How every new skill goes for me

12.25.25

I thought I had a basic understanding of what I was getting myself into. It’s the internet, it can’t be that hard. We have YouTube and AI and I’m competent with computers, though like many of my teen and twenties skills, I’m a little rusty. It shouldn’t be too bad.

I can build engines, damn it, it can’t be that hard to figure out.

And here we are.

I have no clue.

I’m lost.

But I keep finding cool stuff I want to learn, that I need to learn, that could be useful as hell, if I ever figure out how to load an API into Shopify from an FTP with a zip file that leads to a .CVS that doesn’t have the format that Shopify wants.

Or actual product titles.

Who the makes a product database without the product name as a column? What the am I missing here?

Looks like I won’t finish Book 1 by the end of 2025 either. Although that might help my headache…

This is how every new skill goes. Or revision of an old skill.

The internet should be accessible, and while I’m not sure my Thesis chair would think this was directly related to social media marketing, marketing products would be easier if they were… you know, actually purchasable through my website.

The catch is, even though I’ve now – I think – figured out how to load the API data into Shopify, it won’t automatically update this way. Actually, I’m positive it is not even going to populate the product fields correctly.

Choices. Work on this (I need to go get my glasses if so), go to the shop and do one of the 5000 things on my todo list, or finish Book 1?

Also, I have, unsurprisingly, reverted back to my Reclusive Holiday Behavior Pattern established from spending so many years on the Academic Calendar. The trauma is deep, especially from the last five years I spent teaching.

Back to work. I guess when I figure it out, I'll write it down. That is the point of my thesis project after all.