I am inching closer to completion of the Boggle program. It still has some behaviors that I'm unable to pin down, but I've been able to spend the past few days squashing bugs rather than just chasing them and scratching my head. I've already got a list of things to take care of, in true Getting Things Done fashion, thus keeping myself focused on a bunch of "next steps" rather than just sitting here scratching my head, wondering where to go next.
I'm excited for the completion of this, as it has helped me re-learn a lot of the stuff I've forgotten since "giving up" computer programming over 11 years ago, and is preparing me well for college in the spring. I'm also learning a lot of new stuff, and will hopefully get the hang of this Windows programming stuff. Hopefully by the end of the week I'll have the main engine bugs solved, and then I will be able to start on the user interface stuff -- which means porting the code to Windows, which means no more having to shell to a DOS window (aka a command prompt) so I can run Turbo Pascal 5.5 in emulation mode.
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Sunday, October 22
Wednesday, September 20
Getting Things Done
I'm getting things done. Honest. I'm just not writing about them.
Once again updating first thing on Sunday morning was thwarted by something unexpected: in this case, it was spending the night in the hospital with Stephen, who had an apnea episode on Saturday afternoon. A little scary for everyone involved, but we all pulled through successfully.
So: catching up on the eternal black hole that is my scripture reading goal. I'm working on it, it's a matter of staying current with my reading (I started the Old Testament last week) and catching up where I'm lacking (mostly in the Doctrine and Covenants). I also need to set a number-of-pages-per-day goal to finish the Book of Mormon this year to keep me motivated. It's not that I'm not motivated to read the scriptures, it's that I tend to make time for other things first.
Lots of projects going for me right now, as usual. I've got most of the first chapter of my murder mystery written, as the other book is necessarily on hold until some people actually return my interview questionnaire. But re: the murder mystery, I've got a good concept, and a good setting, and am working on the character development right now. Best yet, I've already got a killer, a victim, and a motive. I've been writing longhand as I can actually do this while in the living room, or while I'm waiting for Elizabeth to fall asleep. This eliminates the excuse of me not having enough time, or resources, etc.
Once again updating first thing on Sunday morning was thwarted by something unexpected: in this case, it was spending the night in the hospital with Stephen, who had an apnea episode on Saturday afternoon. A little scary for everyone involved, but we all pulled through successfully.
So: catching up on the eternal black hole that is my scripture reading goal. I'm working on it, it's a matter of staying current with my reading (I started the Old Testament last week) and catching up where I'm lacking (mostly in the Doctrine and Covenants). I also need to set a number-of-pages-per-day goal to finish the Book of Mormon this year to keep me motivated. It's not that I'm not motivated to read the scriptures, it's that I tend to make time for other things first.
Lots of projects going for me right now, as usual. I've got most of the first chapter of my murder mystery written, as the other book is necessarily on hold until some people actually return my interview questionnaire. But re: the murder mystery, I've got a good concept, and a good setting, and am working on the character development right now. Best yet, I've already got a killer, a victim, and a motive. I've been writing longhand as I can actually do this while in the living room, or while I'm waiting for Elizabeth to fall asleep. This eliminates the excuse of me not having enough time, or resources, etc.
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