{"id":407,"date":"2024-12-26T15:33:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T22:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2024-12-26T15:35:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T22:35:36","slug":"the-best-day-and-the-worst-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"The best day and the worst day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have sold my current boat, Fin and Tonic, a 19 foot Flying Scot.  This boat has seen many races at Chatfield lake in Colorado, and has always been a solid competitor and very dependable.  The best day and the worst day are when a boat owner buys and then sells their boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope to continue sailing boats, possibly going back to a more simple O&#8217;Day DaySailer (floating bathtub) for relaxing on a lake such as Aurora Reservoir that is a sail only lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made the choice to spend more time focusing on school work. I have about 30 more credit hours of dissertation work to complete, along with several papers to publish to earn my PhD in Computer Science. This is still a challenge while working full time. I am finding that the more time I spend in the program at UCCS, the more I want to continue to research. I don&#8217;t think I will ever stop participating in AdventOfCode type of contests to stretch my algorithmic skills. This year&#8217;s contest was a lot of fun, and I have three part 2 problems to complete. It is a real truth in this type of contest that the best part is the journey. In the end, the feeling of accomplishment is amazing too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I get my first paper published, I&#8217;ll post a link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have sold my current boat, Fin and Tonic, a 19 foot Flying Scot. This boat has seen many races at Chatfield lake in Colorado, and has always been a solid competitor and very dependable. The best day and the worst day are when a boat owner buys and then sells their boat. I hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,51],"tags":[50,49],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-school","tag-sailing","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}