I am currently in the early stages of developing a project called Pyrenthica, which is an open source web development framework written in Python, and will eventually be a general-purpose tool for developing Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and Android projects. It includes a new programming language I have designed called Pyrenthic. Just in the past 2 days I have joined GitHub, where thousands of open source projects are hosted. In addition to Pyrenthica, I have created a Facelooks repository on GitHub. Facelooks is a tool which manages your image collection. Today I intend to finish writing comments in my Facelooks Python code (which is working), and will take an extended break from working on that project. This evening I intend to work on my Twirthie project, which is a Tree-Walker of Intrusive, Repetitive Thoughts (the main positive symptom of my schizophrenia, I also suffer from negative symptoms such as being amotivated). Twirthie will eventually be converted into a Pyrenthica project, and then rewritten in the Pyrenthic programming language.
I might buy an Android smartphone in January (never had a cell phone). I have been out on 6 dates with my friend Steph, and in the last weekend of November we're going out on a 7th date, to the ROM, otherwise known as the Museum (we are just friends). We started messaging each other 6 months ago. She also has schizophrenia, and we met on a dating site for consumer/survivors called NoLongerLonely.com. I've had a lot less depression than usual in the last 11 months, except in the last 2 months or so. I participated in a research study at CAMH in February, to find out if Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) helps enhance working memory in those living with schizophrenia. I later found out that rTMS is also used to treat depression, and I suspect that the rTMS treatments I had back then made the depression go away. I remember my head feeling so incredibly clear on the way back and forth to CAMH (maybe more so on the way home) when I was having those treatments.
After I publish this post I will go for a brisk 30-minute walk, since I need to exercise more. I also went for a walk yesterday, but last week I only went for a walk once, a week ago. I'm supposed to floss my teeth at least once a week, despite a news story on the CBC website debunking the notion that flossing is good for you (that study showed that no proof for that notion actually exists). Next thing you know they'll find out that smoking tobacco and crack cocaine are actually quite healthy pasttimes. I must eat more fruits and vegetables, but keep procrastinating about getting into that habit. I'm supposed to clean/replace my microwave air filters, and also clean the air filter in my dryer (failing to do that is a fire hazard), but never seem to get around to doing those things. Oh well, at least I'm on very good terms with my Linux desktop computer. Couldn't live without it. At least I've had no depression since resurrecting my Pyrenthica project 2 days ago, which had previously been in jeopardy due to an over reliance on a very messy and inefficient scheme of rendering text on the user's web page. I no longer have that problem with Pyrenthica. Golly gee willakers! Programming is so much fun. Gotta go.
