Chestnut + Hazel's GitHub Adventures

Adventure # 37 - 11/01/2023 01:13

There is something wrong here. This isn't updating. It's not clear to my why nothing is deploying. My guess is that, I should wait a little bit before i commit and push changes.

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Adventure # 36 - 10/30/2023 23:55

Sometimes when I get a notification that this or that bill has a payment due, I think to myself: "Didn't I just pay that bill last month?"

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Adventure # 35 - 10/30/2023 13:21

I'm exhausted right now. I think I slept all of Sunday, and, most of Monday. Today is Monday, and I slept through most of it. I did watch a few movies: Donnie Darko (2001), Pi (1998), and Dances with Wolves (1990). I have a few class assignments to work on. Project 13 is done. It required 2-3 problems to be worked on, and I did 2, LeetCode and CodeWars, I would like to work on a HackerRank problems, but, since it's not part of Project 13's requirements, it's basically a personal project at this point, and it's the same sort of situation with converting the calculator project into an options pricing calculator, it's not required, so it's a personal project if I decide to pursue it.

I'm really tired. I haven't done much today, other than play on the computer. I need to get my assignments done, I don't think there is anything else I have to do for Project 13. I have to look into project 14.

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Adventure # 34 - 10/29/2023 02:41

I don't know what to do right now. I'm really thirsty, and I want to go out and get a few sodas. but, I also don't want to go out right now, this early in the morning. I kind of just want to stay home right now, but, I'm really thirsty. I was playing Rome Total War 2, and, I was attacked by another faction, and, at the time I just really didn't want to fight that particular battle, so I signed out and went back to working on class work. but, I'm also not really in the mood to do any classwork right now. Today is Sunday, but I still have things that I have to get done, even if the urgency is slightly less than it would otherwise be. what do I have to do?

I did a little bit of work on chestnutandhazel.com trying to fix a few things here and there, but it takes a long time. trying to fix things. I had to deal with a small disaster. basically, i cloned a GitHub Repository to my main repository, creating a repository that is both a repository, and a directory within a repository. It created problems. Don't do it. I thought it would make things easier, but it didn't. it's a mess. Anyway. that was a small disaster. My miscellaneous repository, the one where I have project 13, seems fine, but there were uncommitted changes in my main repository that couldn't be committed and pushed, so I have no idea if I lost anything or not.

but for reference, the way i solved the problem was this: i couldn't push the changes to GitHub because the file was too large, and took too long to upload, and it exceeded the allowable file size, so I basically had to delete the local files, restart my computer because several of the files were in use by my computer, remove the repositories from GitHub Desktop and VS Code, and then pull and fetch the repositories from GitHub again. oh, and i also had to delete the offending file, the huge file that was too large to deal with, directly from GitHub. there seems to have been a way to remove the file from my committed changes, before pushing, but, i deleted the file locally before i could do that, so for some reason i couldn't remove it from my list of committed changes to push. anyway. I think it's more or less resolved at this point.

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Adventure # 33 - 10/27/2023 19:23

I'm going to come back around to this and write a more detailed explanation, but these were the trades that were filled yesterday.

Orders Filled on 10/27/2023

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Adventure # 32 - 10/27/2023 01:05

Sometimes I wonder why I never seem to have enough time, or enough energy to do things, and well. part of the reason is that I spend a lot of time doing things that don't really accomplish anything. I spent some time trying to fix an older GitHub account: KennethLarotYamat-as-chestnutandhazel

and it just still doesn't seem to be working. I remember when I first set it up, and, i remember following the instructions over and over and nothing seemed to happen.

i thought that, now, since I have more experience with GitHub, I could come back around to it and fix it, but well, no such luck. as far as I can tell, it's still broken.

i'll worry about it later. I really can't believe it is already the 27th. I'm about to go on 4 months without any income.

I spent some time napping, but not getting any actual sleep, the time is 05:44 AM

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Adventure # 31 - 10/26/2023 11:34

Orders Filled on 10/26/2023

I bought a call option with a 53 strike and a December expiration.

Estimate SPLG 10/27/2023

Range .68
Midpoint 48.76
Low/High 48.42 - 49.10

New Orders for 10/27/2023

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I fixed the titles. It wasn't really clear, even to me, where one adventure ended, and another adventure begun. so. Yeah. I fixed it.

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SPLG Chart Screenshot

I went ahead and cancelled my orders. It's against my better judgement to be selling right now, but I can only really sell first and then buy the shares back at a lower price.

SPLG Chart Screenshot

SPLG Chart Screenshot

SPLG Chart Screenshot

Estimate SPLG 10/27/2023

Range .60
Midpoint 48.73
Low/High 48.43 - 49.03

I'm trying to think. It's against my better judgement to sell, but I can only sell first and then buy back in, and I don't have any cash to buy in and then sell later. I'll do 1 share.

SPLG OTO Order Screenshot

I need to see how this works. I set it up so that the triggering order is cancelled at the end of the day if it isn't filled. If the triggering order is cancelled, the untriggered order should also be cancelled, but, if the triggering order is filled, the triggered order should stay open until cancelled. I'm entering this order to make sure that this is how it works.

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Adventure # 30 - 10/26/2023 07:50

I cancelled all open orders and put a new set of orders in. I have to start paying more attention to this again. I think I have, not a new approach, but an adjustment in mind. I don't want to have too many orders open at any given time. So I'm thinking that I have to adjust and merge orders as I go along. One issue that I'm facing right now is that I don't have very much cash to work with. With the T + 2 settlement restrictions that I'm facing, I can really only trade a third of my cash on any given day, and I kind of tied up a lot of it writing that cash secured put option. The idea was that I could collect interest on the cash collateral, in addition to collecting the premium for writing the put option as well as getting 100 shares into SPLG for less than 49.90. I'll see how this goes, the put option has a November 17 expiration date.

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Whoever bought that option seems to have made a bunch of money.

Put Option Sold as of 10/26/2023

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I was thinking, what if instead of writing a put option, I bought a call option instead, well, doing that would only accomplish 1 out of the 3 targets I had in place sure, I could collect interest on the cash, but I would be paying a premium of 380 buying a 49 strike call, rather than collecting a premium of 60 on a 50 strike put, I also wouldn't be getting into SPLG for less than 49.90. I would also currently be facing a much larger unrealized loss than the already somewhat large unrealized loss I'm currently facing.

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Call Option SPLG

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Orders Placed for SPLG on 10/26/2023

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I cancelled all of my outstanding orders, the ones that weren't filled, and I'm going to figure out a plan of action for what to do next. The issue is that all the outstanding orders I have, or had. before I cancelled them, they were all sell orders. I don't really want to be dealing with what I was dealing with earlier, you know, only in the opposite direction: having, on any given day, a whole bunch of sell orders go through without any corresponding buy orders go through.

Anyway, I'm still conquering Europe right now.

Estimate SPLG 10/26/2023

Range .60
Midpoint 49.00
Low/High 48.70 - 49.30

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Adventure # 29 - 10/25/2023 21:27

Estimate SPLG 10/26/2023

Range .60
Midpoint 49.20
Low/High 48.89 - 49.49
Open/Close 49.00 - 48.80

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Estimate SPLG 10/26/2023

Range .62
Midpoint 49.20
Low/High 48.89 - 49.51
Open/Close 49.00 - 48.80

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I just don't really have all that much energy. Let's see. I don't have anything due for class for a few days. I spent an eternity on project 12. I've been updating things on chestnutandhazel.com to fix issues reported to me about. or issues reported to me by Google Search Console. I'm going around here and there fixing whatever comes up, little by little. there were a lot of issues where an image or video doesn't fit the screen that the website is being viewed on. so i've made an effort to fix those. the issue that comes up the most is a canonical tag issue.

I need to take the garbage out. what else do I need to do? I'm continuing to upload gaming videos playing Total War Rome 2. They take up a ton of storage space. I have an external hard drive that I can store them on, and, it's going to be a while before I run out of space. but I'm just amazed because I've never really done anything that produced this much date before. Text doesn't take up a lot of storage space.

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Estimate for: SPLG, 10/25/2023

Range AMT: .70
Midpoint: 49.85
Range L/H: 49.50 - 50.20
O/C: 49.90 - 49.70

Data for: SPLG, 10/25/2023

Range AMT: .57
Midpoint: 49.33
Range L/H: 49.61 - 49.04
O/C: 49.59 - 49.10

Estimate SPLG 10/26/2023

Range .62
Midpoint 49.20
Low/High 48.89 - 49.51
Open/Close 49.00 - 48.80

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Opening Transaction, SPLG 10 Shares

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This opening transaction took place on 10/24, and wasn't closed by it's transaction pair until the following day.

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Closing Transaction, SPLG 10 Shares

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This is the closing transaction, where I bought back the shares I sold the previous day.

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Filled Orders SPLG 10/25/2023

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The transaction pair was something I had to research. I had no idea why my account made a purchase for 10 shares, but then I realized, or remembered that I sold 10 shares the previous day, and that all of my transactions are paired so, I went back and double checked what happened.

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Adventure # 28 - 10/24/2023 23:19

I'm tired. I'm trying to think. What should I be doing right now. How much Rome Total War 2 have I been playing? I'm trying to think. I've already turned in project 12, and it's already been graded, so anything additional is kind of a vanity project at this point.

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Adventure # 27 - 10/24/2023 07:09

Estimate for: SPLG, 10/24/2023

Range AMT: .70
Midpoint: 49.83
Range L/H: 49.48 - 50.18
O/C: 49.50 - 49.70

Estimate for: SPLG, 10/24/2023

Range AMT: .70
Midpoint: 49.58
Range L/H: 49.23 - 49.93
O/C: 49.50 - 49.70

Data for: SPLG, 10/24/2023

Range AMT: .48
Midpoint: 49.71
Range L/H: 49.47 - 49.95
O/C: 49.69 - 49.83

Estimate for: SPLG, 10/25/2023

Range AMT: .70
Midpoint: 49.85
Range L/H: 49.50 - 50.20
O/C: 49.90 - 49.70

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Filled and Cancelled SPLG orders for 10/24/2023

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All of the orders that were filled were the first part of their respective paired transactions, in other words, they all triggered limit buy orders. I moved the html

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Adventure # 26 - 10/23/2023 15:21

Well. I think I'm going to go back to playing ROME Total War 2.

[This game is 10 years old. release date of 2013]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmPjccCCJa0

I was wondering why the quality of my videos was so low, and it's not the videos, it's my youtube player. since most of what i watch on youtube isn't video content, but audio content, documentaries audiobooks and podcasts, i've always kept the resoultion low, not wanting to waste the badwidth.

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My screen recording isn't working again. This usually happens when a video is being uploaded to YouTube and is being processed. Anyway. I haven't checked in a while, but the last time I checked into it, I remember that in order to monetize videos on YouTube, your channel has to reach a certain threshold in terms of views, viewers, and view time, before being able to monetize. I think that I'll eventually add narrations.

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Youtube Channel Earning Requirements

This can take a while.

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Estimage for: SPLG, 10/23/2023

Range AMT: .66
Midpoint: 49.56
Range L/H: 49.23 - 49.89
Trend: ADX (22) + (12) - (31)
O/C: 49.68 - 49.24

Data for: SPLG, 10/23/2023

Range AMT: .77
Midpoint: 49.52
Range L/H: 49.13 - 49.90
O/C: 49.34 - 49.54

Estimate for: SPLG, 10/24/2023

Range AMT: .70
Midpoint: 49.58
Range L/H: 49.23 - 49.93
O/C: 49.50 - 49.70

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SPLG Filled Orders on 10/23/2023

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Adventure # 25 - 10/23/2023 04:00

I still haven't gotten gaming out of my system. but, today is Monday, and I have stuff I need to work on. so, starting with the estimate I made for SPLG on 10/20/2023.

Estimage for: SPLG, 10/23/2023

Range AMT: .66
Midpoint: 49.56
Range L/H: 49.23 - 49.89
Trend: ADX (22) + (12) - (31)
O/C: 49.68 - 49.24

I don't know. It still seems. Well, I don't see any reason to change it right now. anyway. what else do I need to do. I've essentially been doing nothing but gaming since. Saturday Morning. I feel like only doing as much as I absolutely need to, and then going back to my game. Do I have any life updates? well. My vehicle registration renewal sticker came in the mail, and I put it on my license plate.

What am I thinking right now? I realized I made a few errors while calculating my estimates. I made a few really basic errors. Hella dumb. for my estimate for SPLG for 10/20, for example. I took the midpoint and subtracted the range from the midpoint to estimate the low and added it to the midpoint to estimate the high. No wonder I didn't have any sell orders for that day.

Anyway: what's the minimum amount of stuff I need to get done today?

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Adventure # 24 - 10/22/2023 07:49

This is funny. Right on the dot. I've been playing Rome Total War 2 since. Well, almost 12 hours straight. There are actually a few other things that I need to be working on. but, this is interesting. I really don't play computer games anymore or. all that much anymore, but a few months ago I started playing again, and, it's really been eating up a lot of my time. I made a hell of a lot of videos these past few hours, in fact. I pushed out publish dates into late December, releasing 1 video every three days. My screen recorder isn't working right now. So I'm taking this time to get some writing done.

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Adventure # 23 - 10/21/2023 19:49

I'm trying to build a youtube channel. The video looks like garbage. and it's not clear to me why.

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Total War ROME 2: Battle of Velathri

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Adventure # 22 - 10/21/2023 04:18

The other day. When I was completing paperwork for UNLV, one of the attestations for recieving in-state tuition rates was declaring that I intend to make Nevada my permanent residence. It was a hard question for me because. Whether or not I intend to stay in Nevada is contingent upon whether or not I'm able to attend college here. To me this was one of those chicken and egg problems. The other issue that made it a difficult question to answer is that. I kind of have to stay here. Even if I could leave. I kind of have to stay here. I really don't have any other choice. I really don't know what to do. Not that there is really anything I can do.

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Adventure # 21 - 10/20/2023 21:51

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Adventure # 20 - 10/20/2023 18:44

Okay, so there's that. Um, so the day in review. I realized I made a mistake here, on my "Estimate for 10/20" um, the low should be an estimate of 49.72. I put in 1 trade for 10 shares. Sell at the estimated high and buy at the estimated low, but I didn't put in a reverse order as well, because at this point I have way many shares than I can comfortably function with. I don't know why I was targeting 400 shares. I think that I was carrying that figure forward from. you know. when I was employed. and had a paycheck.

I think as some point I came to the conclusion that I it would be best to keep my position at around 200 shares, but didn't really adjust everything, like, my outstanding orders and all that. I sold 5 and bought 83, or, I had sell orders for 5 shares filled, and buy orders totaling 83 shares filled. this is in addition to writing a put option which, at this point, is basically like having bought an additional 100 shares, for a total of 183.

anyway. I don't know what to do about. Javascript. and my OHLC estimator. I think that I spent so much time just trying to make it draw. that. well. like. and the drawing part. the visual part of it. is probably the least useful aspect of the thing. I have a project due tomorrow. One issue that I'm having is that I really don't have all that much energy, except on those days where I'm consuming an elevated amount of caffeine.

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What do I do here? Okay so:

Estimate for: SPLG, 10/20/2023

Range AMT: .70
Midpoint: 50.07
Range L/H: 49.37 - 50.42
Trend: ADX(21) + (14) - (27)
O/C: 50.20 - 50.05

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Data for: SPLG, 10/20/2023

Range AMT: .63
Midpoint: 49.84
Range L/H: 49.52 - 50.15
Trend: ADX (21.51) + (13.09) - (29.97)
O/C: 50.08 - 49.54

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Estimage for: SPLG, 10/23/2023

Range AMT: .66
Midpoint: 49.56
Range L/H: 49.23 - 49.89
Trend: ADX (22) + (12) - (31)
O/C: 49.68 - 49.24

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SPLG Orders for 10/23/2023

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Adventure # 19 - 10/20/2023 05:06

I am in a little bit of a garbage mood right now. I have no idea how long I've been up. I'm working on my OHLC Estimator, I'm not even at the point where I'm able to draw an OHLC Bar, drawing the OHLC Bar is the first step, then I need to be able to toggle between an OHLC Bar and a candlestick, I don't know. This is really taking longer than I expected.

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Adventure # 18 - 10/19/2023 14:59

I don't have a lot of time, or energy right now. So I'm not really going to explain everything in excruciating detail

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Estimate for: SPLG, 10/19/2023

Range AMT: .61
Midpoint: 50.58
Range L/H: 49.97 - 51.19
Trend: None
O/C: 50.79 - 50.90

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Results for: SPLG, 10/19/2023

Range AMT: .89
Midpoint: 50.48
Range L/H: 50.06 - 50.89
Trend: None
O/C: 50.66 - 50.16

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Estimate for: SPLG, 10/20/2023

Range AMT: .70
Midpoint: 50.07
Range L/H: 49.37 - 50.42
Trend: ADX(21) + (14) - (27)
O/C: 50.20 - 50.05

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The only trades I'm putting through are revisions to my 49.90 trades from weeks ago, that I've been hanging on to for a while. and I've just paired them with sell orders.

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SPLG Orders for 10/20/2023

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and I put in a few trades based on my estimate.

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SPLG Orders for 10/20/2023

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I'm really tired and I have homework.

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Adventure # 17 - 10/19/2023 03:16

I'm kind of not doing much of anything right now. but. I'm just looking at emails and stuff. I get a lot of emails, and it really takes a while to look at them and determine what I actually need to look at and read, and what I can delete right away. and what needs to be worked on and all that.

On this day
11 years ago
Kenneth Larot Yamat
October 19, 2012
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Shared with Public
Haiku 8 -
These wilted flowers
shedding petals blissfully
in the sad faced sun.

What do I need to do? I have class later. I think that I have a project due this week. this weekend. on saturday. I've only looked at it a little bit. I haven't really did a deep dive or anything.

so, let's get started.

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Adventure # 16 - 10/18/2023 17:11

I want to start with my portfolio stuff today. I still want those shares as 49.90, but since the month is almost over, I really need to make sure I have cash on hand.

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SPLG Orders at 49.90

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The order that says: Sell to Open ... Put, is an attempt to enter SPLG, 100 shares at 49.90, but more specifically, it's the closing transaction of an OTO pair where, I think I sold those shares at 50.20. I did it as a sell to open 1 put option, rather than a limit buy 100 shares because there is something I'm trying to see. I wouldn't ordinarily do it this way, but, like I said, there is something I'm trying to see. and there are a few reasons why I'm not too worried:

• I want those shares at 49.90 anyway because they're part of a closing transation
• The expiration date is 2 days out, so, I'm not locked in to the contract for a nightmarishly long time
• Plus, there is something I'm trying to see

What else: I had 19 buy orders filled, and no sell orders filled.

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SPLG Orders filled on 10/18/2023

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I think that most of these buy orders are closing transactions to sell orders. In the grand scheme of things, SPLG is a long term position for me, and I'm only day trading a handful of shares at any given time.

Anyway, in all honestly, in some ways. I'd rather just be working right now, and mindlessly buying in with all the money from my paycheck that I don't spend, but I really can't do that right now, because I'm not employed.

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I need to change a few things here.

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so, let's get started.

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so I used a table. I know that I should be using a flex box or something.

Anyway. I don't know how to describe this the correct terminology, but I'm going to stagger my orders outside of the range by 5 cents.
so:

50.74 - 50.95
50.69 - 51.00
50

woah. I almost made a mistake there.

so:

49.97 - 51.19
49.92 - 51.24
49.87 - 51.29

I'm going to add one more:

49.82 - 51.34

With that in mind I'm going to abandon formatting it in this new way.

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Placed Orders for October 19th, 2023

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Alrighty, we will see how this plays out. That first misake order is still there where I placed the buys and sells at the estimated open/close amounts rather than the estimated high and low amounts. Well. It's 21:07. That took forever. One thing that makes me somewhat uneasy is that I'm about well, looking at these ranges, I might hit the 49.90 mark, and my somewhat large closing order will get filled. I've been wanting it to get filled for a while, and now we are almost there. I think that my target quantity for SPLG was about 400 shares total. I've adjusted that way down.

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What else do I need to do today? There are a number of things that I want to work on.

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Adventure # 15 - 10/17/2023 11:22

Tired. I'm tired. I actually have an idea for something. I have to continue working on my LinkedIn Page. Well. Right now it's 22:34 and I'm still sort of working on this assignment.

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Filled Orders October, 17th

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I think I'm going to switch to a single line display. I had 10 buy orders filled, and 19 sell orders filled. Once Again: The goal is to have an equal number of buy and sell orders filled on any given day. Is there something that I should be doing right now? well, obviosuly there is something that I need to be doing, there are several things that I need to be doing, and that I need to get done, but where do I start? Which one of these tasks do I start with?

Well, I don't exactly know what to do. I'll take the previous day's estimate and start There

Estimate for 10/17/2023

Range: .60
Trend: None
Midpoint: 51.20
Range: 50.90 - 51.50
O/C: Open Higher than Close.

Estimate for 10/18/2023

Range: .64
Trend: None
Midpoint: 51.19
Range: 50.87 - 51.51
O/C: Open Higher than Close.

I'm honestly total lost on this. Like I really don't know what to do next, at this point. I'm thinking that something is going to happen in either direction, but. I have really no idea what. When I look at the weekly chart, I'm thinking that the bars will head toward the upper band, and when I look at the daily chart, I'm thinking that the bars will head toward the lower band. A red daily bar for tomorrow would not turn the weekly bar red, because, well, it's only Wednesday. Right? Anyway, usually the Bollinger Bands widen after they've been narrow for a while so, something has to happen, up or down, in order for them to widen, and statistically speaking, it's more likley that whatever it is, it's going to be within the bands, and in this case, that would mean a downward bar, or a red bar or whatever. Right? I'm going to revise my estimate:

Revised Estimate for 10/18/2023

Range: .66
Trend: None
Midpoint: 51.19
Range: 50.88 - 51.52
O/C: Open Higher than Close.

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Stock Chart, SPLG, Daily

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Stock Chart, SPLG, Weekly

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The other possibility is that it skids upward along the top band on the daily chart. I'm going to revise my estimate again.

Revised Estimate for 10/18/2023

Range: .68
Trend: None
Midpoint: 51.19
Range: 50.86 - 51.54
O/C: Open Higher than Close.

Well, I'm going to place my orders. Since I think that bands are going to widen, I'm going to move my orders outward, rather than inward. or away from the midpoint rather than toward the midpoint.

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Orders Placed, SPLG, 10/18/2023

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Anyway, we will see where this goes. I'm still extremely tired. It's currently 01:22 on 1/18/2023. I'm not sure what else I need to do.

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Adventure # 14 - 10/16/2023 19:35

So. What am I thinking right now? Well. I have no idea. The time is actually 21:35, two hours after creating the heading for this post. I have a homework assignment that I really haven't even looked at. and I need to look at it, and, I actually need to turn it in. Tomorrow I think.

Today is now already the 17th. It's really amazing how quickly time passes.

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Adventure # 13 - 10/16/2023 18:00

Okay, where to start? I didn't have a single dime of overlap. The day range for SPLG was 50.99 - 51.40, and my estimate was 50.20 to 50.83. So let's try again. Let's review how the day went. I had five buy orders filled and nine sell orders filled.

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Filled Orders October 16th

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the goal is to have an equal number of sell orders and buy orders filled. on any given day. Looking at Friday, I bought 7 more shares than I sold, today I sold 4 more shares than I bought.

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Stock Chart SPLG

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So, where to start? Well, and ADX of 17.50 suggests that there is no trend. So I'm estimating that tomorrow being a down day is equally likely as tomorrow being an up day. I need to come up with something a little more precise, but, like how? Next, I'm estimating That the day range will be .60 based on a 20 day ATR of, well, .60, so. HA! Next: I'm estimating that SPLG will open higher than it closes, this is because she shorter time lines, the 60 minute charts are near the top of the upper Bollinger Band. So where am I at?

Range: .60
Trend: None
Midpoint: 51.20
Range: 50.90 - 51.50
O/C: Open Higher than Close.

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Stock Chart SPLG, Last OHLC Bar is Hypothetical

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Okay, so, now what? so, place a few orders.

I had a little trouble just now with trying to see the orders I just placed.

So basically SPLG OTO:

51.50 Sell Triggers 50.90 Buy
51.60 Sell Triggers 50.80 Buy
51.40 Sell Triggers 51.00 Buy
51.50 Buy Triggers 50.90 Sell
51.60 Buy Triggers 50.80 Sell
51.40 Buy Triggers 51.00 Sell

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SPLG Orders for October 17th

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Where did my vape go? Anway, I guess that's it for this post. I have to think if there is anything else I need to do today.

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Adventure # 12 - 10/16/2023 12:53

What am I thinking about right now? well, I'm writing this at 0314, so, several hours after when I first started this post. It's Monday, and I'm not sure what I really need to do. It's the middle of the month already. what a nightmare. The vehicle registration stuff is done, but was that all I managed to do yestereday?

How did the smog check stuff go? well, the first place I went to was not even really a smog check location, i thought it was, but, it was actually a car wash. This is a gas station near the grocery store, I always thought that it had a smog check station attached to it, but it was just a car wash, not a smog check. so then i just decided that I would pick a place on Google Maps that's listed as a smog check location. I went there, and it was closed. so then I went to the next location listed on Google Maps. and then I went home and renewed my vehicle registration.

A lot of things can go wrong between now, and the Fall Semester of 2024, in fact, a lot of things can go wrong between now and the Spring Semester of 2024.

Okay. what was I expecting SPLG to be at today? because it looks like I'm already wrong. On Saturday I wrote: "My best guess is that SPLG will be between 50.20 and 50.83" Well, There's really not telling if I'm already wrong. Friday was my first time estimating an OHLC bar, so, I have to see how today plays out. If the OHLC bar is something like 50.90 to 51.50, then, my estimate was way off, but an OHLC bar of 50.10 to 50.90 would be kind of in line with what I estimated.

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Stock Chart: SPLG

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I want to see how this plays out. Is there something I need to do? I need to get a few letters of recommendation. for. school.

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Guernica, Pablo Picasso (1937)

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Adventure # 11 - 10/15/2023 05:03

I need to get a smog check, and then I can renew my vehicle registration, my registration expired yesterday, so I had to pay for a temporary moving permit. Headache. I was playing Rome Total War 2 earlier, but, the game froze so I had to force a restart, and at this point I'm no longer really in the mood to play that game.

So I got all that vehicle registration stuff done. Smog Check and payment and all that. It was about 220 all together. It wasn't unexpected, but it was something I didn't really budget for. This is irritating because I don't really have any money coming in. Getting paid out on my unemployment claim is almost hopeless at this point. What else do I need to do? Is there anything else that I can do today? Is there anything else that needs to be done today?

I think about that scene in The Fifth Element where Zorg says:"Fire One-Million," and he's doing this in an effort to tame inflation, and firiing one-million is in contrast to firing five-hundred thousand. but. I think that if The Fifth Element were more "Space Odyssey" and Less "Star Wars" Zorg would be increasing interest rates by one percent, in contrast to increasing interest rates by half a percent.

I also think that it's less likely that layoff notices would be sent out, and you know, instead it would be something like Korben Dallas finding his workplace becoming a high-attrition environment.

I don't know how many times I've taken a job, only to find that the workplace is a high-attrition environment. and then thinking: why did they hire me in the first place? they didn't really think I was going to tolerate this kind of treatment, did they?

I'm trying to think about what to do about work, finding a job and all that. My expectation is that any kind of factory or warehouse work or any position at any company in a capital intensive business is going to be a high-attrition environment, especially with interest rates as high as they are, a factory owner is better off firing everybody, liquidating the factory, and investing that capital into bonds, and will probably make more money doing so, especially with interest rates as high as they are. and you wouldn't have to deal with the headache of running a business, just the headache of collecting interest payments.

Zorg: Fire one million, sell the cabs, shove the money into bonds, and collect the interest. Now that Korben Dallas is no longer employed, he'll probably spend less money on Chinese Food, which should bring down the inflation rate on the Chinese food portion of the consumer price index, which I don't think actually includes food.

I'm trying to figure out why it's always me that's the target of targeted attrition, like, do I really contribute all that much to inflation? Like, increasing interest rates is supposed to motivate businesses to fire people, would you rather own a business, and collect profits, or would you rather own bonds, and collect interest? the correct answer is: whatever pays more. so when bonds pay more than businesses, you shift money from businesses to bonds, firing people in the process, and when people get fired, they have less money to spend, and when they have less money to spend, prices increase at a slower rate, and that means inflation slows down. but, i don't spend that much money to begin with, so, me. being employed. doesn't really contribute to inflation. so don't target me for attrition, Zorg, other people contribute more to inflation than I do. other people should get targeted for attrition. not me.

but, um, yeah. things are kind of difficult right now, and, kind of a nightmare.

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On this day 4 years ago Kenneth Larot Yamat Shared with Public

"Thinking about tomorrow won't change how I feel today."
- Lessons Learned, Matt & Kim (2009)

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"Leave all your love and your longing behind You can't carry it with you if you want to survive"
- Dog Days Are Over, Florence + The Machine (2009)

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The xx - I Dare You (Official Music Video)

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Adventure # 10 - 10/14/2023 15:07

is there something I should be doing today? If there is, I have no idea what it is. So, okay, here's what I have to do, I have to apply as a non-degree seeking student for Spring 2024, and take the math class, I've completed the non-degree seeking application.

I have to renew the registration for my car. The website is down, and this is kind of a headache. I probably would have dealt with this sooner if I had received notice sooner, but, here it is, today.

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Adventure # 9 - 10/14/2023 07:56

One of my classmates asked me for help on an older project that she was catching up on. I sent her a link to my GitHub link to that particularl project, but realized that she might not be using GitHub yet. So I created a CodePen version of project 10 created specificially for Codepen. I created a Project 10 for display on CodePen, but that was just the GitHub version iframed into CodePen, but for the new project 10 version in codepen, I cloned the actual code from GitHub and put it into a CodePen Pen, it didn't work at first, so I had to change the iframe slider to reference my older Codepen Project Specifically.

I'm not sure if that's really well explained, but, things are referenced differently in CodePen such that, it really doesn't work well unless I use absolute references, and in many cases, not all references work well.

On this day 1 year ago Kenneth Larot Yamat October 14, 2022 · Shared with Public There are times when butter is in fact the answer, but the circumstances where butter is the answer are rare. Suppose you're taking a multiple choice test and the question is: what's the answer? If the choices include: A) butter . Well, then it's possible that butter is the answer.

On this day 6 years ago Kenneth Larot Yamat October 14, 2017 · Shared with Public The portions at Hawaiian barbecue seem like it should actually be called Samoan barbecue.

On this day 2 years ago Kenneth Larot Yamat October 14, 2021 · Shared with Public Based on what I've been reading, my guess is that the chief executive officer of jpmorgan chase and company is going diamond hands 💎 👏 ? on something other cryptocurrency. #wampumcurrency

On this day 1 year ago Kenneth Larot Yamat October 14, 2022 · Shared with Only me · May 10 Ferdinand Marcos Jr won the presidential election? Well, you know I'm buying shares in shoe companies! Kenneth Larot Yamat @KennethLYamat ·

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Adventure # 8 - 10/14/2023 12:13

I don't know what to do right now. Is there someting that I should be doing? Well, I was working on my Blog, this blog, and I was trying to break things up into paragraphs, and make some other changes. I tried to get Transform to work for list items, but, I don't know, I'll get back around to that one.

I also tried to put a link to this blog on my GitHub landing page, I couldn't seem to get it to look how I wanted it to, or, how I imagined I wanted it to look. What I really wanted was for the bottom button to span the whole row I don't know what I'm doing wrong here. I think that it looks fine the way it is, but it's not what I was really thinking.

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Reflection # 113 by Kenneth Larot Yamat

Maybe I'm getting used to the walk. It was quick. And the day was warm.

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Note added on 10/14/2023 02:45 AM I've gotten a notice that I need to fix this blog post, there is something wrong where it is being indexed incorrectly or something, and it's difficult for search engines to crawl this page. I'm not sure what to do

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So, I just need to focus on getting through the course that I'm already taking. This turned out to be a really good program and I'm really pleased that I decided to take it. So, for UNLV, I have to take a calculus class for the Spring 2024 Semester, which I'm thinking is going to be the second semester calculus class, since I had taken the first semester of calculus several years ago. I have to get a B in that class. I'm wanting, and I'm hoping that I can take this class online.

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Adventure # 7 - 10/13/2023 12:28

Alright, so what are we looking at here, um SPLG. it's almost 4:00 PM Eastern Time, so I guess this is basically what happened today. A total of 13 of my limit buys were excecuted, and a total of 4 of my limit sell orders were excecuted, so I ended up buying 7 more shares than I sold.

This isn't a big deal or anything because SPLG is a long term position for me, and I'm always happy to have more shares of SPLG, but that not really what I'm trying to accomplish here.

The goal is to end the day with the same number of shares bought as shares sold. so any time I have too many extra shares bought or too many extra shares sold, then that means I didn't predict the trading range for that day correctly.

Okay, so let's try again for Monday. My best guess is that SPLG will be between 50.20 and 50.83, see chart below.

I'll place 2 orders, one in each direction.

So we will see how that goes. The goal for tomorrow is to have two shares bought, and two shares sold. Or, well, since I have so many outstanding orders at this point, to have the same number of buy orders excecuted as sell orders.

Anyway, the reason why I'm only doing 1 share at a time, usually I do 10, is because I really screwed up on 10/05/2023 and sold about 70 more shares than I bought, which really threw everything off. In the following days I ended up selling 207 more shares than I wanted to, so I'm at the point of, you know, I basically gotta keep this at 1 share at a time until I'm back at my goal of getting those 207 shares back, and, even though I accumulated 7 more shares than I wanted too today, that accumulation really doesn't count because I want those 207 shares back at 49.90, and not higher.

and 49.90 is still, you know, in the realm of possibility, in fact, I couldn't find a reason to buy back in at higher than 49.90, even after 4 green days because, at no point did there seem to be confirmation of a trend change, or, at least I don't seem to see anything. Maybe if it hit above 51.66, but, I probably still would have waited out even if it did hit 51.66.

Anyway, that last chart was a lot to look at. I went to UNLV today to have the meeting with the MSQF Program Director. From the conversation it seems clear that I won't be admitted to the program for the Spring Semester of 2024, I could go to UNLV for Spring 2024, but, only to take a prerequisite course. and then I can get into the program for Fall 2024. This is one of those times where I really hope that I can take this course online.

Otherwise than that, I'm really tired. I'm worried though. The reason I was shooting for a Spring 2024 admission is because there are so many things can go wrong between now and January, and, there are even more things that can go wrong between now and August 2024. you know, and, this is just another nightmare.

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Adventure # 5 - 10/12/2023 02:48

So what am I thinking about right now. I got sidetracked from putting down my thoughts for Adventure # 4. Well. I don't know. I tend to be bombarded with stuff. Various stuffs. Various things. This or that. Whatever. I started obsessing over the color of the buttons on my landing page. made a little bit of progress. realized I don't know jack about javascript. figured I'd get around to it later. and then I started obsessing over my project carousel. so that's basically what happened. I'm tying to recollect about what happend yesterday, and the things I'm thinking about for the next couple days. The forseeable future, which as of right now. can be measured only. in days. I got sidetracked yet again. I don't know where I was. Quam pulchra es sicut ibi stabat Qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet consectetur ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem Quae te dementia cepit Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit Militat omnis amans omnia vincit amor I got sidetracked yet again. The above text should read something like How beautiful you are standing there! who gullibly believes you are everything? who seeks pain to derive some pleasure from pain? What madness posesses you? We will remember this fondly: every lover is a fighter: Love conquers all. This is basically just a collage of different latin quotes. Famous ones. including the most famous latin text of all: lorem ipsum. This is supposed to be funny. The most famous latin quote should be omnia vincit amor, love conquers all, but I don't think that it is, i mean, more well known than lorem ipsum. the other funny thing is that, delorem ipsum, is from, i guess, cicero, but his most famous line should actually be: Carthago delenda est and um, I guess I came across: Militat omnis amans, from Ovid which translates to:

every lover
is
a fighter

Which is really funny because that's clearly a response to the phrase: "I'm a lover not a fighter." and he does this to omnia vincent amore as well, where he say something like: Love conquers all? so too will I triumph over love! but I couldn't find that quote online, or at least, I had a lot of trouble finding it because all searches for Omnia vincent amore, ovid come up only with virgils original line. anyway. I got sidetracked again, I had an ititial version of project 8 that I was having a lot of trouble with, so, I stopped working on it and started completely over. There is a screenshot of it in my media folder. I don't know what the issue was. or. I don't remember since project 8 feels like it was something I did such a long time ago, but whatever it was. I think it was that I was having trouble changing things. so I started with a different templete or whatever it's called in wordpress, and deleted more or less everything but the color scheme, and re-did the entire thing element by element. so. that's how it went. super easy and I really enjoyed it. I feel like there was something I'm supposed to do today, but, whatever it is, it's clearly slipped my mind.

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Adventure # 4 - 10/11/2023 23:04

There are a number of things on my mind, but I'm not sure what to write about first. I might be able to get into UNLV. I have no idea how many times I've applied there, and for how many different programs, but finally getting in would be nice. I feel so bad about dropping out of grad school at UTA a year ago, and, if I ever get around to making it up to Yibing Du and Thomas Thompson, I'll reapply at somepoint in the future and get a degree at UTA. anyway. I'm glad it's still, only Wednesday, even if, at 23:13, it's pretty much already Thursday. I have a metting with, I don't know exactly, the admissions person, or, well, it's critical that I meet with him in order to get into the program. I'm glad it's still Wednesday.

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Adventure # 3 - 10/11/2023 21:16 - Originally Posted In CSS\style.css

This is probably going to be the least user friendly blog ever. Tell me: are you reading this? Is it nice and user friendly? because I'm not sure I really care, you're basically reading my diary. Whether or not it's user friendly isn't really my problem. One of the issues I have with what I post on chestnutandhazel.com is that It's hosted, or whatever, it's really just an account on blogger.com, so since it's basically a social media account, I have to comply with the community guidles of blogger.com, and since I have adsense active on that page, I also have to comply with any adsense advertiser standards, so I have my hands tied in many respects. chestnutandhazel.com continues to get flagged over and over and over, and in many cases I don't really want to deal with it right away. the other issue is that I also have to post what I write somewhere, so that I can use the standard copyright registration form, rather than the unpublished copyright registration form, so, that's another issue. so you know, it's kind of whatever. /* i basically couldn't figure out how to do this in javascript, but since this is a styling concern, I don't feel the least bit bad about styling it with Cascading Style Sheets: HAHAHAHA!

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_small.asp https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font_size.asp https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font_size.asp

@KennethLarotYamat 2 hours ago (edited) Attire: English Professor Vibes I really love that stoic sarcasm "At this point, as a worst case scenario, it can only fall an additional 100 Percent" "They had problems with the rent collection application, perhaps the most important piece of the technology of the business" " It has highly advanced facial recognition AI algorithms that gleaned insights such as: people enjoyed sitting next to windows" */ On this day 5 years ago Kenneth Larot Yamat October 11, 2018 Shared with Public The best number ever: five hundred shillion forty five fillion decamore villion gigolo jizzilion dillie dough dillion ... I remember this post, five years ago when I was here in Vegas On this day 6 years ago Kenneth Larot Yamat October 11, 2017 Shared with Public I don't know what the heck I was thinking. I'm at #McDonald's and I ordered two mcdoubles, two mcchickens, twenty nuggets, two apple pies, a large fry, and a large drink. ... On this day 6 years ago Kenneth Larot Yamat October 11, 2017 Shared with Public The smog is pretty bad in San Jose. ... On this day 8 years ago Kenneth Larot Yamat added a new photo to the album: Mobile Uploads. October 11, 2015 Jekyll & Hyde 2, Kenneth Larot Yamat (2015) digital photography This is a photograph of a mixed media composition. I took two paintings that I bought by a local artist, put a Zoloft pen on top of the painting of Jack Torrance, and then took pictures of my masterpiece, and then photo edited the result. The paintings are by Vanessa Callanta. what stood out to me about Callanta's Painting "All Work and No Play" was how calm Jack Torrance looked. i think it's the use of blue. Jack Torrance typically wore red shirts in The Shining. ... On this day 11 years ago Kenneth Larot Yamat October 11, 2012 Shared with Public TMH4 - Yesterday: Hump day. I can fix that hump. What hump? Always be closing. ... "Salesforce Profile Deletion 1.0012331223122525365456456464554" by Kenneth Larot Yamat This was my Sales Force profile while working at Viator, a company owned by Trip Advisor i was paid by Morris and Willner Partners not a formal employee of Viator or Trip Advisor or professional staffing group I really miss working there but i was obsessed with my boss Kristin i don't think she would ever hire me again i used her name and initials as some of my passwords and i'm sure it came around to her sorry my favorite boss in recent history but i really would not want to work for any one else Affiliations *Senior Advisor of the plain in thy neatness Committee *Subordinate Advisor of the snacks and beverages Department *Secondary Associate at the Bureau of bookable options *Tertiary Instructor of the TripAdvisor supplier acquisition Academy Awards *Nobel Peace Prize for the most facetious TripAdvisor review ever written *Pulitzer Conflict Prize for most fatuous Viator review ever written *Prix de Rome for the most factitious Flipkey review ever written *Valedictorian of the Viator Confluence Content Institute *Salutatorian of the TripAdvisor JIRA Tickets University Academics *Graduate of the Supplier Schmoozeery Seminary, Cum Laude *Master of Fine Arts from the Supplier Complaints Academy, Magna Cum Laude *Doctorate from the Bókun Cola Consumption Conservatory, Summa Cum Laude *Smoker at the designated Flipkey smoker's location, Highest Honors *Consumer of TripAdvisor Funyuns, Mediocre Honors *Participant at the Viator Carrot Consumption Convention, Inferior Honors ... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50372/ode-i-5-to-pyrrha ... Ode I, 5: To Pyrrha BY HORACE TRANSLATED BY JOHN MILTON What slender youth, bedew'd with liquid odors, Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha? For whom bind'st thou In wreaths thy golden hair, Plain in thy neatness? O how oft shall he Of faith and changed gods complain, and seas Rough with black winds, and storms Unwonted shall admire! Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold, Who, always vacant, always amiable Hopes thee, of flattering gales Unmindful. Hapless they To whom thou untried seem'st fair. Me, in my vow'd Picture, the sacred wall declares to have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea. ... Literal English Translation What slender boy, drenched in liquid perfumes, presses hard upon you on many a rose, Pyrrha, under cover of a pleasing cave? For whom do you bind back your yellow hair, Simple with elegance? Alas, how often will he lament faithlessness and changed gods, and in surprise He will marvel at rough waters with black winds, he who now enjoys you, believing, you are golden, who hopes that you will be always free, always lovable, he who is ignorant of the treacherous breeze! Wretched are they for whom you, untried, shine. As for me, the sacred wall with its votive tablet declares that I have hung up my dripping garments to the god who rules over the sea. ... Original Latin quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa perfusus liquidis urget odoribus grato, Pyrrha, sub antro? cui flavam religas comam, simplex munditiis? heu quotiens fidem mutatosque deos flebit et aspera nigris aequora ventis emirabitur insolens, qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea, qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem sperat, nescius aurae fallacis! miseri, quibus intemptata nites. me tabula sacer votiva paries indicat uvida suspendisse potenti vestimenta maris deo. ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum ... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50372/ode-i-5-to-pyrrha ... https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Odes_(Horace)/Book_I/5

Adventure # 2 - 10/10/2023 20:41

I'm more tired than ever. More than I can possibly imagine. Today was a long day. Small victories I guess.

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Adventure # 1 - 10/10/2023 10:48

I consider this published, even if it's unlikley anyone will come across this or read it. There are times when I want to write things, but, less and less I feel the desire to write them on chestnutandhazel.com I don't know what it is, but, I'm starting to feel more "On Stage" when I write and post things there. Maybe a few years back it seemed, it felt like there wasn't anyone really, you know reading it. I need to be working on Project 11, but for some reason I'm just not really getting anything done. I've managed to figure out where my Contact Form is. It's something that I haven't really messed with in a while, but Project 11 entails messing with it. So. That's what I'm up to. There's a lot of cleaning up that needs to be done with the index page of my Github Repository, and a lot of that cleaning up, with the code, cleaning up the appearance of my code wouldn't really change the outward appearance of my page. It would just make it easier to change things around but, considering that the course is almost over, I'm not really sure how much it makes sense to really do anything about it. I really have to get Project 11 done. I was reviewing the recording of the class session, and it looks easy, and, I remember it being easy when I was doing it. I don't remember, but I think that I napped through part of the class, and came back around to it later. One of the things about the class is that, I'm much more open to distance learning, or online coursework, or virtual classrooms, or whatever, now that I've done it, back in 2018 or 2019 I think that I was really skeptical about it, and I kind of brushed off a recruiter for an online degree program, but um, I think that I'm more open to it now. I tried to get the favicon to work on GitHub, but, I can't seem to figure it out, and, since it's not an assignment, I really didn't pursue the thing past the point of absolute frustration. The favicon is more vanity than any kind of practical kind of a thing. Like I don't have a practical reason for setting up the favicon on GitHub other than the desire to have one. I'm exhausted, and I really haven't done anything for project 11 yet. I want to take a nap, but, that's a little bit of a risk considering that it's due today. and, I really have to get to it because, in all probability, it's something that can be done in an hour or two, at most. I'm so tired. I want to get a soda. I don't know what to do about CodePen. Migrating things to github is a small nightmare. I'm feeling incredibly scatter brained. I have a project due for my software and web development course today, and I haven't even started. This should be simple, so I'm not too worried about it, but, at the same time, I know from the past that these things could take quite a while if I hit a brick wall. There are other issues that I'm facing, especially on the income front. The temp assignment was not a particularly good fit, and, I really get the feeling that I should avoid any kind of warehouse or factory work, even though, that's sort of what I've been doing for the past five years, but I don't have the slightest clue what to look for. Life is such an unbelievable struggle. I don't really know what to do about money. Somewhere in the back of my mind there's this voice telling me that I should stop looking for a job or employment or whatever, and, that I should focus on trying to make money doing stock market shit. https://www.chestnutandhazel.com/2019/06/reflection-714-by-chestnut-and-hazel.html Reflection # 714 by Chestnut and Hazel I don't know exactly what I've been spending on buying lunch and soda at work, but I know that it is too damn much, I want to say it is around 15 dollars per day. Too fucking much. I have to cut down on that for sure. By Chestnut + Hazel at June 11, 2019 Notes written on 10/10/2023 @ 10:19 AM I think that I wrote this post while I was working at Case New Holland. I'm surprised that I was really spending that much. I Wonder what I was buying? I don't really remember. I think that it was mostly energy drinks. I don't remember my exact hours. It was overnight is as much as I remember. In Cameron, MO there isn't really much to eat if you're up at odd hours. I'm working on Project 11 for my Web and Software Development course. I'm not really getting much done. I'm getting sidetracked with other things. I'm really amazed that I get so little done, especially considering that I've had few other obligations other than class these past few months. I really wonder what I've been doing. Earlier in the course I would have a lot of fun playing around with our daily assignments, but, I haven't really done that in a while, even though there have been plenty of opportunities to do so.

"Clothes 28" by Kenneth Larot Yamat By Chestnut ﹠ Hazel at January 19, 2019 originally posted at chestnutandhazel.com I watched two documentaries. One on the Sino Japanese war. The one that morphed into world War 2. And one on the Japanese Industrial revolution. So. I wanted to think about why Things ended at the OTA. It's been A while. And I think. Deserves some Reflection. Lets say that all decisions can be Simplified. That all decisions Come to a fork. Bifurcate or Whatever. Like. You are faced With a decision. And your choices Are always two. At first. Think of this. In a standard road. You have two choices when you Reach an intersection. You can Continue down the road. Or turn. Two choices. If you choose to Turn. You can choose left or right. Two choices. And so on. Some Might think of this as three choices. You can travel straight. Left. Or right. But you can also think of it the way I did. Of two choices. One choice Having two sub choices. Which way of thinking is more Simple? Which way of thinking is Less convoluted? Which way of Thinking is cleaner. I have no idea. But I think. That bifurcation allows Points in the decision making Process to be more clearly marked. And either way. You can still account For all possible decisions. So back to my former boss at the OTA. She could have extended me. Or she could have decided not to Extend me. We already know what Decision she made. But let's figure Out what she was thinking. Now. It didn't bother me that I wasn't Formally employed by the OTA. Who cares right? Some people do Though. Some people do like to Be official or whatever. And I'm not being dismissive About the desire to be official. I wanted to be official with Ash. But she didn't want to be official Unless we were super fucking Official. In my thinking though. Even when a Person is formally employed. Their Continued employment is really Just an extension. It just goes by A different term. People think of It differently. But I don't. People Think of it differently because Different words are used. But I'd say The mechanics of being a contractor On an extension basis. And being A formal employee whose Performance is measured at Regular intervals. It's the same Thing. If you aren't handed a pink Slip when you show up for work. You have been extended. Haha. So she could have extended me. Or not extended me. If she extended Me. I don't know what would Happen. Would she have to buy My contract from the staffing Agency? And pay some kind Of a premium to do so? I have no Idea. I don't know what the extension Decisions would be. If she would Have been forced to decide whether Or not to keep me on a contract Basis indefinitely. Or decide to Make me a formal employee of the OTA. I have no idea. Really no idea. And maybe that is where the issue Arose. Maybe the issue was that She had to decide whether or not To formalize my employment or Not. She may have wanted to Extend. But could not formalize My employment for whatever Reason. And maybe formalizing Was the only way to extend. So basically. Maybe she wanted to Extend. But not formalize. Since She could not extend without Formalizing. She therefore could Not extend. So she decided not To extend. And maybe that was it. By Chestnut ﹠ Hazel at January 19, 2019

"Clothes 34" by Kenneth Larot Yamat By Chestnut ﹠ Hazel at January 20, 2019 originally posted on chestnutandhazel.com I want to say that body language Has certain deficiencies. A lack Of clarity. And an obsession with Minutia. It has potential for Miscommunication. And Misinterpretation. It is difficult To convey meaning clearly Through body language. It Is difficult to interpret meaning Through body language. I think of the invention of Writing. And why writing is Nessecary. It's because. Someone. Somewhere. Kept making the wrong Facial expressions. Kept making The wrong hand gestures and Vocal inflections. And said fuck this. I will now create writing.

"Clothes 34" by Kenneth Larot Yamat By Chestnut ﹠ Hazel at January 20, 2019 originally posted on chestnutandhazel.com I want to say that body language Has certain deficiencies. A lack Of clarity. And an obsession with Minutia. It has potential for Miscommunication. And Misinterpretation. It is difficult To convey meaning clearly Through body language. It Is difficult to interpret meaning Through body language. I think of the invention of Writing. And why writing is Nessecary. It's because. Someone. Somewhere. Kept making the wrong Facial expressions. Kept making The wrong hand gestures and Vocal inflections. And said fuck this. I will now create writing. By Chestnut ﹠ Hazel at January 20, 2019

Archived Content 07/09/2020 I know what to do now, like going forward and stuff. I'm going to say this: "Yeah, I know a whole bunch of stuff, all the craziest dirt and everything. Basically. I have all the information you need, even the things that other people don't know, and even the things that other people couldn't even imagine." maybe you know the things that you haven't already learned so you will learn them.

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On this day
11 years ago
Kenneth Larot Yamat
October 17, 2012
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Haiku 7 -

this is exhaustion:
the lids of my eyes pucker
like a sour lipped kiss.

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On this day
11 years ago
Kenneth Larot Yamat
October 17, 2012
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An odd sensation: another's musky
vapors bouncing through my lungs.

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On this day
6 years ago
Kenneth Larot Yamat
October 17, 2017
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I'm craving ramen noodles.

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On this day
6 years ago
Kenneth Larot Yamat
October 17, 2017
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I want to go to the pumpkin patch
and buy a pumpkin.

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The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, Francesco Hayez (1867)

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Siege of Baghdad, Sayf al Vahidi (1460)

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The Siege and Destruction of of Jerusalem by the Romans under the Command of Titus, David Roberts (1850)

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"Variation on a Theme by Kenneth Goldsmith"
by Kenneth Larot Yamat

Hot sunny day during the fall horrible floods in Pakistan we've recently had floods droughts and floods are part of climate change femme savants power behind the throne schooling climate change deniers sinking into a small of pixels despicable morsels echo chamber science swore it's not just a theory old great and old lard nature equals food Wisconsin fields turned into toxic rivers Texans burn and call a dollar renounce all science sit silent in your cells chalice great did not make milk tainted poison fountain of promise any suggestions about breast milk people don't talk about this stuff Alice walker said you don't have the power if you don't think you have the power if you don't think about those problems hair dye is toxic can mass chemicals into urine right wing is more active than the left wing letters and phone calls if everyone just pushed a little bit have fewer kids don't let the water run when you brush your teeth don't buy so much stuff organic eaters have less pesticides in their blood large indigenous population in Australia wisdom on indigenous people scar shield carve the tree base layer spiral raise our voices each leave takes in carbon give fresh air we map and set the price watch their world turn to dust tend the trees harvesting the earth is a bitter feast bring back the rain society wants to monetize everything big walker love to walk crossing street car hit at 30 miles per hour 2 and a half years to recover.

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What Do You Think About Butter?
By Chestnut + Hazel at October 22, 2022

These are the things I think about when I think about butter: well, first and foremost butter is not what makes the world go round. Something. some kind of force makes the world go round, and I think that the force in question would be called momentum, or maybe it would be called inertia, but whatever the force is called, I doubt that it is called butter, and therefore! when people ask what force makes the world go round just be aware that butter is not the answer to that question!

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Reflection # 467
by Kenneth Larot Yamat

I got all the documents required for the GAP insurance claim notarized, the only thing I have to do now is get them notarized. The printing cost was around fifteen dollars. Un-fucking-believable.

By Chestnut ﹠ Hazel at May 03, 2019

Note on 10/17/2023 03:32
by Chestnut + Hazel

I remember this event. This was when I first moved to Cameron, Missouri. I remember that I was working at a State Prison in the town, and I remember that the training center for this role was in a larger city, still a small city, St. Joseph, not too far away. I got into a car crash on the highway into St. Joseph. My car was a total loss as a result of the crash. It would be 8 months later before I could get another car.

I don't know what to do about chestnutandhazel.com and some of the other stuff I have going on. I don't really have any money to renew my business address when renewal comes up in Januray, and, I don't know, once again I'm not really making enough money from my business for it to make sense for me to do so. so there we go. In january, I will no longer have a business address.

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