An answer has presented itself

Angie is going to be moving in with her older brother rent free. Thank you Lord. I’ll go ahead and pay for her storage fees. That frees my bank account up to save for a house purchase and other necessities.

I told my sister this last weekend about buying a house and it started getting me excited. Now I have to decide, how big, town home or regular. Size of yard, two story or one etc.. A lot of decisions to be made along with trying to figure out some residual income during retirement. I’m looking at book writing, website creating/maintenance or some type of freelance programming. All these decisions need to be made within the next year. I’m looking at a year and a half time frame for the house purchase and another year for figuring out the retirement income. Retirement won’t be for another eight or nine years but I need to figure something out now.

It just might be over

This weekend was not a good one for my relationship with Angie. She made a comment the other day about cutting her short in my weekly allowance to her. I told her that I did not cut her short, Andy’s debt was paid off and I did not need to send that 100.00 anymore. Her comment was that she counted on that money and is why she was short.
I made the statement that she should never have been counting on money that was never hers. I had specifically asked her if he was getting the money for Andy’s debt and she said yes every time. It turns out that she can’t give the money to Andy to give to him because Andy won’t have anything to do with him. She tried to give it to him for Andy and he said ‘keep it in case you need anything’. She did not tell me this any of the times I asked if he was getting paid. I stopped asking her when she got pissed at me for asking all the time. When I stopped asking I told myself to let it go and trust her.
Should I have trusted her? No, it turns out she never gave him a dime of Andy’s debt money. I asked if he told her to keep it all 24 times I sent a 100.00 payment and she did not answer that. She thinks the spreadsheet I sent proves that I paid Andy’s debt. I say no darlin, that only proves that I made payments, not that he received any of them. Actually the only proof I have is the PayPal statements showing I sent the money. There still is no proof of payment to him. This was one of the requirements that he made in order for her to get her divorce.
Friday I made the statement that she lied and stole from me. Lied about making payments and spent money what was not hers to spend. I said I feel like walking away right now but I at least want an explanation.
That is when she told me about Andy and that he wanted nothing to do with him and that he said to keep the money. I may have been a little too harsh in my comments but in the end she said I don’t have to walk away, she was walking away and to never contact her again.
She did call, we talked a bit and then she hung up. Don’t really know what she is going to do. I asked her how she is going to pay rent and TV and she said she doesn’t care if she looses everything now because of how I treated her. Well honey, I have done nothing but take care of you for the better part of this entire year. I guess only time will tell what happens. I have been praying for the Lord to help to remove this financial burden she has placed on me by asking me to help her. Well my prayers were answered but I feel very bad about they way it went down.
I want her in my life but unless we are married I don’t feel the obligation to make sure she if financially sound. Sorry if that sounds hard but it is they way I feel right now.

I’ll keep you informed on what is happening. This week will be very telling when I don’t send a payment to her Thursday. I’m betting I’ll get a text asking where her money is.

Out of date courses

I was taking another course on Angular, this one was for AngularJS or as I now know, Angular 1. There is also Angular 2 and now Angular 4. They skipped 3 to align all portions of the framework which makes perfect sense however when they upped the version number from AngularJS or Angular 1 to Angular 2 they broke backward compatibility pissing off quite a few developers. I am in the middle of a class for AngularJS and it sort of pisses me off that Udemy still offers this course without any disclaimers stating that this course is no longer valid for the current Angular framework.

Than being said I am in the middle of two courses for the current version of Angular, one with Mosh and the other with a new instructor I actually found on YouTube first and learned he had courses on Udemy. I think working with both of these instructors will benefit me very much. I’ll let you what I think of each the new instructor, you all should know what I think of Mosh.

Avoid stagnation

I need to start working in VBA, Python, JavaScript and C# all at once. It seems when I start working in one area my mind starts to cloud over when I think of the others languages. What I need to do I take a few minutes of time in all four each day so I don’t loose any headway I had been making in any of them. True, as soon as I start working in on or the other they syntax of each comes back very quickly but I am finding that JavaScript has some nuances that are quite different from other languages I was getting a little confused today.

Today forward, little bits of each every day.

The Politics of Management – Not for me

These last four or five weeks have been very challenging for me, particularly last week.

 

About five weeks back our temporary manager moved back to his home state and our company president arrived at my desk soon after letting me know she was giving my name out to our customers as the new temporary manager. I wasn’t all that concerned because I know the people I work with and was quite certain I would not need to hold anybodies hands. I was looking forward to a nice quiet four or five weeks until they hired the new permanent manager.

Two weeks ago a problem, or as some would put it, an opportunity came up. This was not a serious problem and we were able to migate any adverse affects this situation would have on our customer and everyone was happy.

Last week we had a shit storm when I had taken two days off for my birthday. We had incorrect items going out to the customer with all parties involved in building and shipping these items aware of the problem with the exception of my organization. We (my people) met with program management and engineering to address the issue on Friday the 11th of August. During the meeting all the wrong decisions were made because engineering did not know the meaning of information within their own engineering. Tuesday our customer requested proof of our changes and when they could expect to see the new parts. We ended up telling them we would not be sending the new parts because of our suppliers did not provide them in time. 

This is when the crap hit the fan and I was hot on it getting a rework plan in place so we could get the correct parts in time for their use at our customers and in walks program management.

These morons derail everything I had in work, going to deliver incorrect part, parts our customer does not want all because we want to keep on schedule and not delivery quality parts.

There is much more to this story but in getting to detailed I may reveal information I would rather keep to myself. Suffice to say, schedule is king and screw quality and safety.

JavaScript training is going good. I have found that if there is an error in a .js file the script won’t run in the .html. There is no error generated, it just does not run or stops at the error point. Then you need to hunt the error down. Not as friendly as CSharp error wise but I am enjoying it. I have started using the .js files instead of embedding the JavaScript code into the html file as I think this is how it should be done all the time. At the same time I am going to start getting familiar with css files and create a little website while learning all of this great stuff.

Thinking of adding JavaScript

After going through some videos about the most popular languages and bouncing that list off of what I am currently studying, those being VBA, C# and Python it looks like I am missing the most important one and that is JavaScript. Each and every website, book, article and even YouTube videos sited JavaScript as the number one language to have on your plate of languages. I guess that means adding this to the list and finding an IDE to use. I typed that without looking and I can use Visual Studio for JavaScript as well as C#. I can use the same IDE for Python but prefer to use IntelliJ for working with Python.

My list of Languages in alphabetical order
C#
JavaScript
Python
VBA

The VBA is for Excel/Word/Outlook macros and not necessarily for full blown applications. I may at a point in time add VBA.net to the work, for now I’ll stick with those four.

Do you every wonder why there needs to be so many languages? Why couldn’t one language just evolve to be a representative of what we do today. Back in the day me and Glenn used Basic and it was more than adequate for what we were doing or what anybody would want to do back then or now. You could have easily created key words for Fortran functions or Cobol functions etc. without creating a completely new language, just my opinion mind you.

Back to JavaScript, it just happened when I logged onto Udemy.com and searched for JavaScript courses I was given a plethora of courses I could take for free. I have never seen a course on Udemy for free since I started enrolling in courses with them. The first I am taking is JavaScript Essentials. The course is comprised of 41 lectures at 8.5 hrs. I have watched nine lectures and am very impressed with this instructors approach to teaching.

Time to get back the meaning of the site

I feel it is time to get back to what I brought this site online for. Blender and all things associated including Python scripting, branching into Unity and Unreal Engine (UE4) for games causing some forays into CSharp scripting and Blueprints for UE4 but I’ll steer clear of C++. I feel the courses I have been taking for Python, CSharp and VBA areas much as my brain can take for now.

I recently obtained assets for Unity pertaining to VR and they look very promising. I believe you get what you pay for with most things in life and if these assets live up to the prices on the asset store I received some good deals.

My apartment is fairly small even compared to the hotel room I had earlier and given this I should be able to model it quickly. I would then create a VR walk through which should be a much easier project than the entire hotel I had planned for the last couple of years. You can look forward to the posting of my work in progress during the next few weeks as the model progresses.

Personal Note:
I did not have to break anything to Angie last week. She was upset about not getting the 3700.00 or 400.00. I just don’t have the extra cash to give out. It was a tense afternoon last Tuesday when she was asking with her making the comments that she was going to stay married cause that is what I want, going go be with her dad, crap like that. In the end I said nothing, let her cool off and the next time she called all was well. Sunday she told me that the idiot wasn’t going to fight the divorce and wanted it done by the first of December. Lesson learned here and I actually learned this from Desiree’, keep calm, don’t loose your temper and she will eventually calm down.

Small Update: Angie called last night 7/25/2017 telling me he may have received the money to file for divorce before she can and she will be pissed. Was the a warning for me?

Until next week!

New site covering miscellaneous activities including my favorite activity: Blender