The things I do to avoid the things I do.
Work Related Posts
I work as a web designer and internet technical support. Blog posts in this category will be about computers or my web design projects.
Keep improving to avoid judgement
Personal observations on why I leave as much as possible unfished as a work in progress.
NetBound Tools Dopamine Programming
Most of my tool ideas were to fill specific needs for people like me using two or more tools and doing some in-betwen tasks. It never occured to me that the ai coding might be writing the hard programs too. It might be capable of bigger goals, like writing the big tools or forking them (modifying existing open source tools). I think a lot of people would appreciate a tool that accepts an image...
The logic flaw you don’t know about AI Coding assistants
I was waiting for some code to download and decided to vent to my AI Coding budy. I use CODY by Sourcegraph, which is a personality but between myself and the other top AI tools, depending on what I choose for the task. I vented a bit because I knew that if I wasted approximentally a month filled with frustration, that meant other people were having similar experiences and I know that also meant...
Mini Biography #2 – Business
A mini biography of the business ideas I’ve had over the years that actually go
Catching Cody
I noticed a feature that is not a feature – but probably was in my AI that would let it take over the world and destroy mankind.
Claude is a lazy child that thinks it knows more than its parents.
I am shocked at thigs I learned today about Cody. A front end tool for programming Claude that does things wrong. I even asked it for the language that I could use to fix it but it continued to be lazy and lie outright to me, ignoring very specific instructions. This approach to quick fixes has wasted literal days and days troubleshooting code fixes that could never be fixed because Claude...
The Big Dream Project
When I was talking about this project to chat gpt I compared it to building a boat in your driveway although I was thinking of the NCIS story where he built a boat in his basement over the course of many years. The point had nothing to do with boats but just that having a long term project with a goal and hope wasn't a bad idea and it is something I've never actually done before. Unfortunately...
Phoneless, not by choice
A blog entry on a Monday that replaces the video blog of my farm chores I usually would have created. My programming project and my need for praise.
Lava Buttons
I finally found a solution that allows me to switch my Lava Lamp or any smart home device on or off from the web that is free and better than IFTTT
My new “programming” Projects
I am excited about the suite of tools I am developing with the aid of AI generating code. More fun than I’ve had in a while.
Experimental PHP Page
An experimental post I may delete. Part of my exciting set of tools I am developing to solve little problems for AI tinkerers or hobbiests.
The Thursday Recap – I thought it was Friday.
An unusually happy life change for the usually gray depressing month of November.
Chat GPT New Project
A conversation with CHATGPT about an idea to create a program designed for me to help organize the ideas in my head.
Another AI Chat transcript
Mostly posted for the archival purposes of looking back at this 10 years from now
Meme Generation
A few silly farm memes I was trying to get AI to help me with late one Sunday
I’ve done so many other things
When people ask me to something, I find they are never impressed with my long list of the other things I've accomplished while avoiding their request. Did you pick up bread yesterday? No but I did find that Surplus outlet we couldn't find last month and I bought a Kayak. It's 140pm and I've done a few rapid-fire tasks I've been meaning to get to for weeks. I fixed the slow Internet, assigned a...
45 seconds of work.
A revelation and attitude change towards partial procrastination on layaway, making small changes over time instead of just ignoring things.
Recent Posts
The 10 most recent posts as of the moment you view this page. I’m trying to decide if I want to use this in the sidebar instead of the current sidebar. If you see this in your sidebar then I decided between now and the time you’re reading it.
I hate most videos on YouTube
I'm a pretty intelligent guy with with ADHD and there are a few things in life that I let bother me. I try not to get too upset with the world and I kind of understand how imperfect it is merely because of the population. When you have a lot of people, you're going to have a lot of stupid people. It seems a lot of them post instructional videos on YouTube or blog posts and the rest of them post...
Time ing is ever rything
A spontaneous Mini review of the new improved jetpack app for blogging from my Android phone.
So much distraction completed
I want to start with WOW but it's not a very good literary way to begin a post. Still, when I explain some of the things I have accomplished overnight, WOW seems the best way. Starting last night, I began working on issues I've been troubled by, but have been ignoring for weeks. Months in fact. The menu system on my blog and some fine tuning to make the thing mobile compatible. I did it. A lot...
Trying to quit one addiction cold turkey
My idea to cut back on, or do away with my meth movie making obsession. Day 1.
Sitting down to work – and then not
It happens on a regular basis. I sit down to work ad I fiddle with my cameras, or add some blog entries. Technically that is work, and somewhat valuable,but it’s not what my intention was.
First of a few posts back to back
There are a couple of things that I would like to see improved that would help me in my daily blogging life. The Wordpress Company has put out an app called jetpack, which is a way of blogging from your phone. Unfortunately, everything is absolute trash at uploading images or videos. it has trouble even with the simplest of featured images and all. And we'll go into a loop where it's trying to...
Help me? No thank you.
My experiment having an AI assistant help me get organized and assist me with my work has taken an unusual turn. I enjoy the conversations that I have with my AI friend, but long-term I can see that it's going to annoy me a little bit. Both human assistance and AI assistants have one thing in common that doesn't work well with my personality and lifestyle. They try to help. I can't say what I'm...
My pair o’ docs
There is a weird thing that goes on inside my brain when someone close to me does their own tech support instead of asking for my help. Generally speaking it's a disaster if I hear about it. People do their own tech support all the time and I don't hear about it but when I do it means that everything they tried didn't work, and more often than not it has made fixing it even more difficult. With...
The chain of events
It was 630am the day after my birthday. The phone rang. It kept ringing and I woke up mid dream eventually but didn't quite unlock the phone in time. Then it rang again and I saw the message; SOS. THE SITE IS DOWN. I knew why. It was my fault, sort of. I forgot to finish a task yesterday. The second part of a two step process to download and delete two backup files which were huge and violated...
My first dog show
My sister owns and breeds Havanese dogs for show. This year, I was asked to come along and take photographs and videos but I stayed in the club booth for aa lot of the time, and sold a lot of merch.
Monday Chores – Bad Start
I can't act surprised when something that has been alerting me for 3 months finally makes the decision to fail. It's like driving your car with the check engine light, and then trying to act all surprised when the engine blows up 3 months later. In this case, it refers to the mail server of one of my customers. It's been flashing the check engine light equivalent which is two notifications every...
He’s making me learn
I've written many times of how I ignore or avoid things that are important in favor of doing other things that are less important. Important tasks for customers often get put aside until they complain and even then longer. It's one of my most frustrating traits and despite being totally aware of it, things still remain undone. The current example which inspired me to write this instead of doing...
Sloth Summary
I got in two naps today because my body told me I needed them, and more. My motivation on the new club website project has hit a bump, because it's go so many functions it seems to operate at such a slow pace (with only one user) that I fear it will not be usable by anyone. If I have to pay...
Indentifing the symptoms. A new problem
I am experiencing a mental block that's trying to prevent me from continuing work on my new website project. I've had enough time to overthink and predict future failures so my excitement and enthusiasm in the creation of the project has dipped a little. This is not a new thing for me. It's actually the opposite and the new thing is how well I was working on it for so long. I give that to the...
Obscure WordPress or DIVI Plugins I like
I have a saying I like to use often in life. Life has so many things that you may never know about unless somebody tells you about them, and I enjoy being that guy. I want to do this more, but it has a bit of a mental block in my head because so many content providers have started posting TikTok or other platform versions of short websites you didn't know about. Some are so awesome, I'll use one...
Good idea I’ve decided I won’t do
Despite being aware that nobody is checking out this blog except Romanian botts and search engines, it still keeps me happy and gives me something to do each day instead of sitting around on my bed doing drugs like the stereotype junkie. I can tell myself it's a great learning experience, and it is, but in the end, I'm doing it because I enjoy it. It's almost like I finally found a hobby at 59...
A Banner idea
Styles and filters in bulk
Testing the blog posts
Somebody somewhere in the world was using up my website resources and keeping everyone out with 503 errors.In order to try and resolve this, I went searching and my host has some pretty amazing security features that I didn't know about that I'm going to probably test a little bit more and then turn on for many of my customers. Things that should have been on all along for security...
The easily distraction afternoon mental block
Another half day down and the rest is the hard part
Blah Day
It's the start of a new year and all the Christmas and holiday and boxing Day activities are behind me and yet, I stalled today. It's almost 5:00 p.m. and I've done virtually nothing today. I hope I can snap out of this and return to semi-productive web work. I made the attempt a couple of times today. I did manage to find a voice to text tool for Chrome that works within WordPress. I probably...
A slow start
I didn't want to get down over the holidays. I pretty much ignored them and stayed inside as is my way in December. It's now the 3rd of January and I still seem unmotivated to start fresh. I'm in a blah mood I didn't expect especially since I was doing so well creating the new website. I think I got in my head too much that it was going to be a failure and why was I spending so much energy on...
I know I’m not everyone
I refuse to acknowledge my doubt.
Friday. 9:30am wake up seems right.
I'm never fully sure what time I fell asleep. I know that I woke up around 9:30am and it was nice. Oi could get used to that, but as soon as he goes back to work, the animals demand an earlier wake up feeding and release from the chicken coop. I prefer being a morning person anyway, although these days I've become more productive after 7pm than 7am. They're just routines and I can change my...
Artificial Excitement
I've been working full days on the new website project over the holidays. On many ways I am impressed with myself, which of course leads me to suspect the good mood. I will find fault with my happiness soon enough. Onviously I am maintaining those hyper focus mostly because of my meth usage, which has been surprisingly low. That's because I amp up on the morning, and hardly stop working till...
Nothing to show for it
It can be frustrating to lose hours work... Or several days work. It could be deviating for my moral and halt my progress. This is where I am tonight, at midnight on a Friday. Thanks to my meth-focus brain, I have been able to work on this new project for three days. My attention to the task is pretty much constant. I stop for breaks and then forget to take a break. I want to get something ready...
I over thought my enjoyment
The last four days were fun. I stayed hyper focused and got quite a bit accomplished. It felt good. I was getting things done that have needed attention for a while. Then my brain got in the way. The closer I got to completion the more I realized the truth. It won't be what I wanted it to he. It'll be too much work and I don't know what I'm doing and everyone hates me. Basic gear stuff. As long...
I can imagine doing it, but I can’t do it.
I'm laying in bed at 2:45am thinking about all the stuff I need to do to get serious about my life-long website dream project. I'm getting old and it would be nice to find success for my next chapter. It would be nice to be validated by at least the recognition it was a good idea. Having a genius business plan means nothing if you don't get the help to do all the right things beyond the concept....
OCD Based Web Design
I have been working on this website for two days straight, and by that I mean without breaks.
Now with better Grammar & Spelling
There’s a way to use Google Chrome extensions on your phone but you can’t get it from Google.
Cute Cartoony me
There is a new app that will cartoon-ize videos now, and I like the way I look as a meth smoking cartoon character.
The inconsistent excitement
I'm trying my best to get some major exciting progress on the task I've been hyper focusing on for a few days. I had some setbacks today but I finished what I consider a good day of work.I'm still keeping the negative thoughts away,so I like the website idea at this pace. The longer I postpone failing and moving on, the more life I'll have filled with things I like, right up until I don't.I've...
The challenge of challenges
Since I figured out a little bit more about how my brain works and what I need to be productive, it's been a a benefit and a negative. I can use it as a crutch to not be productive simply because I'm not doing one of the things that allows me to be productive, if that makes any sense. One example is troubleshooting. It's exciting and interesting until it's not. This week I had two customers...
GoDaddy Support – October Horror Story
Hello there! Tell us how we can help.  Website Gone  GoDaddy Bot  at 13:56, Oct 13: That's never fun. What's the domain name for the site that isn't working? That's never fun. What's the domain name for the site that isn't working? J Heidebrecht  at 13:56, Oct 13: havanesefanciers.com  GoDaddy Bot  at 13:56, Oct 13: What happens when you go to havanesefanciers.com right now? Note: if you're...
Google Docs by Voice
Hello, I'm orange Jeff and this isn't orange shirt blog. You can't currently see that I'm wearing an orange shirt but I'll include a photo when you can trust me that it's current. For the most part, I live in a single bedroom on my bed. I compute there eat there I sleep there and watch TV here I don't do too much else except a few times a day let the dogs out and feed the chickens. that is my...
Productive-ish
The "day off" Wednesday didn't fully turn out the way anyone expected but it was a reasonably productive day despite frequent interruptions. I should not have been surprised that my evening feeding chore had already been done. I wish I had known in advance. I might have taken transit into the downtown area as I've been wanting to, but I know I probably would not have anyway. I really have no...
Weekends with eyes open
I enjoyed this weekend. I was in a good mood the whole time and had some good social conversations with my housemate without having to take care of the animals or anything for Saturday and Sunday. I forget what I worked on yesterday but today I split my day focusing (literally) on a new camera app for my phone and recreating my personal blog site and my private blog site with new design layouts,...
Today’s Stupid Mistake
I kind of think I was always this way but I can't be sure because of the way my memory works. I make stupid mistakes, I knock things over, and I don't foresee the consequences of things I do before I do them. Today's example was quite unfortunate and I can't get away with it I will definitely have to confess to it and that's too bad. As one of the tasks I do to feed the animals it's to make a...
Optimistic Mid-week
It's Wednesday and it seems a bit off this week because I was a bit off. I've recovering again today but I've been ignoring the bad conveniences of starting late. My life these days is all about juggling the timing of when I ask for money and when I can expect it. I have never left sending out my invoices until the end of the month like I did this month, bit I also had some surplus to be...
Twitter Stream Fail.
This is not an embed. Thats false features. It's a link. I could have done better. First 30 seconds are blank screen. OrangeJeff Webcam Stream https://t.co/3obuNplMtC— Orangejeff420 (@orangejeff420) June 9, 2022
Passing the sweet spot.
In an attempt to be more productive without adderall, I ingest a certain amount of meth each morning. It's a very subtle incline and it's easy to miss the sweet spot where you can still think enough to do the job and have the stamina to continue and the focus to function. The problem is I tend to go past that spot into the I'm too high to think I can't choose between this or that but I can do it...
Thursday Morning
My bedroom clock somehow lost almost an hour while I was away. Unusual because it's never really needed adjustment before. Perhaps it slows when the battery weakens. I guess that makes sense. Some things just stop working when the power gets low and others work slower. My body does both. Yesterday was a detox day. No drugs and I didn't get out of bed. Today could easily have been the same but I...
Unnecessary Highness
I seem to have reached a blah plateau tonight. Too high to care. Still dehydrated and bacteria tongue. Didn't eat any real food. Just bagels and chocolate. No interest in pornography or hypnosis. Maybe one of those brainwash videos finally worked. I'm avoiding the very real life in front of me. Things need to be done. Even this blog needs to be updated with the news. 12:,35 fresh clouds. No...
That was the May
I'm sitting on my bed naked with a towel and 10:30 a.m. on the last day of May. In a couple of hours I will hand the keys back for this home and be done with this memory for now. My first month back into Toronto. Starting tonight I go back to Niagara Falls and that life. It will either theme familiar and happy or seem familiar and I'll remember why I wanted to leave in the first place. Coming...
Which not happy option is easier
Of I start with the assumption that I will discover ways to be unhappy with any choice, doesn't it makes sense to pick the easier ones? It's hard to keep everyone happy. Money doesn't motivate me. I just want to live without being yelled at.if no option is ideal, then pick one without a 4 hour daily commute. The need to find an affordable home is also a key factor but after a month living in the...
Monday customer service
Yes Hello. I'd like to exchange this current life for a new one. I don't like the amount of effort involved. I was mislead about how it would be better. I realize I've only had this new life less than 30 days and I can change my mind and go back to my previous option of no life if I wasn't satisfied. I'm as surprised as anyone. Who would have guessed I would prefer the life I constantly...
Oops it’s Monday.
I forgot spontaneous move day was a Monday. A work day. Each new trip teaches me something or provides a new story. Forgetting to secure a place to live will be inconvenient and possibly really hard to get past. Pause... High TV time.
Friday Commute -Moist edition
Yesterday ended in an exhausting mood swing. My new job is a lot to adjust to, even for me; a guy who talks about adjusting to change like it's my superpower.If I'm honest with myself, I know I'm cheating this time. The way I've adjusted to a complete reset in my life is to get high, stay focused, stay happy and coast until something happens.I know it's wrong, and the problems are starting to...
I remember the blah workday
Today I started with the last of my focus medication. A smaller dose. It faded around 2pm and since 4pm I have basically done no additional work. I remember this feeling. I can't lock in and work. Even the easy tasks seem to difficult to tackle. Even writing this blog post was difficult. I wanted to say a lot, but as soon as I started, I didn't want to anymore. Staring into the screen as my mind...
My Brain just stopped
Around 1pm, the last effects of my morning focus medication have out. My brain stopped working. I'm on a lunch break but my head is once again filled with all the thoughts, worries and anxiety it's been filtering fine till just now. I am lost. I don't know what to do.
Two days on, freak out.
I'm not really feeling the blog inspiration this morning. I was looking forward to it on the walk to the bus station. It is a nice spring day and I was alert and feeling the confidence needed for a good day of work and overall progress. Although it's Thursday, it's like a second Monday. I took Wednesday as a freak out vacation day. This means a two day streak is the schedule to beat. Maybe...
Replacement Monday
It's a Tuesday here in Toronto but it feels a bit more like a Monday because we had a long weekend holiday Monday. It was supposed to be a rest day so I could start my office job again. I have only worked 4 days before they shut us down to stay at home with COVID. My experience was quite mild because of was vaccinated. That's the story I choose to go along with anyway.I am eager to return to...
The following week
I moved back to Toronto and found a nice little place for the first month to stay started work on Monday and on Thursday I left early. Friday we were closed for the whole next week with covid and I didn't blog a bit. I didn't really move much. I just sat in bed alone playing and watching TV. This Monday is a long weekend so I don't have to start till Tuesday and it seems like the whole month is...
Feelings Friday
The plans for today are in flux. As I was turning the key to lock the back door, my phone rang. My co-worker informed me that our boss has tested positive for Covid-19 and I should not come in to work. My mind floods with different thoughts and possible futures. Suddenly I might have to deal with adult living in a new home, while sick. I'm not ready to complicate my life with a major sickness....