Alright, let’s talk about this thing I started calling ‘zzz luckyboo’. Sounds kinda dumb, right? Well, maybe it is, but stick with me here.
It all started a few weeks back. I was bogged down with this really repetitive task. You know the kind, clicking here, copying that, pasting somewhere else. Mind-numbing stuff. Honestly, I was putting it off, scrolling through random stuff online instead, feeling pretty drained just thinking about it. My brain felt like mush.
Getting Started (Sort Of)
So, late one night, couldn’t really sleep, I figured, okay, maybe I can automate some tiny part of this mess. I wasn’t aiming high. Didn’t want to learn some complex new tool or write fancy code. Too tired for that. I just wanted to make the next day slightly less painful.
I remembered this old, simple scripting tool I messed with ages ago. Barely recalled how it worked. Found the docs, well, more like some scrappy notes I made back then. Fired it up.
Here’s basically what I did, step-by-step, more or less:
- First, I just watched myself do the dumb task manually. Like, really watched. Click here, type this, wait, click again.
- Then I tried to translate those exact clicks and keystrokes into the scripting tool. Super basic commands. Stuff like ‘move mouse to X,Y’, ‘click’, ‘type ZZZ’, ‘wait 2 seconds’.
- It was ugly. Seriously rough. The first few tries failed miserably. The script would click the wrong button, type in the wrong window, just completely mess things up. I almost gave up like three times.
- Cleaned it up a tiny bit. Added more ‘wait’ times because sometimes the computer was slower than my script. Made it dumber, essentially. Less likely to trip over itself.
The ‘Lucky’ Part
Honestly, I thought, this piece of junk will probably break tomorrow. It felt flimsy. Didn’t handle any errors, nothing smart about it. I just saved it with some dumb name, maybe that’s where ‘luckyboo’ came from, can’t remember. Went to bed expecting nothing.
Next day, I ran it. Just to see. And… it worked. Like, it actually completed the whole boring sequence without screwing up. I ran it again. It worked again. It wasn’t fast, it wasn’t elegant, but it chugged along and did the job. Saved me probably an hour of pure zombie-mode clicking.
That’s the ‘lucky’ part. I put in minimal effort, used a half-forgotten tool, made something incredibly basic, and it actually ended up being useful. Didn’t solve world hunger, but it made my day better. Sometimes, I guess, you don’t need the perfect solution. You just need something that works right now, even if it’s held together with digital duct tape. Called it ‘zzz luckyboo’ because I practically wrote it in my sleep and felt lucky it didn’t explode. Still use that crappy little script sometimes.
