October 2024 was a wild month. I am getting to the end of my second month of living in San Francisco and I don’t remember what my life looked like before I moved here. So much has happened and yet over the last week or so it’s been dead, so it’s hard to imagine that as much has happened in the last month, but that’s why I do these updates, to split up time and remember what actually happens during my life.

The month started with me really getting my life set back up in San Francisco. At the end of September I got my bag stolen, which had my camera (Canon Powershot s110 which I hated but taught me how to be a better photographer.) Here is the first picture I uploaded to the site at the end of November 2023:

And here is the last picture I uploaded with it:

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I got a Ricoh Digital which is in between the quality of the beautiful GR II that I got in April 2023 and the quality of my S110. I had to go to page 85 of my images to find the first picture, meaning I uploaded ~800 pictures with my s110. My s110 lasted about a year and documented my life between the end of my relationship with Molly and moving to SF.

In October I settled into SF, the initial excitement of moving here has somewhat worn off and I’m now just living life here. I’ve been skating down hills, skating at UN Plaza, and skating the Mission. I landed a long nose slide on the 3up 3down steps, and I’ve been getting better with my inward heelflips. I’ve been drawing a lot, and I’ve been coding. I implemented a number of new features on this site, including image colors and tools and games.

I visited Chicago to see my family in the middle of October.

I hung with family and celebrated my dad’s birthday. Typically when I come back from Chicago, I go through a low period, and that kind of happened here. In Chicago I interviewed with a tech company and passed, the third interview. I was invited to an on-sight interview on Wednesday October 16th. On the 14th, I took an Adderall and coded the image color tool. The adderall and extended coding period left me feeling weird and kind of out-of-body, but I accomplished a large chunk of work. On Wednesday morning I wanted to get myself hyped up for the interview so I drank a shit ton of coffee and took another Adderall. It took me way too high and I entered into a manic phase. I bombed the interview worse than I’ve ever bombed an interview. Pretty funny – especially because I did normal / well in the other interviews so they probably thought I was fucking weird. They seemed annoyed at how bad I was doing.

The mania has kind of stuck with me, at times feeling like I can do “anything” until I actually try to do it. Annoying feeling, dangerous feeling.

I went to an awesome art event Gray Area which had code art.

Palestine has been weighing on my heart and spirit.

Number of days I tracked my mood: 31

Average mood: 61

Total images uploaded: 59