Week Wrap-up: 09 April 2018 – 15 April 2018

I saw some dandelions, that’s always nice.

This week was a week of ups and downs and a lot of cruising on depression autopilot. So that was fun.

• I finished recovering from my cold, yay!
• I missed every single workout slot, so that sucks.
• I didn’t sleep enough pretty much any night this week, and spent the back half of it feeling super emotionally fragile as a result.
• Depression punched me in the face for the majority of the week, which among other things means I’m going to miss a couple of (optional) deadlines.
  • I also missed out on doing a loooot of writing and blogging because of this badbrain storm. Phoo.
• Found out I didn’t get the bookstore job. Which I expected, but still kinda sucked.
• I saw Pacific Rim 2! It’s highly enjoyable, though I agree with my bf’s assessment that it’s not nearly as strong as the first one.
• It rained constantly for like three days in a row, which sounded nice against the roof/windows but probably did nothing to help my mental state.
• Did my taxes, found out my estimated taxes, unlike past years, did not add up to more than what I owed, but rather less. (I think I underestimated how much I was going to make this year, and/or went with the lower number (which wasn’t enough), like the instructions say to. :) So I got to pay the IRS a load more money. Which, luckily, I had the $, but the whole situation was a bit of a gut punch.
• As I’ve finished Shadow of Mordor, I started on a new game. Well, an old (for me) game that I’m actually going to try and finish this time: Fallout 4! I modded the butts out of it, and there’s a few more i still want to add. (There’s one out there that adds a cover system, which after the first couple firefights sounds like a wonderful idea.)
  • I played a lot of FO4 this week. Depression = at least I can video game?
• I also studied for an interview I have coming up in a couple weeks and continued to dust off my programming skills.
  • A Google Compute Engine/Kubernetes tutorial that was supposed to take me 90 minutes took me like four hours. But at least part of that was, I think, the instructions being out of date. (Long story short: resource allocation as described in the tutorial isn’t quite enough to get everything running you need to, so I had to fiddle with it, which made later parts of the tutorial require fiddling, and at one point I had to start everything over due to getting impatient about a very slow incremental-upgrade process that happened because I had an unrealized typo in my config file. Wheeee.)
  • I implemented a hash table in Java (by myself, not using the builtin functions). It was hard, and my hashing function kind of blows, but it worked! And that made me happy.
• My new class started and has a bunch of reading! I’m scared! But hopefully I will manage.

And that’s been my week! How about yours? What did you get up to? Are you looking forward to anything coming up this next week?