Time; For Myself

Honestly, I could use a couple months off to focus on a lot of my personal projects. It’s really starting to irk me that I can’t. Both my boss and my admin know I’ve been wanting to do this, but I don’t know if they’ll let me or if I can pull it off. I’m usually busy enough work that I put in 40h a week.

It’s nice being able to publish websites that you worked on for clients. What’s even nicer is seeing it flourish the way it should — all to many times have sites just sat there because their owners did nothing with it. But we all need time for ourselves and time apart.

“You have time at night…” I hear you say, and yes, I do. Despite that, I adopted the moto “Don’t bring work home” and since work is in essence art and programming, I don’t want to do either when I’m home. I don’t want to draw, illustrate, design, nor do HTML, JavaScrip, PHP, or Bash.

You’ve already seen some of the projects I want to work on(if anyone truly cares about my Tumblr and me), and you’ll know I have many. I get ideas, creative thought processes, incentive to do awesome stuff, but it seems I’ve hard coded that moto within me.

So I sit here. Dreaming. Recognizing I don’t have much energy to do everything I want to. It feels sad, and it might be, but I know who I am, and every day, I’m becoming more acceptant. As long as I can keep my head on straight, I will attain the end goal.

Additional Projects

So here are the things I want to do. Although I don’t know if I’ll get any of it done since I have a major issue dedicating myself to a project let alone finishing it. Work I can do, personal projects, I can’t..

  • Valentine’s card
  • Online Minecraft circuit builder
  • Bash backup script
    • Local backup
    • Server backup
  • Nyan Cat ringtones
  • Charlie the Unicorn ringtones

    They’re prioritize from top to bottom. I really need to at least do the first one…

    Potential Massive Web Application

    Yea, potential massive project down the pipe.

    • 200 ~ 300 hours. 
    • Marketable Launch: November 1st. 
    • Development launch: October 15th
    • Computer Adaptive Testing
    • PHP & MySQL using Yii Framework

    The program is to be re-written and used as a web application. The last time it was touched was in 1994, built using C and Clipper. There’s a couple algorithms that I need to extract from the source code that are the core features of this application. The lead - and only - programmer can’t be reached and the professor who developed the algorithm died a couple years back. Perfect! And that’s not all!

    I could use some suggestions and help on this…

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