I saw an article about the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement on the first page of my financial news today. While it wasn’t anything new, I was surprised at how it stuck to the facts and avoided the typical: These people somehow don’t spend all of their money on things, isn’t that weird? It …
Here’s something I tried out last night as an experiment. I logged into Chatroulette and Omegle to gauge if it would work well as a “laboratory” for improving my social anxiety. My conclusion is: Yes! But I believe there are some caveats that need to be worked through and I need to set the correct …
I’ve returned from my trip to help my sister. Fortunately I thought the trip went well and I made a difference. I talked to people I did not know very well and did some other anxiety inducing things that I was able to get through without much trouble. It looks likely I will be returning …
Income From My Websites for September 2019 This will be an easy one. I had zero income from my website businesses for the month of September. This has been a transitional period where I am switching where my income comes from, future months should at least start having something. Plans to increase my income I …
I’ve been experimenting with various supplements. I’ve tried taking Magnesium Oxide and zinc as they’re supposed to help with workouts, Magnesium is also supposed to improve anxiety, if you have a deficiency, which many people do. I suspect it does help to a limited degree, although I am not a scientific study and it’s difficult …
I sometimes feel dishonest when telling people I am retired. Not because I didn’t save up enough money to never have to work again – I most certainly did. But because the reasons for my extremely early retirement are not publicly known. I suffer from a great deal of anxiety and especially social anxiety. Working …
My Problem I have a program that runs every 10 seconds. It reads information from a website which includes data on users and products and what each are doing. It takes this information and updates it to an internal database. This takes from 100 to low 1000’s of queries and updates. It’s updating light data, …
I’m in the process of moving, optimizing, and finding more efficient and space saving ways to use MySQL. This will document some of the tricks I am learning for my future reference. How to see how much diskspace a database is taking up SELECT table_schema AS “database”, SUM(data_length + index_length) / 1024 / 1024 AS …
I plan on soon purchasing an inexpensive VPS for hosting websites and running some of the applications I have developed. My plan is to buy one of the cheapest services available and then optimize as much as I can to take advantage of the limited resources. Before I purchase a VPS, I am doing experiments …
It was a beautiful day in May two years ago when I stumbled upon a pile of old computer parts in a parking garage. It felt like it was Christmas again. I don’t mean adult Christmas, but child Christmas, when you could still feel the magic of the season and couldn’t fall asleep on Christmas …