I have spent too much time preparing to write my book. I think this is because I scared of putting myself out there to be judged. I can accept criticism from my family and friends but accepting it from people I don’t know and more importantly don’t know me is terrifying. It is time to bite the bullet as the title says and just do it.
With that being said, I have plenty of notes regarding each chapter so getting started should be easy. Lets get cracking!
That is the bad news. The good news I am primed and ready to go for writing and coding.
Vacation has been great and the time I have spent working through courses on C#, has really paid off. Although the money I have spent on books would scare the heck out of most people but hey, I love books.
And learning of course.
I decided to take a couple week vacation from life. Friday was a little too much for me.
Explanation to come…
My sister and I were in Waynesboro, VA with our older brother watching our nephew while him and his wife were out. He was working on some remodeling at the church and she was out shopping. On his way to work he dropped us off at the public pool for reprieve from this unbearably hot weather. Being from Washington state we had not yet become accustomed to the heat and humidity of Virginia. we were standing in the shallow end of the pool with our nephew when the sky lit up with a bright flash of lightening and one of the biggest clap of thunder I had ever heard. I was holding on to the metal slide into the pool and quickly removed my hand when I felt the tingle of the electrical current as it was flowing from the air through the slide into the water. Needles to say the life guards made us all get out of the pool and under cover. After a short time we decided to walk home as it was just a short trip. What we didn’t realize was within that short walk was a wide open field to cross and after that a metal bridge crossing the river. Both had to be crossed in order to get home. We ran as fast as we could across the field and stopped short of the bridge. The lightening had stopped momentarily so we made a mad dash across the bridge. The gate to the bridge was stuck like a magnet to the latch and we had to use all of our strength together for it to budge. While running across the bridge we noticed a boat had moved to the side of the river with some people getting out onto the bank. We were not sure what they were doing, we were to scared ourselves. Getting home from there was another adventure as we had no idea where we were, Our nephew was crying. My sister was crying, we were all scared by I did not was the others to know how scared I was too. After some time, I can’t recall how long we found our the house. Our nephew ran to his room, my sister ran to the room we were staying and crawled all the way under the covers closing here eyes to sleep.. counting sheep. I walked out into the living room, opened up the blinds in the living room and continued watching the storm. We were all scared as heck and had a great time.
Dice roll: Storm, Slide, Magnet, Boat, Sheep
We had taken our first trip ever to Hawaii during the Halloween holiday. The weather was as usual in the upper 70’s this evening and I had just came out of the shower getting ready for dinner. In the kitchen was a note held in place by a paper clip and magnet on the refrigerator left by Desiree’. The note told me to meet her by the jack-0-lantern at the pool entrance. After getting dressed I left our room enjoying the wonderful outdoor sensory experience these islands are famous for, the smell of the ocean and sound of the wind through the palm fronds. Hurrying down the stairs for the pool, I couldn’t wait to see her in the dress we just purchased at Hilo Hattie’s, I proceeded to trip over that dang potted plant, for the second time that day. As I turned the corner I saw her, waiting were she said she would, her blond hair blowing in the wind and a beautiful butterfly just touching down on her outstretched hand.
Instead of the 5 random words, I rolled some (story dice). The dice came up with the picture of a Butterfly, Jack-o-lantern, potted flower/plant, paperclip and a palm tree one an island. My first thoughts went to my favorite place, Hawaii and my favorite woman, Desiree’. This story line took me a little longer than the three minutes I usually allow, more like 6 but I wanted to finish. I do miss her very much. More so after writing this knowing we will never be doing going there together again.
It will be a difficult task to schedule a clandestine operation creating a fourth line within our factory building another wing for this aircraft since my calendar is visible to everyone on our intranet. Even with the spider web of connectivity within our internal web it would be very easy to see the schedule for this coming due. Oh but how the reaction of our management and customers to this increase in our productivity would be divine.
I used the word building instead of builder (by accident). I will forgive my self, these were a difficult set of words today.
Between writing, CSharp, Excel and Access VBA it has become a juggling game of which to work on when.
I start getting into and having progress on my book and my job raises it’s ugly head and I start working in excel and access full throttle. At the same time I keep thinking of the progress Blender has made and I have completely missed out on the as well as Unity. What I may end up doing is cutting into my sleep time during the week by a couple of hours and write during that time, devoting my daytime at work to excel and access. Work is where I use those programs the most, I would say about 95 percent of the time they are used at and for work. The weekends will then be dedicated to Blender and Unity.
Dead, Museum, Disorder, Journalist, Wars.
The journalist, while taking the day out for a trip to the World War museum in the city was taken in by the art of the two wars as portrayed in pictures. He reflects on the disorders caused by different conflicts around the world now and wonders how the dead really dealt with them. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) being just one and the many other so called disorders created by the gulf wars. Gulf war syndrome, what a joke, are the solders of today seemingly wimps compared the soldiers of yesterday?
(Note, these are random thoughts using the random words placed in front of my and do not reflect my opinion on way or another)
This will be the second installment of exercises I have done during this course.
I decided to pick a person I worked with at a company a few years ago.
This person was very good at presenting our company in a good light. Creating fantastic presentation with power point although a little long at time.
I believe this person to be a very religious person possibly mores so than I at the time I worked with him.
He was a fantastic father and spending much time with his son whom I know he loved very much and acting as coach for his baseball team.
He was very good at politicking and trying to get that point across to me.
Getting Computer ready at home after work:
1) Take dock from day storage and plug in
2) set dock on table near the back with cord for computer to the right
3) Take computer out of day storage
4) Set computer on table, attach power cord from dock to the computer on the right side
5) Remove 128g memory stick and mouse from computer bag
6) Remove 1Tb hard drive from case and plug both into the dock, location optional
7) Open laptop computer and turn on.
8) Tap spacebar and bring up the password box.
9) Enter password, press enter.
… The computer is now ready to use for the entire night or weekend if it is Friday
I’ll use creating an mBOm from Engineering as my example. The example of setting up my computer would not work in this exercise.
The three main principles in creating an accurate mBOM from an Engineering BOM would be.
1) Make sure you understand the build structure and what parts need to be created as subassemblies etc..
2) When signing off on the Engineering, upon seeing a group of parts that should or will be purchased together, have Engineering create an assembly rather than you creating a manufacturing parts.
3) Opposite of two, if there are assemblies that can not be purchased and installed as an assembly have Engineering eliminate that assembly and purchase the details without having to create phantom assemblies.
All of these exercises have been fun to do and at times very stressful because I don’t know if I am doing well or not. Does that matter? No it does not it us just my way of over analyzing everything I do. I did another random connection and here is that one.
I felt a sense of sadness when I witnessed a physical offense against a nameless Hindu minding his own business at the airport this morning. I know it is a fantasy but some day this world will be free of such violence.
(I don’t recall exactly what the random words were (I think some were ‘Sadness, Hindu and fantasy’)
I have started this course through Udemy and have been doing the exercises as drafts here. I won’t release them as individual posts rather I will group them here.
Gateway laptop
HP Pavilion
HP laptop
Microsoft Surface Book
Microsoft Surface Pro 3
Asus Gaming laptop
Alien ware
MacBook Pro 17″
MacBook Pro 13″
MacBook Air
TRS80 Model I
TRS80 Model III
IBM PC Jr.
Packard Bell
Toshiba laptop
HP tablet computer
This was a three minute writing exercise, letting my thoughts flow. I had to pick a topic and just create a list writing for three minutes only. I had forgotten about a few of these and I missed some as I look back on the list.
I want to write because I want to get my ideas out in public
I want to write because I would like to be a published author.
I want to write because I like to write and want to get better.
I want to write because I would like some residual income after I retire.
I want to write because it would be a great hobby when I retire as well as creating some income.
I want to write because I think I am good at is now.
I want to write because I want to get my opinion known.
I want to write because I would like people to read my blog posts and get something out of them.
I want to write because I love some of the things I do and would like to share those ideas.
I picked five words and given three minutes construct a sentence, paragraph.
Standing on the beach, my favorite beach on the island of Kauai watching the foam created by the breaking waves I’m thinking of the madness of it all. The surfers out, waiting for the waves show what athletes they are with the balance and vision to ride that perfect wave. Their eyes studying the horizon, watching the swells makes for a great portrait in my minds eye. With all that said, making a living as a screenwriter would me much more difficult than making aircraft. I’ll just lay back on the sand and contemplate my coworkers while on my vacation and smile.