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 …
2018 Politicon in downtown Los Angeles would be best described as a depressing analysis of our current political climate. There were more Trump supporters than past Politicons, and they were exceeding vocal. Kathy Griffin threw out a couple of them because they were heckling. On the whole I would say the Trump people were given …
Unless you live somewhere like San Diego, a significant amount of your utility bills will go towards maintaining your living space at a comfortable temperature. There are ways to minimize these expenditures to help you save more money for or during your early retirement. The temperature in your house is determined entirely by the laws …
If you follow my strategy I guarantee you will get back more money from slot machines than you put in. You should also keep in mind it’s all for fun. When you are gambling you should never expect to win big bucks and this will likely not even get you to break minimum wage for …
DealDash is a site where you can pick up useful items for less than you can buy them anywhere else. It’s also a site where you are more likely to pay much more for an item than it is worth. There are really only a few rules for winning an auction: Bid against people who …