January 1, 2026

New Year Collections!

_Mischief

Reeling through this year I found a couple of images I would like to share on the type of year I had with finalizing my degree, trying to get a hold of my son, and embracing the new friendships in a local town of hometown shine - literally after every bite. ;P

Sunseekers by Rosie Christmas Tree 2025

I tried a tanning subscription with Sunseekers by Rosie this year, totally saved my skin color from fading this year. I absolutely adore taking care of the color of my skin and getting this color any day of the year. The spray tans were affordable with the package I got, the staff are so knowledgeable and friendly! I recommend this for any middle-aged woman to get out there and show off that skin and feel confident again! Down side is you have to keep the subscription a year (without the ability to freeze account during warmer months for first year) and also set aside the budget for the lotions! A definite must!

2025 Scenic Walk after Blue Bike (local taco shop near Menominee, MI)

I stopped through some campground areas to check out the scenery, the shopping, and what Michigan had to offer. I found this Inn and it looked wonderful, wouldn't mind checking it out. Had a good view of the water nearby and the area was safe to walk through!

Madrid's downtown Green Bay 2025 with Pam doing an interview for pre-screening family background

I am always awe struck with this business located downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin. It's Mediterranean style, cuisine, staff, wine selections, and atmosphere are perfect for any mystery in your life! I got to meet this wonderful person in my life that endured as a woman scorned from her own standards in exploring the world and experiencing life as it arrives. I get so much strength, endurance for survival, and excitement to be freed - again and again with each triumphant success we were never supposed to have achieved. Truly thankful she walked into my life! 

This library in Michigan during a study break...

A gloomy town for being near the water, brings in no tides during this month as the water's are frozen. I was able to stay warm in this library I found with awesome statues and a great selection of rooms to study in. 

March 2025 a pay phone was spotted... cords cut :(

April 2025 Welding and Troubleshooting with Robotics

Just get used to it... might be new but totally non-threatening to see a female in the class (there were two of us by the way, and the other one was much more proficient in her skillset - impressive and appreciated!)

Local Town Memorial Day Parade 2025

Seymour Race Track 2025 - My first time at the races! Loved it! Bring at least $40 per adult person for ticket in, food, and more if you want to get involved with supporting the drivers! Can check the schedule here: Seymour Races

I seen this at a hot dog shop I wanted to check out local in Michigan and there was this poster. Murdered Missing Indigenous Women (& Men) campaign was active this year - please take note of them, just takes a moment to remember them. Scan the area and report anything similar please! There are multiple different people missing today and if you can check this link out in your free time to get updates in your area!

Glam Band 2025 - Outagamie Fair Grounds. I wanted to check this band out for over a year, since I seen them headline multiple events in the area. I loved it! It rained out earlier this day, drenched, and cold, I changed and went after I heard the music liven up again. I met another great pair of friends this day too from the business across the street from the Outagamie Fair Grounds - if you are looking for some concrete statues, ornaments, or yard decor additions I recommend checking out ELVES GIFTS on Main Street in Seymour! 

Breakfast on the Farm 2025 - This was advertised in many local shops, where a local farm hosted breakfast and a tour on the farm. I had no idea what to expect and was delighted by the delicious food, event itself, and not getting stuck in the mud! One suggestion: You see a line, don't leave it! There are signs posted for this long line that it is the tour line for the farm, it is actually the breakfast table line! Stay in it! 

Time to harvest the first round of the garden with Allyson! A friend of mine introduced me to his woman and she was a gardening guru in her past lifetime or something because she had an amazing layout, garden oasis, of beautiful bounties! Loved every moment working in her and the neighbors garden!

Wabeno, Wisconsin 2025 July - Driving by at night, this was empty but lit. I had to get out and strut the stage while listening to my earbuds. Audience of none, it was still fun! 

August 2025 - Downtown Green Bay - "0Chief" means "_Mischief" - I know, I know.. I get that all the time (eye roll) ;P

We were Queens for a day! We laughed so hard this day - out shopping with the ladies, our theme was pink! 

September 2025 - Dashing with Moccasins - It helps me run really really fast. LOL

Iron Mountain, Wisconsin (Behind the Church) - Beautiful private trail (I probably wasn't supposed to be there, but it was a church? Why not! A small trail led to this beautiful scenery. My goal is to go kayaking next year so this is a spot I've been eyeing for some paddle time!

October 2025 - I received my first American flag from a friend after religious view points and the American mantra I am facing with writing religious curriculum. It was heart warming to know this is so important to me - disenrolling and becoming just an American citizen. I am going to embrace this immigration effort on the American appeal to religious freedom. I plan on having a veteran hang it up after showing me how to take care of it. 

October 2025 - The bike trail I take had such a beautiful scenic backdrop as I did a short promo video for my Study Abroad Ireland course. I love my new e-bike and zip around town as often as I need!

Popeyes Parking Green Bay West Side November 2025

I seen this and use it either way I arrive - the parking lines are drawn for both directions. People park accordingly too and don't interfere with each other. TSC Meeting this? I attended the Traffic Safety Council Meeting for Outagamie for the first part of this year and wouldn't mind sending this one in for a study or comment! It is open to the public if you ever want to get involved!

Graduation Night - Green Bay Resch Center - NWTC

I finally was able to graduate with my Software Developer Associates Degree from NWTC! So relieved! I had a dear friend of mine, Kelly arrive to watch me graduate - she was there from the beginning to encourage and cheer me on. She believed in me when I didn't. I am very thankful for her encouragement and the following through with her wanting to see me graduate! My mom had passed away from cancer before she could know this part of my life! She held our family together and I know they're missing her just as much as I am! Stay strong and be committed to community service, being against domestic violence, and helping others in need while protecting yourself! Always protect yourself! 

Throughout this time my son and I have been struggling with depression and the new adulting stages we are going through. Ups, downs, and much absence. I did not get to spend any time with him this year and am so disappointed and worried since we are in the MMIW (Missing Murdered Indigenous campaign). If you have seen, talk, or know my son - please let him know to contact me ASAP! I need him in my life and it has been a struggle without him! 

If you've seen him, please let him know to contact his birth mother! I took this his 20th birthday when we went to the Gamblers game at the Resch Center. I want to be part of your life - let's correct any illness there is affecting our relationship as a mother and son. It's been hard but I am planning on being able to afford a life ahead of me yet! Let's make it out together son!

__Mischief

Ai Prezi Tool Demo

 Researching online tools, after reading my next AI policy to follow in the next workstation adventure, I wanted to encourage the use of this tool. I have been looking for documentation tools and how to be more effective with GitHub documentation and tutorials (these could be more content focused and not presenter focused) and project management overall. To use and reference in the project itself! Understandably, because I am decently strong in these skills in comparison to those that have developed code skills like we should in this profession - I laugh now because I know I'm new. Later in the profession, I will have a better grip as I research and develop what is my inclusion for food for thought.

Anyways, the more time I can acquire with studying and tutoring - I think I am going to be using this tool per policy guidelines. I do this now anyways, manually, and admit that it can be done faster, which is also voluntary. Doing the research work and formatting the processes (improvement here) is my main priority of improvement and it is underway. Being able to import our personal notes (which I do in live lecture), the actual lecture itself, and have AI output a finished study guide for your use is amazing. I just did this presentation and it was complete in less than 5 minutes for my laptop :p 

I believe it was a prompt I selected in the chat box options. I'm on holiday break so I get the time to research online tools and services! Looking for suggestions!

_Mischief

Java Refactoring Reviews on a final project

 text-based adventure game : haunted escape room

The code structure was loosely coupled, too much, that my interface designs didn't make sense for how the data was being moved, manipulated, or implemented. I think binding was also an issue with race issues when dialog and user input with types of streams (reader, writer, static, scanner) that also interfered with exception handles for initial preference. Isolating the IOException calls became isolated and the stream began to run dry in certain places that I could not continue without following an object physically. 

The print out also was not a feature I came across or had asked but wished I had: Printing out the words at a controlled pace. The printout was much too fast and it left me enhancing a delay dots method I created to ensure drama when printing in intervals. It did some of the job but not to the extent of which it could have improved. 

Reviewing this, I loved using the logger for the level calls it made, for whatever we needed it for. Reviewing the text-based style, the dialog path making and options isolated the user to specific rooms, because they had to be solved or some type of task was required in order to move on. Which helped with pushing the progress of object through each task, but I believe I should have used the User class more to help with this UX feel. 

Improvements are list-worthy as I write a short blog post on my current progress academically and as a developer in learning environments. The java project was not a fully working success with each developer integration, refactoring completion, or fully functional project at the final check point, but that was not the expectations we had. It was the experience and technical components from the course material that were most relevant and included its checklist throughout the course to create that sense of project management. That part the group could have worked on more, overall, it lacked communication with diagrams, planning, and task procedures for skillsets - we basically took our task of one room and created what we did. It was not a bad working experience, I actually loved it, but for the overall effect of getting experience working in group or team atmosphere with code, I feel we could have been more effective with that time and level of developer interaction to build formal skills for work place environments. Especially with global recruitment and specialization for areas in places that can be culturally different (something I learned in my virtual study abroad course with Ireland). How these are put in effect to produce the software developer in a global effort to hoist technological business, trade, exploration can benefit the lives of many is a wonderful thing...

This was just a small note on the finalization of my software developer program with my local technical college as an underrepresented student. 

__Mischief

Java Study Notes

Grab a couple of Java notes and see what we can do with them..

This is separate research on the highlighted link topic. Inclusions may be elaborated within. These are pdf format and involve citations at the end of the document. This serves more for a purpose for me - in reviewing java notes for separate reading topics. 

Most of this does not involve any code - I store those in VSCode, Eclipse, intelliJ (later after this course I might attempt intelliJ IDE since I should be able to afford its subscription for features and full impact of its potential to save me time - something I struggle with as a developer). 

Java Basics 

Java Data Types with Saurav

Java JetBrains Coursework Notes

Java GUIs with FX Research & Troubleshooting Notes

Extra: Java String Classes (StringBuilder & String) & HashCode

So far, Java Programming Part 1, I have encountered errors with extensions and marketplace downloads with FX. I have another pdf below for these notes and thought processes - which help with troubleshooting as I continued on my journey - which turned into some mild Maven knowledge enhancements, new to me for options. 

But, I did eventually figure out the wizards on download and prefer those instead. So, I am working with troubleshooting this so I can continue with the FX that I had initially planned on using - and it is progressing, slowly. 

If not, I am resorting to Swing and AWT. 

Anyways, these are my updates with reading about Java over my break, doing part-time jobs as I struggle through my college days as an adult parent. How awesome is this? I just want to reflect on the teen parents out there, struggling, and not advancing for being exhausted up to this point. Stop after one kid and literally enjoy life. Every adventure, strain, everything - and remember those moments when you want to quit or give up, because there are times when this gets so frustrating - you know this is the life right here. No babysitter, no extra complaining, no kid drama at all since they are an adult now! Set yourself up for this moment, before grandparenting, and really enjoy improving yourself. I never planned on this and so thankful for it to have arrived at a time in adulthood when you are still figuring out life. It has changed so fast, you have to try to keep up. 

Thanks for everything!

__Mischief

Citations

1. Gupta, Mala. OCA Java SE 8 Programmer I Certification Guide. Simon and Schuster, 9 Sept. 2016.
2. Dennis, Alan, et al. Systems Analysis and Design. Hoboken, Nj, Wiley, 2021.
3. Sau, Saurav. Java Programming for Beginners. Saurav Sau.

Extra Links:

Abstraction with Abstract Methods | Web Article

Java Abstract Class | Web Article

Dear Senator, We Need A Water Crises!

 Water Crises Washes Along the Shores of the Great Lakes

    The onslaught has continued with the germ appeal, waste management, over-consumption, and reality of top-tier living in America - the water crises consumes us all. Let's take a look at some of the highlights that Covid-19 preventative measures have been able to save us all as of recently and utilize these protocol creating moments to prevent a water crises by living one now. 

    In the future, when population is booming, the affordable housing unit lines the shores, and the best place of dream living is in abundance of deserving, tax paying, Americans. Another epidemic washes the shores and this time, it impacts the water source because of the fairly accommodating policies that neatly watch underground plumbing filtration to not recognize with the latest technologies - a WHO policy for demanding filtrating efforts of detection in a water system to maintain human waste as a priority for maintaining healthy water systems. 

    However these nightmares can form, this is one example of how our water systems were in danger, and we had no recovery, no plan, no action to assume. This could still be a problem that has not risen to the public concern and forced action. 

Law for Water Preservation

    This should be global effort reduction and the impacts we make to be uniform with world efforts. We all must undergo the minimal amount of water consumption to show our American spirit is revolved with our equality standards. We have to take our state statures and revolve these crises to the federal level because the American public region requires it to remain in place, less migration efforts, and less price fluctuations because of the current dilemma. Creating better habits in all Americans is desirable and costs more when not able to or unwilling to change. 

    In creating a flat rate for water consumption now, we are able to save with minimal usage, but to accommodate the movement for change, for INVENTION, for better practices in our businesses and our community impacts together will we be better equipped to handle solutions in the future with preventative measures now. This should be a lawful tax deduction on homeowners to supply reasonable evidence that they are preserving water in their daily actions of committing to this plan by planting trees, catching water to reuse, maintaining usage as less running water daily (washing with a bucket of water and soap between members of a family), conducting research and ongoing events that promote water preservation in healthy states (we still need our daily 8 cups of water a day). This can be deducted with the American Citizen Acts to promote our American Spirit of Equality. 

    When in fact, there is an issue of Equality, during a Crises throughout the Country - deemed by the Executive Branch for their platform and agenda, we can support our vote and the winner as a whole-hearted experience. We understand the term to be 4 years, there should be no hate against the President of the United States and that there are a multiple of issues to address, not all at the same time, and to embrace the agenda with the reigning President as all citizens to be supportive and only supportive. This is the factor pushed with Equality as all citizens can endure, together. It helps us all with maintaining our regions, communities, employment, and families. 

    

    I would like to pursue this effort with my own efforts and the consistent dilution of water usage. How I use water, for what period of time is their consistent water flowing, at what rate, and the inventions created to preserve it. I was really inspired by China and Jackie Chan showing the world how they preserve water with heating it first with a switch to allow less flowing water to warm up, those few drops of water could very well produce a week in a collected effort amongst their people in the future. Water as a limited resource must be seen and lived like this, so we all understand how our water consumption restricts our lives now into the future. They will be starving, thirsty, dirty and crying for death in those parched days - will you hear them now to provide your descendants another day of living with water?

Solution Example with Research: Does it matter if we move living households out of the town and into the farmland to exchange and rest the soil by moving into mobile tiny homes with conjoined water sources in groups to conserve water and maintain soil conditions? We could utilize city dwelling land spaces in the rural areas by moving people from area to area for an underground solution. The water source locations and usage of fertilizing top soil by researching how its connection with people and tree planting for a time period can benefit in the top soil quality by producing its results with dwelling spaces. This type of movement would be conditional and apply to soil consistency and repair. Another issue that is becoming a concern after decades of farming and rotating crops to agriculture lands could be resolved with community efforts. Another factor to redeem in hardships accountable to Equality in the effort to conserve water and land quality. 

This would put an urgency in land and management careers, agriculture, soil quality, research and testing, water conservation, construction, land ownership legalities and education. This is not new to America, however, with nomadic lifestyle and mobile home movement due to diet needs, is still an option to pursue. 

Creating conversations like this in America would lift efforts of citizenship for solution and create less movement to over populate the Great Lakes region, we have to instill the dutiful solutions as reasons that involve future planning and research, however vast, to involve the community efforts. They must remain together and build strong families that they can rely on as a suitable lifestyle to share these amenities and hardships with. One of the main components that keeps people in place and resolve their issues at hand. Which will also break from the concept of Equality as pursuing the earned dreams in America by remaining vigilant and strong in one area. We need these types of citizens to keep and recognize in trusting our government systems, the leaderships they appoint, and the issues they present with solutions their communities have had time to deliberate.

Building the American Spirit, Equality, and the efforts to stand strong in one area as a support system worth trusting is how we can maintain and seek solutions that the future can learn and improve upon. 

I write my state Senator with the need for a water crises to commend the Southwest Region of America's drought as the most suffered at this time. Their dry farming techniques, diet, and energy consumption should be considered in our lives with the Great Lakes and soil qualities to continue to provide in the Feeding America campaign. What can we learn from each other in such a vast difference to preserve water, food, lifestyle for inventions yet to arrive! Enforce it upon us so we can find it now and integrate to further that water availability and soil quality. 

__Mischief

Refactoring by Martin Fowler - Improvements to incorporate!

 Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code

    I have recently finished the Java Programming for Beginners with Sau Saurav on my mobile, still working on the Software Testing book (halfway through), the Programming Pearls book is a great connector of the past and present with problems they solved and how our tools have shaped from those initial issues and have started the next book in my list of things to do - Refactoring. The book is very clear in any project setup with movie rentals in the beginning chapters. I enjoy this because during my crucial burn out in ASP.NET and navigation using the provided textbook, I got lost and the material was hard to follow because it jumped from examples that did not fluidly explain in detail what I should be looking for, how to manage the project properly, and the idea of refactoring was still fairly new. Provisional to concepts in design implementation, MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel pattern), and folder structure apart from Linux/Web style created an entirely new workstation for me. The Refactoring book includes State Patterns, Patterns that involve remodeling UML structures, and organizing each change effectively because they are tried and tested concepts that work. 

    Now, after beginning this book, I understand much more clearly the intentions of the platform and how it can effectively improve my code habits with utilizing refactoring as a base in any project I presume hereafter. 

    Pay attention to the transitions and the book does an awesome job of labeling these moving methodologies in the book - HIGHLY RECOMMEND reading this book if you ever wondered how refactoring is supposed to look, feel, and result as. EVERY process involved with moving methods, renaming conventions, and altering the appearance of code without losing the functionality is very important to follow! Reading this book is definitely going to improve my coding habits and understanding. 

Tools that Helped

    I have also begun to utilize Dendron with VS Code as a text extension to follow along with the project and document my notes, my reminders, and some key highlights of the project transitions. I also utilized the Snapshot Extension with VS Code and Paste Extension to save snippets of the code that transformed with refactoring - making it an ideal way to provide learner's step reminders when teaching this material later. 

    The other improvement I have been ingesting is watching YouTube videos of George with CoreDumped for enhancing the code and hardware connections in the low level programming concepts. This is definitely something I am going to need in the career I want and improves the expectations of software developers in the future to remain with the foundation we are building our processes (not programs) in our current OS infrastructures. I highly encourage doing these as you develop in your career if you have not already!

Highlights Outside Studies

    Some key highlights I have noticed, reading other articles outside of study in my leisure is knowing that the improvements we make from a computer science background, is that the mathematics involved are much different than the core mathematical curriculum we learn in arithmetic studies. Do not confuse the results with processes used because those core fundamentals are still required and should not change. I noticed that yes, they do answer some answers, but they also create confusion. The answer is restricted to a computer science foundation with digital logic, electrical engineering, and each process involved following a basic binary result. These are not typically sentences for equations, they are flags and grouped as sequences of assignment. 

I also picked up Branchless Coding through a YouTube channel and it was pretty interesting, but seemed congested also. I would limit this approach to specific examples of where I would be invested in the memory and datatype exchanges that occur to be in a setting class or method. I think that the more we use branchless coding, it is going to deteriorate the option to be less robust and more minimalized because of the need for speed. I could be wrong, but this would not be a long-term solution for optimal speed in programming. Still, pretty cool. 

Arduino Project Update

    The Mega2560 Arduino board I was working with in a pre-installed setup turned out to be flawed in the outputs of sub-outlets with the way it was constructed. This was a board provided through donation to the Elves Gifts in my local community that was going to be used for a Christmas Light Show hooked up to the local radio station for donations with the Salvation Army. 

I have been investing my time and learning about Arduino IDE, Arduino Boards, Arduino Projects overall and got hooked! I already ordered a starter kit through Wal-Mart, which was less than $30 and I plan on continuing my research and project skills to incorporate with community members in learning how to program with Arduino. Since I have my Robotics Certificate, which dealt with FANUC produced robot arms in factory settings, I have yet to create a program with Arduino and cannot wait to implement this in my programming skillset. 

    As for the project, I have to halt the progressions with the Mega2560 and currently seeking an electrical engineer to assist with the wiring. Two of the SSR boards are not working with the power up default mode setting check, or the Arduino IDE blink program. It is also not reading on my laptop with the Port listing in my Device Manager, something that should be registering. I have been unsuccessful in trying to operate a simple blink program and I believe it has something to do with the Connection output. 

    Just a note when working with this and hooking up your laptop - there are different USB connections and this one happens to use a printer USB (not a USB-A, USB-C, etc. for other peripheral connections). I had ordered 2 different USB connections, each wrong, and I finally pulled my printer USB and I could finally get a connection. It was funny and just shows how different digital logic hardware and peripheral devices are separated yet connected. I had my suspicions as to why a printer USB (Parallel Binary) and if that mattered in how Arduino was set up, since it has improved these project spaces tremendously. Beforehand, it sounded brutal with creating those connections to the hardware and pricey. Thank you so much Arduino for making these project spaces a dream!

__Mischief

Reading Software Testing by R. Patton... I came up with a new way to test my software!

 Software Testing

According to the text by R. Patton, software testing is done in modules. The initial image depicted Module A, Module B, Module C, Module D, Module E, Module F, Module G, Module H, Module I, Module J at the bottom of the image in individual boxes. Above these were tiers of groupings of these types that consisted of: 

Module BCD, Module EF2, Module GHJ3, Module ABCD4, Module ABCDEF5

These were connected in tiers near their corresponding individual modules as groups that led to the Main Program at the very top. 

Noticing these connections, I have endured the stillness in thought in trying to explain my dilemma of how unit testing and debugging were conducted by a project management POV as unknowing to where to start, what to look for, and how to map these corresponding connections as relevant to operating system and program efficiencies for using these separate modules (or classes) together. 

Below is an edited version in my thinking of how the Main Program with testing is conducted when using individual modules (or classes) to configure together. 

Some notes on the adjustments I made:

• Not every module is used in accordance with complex modules, and not mentioned within the module as a connection. 
• The complex modules are acquired through successful grouping where the addition of a single component from that context indicates a stage of inclusion that can be an altered state of option.
• From AB to ABC, this is indicating separate results using the same resources found in the individual components. These may not necessarily be successful groups for those results. This must be indicated separately in the main program as such. 
• All of these components are encompassed to represent the Main Program components, but none of them directly lead to Main Program from a successful grouping because the results range based on the modules used. 

For the Unit Testing of this Main Program example, I wanted to indicate that these separate modules were different after their successful grouping and results internal their connections. This means that as the Main Program functions, how does it function without a single module overall and how to keep it operating without that module as key for default settings in larger applications/programs that require optimal uptime for securing the results from each complex module. 

When successful grouping of modules can acquire their performance levels to result from the same modules with separate connections and purposes for results, it is operational for a specific set of tasks inserted through individual modules. Testing these separately from the entire Main Program help fine-tune the individual component construction with White-Box Testing techniques to assure overall system performance by setting in at the foundation of the main program without re-structuring the entire system. 

Restructuring how I perceive the Main Program and the encounters of software testing used as a foundational support for the program as modular coding practices are used for decoupling techniques for refactoring and integration purposes (like in ASP.NET) - means understanding that this cannot be evaluated by a start and end or a pyramid structure - it has to be broken down and relatable to each other as necessary factors for defining its foundation. 

This is very important for any program to encounter in styles of testing for bugs that would be internal or embedded within connections, built-in features, or syntax errors for conversion efforts and navigation. I often found myself lost in navigation efforts because I was duplicating code in different factions of the program without compensating loss or gains in other parts of the program because I liked the results it provided (for example: using the image provided, module ABC + D depicts this style of programming. Inclusions are one module at a time, but this may be ineffective to one portion of the main program that is difficult to sort through all components and their connections effectively which may result with bugs undetected with those coding inclusion styles, it can be unreliable!). This might be a confliction, a template prone habit, and successful grouping crutch that I developed when coding. 

It is difficult to dissect the program functions, program results, program connections, program data apart from the Main Program overall when everything is laid out as a flow chart. These may be connected in UX designs but it is not depicted in System Performance Designs for results regarding UX Designs and their options. This may be new to the IT Field as I continue learning my role in the Software Developer field. (For example: using the image provided, the unit testing side dissects the main program one module at a time so that it still can operate without that module, that module results, that module connection. You can easily find those connections and control the module at this point, which means modifying the original individual component into decoupling factions that are fine-tuned after stub-testing modules or skeleton architecture can be defined as you code complex results as the Main Program to surface for UX results.)

__Mischief