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This last week has been rubbish. Tuesday was very low quality generally for reasons I can't go into right now, Wednesday night I was embarrasingly bad at being a ninja and yesterday I spent much of the day developing a game in Flash. I don't know if I have ranted at my hatred for Macromedia products here but I am sure I will soon enough. Suffice it to say that if you are using an IDE, a proper programming environment, when you hit the button that compiles what you have written into an executable application it saves the code. Flash doesn't. The consequence of that was that when I closed the Flash development environment at the end of play yesterday and ignored the usual 50 "are you sure you want to close this" that my work PC loves to throw up I lost everything I had done that day. As well as having at least one major act of stupidity or incompetence each day I have been generally clumsy and irritating to be around.
I think this ineptness can mostly be pinned down to general lack of sleep deriving from a mixture of Sunday's musical antics and Half Life 2. There may also have been a slight feeling of let-down because now I've seen the extended Return of the King I have no more Lord of the Rings films to look forward to. They have been such a cornerstone of my life for the last few years ( Lou and I went to see the Fellowship of the Ring the first time we met up ) that I am really going to miss that feeling of anticipation. I guess it's like having your dreams come true.
I'm not certain that it's all down to tiredness though, as it seems to have been a very unlucky week for pretty much everyone I know, one way or another. Worse than average, anyways. Maybe it's just the curse of the third week in Advent or something.
After an early night I feel mysteriously much better and have decided one of my new years resolutions will be to get to at least one training session a week even if it means I have to go a long way out of my way to do it - which it will do as gigs often coincide with my regular Wednesday night sessions in Guildford and the other nearby classes are in Egham and Reading. As often seems to happen, making a definite decision has made me feel a lot more positive about the world in general. Maybe I really can achieve everything I need to in the next week. That would be a Christmas miracle in itself...
I think this ineptness can mostly be pinned down to general lack of sleep deriving from a mixture of Sunday's musical antics and Half Life 2. There may also have been a slight feeling of let-down because now I've seen the extended Return of the King I have no more Lord of the Rings films to look forward to. They have been such a cornerstone of my life for the last few years ( Lou and I went to see the Fellowship of the Ring the first time we met up ) that I am really going to miss that feeling of anticipation. I guess it's like having your dreams come true.
I'm not certain that it's all down to tiredness though, as it seems to have been a very unlucky week for pretty much everyone I know, one way or another. Worse than average, anyways. Maybe it's just the curse of the third week in Advent or something.
After an early night I feel mysteriously much better and have decided one of my new years resolutions will be to get to at least one training session a week even if it means I have to go a long way out of my way to do it - which it will do as gigs often coincide with my regular Wednesday night sessions in Guildford and the other nearby classes are in Egham and Reading. As often seems to happen, making a definite decision has made me feel a lot more positive about the world in general. Maybe I really can achieve everything I need to in the next week. That would be a Christmas miracle in itself...
