A friend is also taking the class. He is a much more advanced developer than I am, and has much more experience with programming languages than I do. He’s been generous with offering to help. The problem is I don’t know what questions to ask, or what is not clicking for me.

I’m questioning the amount of time I’m spending trying to answer the homework assignments. Today I spent close to 5+ hours and made absolutely no progress. Seems like a waste. 5 hours later and all I’m left with is a massive headache from grinding my teeth.

It was a good run! Despite almost losing all forward propelling motivation after the volunteer at mile 2 yelled “Half-way done!” I finished with a personal best, 7:15 pace. Looking back over my running notes, it looks like that’s a personal best for a mile over the entire time I’ve been running! Very happy!

Side note, picked up my race number, I’m still in the yellow corral. I’m supposed to be red. Not a huge deal, but starting closer to the front of the pack makes a huge difference in final race times.

Unfortunately, I still have the feeling of being on high-alert. Almost as if I’m forgetting something really important. Or that by getting the little things done, I’m creating a bigger mess of everything else. This is not very rational, but it’s a characteristic I’d like to defeat. I need to relax. Here’s what I’m doing to start doing:

1) get to bed an hour earlier
2) get up early enough to mediate
3) stay away from sugar
4) drink less wine

Let’s see how it goes.

I know it looks gross, but I started making my own kombucha at home. It’s amazing to me how expensive it is to buy in the stores, when in reality, it is just fermented tea. I had a similar thought when I was craving kimchi and the health food store was selling a small jar for $15. I found the same jar in an Asian market a couple blocks away for $4. No wonder everyone eats like crap with all the mass-market corner stores and “fast-food” places every few steps. Fortunately, I had everything I needed to make this healthy brew right in my cupboard.

One of the things I decided to do to help clear my head and regain focus, is to take a portion of every Friday morning and work on non-project/deadline related things. these tend to be things that I have on my todo list that are important, but really only to me. I haven’t been doing this for long, and am working on getting over the “guilty” feeling for not focusing on the deadlines looming, but I’m getting there, and feel better at the end of the day for making the effort.

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