Done Since 2018-10-28

Good and bad, more-or-less as usual. On the good side,I started NaBloPoMo and started working through the Ruby on Rails Tutorial. That led to my making accounts on GitLab and Heroku, and reviving an old BitBucket account. (Plus making a new one because I couldn't remember which email address I'd used the first time.)

I somehow managed to pull off a better-than-usual singing lesson, pretty much nailing Ripple and Mary O'Meara (though I still have doubts about the melody on that one). I love Ripple, as you can probably tell from yesterday's S4S post. I think the song's calmness is good for me.

On the other hand, I made little progress toward getting a job; five applications, no responses except for a rejection from GitHub, where I applied sometime in September. I've been reading about consulting -- I am really not in a good position to become a consultant. WTF was I thinking? Total writer's block on a job application to DuckDuckGo, a business card for computer-curmudgeon.com, and the text of a DrewsList ad.

The common problem with all three of those is that I can't think of anything I know well enough for any company to want to pay consultant's rates for it. And there are damned few I could get a salary for, for that matter. Java, and that's about it. Git, but everyone knows git by now. (I'm working on a post about git for non-programmers, but I don't know how far I can take that.) I should probably save the brainstorming (brain-drizzle? more like that than a storm) for another post.

I'm kind of beyond panic by now -- I feel like I'm just re-arranging deck chairs. Anyone need a web site? Git expert?

( Notes & links, as usual )

NaBloPoMo stats:
    489 2018/11/01--nablopomo.html
     89 2018/11/01--thankful-thursday.html
    617 2018/11/02--learn-enough-to-be-dangerous.html
    340 2018/11/03--s4s-ripple.html
   1867 2018/11/04--done-since-1028.html (includes ~1500 words in the notes)
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   3402 words in 5 posts this month (average 680/post)
   1867 words in 1 post today