Greetings. I now know what being a few days ahead is like. It's good for doing timeless stuff, but these rants are not cool. You see I'm 3 days ahead and so I just upload the new files everyday. I don't get to explain my opinion on something because then it will get confusing. Writing 3 days ahead? What brain surgeon came up with that one? Well, I simply can't do it.

I had this idea in my head a few weeks ago that I could keep up an insane programming pace for 2 months or possibly forever. That is how I feel when I'm doing well. Well, starting last friday, I have been in a slump just like all the times before. In fact, my programming zone lasted exactly 2 weeks. The 2 weeks before it were a major slump. The 2 weeks before that was a programming zone which netted me $2000 (but I only worked ~4 per day). 2 weeks before that was yet another slump. Do you see the rhythm? Yeah. I'm going to try to do a lot of work tomorrow. If I keep up that rhythm, it'll take twice as long as full speed. And full speed may not be fast enough. I'm thinking about all the work this will be and there is little chance that I can do all that I have planned in 3 weeks even at an amazing pace. So I'll try to find out what I can do in 3 weeks and do it. If I can make a very good demo in 1 week, I can make a small game in 3 weeks. I probably wouldn't want to sell it. That would mean another month to do the work which wouldn't be bad except that I have not figured that into my plan.

For every process there may be many ways to do it, but only one way can be chosen at a time.

My server is up, but my ftp is still down. So this news is not exactly up to date. But I want to get it down for the record. It's a bit exciting. The hard parts of Demo 1 are finished. I have 2 easy technologies to add and the rest is creating the models. That means that I am just 2 days behind schedule if I can do the easy stuff tomorrow. 2 days behind is nothing. In fact, the models I am doing tomorrow will be part of not just demo 1, but demo 2. So demo 2 will likely take less than a week. Even though I plan to spend time at 2600 on Friday, I can still make the Saturday night deadline for demo 2. That would be really amazing to me. There are times when I throw myself around and verbally abuse myself (half are untrue, but definately unproductive). Missing deadlines can be a horrible experience. It often compounds upon itself; it makes easy deadlines into more missed deadlines. If a missed deadline can destroy a person's confidence, I say that person is better off ignoring the deadline entirely. The confidence will motivate the person to do the work better -- in the end, faster.