount people get on food stamps. Things like this inspire me and remind me that I'm spending a lot more on food than I need to.
So far it seems to be going well. I've meal prepped and cooked everything for the week during the weekend, and I spent just over $29 at the grocery store without actually thinking about how much everything cost before putting it on my list. I've also told people about my goal so that should also help me stay on track. I plan on posting an update on Friday night to see if the amount of food I cooked actually lasts me as long as I expected.
August 15, 2018 10:03 PM
Mid Year Resolutions: Part 2
Here are some more goals I'm giving myself.
Learn more about programming and computers
At work I've been feeling like I just know less and less. I'll read a piece of code or look at an application and just have this blank, confused stare. I really want to get back into actually coding, but I think I need to start small. I decided to borrow Learning Perl from one of my friends and just read through it. I know, I use Perl at work all the time, and this whole website was even created in Perl. But I like to read about the basics just to get a better understanding and see if there are things that I never really learned over the years.
2021 Update: I did finish that book. It was a very good programming book, and I definitely recommend it if you want to learn Perl. Shortly after that I read Intermediate Perl, which I do not recommend.
Read more
Speaking of reading, I'm also going to try reading more books and less social media. I've made meal time and just before bed time my reading times. As far as what books to read, I basically just like to look in the computer books and the personal finance books in the library, but I'm also going to try and expand my horizons more.
Exercise regularly
Four summers ago I managed to run 3 miles every day for about 40 days. It was the first time in my life that I really ran since that one semester of track in high school, and I lost about 30 pounds in the process. I don't think I'll ever want to be that crazy again, but I do think I'll try to run once or twice a week, along with some other kind of exercise. This week I've already gone running twice, and surprisingly it wasn't that bad. Maybe I'm not as out of shape as I thought I was.
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