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It's the first day of autumn, which is a great time to make some plans for this autumn.
Lost my job due to a MEGACORP "restructure", I'm not even mad. Does this suck? For sure, no doubt! Is this the end of the world? No, not at all. My budget and things are gonna be tight for a bit but I have savings and such so I should be straight so long as nothing catastrophic comes down the pipeline. I'm really happy with my rather "stoic" (in the good sense, not the marketing dudebro sense) response. This isn't a flex, more so just a "I did something, and I'm proud of it". So I'm filling for unemployment and stuff and that's certainly going to be a bureaucratic labyrinth to navigate.
My big thing is I'm really ripping up my keyboard with focus on computer programming again. I'm re-learning a bunch of fundamentals I have lost while at MEGACORP because they did everything backwards and wrong. I'm re-learning and re-enjoying programming. I like being a computer dork, being a cyberspace hackerman on the CLI is a lot of fun for me. I'm also realizing there is so much goddamn nerd shit to both learn and master. I want to step up my game and go from a programmer to a real deal computer wizard. I want to build my own tools and software for my problems. I want to be able to go from idea to code to working code faster and more effectively. Some i'm in E-gym as well as the regular gym.
I'm also hitting the treadmill four times a week now. I hate running, as such I must run until I learn to not hate it. Cardiovascular endurance is a fundamental part of fitness and strength and no amount of broscience saying "cardio kills your gainz bro" is going to deter me. I want abs this time next year.
Other than all that, I'm good. Just trying to keep up with my health, reading, and social connections. Really trying to focus on building real bonds with my friends.