Climbing the ladder.

I have been given some recommendations for more views on my blog and since this is exactly what I wanted I decided it might be worth a try. I got a recommendation to do a podcast about home school from a man known as Stephen McLaughlin and it didn't sound like that bad of an idea. I have the other recommendations like hop on forums that would be related to my blog so that when someone looks at this forum they might be able to find my blog. It isn't that bad of an idea at all and I'm thinking at trying both. Another thing that made sense was for me to start commenting on my own blog entries. This was from my dad because people seem to respond to the comments and then check on what is going on that day. All of these ideas will be taken into consideration in the long run.

I was supposed to be going to made to serve today but since Kristi was in no condition what-so-ever I didn't get to go today. Since we have agreed that I need to get out of the house at least once a week the parents are setting up a field work Friday tomorrow.  I can't wait since it has been a while since I got one other then going to dad's job. I have nothing against dad's job as I really enjoy going over there but it makes things really hard for me to write something on a subject that I have written about before.

The opinion paper is going really well as I spent a good hour today working on going over sites and sources on my paper. I also wrote down some questions that I wanted to answer with this essay by the end. It is a start so far as there is much much more that I can do with this paper. Even cooler is that unlike the other paper I have several different sources that I can work with. I will be quoting people in my paper, quoting books, and then stating what I like or do not like about these quotes. All in all I will be making this paper better then the last paper as much as I possibly can.

Expanding my Horizon

I have been thinking of  trying to get word of my blog out a little bit more for some more views and such. The problem is that I don't exactly have a whole bunch of ideas for getting the word out. I could go onto threads and find like minded people. I could also set up a Facebook account to start getting the word out but I made a promise to myself to not make a Facebook account so that will definitely be last resort. I only made a Google + account to get some word out among people that might be willing to pay attention.

The Opinion paper is doing well. I already have 3 paragraphs done so I am doing pretty good already. I have been working on getting several points of reference in one paper. These references are along the lines of websites, books, papers, and good old fashioned common knowledge. All in all I haven't had any problems with the paper so far other then I need to check it in with Kristi and she hasn't been feeling very well lately so I decided to leave her alone for a little bit.

The day has been taking a while to get through. It is not that the day had a lot of work it was just one of the days where it seemed to take forever before things started to pick up the pace. The work got done for the day. All of my reading is done, blog is being wrapped up, french, and paper all done for the day yet it still seems to be going on forever. Lets see if the day will pick up the pace a little bit more before the end of the day.

Change of Pace

Today was quite different from yesterday as not only do we have guests coming over but I also got done with all of my work for quite a while now without working as much as yesterday. I will admit that yesterday wasn't that bad at all. I got to go outside for pretty much the entire day, I got to see an old friend as he walked around the neighborhood, and I got most of my work done yesterday. Today I got all of my work done for today and yesterday's make up work. Honestly I really can't argue with how the weekend is working out so far.

Codecademy is going really well with its simple way of teaching and how it can tell you what you need to do while still not revealing exactly what to do. Codecademy will then help you out with hints on some of the smallest things that are important but easy to screw up with. For example I spent 10 minutes on one exercise and when I started going over the code that I had I figured out that the only thing wrong with my line of code is that a couple of words were not capitalized.

I have started yet another book recently and this one is Ayn Rand's Fountain head. Honestly the book is fairly interesting following a man who believes that architecture is something that should be improved upon instead of the constant remaking of buildings. He ends up expelled from his school and refuses to return when it is offered to him. One of the main characters friends was in school and passed as the best student of his year. He is offered a job at the best architectural design studios at the time.

The Ups and the Downs

I look at the views of my blog entry's every day before I start the next entry. I got a great kick out of the fact that I got 21 views the day after my last entry while the day it was posted I only saw one view. This was fairly sad as that was one of the few blog entries that I have put a good amount of effort into. I have nothing against a good schedule I was just dissapointed with the lack of views on the actual day of the post.

Today has been quite busy for me as I will definitely have make up work in the long run. It has been a while since I have needed to make up any work so I hope to work hard enough tomorrow to get rid of any annoying bits of work that will bite me in the butt later. Either way if I work hard enough this week everything will find a way to work itself out in the long run.

All of you that read this will remember my work in Python but today I started on a website to help with this immensely. This website is known as Codecademy. I really enjoyed my lesson today as it wasn't just easy but also fun. It was mainly review from what I was already doing but I don't care because I understood what it wanted me to do and even better is that Codecademy is not just for Python. Codecademy can also be used for other languages like C++ or Java. All in all it was a very diverse programming site where anybody can pick up a language and roll.

hardly working

Today I went over to dad's job and sadly enough there wasn't much work for me to do while I was there. I did do some work including learning how to work on some of the computers over there. I also got to have fun with the objects that came in that were completely useless. For example I got to smash a mac today as you can see from this picture here on my dad's page. I will say that this was great time for me and dad both as we got to swing the hammer over and over at this strange contraption.

Dad and I got to go out to eat at one of the nearby restaurants. The one we chose was called a schwarma and it is tasty. This decadent creation is served along a Greek salad and with a side of pita with humus. Honestly it felt like the right thing to have for lunch that day. Since me and dad actually couldn't make up our minds on what to have we got both the schwarma platter and one of our friends went out and got some nachos that were to die for so we asked if he could bring us back some

While I was at dad's job I found out about a really interesting product that I now want really bad. This product is called the OUYA. Definitely an interesting name but what it is is an open source gaming console which is built around the ability to play tons of game for the most part free. Of course they won't have everything free and no not all games are free. What they might do with this product is have a demo which is completely unlocked but you can only play it for 5 days until you have to but it. There is also a demo where you can only play 2 levels and then you would have to buy it. Either way this product  seems like a gamers paradise so I really want to get it here soon. I'm still trying to get an answer from dad if he'll let me get it or not.

Average day

Today I have been working over the average time some more. Tomorrow I won't really have to do much work other then my blog and it will be a great relief to have something to write about other then my average day. I worked ahead on my French and reading so I didn't have to do make up work on Friday after getting home. Other then all of that I am done for the rest of the week except for tomorrows blog.

Today's work was fairly easy. In fact if I had not worked on tomorrows french then I would've had nothing to do for an extra hour worth of school. My day has gone pretty well but for the most part uneventful. Since I finished all of my reading yesterday I didn't really need to work that much today. Even my opinion paper didn't add much to the day considering that alone took about 30 minutes to get the first paragraph done and that's all I needed for the week.

I honestly hope for a better day tomorrow at my dad's job. A good chunk of the time I never know what I am going to be doing over there until I actually get to BE Tek. Today wasn't bad just a seriously slow day. I have no complaints about a slow day it just makes writing a blog even harder then it needs to be. I already spend a very long time nowadays in front of the computer thinking of the next topic for one paragraph.

Stepping up my Python

Today's python work has started to inspire me more then usual and I spent a good extra thirty minutes modifying the code to a couple of programs. I would've continued but I had other work to do including work on the new opinionated paper. The modifications included adding more words to the word jumbler and modifying a game called hero's adventure so that you can fail the game and have to exit. Of course I am still not entirely ready for this but I started with a few hidden lines of code that when one item is removed from you inventory the player would then have to exit the game due to death. All in all that was extremely fun testing out what would happen when I added certain lines of code.

I have been reading ahead in most of my books lately so that I will not have to do make up work at the end of the week. This is because On Friday I am going to be going to dad's job again. I still don't know why but I do enjoy going over there and helping out with the computers and other tedious processes over at BE Tek. To this minute I have finished To Kill a Mocking Bird 2 days ahead of schedule and I plan on finishing all of my reading tasks tonight before going out to play.

I am so glad that I have the Python work as it is making my computer easier to work. The fact that now I can run a program from the terminal now when I couldn't even work the computer without crashing it is a huge step for me. I used to be so bad with the computer that I could never get it to work properly. In fact I had my computer crash on me before I ever turned off my computer for the longest time. Now I keep my computer running in pristine condition and enjoy it even more then back then. I am extremely grateful to everyone out there that has helped me get better in the computer area. The help has paid off a lot.