ADHD
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Girls on train
One girl who stood right next to me

Finishing up school

No longer at ots

New apartment
Roommate things

Coffee
Place across the street

Laundromat

Room set up
That table, etc

Not sure what else

New shoes

Desire for colorful socks

Comcast + wind = down

The beat widget there, the one that says

@258

is something I'm working on.  It's a fork of the seemingly dead android-widget-beat widget.  I'm working on adding customization options and doing what I can on the original author's todo list.

I ended up making it about fifteen minutes early. 

I feel like the interview went extremely well. I made the apparent mistake of accepting the interviewer's offer of coffee, for, you see, I had taken my medication upon waking up. Stimulant plus stimulant is.. well, exciting. In many senses of the word.

I say "apparent mistake" because I too late realized what I did, but it ended up for the best, I think.  My mind was clearer than ever (which suggests my medication dosage may still be a bit low). For the first time ever in an interview, I had questions for the interviewers. I'm pretty sure that my questions for them took up as much time as their questions for me. I asked about processes, compared products and services, and felt.. confidant and comfortable.

It was a fantastic experience. The coffee really helped on top of the medication. For one of the first times ever, I was actually able to just blank my mind and listen. I didn't know this was even possible. On my current dosage / medication, I still think a lot when trying to listen to someone. Things are a lot better, my thoughts jump around a lot less, but clearly there is still room for improvement.

I was still late for work.

I'm sitting in class, still slightly unable to pay attention because of everything on my mind. It doesn't help, though, that I'm acing this class.

I move on Sunday. My roommate is named Sarah. Weird.

A couple weeks ago, I picked up some wine coolers and nail polish. A deep purple color. That was a really relaxing night. I like the way the purple looks, but I think I'm gonna remove it and try a green, pink, or perhaps a nice blue tonight.

I also picked up some brightly colored hair ties a while back. Color is fun.

Last Friday I had an interview with a recruiter who specializes in filling jobs for PHP/Python/Java. That interview went well.

Things have been going pretty alright. I still need to work on getting to work on time, but I'm doing a lot better about not calling in sick.

A while back, my boss had me develop a timeclock app. My own undoing.

The title of this post comes from a new weekly feature on /r/ADHD. Basically, the idea is to describe your successes for the past week. All too often do those with ADHD focus on their negatives and failures. Everyone does. The goal behind this "Win Wednesdays" event is to force one to think about one's accomplishments or successes, no matter how small. It's an attempt to help one see that they are not a complete failure. Even seeing the small things can help change one's mood and outlook.

Other.. mental.. issues — I don't like that phrasing — have a high comorbidity with ADHD. Things like depression, OCD I think, etc. Depression, for example, can often be caused by one's constant failures to live up to their capabilities in one or more aspects of life (school,  work, romantic and social life) that are caused by their ADHD.

This post is just an expansion on some of the things I mentioned in my Win Wednesday comment over in the thread.

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There was an.. incident involving a member of the IRC channel I run, so it's time to finally put some rules in place.  And set up my bot to automatically kick when users start flooding the channel. 

If anything, this should get me posting something on a regular basis. 

Recent changes to the script include:

• Now sends entire message body as a reply.  (IMAP breaks the message body into multiple lines, and this was tripping up my script since I expected it all on one line)
• Does not send the user's signature or quoted messages if user defines strings that indicate a signature:
• User can define what strings are present that indicate a signature so that the entire message history is not sent.
  i.e. Gmail on Android sends my signature as

  Tony Lademan
  

  so I add that to the array, but Gmail on the web sends my signature as

  --
  Tony Lademan
  

  so I also add "--" to the array as well.  Similarly, if you don't have a signature, but your client quotes messages with a string such as On DATE, NAME wrote:, then you can add wrote: or the name to your array.  Commands are described in the comment body of the script.  Multiple strings can be stored and will be used to determine when the script should stop reading the message body.

• Rudimentary help descriptions for the commands.

There's no change log in the file itself yet, not sure if I should do that or push this to its own git repo and make a separate CHANGELOG file that aggregates all of the relevant logs from my current "scripts" repo.  Or just push my entire scripts repo somewhere public and not give a shit.

Link to the original post with links to the source.

Pretty source
Download (My server tries to execute .py files, so you'll need to rename it)

In my haste, I do not have error checking for things like failed logins.  Make sure your username and password are correct if you try to use this. 
You will need to have the imaplib python module installed.

Jason gave me the idea of using email instead. This was much easier to set up and since it uses a long standing standard, it shouldn't break.

This was good, but to respond to the messages I received, I'd still have to SSH into my computer, which is kind of painful on my phone over 3G and without a real keyboard.

To solve this non-issue (I really don't need to respond to people instantly), I wrote a python script for weechat that logs in to my secondary (or is it my tertiary) gmail account, where the replies are sent, and checks for new messages via imap. The only external library needed is imaplib, to facilitate imap communication. The format is easily abusable: If it is sent from my main gmail, then it assumes it is a reply. The subject contains the recipient of my message,  since my notifications put the person in the subject, and the body is the message itself. It's pretty simple to parse the imap message for this information, and even simpler to use the weechat library  to send the message to the appropriate person. I don't count the weechat library as external since it is implied when I say this is a weechat script.

The script checks every five minutes and so far works wonderfully.

I guess now that when I'm marked away, I'm not really away, per se.

I need to clean up the code a bit, make it more generic, and take advantage of setting options within weechat (I currently hard code my login information), but I plan to post the code here. I'll probably detail the entire set up I have since it is a combination of two plugins. Because of this requirement of the other script (away_action), I'm not sure if it would be appropriate to submit to the weechat script repository.

Anyway, I was able to whip this out in very little time, and I think I'm finally beginning to understand the appeal of python.

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If you're looking for a fun strategy game, let me recommend Greed Corp. It's a turn based game based around eliminating the other players. It's a tile based game, and that aspect reminds me heavily of physical board games like Carcassonne or Settlers of Catan. The build options are very limited in Greed Corp, though. You can build and destruct harvesters, build armories that let you build units (of which there is a single kind) and carriers, and turrets.

On the surface, it seems pretty simple, but one of the unique parts about this game is that the tiles have layers, and certain actions can strip these layers until that tile is destroyed. By the end of a specific match, the level will look nothing like what you started with. This can obviously really mess up transportation or harvesting plans, and so is a very valuable or detestable strategy.

I bought it for $2.50 since it is on sale until noon today central time over at http://steampowered.com.  Normally it's only ten dollars, which is still a pretty good price for this game.

And now off to campus for thirteen hours.

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