Keith's Precious Little Coffee Blog

A blog about my woes in running a coffee shop.

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yes plzzzzzzz

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yes!!

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Stuff like this really gets my juices flowing

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There is nothing I don’t love about the Series of Unfortunate Events universe.

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20 Years of PlayStation.

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if parks and rec was an 8-bit video game

(WE LOVE YOU PARKS AND REC)

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YES

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8-Bit Cinema: Guardians of the Galaxy 

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The Secret Cave - Howl’s Moving Castle

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I just want to look at this later.

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Some call it failure, others call it... Failure...

Well there is no easy way to say this buuutt Codeup did not work out for me. 

Which sucks. BUT! It didn't work out because I realized that I wanted something different.

Its not that it was too hard (it was really hard sometimes though)

I just took time for me to really know what I wanted. 

I got married. I really liked that.

I kept doing school and i didn't like that.  

And the key reasons were, time and lack of work.

I now had a wife, a car payment, and living expenses. 

Once i finished school i would have a large debt that before was not a problem. But now was something I was concerned about.   

I thought about it hard.

I talked about it with my wife. 

Plenty of prayer.

I knew what i had to do and that was stop going. 

Then I though, "No ill muscle through it" which was stupid.

I wanted to stop. 

Then i did.

I started working at a hotel since then.

Then I moved over to the coffee shop in the hotel as management.

Which is the best move I have ever done. 

I'm doing something I love now. Food and coffee. Both things that if you met me in person you would be able to tell I love. 

And something I learned in Codeup from several of the guest speakers. Is that sometimes you fail. And its part of life. And as lame as that sounds, its definitely true. With Codeup I failed, and I accepted that. I fell flat on my face and failed. 

And honestly I wouldn't be in the position I'm in now unless I had dropped out of Codeup. And I'm really honestly excited for what I'm doing. 

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What Ben tells me when he see's my spacing.

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Growing Up

Since my last post I got married. 

Take that in for a second...

Yes during an intensive 12 week Bootcamp I decided to marry the girl of my dreams. All big and serious choices, cammed into one crazy 3 month period. I would indeed advise against this. While it is exciting to get married and going off and being in love it is stressful. I of course regret nothing. If the the girl you find is anything like Leslie I would of course  tell you to marry her as soon as possible because girl like her a once in a lifetime deal. 

During my honeymoon and wedding I will have missed the rest of PHP III and some of the MySQL lessons. Its going to be time to hit the ground running with my code.

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Week 4 Round Up Continued...

We are coming up on the fourth week of class and its getting hard to blog about stuff. Not just because blogging in general is a little hard but because I just don't have time. Between keeping up with class assignments and keeping up with my life its all a lot of hard work. Trying to understand global scope in Java Script while also keeping up with wedding plans is pretty hard. 

That said things are working out fairly well. My brain is similar to that of a new pan. Things weren't sticking at first, but then after i burned a few thing on it things started to really stick. I've had a better understanding of how JSON works and DOM and BOM and how much developers really love acronyms. 

Coding over all is really starting to take a hold on me. I've reached a point where the gibberish the instructors were talking on my first sit in of the class, is now understandable speech.

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Week 4

I am at the tail end of week 4 leaving me with only one more day till I have another 35 hours too add under my coding belt.  WHICH IS CRAZY I've only been learning code for roughly 140 hours!!! I should get back to doing my work instead of blogging...

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Week 3 round up.

A whole bunch of code. Lots and lots of code. So much code that you just don't know what to do with it.  That is what this week included. 

But overall i learned so much that I just do not know how to sum it up in a single blog post. So I will just tell you that it was just a bunch of html, css, and Java Script. Html is fairly easy and strait forward, Css is crazy hard unless you use bootstrap which makes it super easy, but generic, Java is exactly like php except its kind of not. How's that for a run on sentence and a miss use of comas. I made it through the week and i think that deserves some accommodation, pat yourself on the back Keith you've done good. 

I actually really enjoy my class everyone is just the right amount of nerdy to be able to catch some nerdy jokes. The downside of this is that everyone is all types of smart. I always have to tell myself that I am not stupid, everyone else is just crazy smart. I have to be honest with myself and admit that I am indeed the slow one of the cohort. This being said no one holds it over me or throws it in my face.(even when the bug in my code is me misspelling the word function. that darned 'C'!)

Anyways I'm rambling on now time to work on some code! Hello 3 day weekend, and good bye week 3! DFTBA

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Thursday: Java Script

Today was the first day of learning Java Script, which was not to bad but we didn't get into the serious stuff.  We were only messing with the command prompt in google chrome. It was easy and fairly strait forward.  Every time we go into a new language they seem deceivingly easy. Hopefully the end of this week (tomorrow) will be better.  

During this whole class thing I'm also in a serious relationship. In all honesty if I didn't have Leslie (My Fiancé) I would probably brake down in class and give up. Every night at the end of my day we have this conversation that goes along the lines of...

"I don't know if i can do this Leslie" ('this' referring to the class not the relationship. I super love Leslie.)

"Aww are you sure Keith"

"Yeah I'm pretty sure i cant do this at all."

"Well maybe give it another week?"

"Okay I think I can do that."

And repeat this, every other night. At night I believe my brain goes through my day, and tells me everything that went wrong and to give up. It does this but at the same time Leslie swoops in and gives me a smack on the head and tells me to hang in there with her sweet smile.  Then my brain tells me "You should listen to her she's cute."

Aaaaaaaaand Thats how I get through my week. 

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Little Wins!

As the heading describes little wins are what get me through my day of class.