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Still motivated to program!
I was too sleepy this morning to get up and work on freecodecamp, but I am excited to keep at it!  I enjoyed my lessons last night and I'm liking learning new things.

 My idea was to use this blog to track my progress (i.e. keep me in line with making progress) but I really love the idea of posting a cat pic with each post and I'm still very excited about learning programming and changing my career and life, so here's just a happy enthusiastic post with a cute cat excited to learn coding.

 Here's what I need to do this weekend:

 Friday
after work, eat dinner, and then visit Costco and a dollar store to get items for work
- oatmeal packs
- granola bars
- plastic forks
- coffee filters
- creamer (Safeway)
- fruit (Safeway)
- new sponge
- dish soap
- hand soap
- Earl Gray tea
- regular notebooks (Staples?)

 Saturday
free day!  Go to a cool place or two and learn to code.

 Ideas:
- Orinda library has great reviews.  I can bike/bart there and bring eats for a picnic to save money.
- cafes with good study reviews on yelp

 Sunday
coding for 1 hour
get groceries for week and for book club meeting salad
book club: noon - 4pm
visit mom
dinner with Amy & Phil?

 I'm realizing that I can learn to code more easily when I have a set amount of uninterrupted time where I can focus on the lessons.  I also find learning to code frequently (daily or every other day at most) is better than waiting too long, because I just forget things and have to start all over.

 Because of that, I want to try to get up at 5am and do some lessons.  I don't think I'll be able to concentrate if I'm too sleepy, so I need to get myself trained to go to bed at a decent time (around 9-9:30pm).

 Going to find some good spots to study for tomorrow.



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