Responsibility = Freedom. Freedom IS Responsibility.
Not responsible for other people, animals, things, but rather responsibility for yourself and only yourself. Nothing stops someone from being responsible. It's a silly thing to even think about (unless you're a 15 year old pothead who loves XBOX).
Knowing that you are YOU and no one can take your responsibilities away from you as an adult and knowing that no one wants to look after you, and if they do, they will take advantage of you (because humans do that, all the time), and knowing that to actually be the “master of your own destiny” you have to get the basics down first – that is Step 1 of thousands of steps towards true freedom and independence.
Power is power. It is an end, not a means. The second you give power to someone, expect a fight to get it back. And if the only power you seek is the power to manage your own well-being, then the RESPONSIBILITY is on you to manage it.
All this can also be called adulting. If you're over 18. As in, one second into your 18th birthday – you are an adult. Makes choices that reflect that fact.
I Like shutupandgo.travel
Seems like a pretty basic concept: take the things you have and go...and...travel. Even if you're broke, just....go! The site/#blog or whatever it is, is run by two (beautiful) people named Damon & Jo and I think I discovered them a couple years ago when I was doing a random YT or Google search for “micro apartment NYC” because, I, like many people, want to live in #NYC one day. The only way I could afford to live in NYC would be to either rent a very small apartment or have a roommate or BOTH! I am hoping the project(s) I put together during & after the #EdX course (#CS50x) that I can actually have a little bit of cash to move to NYC as my lease here in S St Louis County is up in October. I basically have till the end of this month to decide if I am going to put in a 60-day notice that I am going to let my lease run-out, or if I am going to renew it. Either one is fine but having a place to live if/when it does run-out would be a nice thing. Haha.
Anyway, I really like their blog. Dog knows I have everything I need for a nomadic existence (as in, I have v little things. literally everything I own (except a couple pieces of furniture) can fit into a 20L backpack).
So, as I was saying about the project I am doing for the CS50x course – it is a Web #app and I already have a landing page for it (why not?) and I am going to buy the domain soon (why not?) and it is p dog gone simple and I will just charge people to use it, outright. That is the only way I will make $$$ off it because #ads are fucked these days w/ more and more browsers blocking ads (which is a good thing) and also because I hate ads, you hate ads, there is no way I am going to bother running ads. People don't even realize that ads aren't profitable at all unless you are a super-big service, Website, whatever. Charging $$$ for the service is better, IMO.
So there's that
Be back in a bit
slept like a baby
now making tater tots for breakfast and thinking about what I shall do w/ my day up until the sun sets when I will begin Week 1 and Problem Set 2 in #CS50x.
One good thing: I actually have food again in the house (after an 11PM shopping trip) and life has gotten exponentially better! :)
good morning
#Pizza, etc.
I got a free pizza on behalf of my very generous parents because they were on their over to show me their new (very nice) van and offered. I also sold the Tab A to a very nice gentleman and got $40 for it (he got the better end of the deal), and I am probably going to do some late night grocery shopping tonight (because the pizza is now gone). But I am happy with the way the day turned out. Was looking very grim this AM, for sure.
Onto other things!
Peepin' the 'rents new van in a bit here & grabbin' a Little Cesar's za while I'm at it because Problem Set 1 was a fucking hit (I went into all that last night) and also because I am dog gone starving for real food.
I could bitch about how flakey and fucking shitty the people on CL are about taking seriously the fact that – Yes, this tablet is real, Yes I knocked the price down even more, and Yes I would like to sell it ASAP. They want to chit chat I think. CL is not a social network though, so....fuck them.
Anyway, nothing incredibly special happening this Sunday other than chillaxin' at home and partially starving. Haha.
So....good
Now that Week 0 + Problem Set 1 is finished, I can move onto W2 + PS2 on Monday and just chillax tomorrow (even though I would prefer to be busy doing something). There may be a chance of me going out to the 'rents for a while to do this or that around the house, but, I will find out tomorrow.
I am having very dark BLACK coffee at the moment and enjoying the nighttime. I feel very good right now.
I also made a list of things that I must buy (for life-advancement purposes) when I get paid next. Including: Makebook (book about bootstrapped startups), SublimeText (text editor for writing code), the domain for the app I am building for the Final Project of CS50x, and paying for the postage/printing/blah, blah for the EdX certificate (should I finish to satisfactory completion the CS50x course (I WILL!))
I really like the random advice people give away (for free!) online because it is super inspirational. Not from the “influencers” who make it their job to “inspire” every fucking one they come into contact with, but the people who just do their own fucking thing and are super fucking good at it. I don't like “life gurus” at all because they are full of shit. I prefer people that do shit that legit succeeds and just shares their experiences so it “may help someone else”.
#Goodtimes, good times indeed.
That's a God Damn Nightmare
So I am trying (I really am) to submit this gd sprite animation to #EdX and it reallllly doesn't want me to do it. I can't read fucking minds. They want it submitted a certain way, and the only way I could possibly know how to do that, is with proper instructions. I follow those proper instructions and the shit still doesn't work. So............???????????
They could try, idk, a 2018 method like “Here's a Dropbox acct. Click 'Upload File'. Done!” but instead I have to link my GitHub acct (which included me having to d/l Chrome just to jump that hurdle), and then I have to accept invitations to connect to CS50.me, so I do that (even though they said two Invites would be sent, I got 7 of them), I accepted all-possible Invites, I submitted the gd sprite file, and....it won't show up as something that was received.
So here I go a fucking again. Wish me luck!!!
ffs
My First #Pong Game: COMPLETE!
That was pretty cool to make. Turned out well. Saved it to my laptop + scratch.mit.edu but I haven't listed it publicly, yet. I am going to go through all the steps to submit it properly to #EdX and then I suppose I will be done w/ Week 0! #Woot! If I submit by tonight that means I will have everything from Week 0 done within 6 days! #AheadOfSchedule! :D
This was p cool making this because I have never made anything like this before at all. It was mainly drag-&-drop but I understood all of it.
Upwards and onwards!
#Scratch2 #CS50x
the sun is setting
which means it about #Scratch2 time. First, I have to finish the dishes + put some #coffee on, and then I can begin. It is a nice little beginning of a sunset, but I wouldn't quite call it dusk yet.
Anyway, nice night. I feel good.
I am gonna shell out the $80 for SublimeText sometime in the near future because I have always wanted to have a use for that #app + I sorta need a #coding app for CS50x, so...
that's all I gotta say for right now