March 23 2008

Dan wrote:

March 23 2008

Wednesday was pretty much a recovery day that we used to shop, clean the trailer and get caught up on laundry instead of play.

I used Thursday morning to get some extra accommodations made for my “suburban office”.  I had been using towels and blankets over the windows to control the light.  With Wednesday’s shopping I picked up some car shades which I cut out to fit the windows and added Velcro to hold them in place.  I also bought a couple more traditional shades for the middle windows.  In the afternoon the kids had a primary activity at the park.  Lexie doesn’t want to have much to do with driving in the San Diego traffic so she asked me to drive her.  I was very pleasantly surprised how well my new window covers worked while she was at the park.  The middle windows are covered with a dark mesh which allows me to roll down the windows without producing a glare.

I am getting a lot more comfortable with programming with Action Script which by itself is a huge stress relief in as much as I decided early on that Action Script would be my target language for game development.  I have spent the last couple of days working on an image browser as a training project and also as a piece of my personal website.  I am very excited about the result.  I am also very excited that I may actually get started working on my first game as soon as next week.

The setup really has taken a lot longer than I anticipated however I feel very good about the process.  I firmly believe that it is more important that one be heading the right direction than it is how fast one is moving.  So far even though things are going more slowly than I would like I feel that they are going in the right direction.

Friday night we took a picnic to Pacific Beach after work.  The water was moving faster and the waves were not as high as the last time I went swimming but it was still a lot of fun.  The body board didn’t quite work the way I expected it to however the kids had a ball playing with it.

Saturday afternoon there was a 3:30PM low tide at Point Loma so we went out to look for beach creatures.  This was a lot of fun.  Point Loma is very beautiful.  We were able to find dozens of small hermit crabs and some other small crabs that look more like dungeness crabs but are much smaller.

David had trouble sleeping last night so out of generosity rather than hoard his troubles to himself he decided to share them with me and Lexie.  David’s middle of the night party made the 7:00AM alarm for church seem much too early and we were once again successful in almost making it to church on time.  I know it isn’t fair to blame a 2 year old but he’s the sinless one so if I can shuffle a couple of my short coming his way it give me less to deal with.

The Easter program at church was simply amazing.  There was a combination of some very strong musical talent and very though preparation in the program.  We have truly enjoyed the Sunday School teachers here.  I don’t know their names but I have enjoyed learning from them.  I have never met anyone with as quick a whit as today’s teacher.  As he was talking about the Atonement he lead into a part of his discussion explaining how the next part of his lesson was only for people who sinned so the sinless people wouldn’t need to pay attention.  At that time a small baby decided that it was time to have a meal and shared the decision with its mother.  As the baby and mother left the teacher smiled and said “I wish I could be going with them but I am part of the group that needs to listen!”.

I am disappointed that we will be leaving San Diego so soon but I am also excited to be moving along.  It is amazing how much we haven’t done for the time we have been here but we have seen more of San Diego than we would have if we weren’t here.  On of the troubles with life is that it truly is to short to do and see everything.