Later on, I learned that an excess of comments is actually not considered a good practice.

Pointless or uninformative comments are not good, regardless of the quantity.

Useful and informative comments are always good, regardless of the quantity.

I learned that comments might be a code smell indicating that the code is not very clear.

When I’m looking at someone else’s code, I want to see extensive, descriptive comments.

Good code should be so clear, that it doesn’t need comments.

That hits me like something a teacher tells you in a coding class that turns out to be nonsense when you get to the real world.

I’m not sure how others do it.

As I’m coding, the comments form part of my plan. I write the comments before the code. As I discover I’ve made incorrect assumptions or poor decisions, I correct the comments with the new plan, then correct the code to match the updated comments.

As a final step in coding, when I feel it is complete, I’ll review comments to determine what should remain to help future me if I ever have to dig into it again.

Variable names should be reasonably memorable and make contextual sense, but that’s it. That’s what they exist for. Don’t overload the purpose of anything I’m the code.

Now come on, I’m sure plenty still are.

Imagine for a moment if the fortune spent on the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was instead invested in reducing our dependence on oil.

Microcenter, perhaps.

My oldest has no children and works fully remote.

When the pandemic started, his company decided to have everyone work from home. They very quickly discovered that they were just as productive, and the owner decided it made sense to dump their office space.

A group of employees decided to go on vacation together, while still working. Since they are all remote, they didn’t actually have to work from home. They got an Airbnb with good Internet, worked during the day, and saw the sites and had fun together after work.

If you’re remote and you miss that sense of community, reach out to your coworkers and ask them if they want to hang out after work. It’s possible they don’t and you’ll be disappointed. It’s also possible that they feel the same way but didn’t know they could do something about it.

Either you’ll be the hero that saved everyone from their solitary existence, or you’ll have to accept that they don’t want to hang out with you.

It’s definitely because you were raised on soda.

I think our 2021 Honda Civic Sport looks pretty fancy. No one is going to mistake it for a Ferrari, but I think it’s pretty hot for the price.

I also wouldn’t fit in any real sports car anyway.

There were hallucinations in the first episode, and definitely some grandiose ideas in both the first and second episodes.

I have some concerns, because some aspects of his care after the first episode were neglected because he was felt he was experiencing too much anxiety to deal with it. That left him without any therapy, and because the psychiatrist had weaned him off the meds, he was unmedicated.

I don’t believe he would have stopped the meds without the psychiatrist saying he should. However, we do need to make sure he has ongoing care, therapy, and group meetings.

Thank you for sharing your experience. I appreciate the information.

Thank you for your response!

That sounds absolutely terrible for you as well as her.

The one thing everyone agrees on with my son is that he would never hurt anyone else. We’re all only concerned that he could hurt himself.

Thanks for your reply.

There were definitely signs leading up to this. As I’ve mentioned, we were a bit too hopeful that the diagnosis was wrong, so we deluded ourselves into thinking it wasn’t happening. Which is strangely comforting because now that we have no basis for believing the diagnosis was wrong, we WILL pay closer attention.

The biggest sign was he wasn’t sleeping. That would be bad for anyone, but he never has trouble sleeping.

Thanks for sharing!

The thing that makes me most hopeful is his attitude. He really seems to be dedicated to making the treatment work.

We’ll have to ask that. I don’t think it’s been said, although it’s possible that it went past me without me understanding.

Thanks again!

We’ll definitely check them out. If the insurance doesn’t cover it, we’ll make it work.

Thank you for sharing!

It’s interesting that you mention Kanye, because the first time they mentioned bipolar in the crisis center, he said he had been thinking about Kanye.

Yeah, I spoke to him about that in the crisis center. I told him that it’s going to take time and it’s important to keep trying and to be aware of the possible side-effects so he can watch out for them.

When he told us that he started meds again, he told us what it was and let us know that he asked the doctor about side-effects, so I felt good about that.

That’s what I was saying to him in the crisis center. It sucks that you can’t feel fantastic. But the merely ok feeling you have to feel is what everyone else feels.

He is open to therapy, but we are in the US, so there are challenges. However, I have excellent health insurance through my employer, and he works for the same employer, so when he ages out of my plan, he’ll be able to sign up for the same insurance.

The other detail about him is he’s one of the most caring, kindest people I know. There is really no chance he will hurt someone else, except that if he hurts himself it will hurt the people who care about him.

Thanks for your response. We will ask about generic testing.

Both times, at the height of the episode, he recognized that it wasn’t right and asked for help.

While sitting in the crisis center with him and waiting for an out-patient placement this time, there was a moment when I was saying he just needed meds to get centered. He objected and said he was centered. I pointed out that if he was centered, we’d all be sleeping in our beds, and he was able to accept the logic of that.

The only reason he went off the meds the first time was because he was experiencing some bad side-effects and the doctor wasn’t certain of the diagnosis. I’m pretty confident that he’ll stay on the meds.