One step at a time
2018-Mar-10, Saturday 10:54![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
One foot after the other, one day at a time.
Yesterday afternoon,![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
pinandstutter invited me over play games and maybe go out for a drink after work. This is the kind of thing I would have just turned down out of hand previously, but that obviously wasn't serving me well, so I accepted. After a bit of wandering around trying to find the Washington Blue Line entrance--not something I typically have to worry about--and took it out to pinandstutter's place. He's lived there for years, but apparently I've never been there before, so I got the tour and then we and kelachris sat down to play Rock, Paper, Wizard, one of the many D&D-branded adjacent materials. A game takes about ten minutes and mostly consists of making hand gestures at each other, representing a group of wizards blasting each other with spells as they all run down a corridor trying to get to the treasure on the other end, knocking each other around, stealing gold, and otherwise causing mayhem. 
The best part were the wild surges. Spells are cast from a pool equal to the number of players, and if two players cast the same spell on each other, the spells go wild and they draw random spells from the deck to cast. With only three players, this happened a lot, making the game hard to strategize for but certainly a lot of fun.
One the person we were waiting for arrived, we left and walked back toward the Blue Line to go to The Violet Hour, which I had never previously heard of. It has assigned seats like a restaurant, which kept the noise level lower and allowed us to actually talk to each other as we sank into the blue leather chairs, drank our dranks, and ate the fries and roasted chickpeas we ordered. I ordered a Riviera and took an artistic photo to commemorate the atmosphere:
After one drink and some food, I followed everyone along as they stopped at Taco Bell for real ("real") food and then took the bus back north, went home, and fell asleep pretty early.
This morning, I made an account over at freeCodeCamp. I took a programming class back in 2013, but in retrospect there were two major problems, one with it and one with me. The problem with me is that I just let everything lapse once the class finished and never tried to expand my knowledge base using what the course had taught me, which is a huge failing on my part. If I had been doing that for the last four-and-a-half years, who knows where I would be now? The problem with it is that I was a bit dubious of the class when it turned out that they were using global variables to teach despite admitting that actually using global variables when programming is often a bad idea and should generally not be the first solution.
Well, I can't change the past, but I can work on the future.
Yesterday afternoon,
The best part were the wild surges. Spells are cast from a pool equal to the number of players, and if two players cast the same spell on each other, the spells go wild and they draw random spells from the deck to cast. With only three players, this happened a lot, making the game hard to strategize for but certainly a lot of fun.
One the person we were waiting for arrived, we left and walked back toward the Blue Line to go to The Violet Hour, which I had never previously heard of. It has assigned seats like a restaurant, which kept the noise level lower and allowed us to actually talk to each other as we sank into the blue leather chairs, drank our dranks, and ate the fries and roasted chickpeas we ordered. I ordered a Riviera and took an artistic photo to commemorate the atmosphere:
After one drink and some food, I followed everyone along as they stopped at Taco Bell for real ("real") food and then took the bus back north, went home, and fell asleep pretty early.
This morning, I made an account over at freeCodeCamp. I took a programming class back in 2013, but in retrospect there were two major problems, one with it and one with me. The problem with me is that I just let everything lapse once the class finished and never tried to expand my knowledge base using what the course had taught me, which is a huge failing on my part. If I had been doing that for the last four-and-a-half years, who knows where I would be now? The problem with it is that I was a bit dubious of the class when it turned out that they were using global variables to teach despite admitting that actually using global variables when programming is often a bad idea and should generally not be the first solution.
Well, I can't change the past, but I can work on the future.
