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What are your plans and how is your weather? I hope to get housework done this weekend and cook. I also plan on walking to the local bar for exercise. Today it is raining rather hard so it doesn't look like I'll get much outside today. My bf will be going to out of town this weekend to help his sons work on their Harleys.

Barbara

I'm helping my mother this weekend. Derrick is buying dinner tonight.
We are having cracker barrel.

Donna

Cracker Barrel sounds good Donna. Enjoy.

Opera/musical who done it? tonight. Hubbies guitar competion, his students that is and his friend here to judge it tomorrow, yard work and a trip to the gym...I am still sore from wed! finished pt today!
supposed to be sunny I think all weekend!:)
bizi

I believe I forgot to tell everyone that my husband has a temporary
two month job working in his field. So to top this off it could be
10 or 12 hours a day. Maybe at times 7 days a week.

Wow we can put some money away maybe. And it will help lots with
our insurance.

I watched Butler win their game last night. Tonight we are hoping
that Purdue wins their game.

Go teams.

Donna:grouphug:

That is great Donna!!!!!

That is great Donna.

have fun beth.

hi folks!
 

just stopping by...

Donna, that is fantastic news about your husband's job, i'm really happy for you guys! :trampoline: btw, i have never had Cracker Barrel - other than that brand of cheddar cheese (if that's anything to go by... yummmmmmmmm! :D)

Barbara, you sound like you are keeping your spirits up and being pretty productive... good going!

Beth, how was your theater outing? That is great news that you are done with PT :) and yeah.. first times at the gym one tends to be a wreck but it will get better. Good for you for joining. :) I sooo need exercise *groan* :o

((( everyone )))

~ waves ~

Hi Waves, how are you? That Cracker Barrel cheese is awesome isn't it?

Cocky did not go out of town after all. Him and I spent the night together and I washed clothes over his house this morning. Been playing with my music after that.

barbara

Hi Barbara
 

i'm doing ok-ish... thanks for asking. i'm in a bit of an existential crisis between trying to get back to my programming project in C# and singing. the first i need for practical reasons but am feeling down about it, the second i need for spiritual reasons, but literally do not adequate place/space/situation to practice regularly (spring allergies are not helping, either). then today i started thinking what the heck am i doing programming i need to be looking at music more seriously. but who am i kidding i'm not 20 any more... performing arts? yearrrright. but but but but... sigh.

step one, i am thinking of looking for a choir. ANY choir. someplace where they will let me open my mouth and ... howl... or whatever. so i can retrain my voice. it's been 2 years now since i quit smoking completely, have regained a lot of vocal range now, but i'm still totally out of practice. :(

since i need a job and that ain't ever gonna change, i need to get back to coding on my project. I started a couple weeks ago, with the intent of just doing a bit a day but i ended up working on it almost non-stop for several days. eat, code, sleep, code, watch 1 hr tv, code, eat more, code etc etc etc... wake up with ideas in the middle of the night... code. :eek::cool: (that is what i was so busy with last week!) then, i had an exchange with a friend on general design considerations and somehow got down on myself even though my friend did not criticize what i was doing at all. then i put things down.

i think, i need to put blinders on and just put my hands in it again, maybe limiting myself to the 1 hour daily. i also need to avoid considering the results, how fast i am or how good it is overall. the point is only to learn the stupid language, period, not win a contest of any sort.

i am glad you got to spend time with Cocky after all. It sounds like you had a good weekend. :)

And that cheese, oh yes... the Vermont Sharp White was my favorite, but they were all good! :D

~ waves ~

I slept most of today after getting home. I just had a rough night last night.
I was up with my mom, but also couldn't sleep.

My husband was working hard to make what ever Derrick and I wanted
for dinner. But the steak just was way to tough. And for some reason
nothing he was doing was going right. So Derrick was so tired, and
then the new game he bought wouldn't load. So he was very upset.

Then my poor Dale went to remake our bed. He had done the sheets,
and the stuff going on top. And for some reason the bed took a
bite or two out of his fingers.

Donna

:hug: Donna and family :hug:

I hope Monday brings a better day for you and your family.

barbara

Waves, I forgot, is C+ an interactive language or one sided like HTML? I took a short online course in computer programming a couple of years ago and it was a hard course. It does keep the mind sharp though to try to learn something challenging. I'd say to try to do both, the C+ and the singing. If you can do C+ you are doing rather good mentally. The actual language C was one of the 1st programming languages wasn't it? I'd love to be able to get back into knowing all that stuff once my eye gets fixed. I did a whole website once using HTML code. The CSS was too hard but I did find a course or two that explained it easier than my earlier attempts. I just don't know where those courses are now. Maybe you could do web design from home for work? I think so.

barbara

Dear Waves,
 

It is good to see you. :hug: :hug: :hug:

M.

Donna & Mari
 

Dear Donna,

i'm sorry yesterday was so rough. :( i also hope you and your family have a better day today! :) :hug::hug::hug:

Dear Mari,

it's nice to see you too! :) :hug::hug::hug:

~ waves ~

Dear Barbara... computer stuff
 

Dear Barbara,

I am actually a software developer by profession. I know many languages, including C, C++ (C plus-plus) and Java, so learning a new one, especially one similar to those, isn't a big deal for me, skill-wise.

My issues are more of a personal/emotional kind than an intellectual kind. Yes, i do intend to try to do both... singing and C#. need to pay (my own) bills.

C was not really one of the first languages... hmmm... well, nowadays, with all that has come out, i suppose you could say it was, LOL! It's definitely an old staple by now. I learned it 20 odd years ago, right out of the original Kernighan and Ritchie book. :)

To try to answer your question, C# (C sharp) is a full blown object-oriented programming language, syntactically and conceptually similar to C++ and Java. You can develop any piece of software with it. It is not specifically for web content. Web applications designed in it would have to run on the back end (server, not the browser), where it would require the .NET framework which is MS Windows based. I think there may be some sort of emulator for Linux but not sure - something i need to find out.

HTML and CSS are not, strictly speaking, programming languages. They are made up of data formatting directives, not machine instructions, and they do not have the concept of flow control. Mind you, when i code in HTML, i sometimes call it "programming" too - so, sue me! right? ;) but it is technically more accurate to say coding - which is generic, or authoring.

hope that makes some sense. not sure if i have clarified things or made things more murky. :o I hope you are able to get into this stuff more, once your eyes are fixed. It sounds like you have a real interest in it. :)

~ waves ~

Thanx Waves for the explanation. I don't think that I have it in me to learn programming thoroughly smarts wise but I am interested in dabbling in it. I actually would perfer learning more about coding than programming. It is so very challenging for me and I guess because I've been told I could not do it by Voc Rehab makes me want to do it all the more. I really like the challenge of trying to learn it.

barbara

late hugs for both of you
(((((HUGS)))))
bizi

Thanx Beth.

barbara