Day 9: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
I love this recipe - I made it for the first time last fall after I found it randomly online. It’s so easy - there are only 3 ingredients: one can pumpkin one box spice cake mix one cup chocolate chips Mix the pumpkin and spice cake mix together, then add chocolate chips. Scoop onto baking sheet. I usually bake at 350 for about 12-15 minutes depending on the size of the cookies, and take them out when I push on them with a fork and there’s resistance.
Day 8: Red Sox Game!
Tonight some of my friends and I went to Fenway after work, and got to see the Yankees play the Sox. I’ve been to Fenway once before when I was in high school, but I’ve been living in Boston for a year and I have wanted to go to one as a local. We ended up in a suite which was crazy! Free food and drinks, super fancy. We had a great time watching the game.
Day 7: Photos on Flickr
I set up a flickr account yesterday, and added photos from my trip to Europe this summer! I also added other albums with examples of photos I’ve taken. I want to take some more photos because I love photography, so maybe one of these days I’ll add a new album.
Day 6: Knit Hat
Today was exhausting, so I’m just going to write about the hat that I made a few weeks ago since I don’t have the time or energy to work on anything tonight but I want to keep up my blog posts about projects! A few weekends ago, I decided I wanted to try knitting a hat from a pattern start to finish. After looking around on Ravelry and Google, I came across this pattern.
Day 5: More Python
Tonight I’ve been teaching myself more about Python and the many things it can do. The first thing I worked on was just writing a quick linked list program to reacquainted with the language and the data structure. I got it working with just a few glances at stack overflow, mostly because I haven’t looked at it in a long time. After I got that working, I wanted to try to copy what we do at work and at least be able to take in some data with options in the command line and manipulate it.
Day 4: Revisiting CS Topics
I think in general it’s just really good for me to get back in the zone and get my brain working and thinking like a software engineer, regardless of if/when I get into the field. I’ve been googling a lot of resources to try to get back in the swing of Big O and other Computer Science topics that I haven’t looked at in a long time. Codecademy has a cool resource for Big O.
Day 3: Little Robot Friend
Today I attempted to put together my Little Robot Friend that I backed on Kickstarter a few months ago. I chose to get Spikey, the Robot Friend with spiky hair. Taylor came over and we decided to start soldering it together. There are a ton of parts to the small guy, including resistors, LEDs, and a speaker for a mouth, so it takes a good amount of time to put together.
Day 2: Banana Bread!
Today I made my first ever loaf of banana bread from scratch. I bought bananas on Monday, and then realized after they started getting old that I have everything else to make it. My mom told me that she had used a recipe from the Food Network, so I decided to try it out. After mixing all of the ingredients, I put it in the loaf pan and then baked for about an hour.
Day 1: Leap and Mutt
Maybe having day one on a Friday wasn’t the best idea since I have had only a few hours to work on something, BUT I feel really good and excited to even just work on the small things I’ve done tonight. I started off aiming to set up my Leap Motion and work through a tutorial. I set it up and moved through the tutorial, and messed around with it enough to get something working that determines if the hand that’s being put into the field is a right hand or left hand.
Do Something Every Day
I returned from a 10 day trip to Europe two weeks ago, and the vacation really made me see things in a fresh perspective. Readjusting to being back at work was rough, especially when I felt like the determination that I came back to the US with was gone. So, I’ve decided to start a project. Actually, a bunch of projects. Inspired by ideas like Jennifer Dewalt’s 180 websites in 180 days, I’ve decided to work on my own personal and professional development in a similar manner.