So yesterday, I became so frustrated because Cloud9 decided to take a steaming pile of crap on my study plans, and I was running and crappy sleep. Recipe for my ugly mood all day. It wasn’t until this morning, 3 hours after the coffee clicked in, and almost 24 hours since it stopped working, that AWS emailed me to tell me that my account was suspended because I didn’t pay the $3.49 that was due. Great. After I paid it, it came back up. Immediately. By the way, during the 3 hours, I had decided to created another environment for Launch School and went through the trouble of pulling down all of my code. Oh well. Now I know.

Anyways, I worked on two string problems in the Easy 1 section of the Exercises tab. I was actually able to thoroughly think through the problem in a very logical manner and managed to solve it! Well, at least the second one. I came close on the first one, but got a little lost in the code itself. I’m proud of myself for that one, but I need the hard work to continue. It seems that one thing or another needs my attention but I need to study!!!

One thing that has taken a bit of time lately is cooking. Anyone in my family can tell you that I was a pain to deal with in the kitchen growing up. My mom can attest. Lately though, I’ve had an itch for it and I’m not quite sure why. I made asian style chicken thighs with rice and broccoli yesterday and fried chicken with mac n cheese today. It’s highly worth it to buy those large packs of chicken thighs/wings/drums, whatever because one pack can cover dinner for two or three for a couple days. Yeessss. Maybe I’ll post pics of my hard work on here. Even if no one sees them, at least it’s out to the world.

Last thing, I’ve brought it up to the creator of the Bryan/College Station Code for America Brigade Group leader the fact that we should probably host code ‘hack nights’ every two weeks or so. The introvert inside me is cringing right now just typing that but I need to network. My career is still far ahead from me right now but it’s necessary. It would help to have someone or some people to refer to when I’m applying to jobs, no? Even if no one shows up, at least I tried. Vin is thinking about medical school, and who knows where that’ll take us. My thought was that if that was established here, even with my zero experience, I could take that anywhere. So far we’ve decided every other Wednesday, form 630-830pm at the Village Cafe in Bryan, Texas. It’s a start.