“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” I am always glad to see recovering addicts at Church, those coming to or coming back to Christ. To know they can make a clean break with their past, to choose another direction, one based on a relationship with God …
I asked Copilot to create a script for me to read the names of folders in a directory and the names of the files in them, then print them to a text file on separate lines using Python. I was recently asked a question that would require this type of process so I tried it …
GitHub Copilot Preview I signed up for GitHub Copilot Preview and that ended today and I was charged the $10. I originally planned to use it at work but I chose not to log into my personal account there. Instead I put it on my PC so I could toy with it. I didn’t know …
“Nothing in your life is arbitrary. It’s all for a purpose.” This day is about realizing that God made you, had planned you, had expected you from even before you were born. It takes into consideration and draws the line that although we didn’t choose our parents, and maybe they didn’t choose us, but God …
I am going to work through the 40 day reflections from Rick Warren’s “The Purpose Driven Life.” The book has been on my book shelf for a few years. I even started reading it on New Year’s day in 2023 and gave up less than halfway through it. This first post will be my first …
Christmas 2025 We had a wonderful Christmas this year. We did our normal tradition of being home on Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, and over to my in-laws for Christmas Dinner. My immediate family came over the Friday after for brunch. All around the food was very good. Both boys did well. We decided to …
Week 5 – Capital Budgeting and Cash Flow Analysis Our last week of class and the professor kindly is allowing us to finish the weekend with our exams. Usually we have until Friday of the fifth week and it makes it very difficult, but thankfully two extra days means I can catch up on Saturday. …
Week 4 – Fixed Income Securities and Common Stock Securities – Valuations We learned how to value bonds and common stocks and I learned a lot about bonds especially. It’s always been an unknown for me, but now I can calculate the value based on interest rates and how yields work. The latter always confused …
Week 3 – Analysis of Risk and Return We dive into risk assessment and portfolio diversification. I understand now how systematic risk can affect securities and how inflation and interest rates can affect values. I also took what I learned here as an impetus to diversify my own private stock portfolio, which is mostly relegated …
Week 2 – The Time Value of Money Oh how I love the time value of money. This time around I felt totally at east with the subject matter. I did purchase a Business Analyst calculator. I found my original calculator from 20+ years ago but the battery was dead and the screws were stripped. …