New project called ZonoPal

Yesterday I started a new project called ZonoPal.com, which is a website that links together people with similar interests, letting them exchange messages. Two weeks ago I started exchanging messages with a pen-pal named Bess, who lives in England. We're both members of an online dating service called NoLongerLonely.com, which is a dating site for consumer/survivors. She somehow stumbled across my profile and sent me a smile (called a flirt on a different dating site I'm also a member of). Then I messaged her and the messaging is still going strong.

In the past 10 weeks I've only been depressed for one day, which was 3 days ago. I was anxious about an upcoming funeral for my friend Constance (which is today), partly because I'm making a speech at that funeral service. I had known Constance for 23 years. We both have schizophrenia, and she was homeless for many years. She found permanent housing a year and a half ago, but a few months later she was kicked out for smoking in her room, which was against the rules. Then she found permanent housing again several months ago at Fred Victor. Constance was 67 years old and was born in Nigeria. I am good friends with her brother Max.

I'm not going to begin implementing ZonoPal until I finish implementing a new feature of my previous project, PlicTalk.com. PlicTalk is an image collection manager. Later this week I will resume reading one of two books I own having to do with MEAN: MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node. When that's done I can begin implementing ZonoPal, using JavaScript along with the 4 MEAN tools. Currently my knowledge of JavaScript is quite rudimentary. My background is Delphi, which I used for 15 years but is now an obsolete tool.

PlicTalk: revisiting Lyvathon

Five days ago I started a new project called PlicTalk.com, the latest incarnation of Lyvathon. I didn't sleep last night and began implementing PlicTalk in the wee hours of the morning. I've had no depression since early December. Hopefully by keeping busy with PlicTalk I can continue avoiding depression in the months ahead. I flossed my teeth last night and intend to keep doing that every other evening. Today I went for a 30-minute walk, which I must do at least 4 times a week. It was very cold out and I was exhausted when I got home.

New project called HealthTrybe

Two days ago I began working on a new project called HealthTrybe.com, which is a website and smartphone app that tracks the food consumption and exercise sessions of groups of users known as health trybes. During my Christmas vacation, my sister with whom I was visiting suggested that I develop this project, so the 2 of us and her ex can compare our eating and exercising habits.

Lyspio: back to Lyvathon

Two days ago I designed a new business model for my Lyvathon project (new programming language). The project is now called Lyspio.com, which is a web hosting service for websites created using the Lyvathon programming language. If you click on Cash Flow, my business model is presented in visual fashion using a series of sample pie graphs. Lyvathon is open source, and it looks like it will keep me busy for several months (if not years), working on Lyspio. I ordered a book about JavaScript from Amazon (Lyvathon is implemented in JavaScript), but they're temporarily out of stock. Hopefully I'll get it before Christmas, so I can read it when I'm visiting my sister in Victoria for Christmas and New Year's. I've been depression-free for a week, before that I was depressed for 3 days, and before that I had little or no depression for 3 weeks. Tomorrow I have an appt. with my psychiatrist, Dr. Soni. So things are really humming 'round this place. Go, Lyspio!

New project called BasePlace

Yesterday I started a new project called BasePlace (one day before my sister's birthday). BasePlace.org is a web-based collection of online communities. Each community targets a different class of marginalized individuals. The first community to be implemented consists of those individuals with mental health issues (commonly known as "consumer/survivors").

In other news involving my personal life, my dear friend Constance recently moved into a nice bachelor apartment just a 20-minute walk from my condo. It's not too far from the supermarket and it's much nicer (but a bit smaller) than her previous room, which was located downtown, run by Fred Victor, and she had to share a kitchen with 4 or 5 other people. That Fred Victor housing I think was aimed at housing former street people. Constance was homeless for almost 15 years, bouncing around from shelter to shelter. Constance has schizophrenia and all 8 of her fingers (not her thumbs) were amputated due to severe frostbite prior to her becoming homeless. At that time her psychosis prevented her from having the sense to seek shelter during an extremely cold 3-week period one winter. She is from Nigeria and came to Canada as a refugee about 25 years ago.

Rural version of Uber (Highway of Tears)

I just finished reading (at cbc.ca) about the lack of public transportation along the Highway of Tears in Northern BC. Women are forced to hitch-hike, which is dangerous. Starting a shuttle bus would be costly, since the highway is over 700 kms. long. Why doesn't someone start a rural version of Uber? Both drivers (anyone can be a driver) and passengers must have smartphones and PayPal or credit card accounts. In case a driver or passenger commits a robbery or assaults the other party, the police can easily track down the perp, since the perp's ID is in the system.

Lyvathon moving forward again

Yesterday I resumed Lyvathon coding after a break of approximately 3 weeks. I added 2 new fields to the user database: alternate email and phone no., and duplicated 2 existing fields: security question and security answer. Now there are 2 security questions/answers. That task only took a few hours. The next step is to gut most of my reset-password logic, and add a lot of new logic. (I tend to have more depression when I'm not in the middle of coding.) After I'm finished handling the case where the user's password needs to be reset, I can start implementing the image collection manager (in Python), which will eventually be converted into Lyvathon, and become the first real-world project implemented in Lyvathon. I'm going to have a pizza pop for lunch. Tomorrow I must buy groceries. Time to publish and chow down.