Almost a cardinal iron man

Hi, I am doing the cardinal iron man thing. It is not a intense competition. You sign up, and then just accummulate miles for biking, running and swimming. In the course of 4 weeks, we will self-monitor to finish the whole iron man race: 26.2 miles of running, 112 miles of biking and 2.4 miles of swimming. There are still 3 days to go, and I still need 6.3 miles of running, 1 mile of biking and 1.6 miles of swimming. Statistically, I am a little behind the schedule on running and swimming, but I am on my way to finish it off on Sunday.

What else? Oh, I've started a consulting gig for a SF company, 1-2 days a week. It is a friend's friend. It is a company of pet accessaries, like collars, tees and belts for tiny dogs, stuff that I will never buy myself. They have this massive sales data that they do not know how to analyze. I started the work last week, and tonight I just estimated the sales rates for their 36 products. It can be interpreted like that: If you put the product in 100 retail stores, what precentage of the stores will make a sale on the first day, blah blah, blah. I am quite empowered by my superb skills in Stata and analytical skills in figuring out the algorithms. You better have both.

Oh, finally, who is my computer science class going? Well, I begin to relive my life of feeling like a good student. I haven't had that feeling for almost ten years, as the college classes in social science are always too fuzzy for me to conclude whethere I am doing well. CS class is different, either you get the code right, or you do not. And I have to belong to the crowd that are able to figure out the code. Though time-consuming initially, I think I am absorbing the material really well. A or A+, I would imagine.