HELLO STEEMIT :-)

Hello steemit... wow, this has been my longest absence from the steemit community, I can't believe it's two months already, It's so long that I feel I need to do a re-introduction, It's been a rollercoaster of events which led to my absence, I went into a few details in my last post, I felt that I needed to sort myself out before I get back to creating content, I have always wanted to fully commit to whatever I am doing and didn't want to reduce the quality of my content based on my circumstance, so I made a choice to pause my steemit activities and focus on my immediate issues.

What have I been doing away from steemit

Working:

I had to take on more shift hours at my job, with all honesty, I had purposely reduced my work hours during my peak steemit activities, lol, I guess I also romanticized the idea of steemit replacing my day-job, ha-ha. wrong move. even though I had a very understanding boss, I knew the time would come for me to pay the piper, and my circumstances pushed me to that effect.

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Studies and deadlines:

I had to focus more on my schooling, although I am a part-time student, the little free time I got makes me feel the weight of a full course load. Deadlines were always a stone throw away.

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Teaching myself programming:

I am a bit conflicted when I think about traditional education and E-learning. My major beef with traditional education is, of course, the years and the cost. I am not yet bold enough to completely drop out of college so I'm taking some free courses online that target some particular skills (Data mining and web development), I have already begun some mini-projects with Django and learning the beginning steps of web crawling. If I can start applying my self in the industry, then I guess my choice in career and means of education would be much easier.

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Health issues: I guess due to the stress, I triggered a terrible phase of migraine, particularly cluster headaches, The last time I had them was two summers ago, maybe it's the weather change mixed with the hectic environment. I've got quite an endurance to pain but cluster headaches are one huge pain in the ass, It's like the most strategic biological bug ever. It starts at the same time every day on the same side of the head for the same number of hours. If I were very superstitious I would think some old witch had a voodoo doll with my name on it but it was triggered by a particular nerve on my face due to the stress, heat and what not. Gladly I've recovered from it.

What did I miss from steemit

I missed the community of amazing people I have met throughout my steemit journey. shout out to #steemitbloggers #thealliance @freewritehouse #neoxianfan and many more. I also missed the amazing content, I enjoyed reading the freewriting, fictions, poetry and the vast array of talented artists on the platform, being away from the community for such a long while made me realize how much I really cared about the people of steemit.

I plan to continue my programming blog. I have written lots of practice codes, I still believe that teaching is the best way of learning, sharing my knowledge would be a good way of revision and more learning, I would also love to also continue my fiction, freewriting, poetry and digital arts.

My contents is a huge mix of all those elements, I hope to be more consistent in the future, thanks for reading friends, I am happy to be back :-), on a side note, as I was typing this on my balcony and just looked up and noticed that it's the Lunar eclipse tonight. The moon has turned blood red. so Happy lunar eclipse :-)