Competitions. In college I did the ACM ICPC and trained hard with my schools programming team.

These days I do advent of code, which will start on Dec 1. But you can go fo previous years now. It is great.

Ha, yeah. I like it when I set off the alarms at stores and then ask, you want to look at my stuff? They just wave and say, naw, your good. Couldn’t get caught if I tried.

Heh, the blackberries will do fine regardless of what I want. I wasn’t trying to take them, some just got mixed in.

It is mixed in with some blackberries…there are some losses in the process. Fortunately blackberries thrive on abuse.

I’ve been fighting these damn blue spike vines.