The Ravings: April 7, 2010 - The Here and Now
I'm too tired right now (from carrying a 30 lb. box) to do any work (which involves thinking), so I've decided to write out short term goals instead.
1. Finish OpenCatan. This is pretty self-explanatory.
2. Progress on philosophy by a significant interval. This is hard to explain, but I do have my own measure of what state my philosophy is in. I just want to see it move along.
I haven't decided when I'm going to start job-hunting again. I've been tempted to do so immediately, in order to minimize slack-off time, but I'm really uncomfortable with that idea. I know I mostly do want to get a job again, but it's not very important to me. I enjoy the security of having a stable income stream, though.
I'm thinking about finding freelance work instead, but I'm not really interested, so we'll see.
One thing I'd be interested in is rebuilding Venura for Daniel. It was written in PHP, but most of the ideas were so simple that I was able to reproduce much of it right out of high school. This might be a good excuse to learn Python and Django, rather than sticking with Ruby.
I think I'm going to buy myself Seven Languages in Seven Weeks soon and try doing that.
I still need to fix up my apartment in response to my parents' recent visit. I have some ideas on where I want to move everything. I also need to get my posters framed so that I can hang them out on the wall.
Hrm.
I'm also vaguely interested in moving into the game industry. But only very vaguely. I'd prefer the "games for change" movement, even though I know I'd be annoyed by that. I'm really interested in joining a startup, but I also don't want the time commitment it entails. Not this year.
That bothers me. If this had happened, say, three or four months from now, it'd be cool, because I could take off a couple months and not feel bad when I went jobhunting again. But right now? Hmph.
Meh.
1. Finish OpenCatan. This is pretty self-explanatory.
2. Progress on philosophy by a significant interval. This is hard to explain, but I do have my own measure of what state my philosophy is in. I just want to see it move along.
I haven't decided when I'm going to start job-hunting again. I've been tempted to do so immediately, in order to minimize slack-off time, but I'm really uncomfortable with that idea. I know I mostly do want to get a job again, but it's not very important to me. I enjoy the security of having a stable income stream, though.
I'm thinking about finding freelance work instead, but I'm not really interested, so we'll see.
One thing I'd be interested in is rebuilding Venura for Daniel. It was written in PHP, but most of the ideas were so simple that I was able to reproduce much of it right out of high school. This might be a good excuse to learn Python and Django, rather than sticking with Ruby.
I think I'm going to buy myself Seven Languages in Seven Weeks soon and try doing that.
I still need to fix up my apartment in response to my parents' recent visit. I have some ideas on where I want to move everything. I also need to get my posters framed so that I can hang them out on the wall.
Hrm.
I'm also vaguely interested in moving into the game industry. But only very vaguely. I'd prefer the "games for change" movement, even though I know I'd be annoyed by that. I'm really interested in joining a startup, but I also don't want the time commitment it entails. Not this year.
That bothers me. If this had happened, say, three or four months from now, it'd be cool, because I could take off a couple months and not feel bad when I went jobhunting again. But right now? Hmph.
Meh.