The No Plan, errr Plan?

I have not really properly touched on why I have drifted towards JavaScript over the past couple of weeks. So I figured I should bash it out in writing.

My life is really busy and has been for a month or two. A combination of the day job being really busy (C++ coder) and personal life (attempting to sell our house and family members being ill) I have to admit I was, and partially still am, feeling a little bit burned.

Firing up eclipse in the evening was just not happening. LibGdx is still a lot of fun it is I just wanted a break it. It was all starting to feel a little heavy. I usually get this feeling about something when what I am working on in my free time does not equal what I really want to be working on. It is hard to explain but perhaps you understand what I mean. It is after all my free time so I should do stuff that is fun.

Then a few weeks back I was not enjoying clojure and just started hacking some JavaScript out. It was fun. Firing up emacs seemed less hassle than eclipse. Perhaps because in my mind emacs meant I am going to mess with something small while eclipse meant a larger project.

I also let myself just code whatever I wanted. Of course that was a little gaming library. Fun even if it has been done better elsewhere. One lunch hour I just start putting together a very simple sprite editor. Not sure why but a couple of hours later (and a few iteration on how to do things) I had something I could draw onto the screen with.

It was apparent I am back in the zone with these things. This is great. I don't have a plan for any of this other than enjoy doing it. Plans will destroy the fun of it. For now I will continue to hack away.

Did I mention I am also training for a marathon. No well it is not relevant other than to demonstrate how time constrained I am. It is in a couple of week and I doubt it will be a personal best for me.

There was sort of an epiphany moment sometime over last weekend where I realised I need to do this type of coding for an extended period to time to regain my coding mojo. So my plan is to not plan for the rest of the year. When I open my laptop in the evening I will just decide based on what I feel like doing and what seems like fun.

Anyway I have rambled on enough. I hope I have not bored you too much and yes I could write a couple more pages about all this but I will resist :) Will lets you know how it goes.