I had turned in the homework intially for a 36 and was totally fine to leave it at that score and hope my grade wouldn’t suffer too much. I tried to do it right. I even got on a zoom call with him to help me understand it more. But even after this I was still having issues so I sent him another email with a slightly improved but still incomplete worksheet and wash my hands with the homework. He sent me a very encouraging email and after reading it I knew I couldn’t give up since my professor hadn’t given up on me. It took me all night and I had to work thru the errors but I was able to finish and get a much better and well deserved grade. Giving me an A in the class which was huge. I’m so glad I did not give up and this has been a huge confidence boost for me, and mentally has made me tougher. Never quit.

I think going into this class I had massively overestimated my excel skills. I learned a lot and would really like to take a moment here to show my appreciation for Professor Campbell. He was fair, helpful, and encouraging. All things you’d hope for in a professor. I don’t think I would’ve been able to do this class on my own.

As far as my continued education I might not be continuing going into 2025. This first semester was really hard and it’s encouraging to know that I can do it. Not only that I pushed myself thru a difficult assignment/class but that I did so with a good grade. But I am not sure if I can continue without financial assistance (thought I’d get some from my employer but didnt) and still waiting to hear back from FAFSA. But I may well take the break for this spring, not what I wanted but what I must do.

Lastly I’ve been thinking a lot about my career and the path I’ve been on in the last 6 years and think it may be time to make some changes.

Im not a generous person but I’ll always donate to Wikipedia when they ask.

Putting this car in a video game is a good way to market this car to potential buyers. And if anything it helps get his car brand out into the public in a great way, Fortnite is a massive video game. And not only that at this moment it is the only real life car in the game but I’m sure it won’t be long now until other car makers get their cars into the game.

The whole cyber truck thing is pretty wild. I love this car from a design aspect. To me it looks different and in this case different = cool. The car looks great to me. The stainless steel was a great choice of material as it gives the car a raw and rugged appearance, the few painted cybertrucks I’ve seen are still cool but lack curb appeal in my opinion.

This was the first one I ever seen in real life, in an unlikely place too. I will say that this car may not be as rugged as it looks, but damn it looks amazing. Last note this car does scream “rich flex” to me. The price range of a cybertruck is 80k-100k and if your looking to buy a car in that range I think there’s lots of cars that are out right better in just about every way. So the car is just saying I have a lot of money, I like art/design, or electric cars. I personally get excited whenever I see one but don’t see myself ever buying one but would love to rent or drive one one day, maybe that would change my opinion but until then I think it’s a car that can be in a museum and should win some design awards but other than that doesn’t really make much sense as a car.

Full disclaimer I’ve lost twice betting on $SNAP but this recent loss will be the last as I have sold off my position. I believe the glory days of $SNAP may be behind them but they still have some relevance at the moment.

In this post I will discuss some of thier biggest set backs and thier biggest wins. And what I predict will happen to snapchat.

Snapchat is a social media app with over 750 million monthly active users making it 9th place for total social media apps and sites. And the app is reporting growth consistently over the last four quarters as well. That said I don’t see the appeal to it. The main reason people use snap chat is to send messages to each other. People may not remember this but iMessage group chat was not really good and Snapchat was a much better option for group chats, plus the filters were also a huge as no one else was doing that and some of the filters were actually quite advanced for the time.

However today the filters are much less impressive than what other apps are offering. Here is a comparison of the old age filter:

As you can see the TikTok filter does a better job at showing old age than the Snapchat filter. I will say the Instagram filter for old age was really bad I didn’t even include it. Facebook/Meta offered to buy Snapchat for 3 billion in 2013 by was rejected. Since then they have put a lot of what Snapchat does on Instagram. Stories, and reels (which admittedly copies TikTok more but alas) were Snapchat ideas that Instagram copied and improved on. I do understand that Snapchat is still very popular with some users but for me it is a dying social media and I predict a slow tapering off into irrelevance as other apps gain popularity and functionality.

I will say that making a photo edit like this one I made while watching the game today was quick and easy and can only be done on snap, but I sent it to friends via imessage.

Baltimore did not cover the spread but neither does $SNAP. I would not recommend this stock at any price.

I’m not gonna say much other than it was bad and I regret buying it.

No doubt the worst menu item at McDonalds right now. If you want chicken get the nuggets or mccrispy don’t bother with this, reminds me of the chicken sandwich they had at my highschool cafeteria. Also doesn’t have onion like the classic Big Mac does.

But I’ve never carved a pumpkin before

So this year I was torn between either painting or carving one. Ended up doing both. Credit to tiktoker hailey Higgins for the inspiration for the carved “punk-kin”

Over all this was really fun and helped me get into the season. I can’t believe I’ve never done this before.

Wanted to make a profile picture for my goodreads account. Inspired by the name of the account “reading rainboy” which was inspired by the show reading rainbow, really should’ve put a butterfly in this. Might update it to have one.

Love this book. Read this book. It’s great and you’ll feel great reading it. It’s the story of Siddhartha, a training monk. He gets to a point where he says I don’t want to be taught anything I want to experience it so he goes out and lives his life like a normal person would. Dealing with the good and bad aspects of life and his reactions to it. The book ends in a way that beautifully encapuslates the sense that everything in life has a purpose.

You can’t get enlightenment from teaching or experience you can only get it from understanding.

Tags: Spitual journey, non-fiction, enlightenment