Breaking Silence
Dec. 13th, 2015 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowI haven't been posting much lately. Partly it's simple procrastination; I've toyed with a number of ideas for posts in the last month or so, without ever actually writing them up. But I do have genuine justifications.
1) The semester's coming to a close. Classes ended last Friday, and I'll be giving a final on Monday and collecting a take-home final on Wednesday. It's going to be a scramble getting everything taken care of before I leave for California next Friday. (I'll be spending about two and a half weeks there, as usual, returning on the fifth.)
2) I'm in the middle of what will probably be my last game of Skyrim. It's going to take a long time; one of my goals is to earn every one of the skill perks, which will require me to reach character level 252. I'm currently at level 47, and gaining levels gets harder the higher you go. Damned addictive game....
3) I'm coding a new version (5.0) of my personal bookkeeping program. It's based on MS Access, like its predecessors; I've learned a lot about Access programming working on other projects (including the database I use with Skyrim), and I'm adding a lot of nice automation and other simplifications. If I can make it all work, it'll be a huge improvement on version 4. I've got four of the five major forms coded, and only have a couple more buttons on the fifth. (I have a couple of tweaks I'll have to make on the earlier forms, but they're minor, I hope.)
I've had time to write LJ posts, certainly, but among those three items there've been plenty of calls of duty and temptation pulling me in other directions.
(I'm about to go on vacation, and I haven't finished recapping my last vacation! Alas.)
1) The semester's coming to a close. Classes ended last Friday, and I'll be giving a final on Monday and collecting a take-home final on Wednesday. It's going to be a scramble getting everything taken care of before I leave for California next Friday. (I'll be spending about two and a half weeks there, as usual, returning on the fifth.)
2) I'm in the middle of what will probably be my last game of Skyrim. It's going to take a long time; one of my goals is to earn every one of the skill perks, which will require me to reach character level 252. I'm currently at level 47, and gaining levels gets harder the higher you go. Damned addictive game....
3) I'm coding a new version (5.0) of my personal bookkeeping program. It's based on MS Access, like its predecessors; I've learned a lot about Access programming working on other projects (including the database I use with Skyrim), and I'm adding a lot of nice automation and other simplifications. If I can make it all work, it'll be a huge improvement on version 4. I've got four of the five major forms coded, and only have a couple more buttons on the fifth. (I have a couple of tweaks I'll have to make on the earlier forms, but they're minor, I hope.)
I've had time to write LJ posts, certainly, but among those three items there've been plenty of calls of duty and temptation pulling me in other directions.
(I'm about to go on vacation, and I haven't finished recapping my last vacation! Alas.)
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Date: 2015-12-14 09:22 pm (UTC)