I've done nothing but sit on my ass since the day we got back from Vermont. We'd go out to dinner, or get coffee, or make dinner at home, or watch TV … but nothing productive has occured. Even my talks with Matt, while very interesting and useful, have yet to lead to any actual work coming out of me. Even at work I've done very little, save for handling a few requests that would have caused a lot of trouble if I had delayed them.
It's only been four days. Jess wasn't feeling well until last night, and I started to get a slight cold of my own, which I think has passed. We were stuck in the middle of family drama hell for 10 days. But these all seem like excuses. I guess a post-vacation vacation of four days isn't that bad, but I feel so … blah. I'm hoping to get some stuff going again today.
After all of this discussion with Matt, and others, I have a renewed faith in the power of Inklog, and new acceptance that, despite working alone and without consultation with others for most of the project, I am doing things the right way. I didn't think I was, at first. I thought I had made a very large mistake in my design somewhere. And, when I first started spelling it all out for Matt, he thought so too. But, when I got deeper into it, I realized, thanks to him, that I had done things the right way, I just wasn't using them correctly. So, with that idea in mind, I feel like I can make some real progress again. This whole project is almost 2 years in the making, and I know I haven't put two years of work into it. I'm anxious to get it done and out there so others can benefit from my work, improve it, extend it, and fill a large gap that exists in today's software. Yes, I have high hopes. Let's see how it all pans out.
