Figuring out my hobbyexperimentfun time

posted by Jeff | Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 11:11 PM | comments: 0

One of the most critical things to my career development, as well as my own desire to exercise my brain, is to find time to build stuff purely for fun or the business or whatever. It's very different from work coding (especially the next month or two, as we won't be doing anything particularly new or exciting), because there are few constraints other than what I'm interested in.

Well, that and time. It's hard to tune in and buckle down on something now that we have Simon. And mind you, I'm not complaining about that at all, because I love to play and cuddle with him. But it's also hard to commit to the time, in part because I can't just flip a switch and be interested. I have to be in the right frame of mind. I've usually got a good two or three hour window in the evening, but I like to spend it doing even less engaging things or spend the time with Diana.

I think it's just another thing I have to feel out and adapt to. Life is a lot more full now, in a good way. I'd say that I have to invoke my college era time management skills, but as I recall, I pretty much just did what I wanted and got mediocre grades, so that's not a good example. If in the long run I do develop my career at the company managing something and writing less code, working in the code writing stuff will be even more critical so I can understand what's going on with the projects and people I'm involved with. That's a bridge to cross later.

It is definitely easier to work on stuff from my laptop, though I can sometimes bring it to its knees with lots of stuff open (especially Parallels) with 4 gigs of RAM. I'd like to upgrade to 8, but I'm kind of watching as the prices come down. Lately it's been a rate of almost ten dollars a week!

When we get to the famously sunny Seattle summer, I wonder how I'll be able to sit in front of a computer at all!


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