I've noticed lately that I have a hard time focusing down on one thing. I want to do everything, but taking these topics that are in my head and turning them into code is damn near impossible.
For example, I thought for a long time that it would be neat to build a rec center sports league app. Some kind of generic thing that would let a rec center, for a minor fee, keep track of their league teams, scores and schedules, and make the results public to their members. It would be straight forward to build and simple to use. I know there are things like that already out there, but every one that I've seen kind of sucks.
But I've got the forum app nearly ready, and I'm starting to roll on that "other project" with the hopes of it coming together quickly.
After that, CoasterBuzz has to happen eventually. It keeps getting slower and slower. Then I'd still like to do something Vegas like.
Then there are all of the science projects in my head. For example, one of the constraints on forum UI is that you have different browsers that generate different HTML in text boxes and it's a pain. There has to be a better way, and I have some ideas about how that should work. What's more, I think that storing it as some kind of intermediate XML, and applying XSLT at runtime, would be a better way to do things because the presentation is abstracted and not forced into a mold for every site.
This would all be so easy to think about if I had a year off to just play with it and not deal with a silly day job. :)