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3\/20\/2026 Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After swimming for a few years at LA Fitness<\/strong>, I found out today for the first time that a single swimmer gets to occupy a whole lane for herself<\/strong>. When I asked, may I share the lane, as I usually do when pool is busy, I got the response \"No, thank you.\" I couldn't believe it and had to confirm twice with her. She was kind of a slow swimmer, younger than the usual old ladies who swim at\/walk in the pool. Not sure if she was mentally disabled so I didn't bother to argue further, as the unspoken etiquette of these pools is that two can share a lane. Apparently<\/a>, even in California, LA Fitness pools have seen more than 3, 4 people in a lane. I didn't want to be physically attacked by a handicap, because the way she talked seemed like some autistic child. So I went to the next lane, which was used by an old lady who ignored me but did swim on her side so I could share the lane. I submitted a support ticket (record ID 395214) at LA Fitness website. Not sure if I would get a response, but I was responded to before a while back on other matters. This really should not be a big issue. But the unspoken rule could really be problematic when the pool is busy. I did start from rather waiting for an entire lane to free up before, to just be bold enough to ask to share the lane, why be so individualistic?<\/strong> But after this incident, I think I would need to watch out again, especially for these pathetic selfish placebo seeking folks who can't even swim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting to work on Brian's project <\/strong>regarding his own database for students. This is via his Godaddy account with PHP MySQL approach. Project was actually commenced on 1\/28\/2026. Then I touched on it around 3\/9, and then a follow up with Brian for details on 3\/14. Again, this is my failure in discipline as I did promise a couple of weeks completion. This is now due around 3\/28<\/strong>. What's amazing is that using AI to write codes have not only saved hours of time but also improved the quality of production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fascinations with AI includes new tech vocabularies (at least for me) such as CRUD<\/strong>: SQL Mapping:<\/strong>\u00a0Create, Read, Update, Delete. Instead of saying \"create a page that allows user to edit a MySQL table,\" just say \"CRUD for table.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another fascination is that I setup 3x Cron Jobs<\/strong> (daily, weekly, monthly) in Brian's Godaddy account to backup two MySQL tables on a schedule. It runs a php script for such exports and keeps the 10 most recent files each table. I even use command line argument $argv[1] to pass parameter to the script to decide if the backup is daily, weekly or monthly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3\/18\/2026 Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw on today's Community Observer<\/strong> (daily\/weekly paperboy coupons dump on our driveways) an interesting ad: Sayreville United Methodist Church inviting the public to join them in a bus trip to Sight & Sound's Joshua show at 3pm<\/strong>. I checked the deal: $185 per adult: 9am - 8pm bus, show, and buffet lunch. Given the show is $93\/adult, lunch can't be more than $20, the round trip bus ride would have to be $70. Which I think is a little bit of a rip off. I think these liberal churches are really desperate for some cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21 Coptic Martyrs<\/strong>, a free 13 minute<\/a> movie\/film based on true story. A look at present day martyrdom. That was animation. It seems that there's also a 2026 documentary made about it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u63a8\u80cc\u5716<\/a><\/strong>\uff1aancient banned book that predicted the future, written by order of \u5510\u592a\u5b97. I think it's still arbitrary, even if they based it on something viz. \u6613\u7d93:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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