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is blogging for the sake of blogging worthwhile. I was consistent until it seemed like I was getting consistent, but was it helping me do anything.

currently reading*
https://github.com/craftyjs/craftyjs.github.com
figure if I want to make a game may as well check out game engines. sort of want to go ahead with my barebones idea.

oh thoughts. also spending some time exploring the glorious world of github, but what projects to explore, what direction to I want to be going... should I focus on what Ive been doing for the past 4 years c++ and python or should I be looking ahead at new languages, should I be mastering some library or gaining exposure to many, should I be ... not writing blogs is probably the best answer to that one.

*while in reading I hit ctrl a and the following d broke up what I was writing, and I had to stop and think ... sorry my hand is bothering me  ... efficiency's sake just do things that dont use my hands... right.

so Im sitting here at midnight

and I eant to be writyinhg code, but my hsnf is ... really fuckinh irritzting. and Im intentionally not fizing whats going on with my hand and the typing thing becausre it is too frustrating to ctually go back and fix shit. the real problem is all the control srqunced with ctrl shitf and slt where the left hand just bounces off the keys. and I make adjustments, but it still fucks me up. 

yeah fixing things is better than just letting shit slide, but every few characters I need to backspace revert double check where my hand is and do all sorts of maintaining whats going on instead of just flowing, previous estimates of 60% efficiency were greatly exagerated. fuuuuuuck. well ... doc appointment in ... tomorrow as of midnight, so ... hopefully Ill get a more accurate prognosis and timeline of when this will be off and maybe Ill just need to learn to deal with it till middle of september ... and at that point I guess working till then ... I guess partially just excuse making but holy shit is it annoying to go from proficient typist to 3rd grader who may accidentally type rm -r * or accidentally bork things in some other way with a stray hand

a Week later

went to soccer monday ... broke my finger. dealt with ER bs. insurance situation still isnt resolved. just got a new splint that locks two of my fingers in place, really pretty difficult to type. ... But followup appointment let me see the xrays, and it looks worse than the er guys initially made it seem. shit. so tuesday was spent trying to figure out the insurance issues, filled out cobra paperwork but needed to wait for wife to print out some forms from online at work, so didnt submit stuff till wed. so that was preoccupying me til then, then the inlaws came for a fourth of july visit, and left yesterday evening. good weekend, but just trying to explain the lack of posts for a week. broken finger is a giant wrench in my plans for this month. so ... fuuuuuuck.

so, had doctors appointment today, had lunch with the wife.

she also just sent me this http://www.builtinchicago.org/blog/recruiting-tech-chicago-part-1

downloaded a gameboy emulator written in javascript, so looking at that as a potential resource to use, but after looking it over and thinking about it ... not ideal ... but still interesting to me. https://github.com/grantgalitz/GameBoy-Online

but maybe Ill look at using somebody else's framework to write my own game, currently trying to learn how to type with this thing attached to my hand. efficiency will not be high.

monday monday

wife sent me http://www.educationpioneers.org/become-an-analyst-fellow
as Ive expressed interest in education.

I was happy to read http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130627/21100323647/nyc-council-angers-mayor-bloomberg-passing-two-bills-aimed-curtailing-nypds-stop-frisk-program.shtml getting rid of stop and frisk would be a major boon towards ending racial discrimination in policing, but its really just a first step.

Im downloading ruby / rails because I started to work on my js game, ... set up repo started to type the base html page and thought ... why? want to see what rails offers for ease of use, Ive heard its nice,

while that download starts up, and since actually getting it ready will probably take more than a few minutes, Im going to start with the raw html and js for nothing...

#continuing
and now my chromebook pixel chroot is starting to feel like a real dev box.