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!