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04 August 2021 I continued on with more programming. Well.. Until I decided that I was fed up of it. I reached a point where I was having to keep adding items to the different deck classes. It becomes an irritating problem excacerbated by the whole deck management and having to retrieve values from each hand. This feels like a cross road of abandonning the project. The special effects of the cards seems to be the straw which broke this camel's back. However, I still might return to make it work without the specials. Why do I stop projects? I think I am inherently interested in solving an issue. A problem starts the brain racing and things are interesting. When we get into the meat of the problem, it becomes work. I do enough battling through small and petty issues there so when I end up with that point for personal projects, I am very likely to avoid it. It certainly seems to be something which started a year or 2 after I started working. I keep starting to learn KiCAD but end up deciding that this is work and so lose interest. This is a battle I need to get past. I gained my amateur licence as a way to make electronics fun again. It sort of has but I occasionally have the same issue. I am 3 quarters of the way through a mandatory 2 weeks unpayed holiday and that is not enough to make things fun again. I don't know. I have cleared my living room for the first time since the start of lock down. There was a mental block for a fair while in clearing a table of bits and bobs and a pile of maps. The mess kept growing. However, it is now gone. The challenge is to resolve the office, floordrobe in the bed room and the hallway now. I am part way through with those so got to keep it up. I have also been reading about hammocks. I have one arriving tomorrow from Alpkit to try at my first Scout camp since February 2020. The camp is a relaxed affair with the Explorers (14-18) proving that they can camp unsupervised. At camp, I normally sleep in a bivvy bag but would like to try something a little different. I get the feeling that setting this up for the first time will take ages as I try to get it right. I am also a bit nervous about getting in and out. Particularly the sleeping bag at night! I might have to get the jelly baby sleeping bag suit out again. I am really looking forward to camp!