Coding sort of glazes my eyes – Day 175
August 2nd, 2010
I go into a trance when I code, staring at the computer screen and I only half-see what is there. What I’m writing. It’s a big puzzle, all the greater-than signs and question marks, exclamation marks on occasion. Conditional statements, I’m learning those, better grasping those. I want to be good with all that. I want to be great.
WordPress theme is coming along swimmingly. I may tinker with the portfolio custom content page tomorrow, but I can hear the writing muse sneaking up on me. He’s loud. Quite. I’d tell him to take off his shoes but he never listens. It’s not like it would matter anyhow. My carpet is pretty much shot.
Early this evening I put together some zines, the third installment of Pieces. I bound it with red embroidery floss. The needle was hard-going through ten sheets of paper, so I made use of a hammer and some rusty needle nose pliers. In the end it all worked out. I have some people interested in getting a copy. Score.
Tomorrow should be interesting. I have a feeling I will be writing a lot.
Lucid dreaming is going well. I had one this morning, and for the last five days I’ve been starting my lucid dreams in my apartment or out in my parking lot. Always somewhere close. Thursday… it sounds so strange to write this, but Thursday I either had the most intense WILD experience ever in my life or I astral projected. I don’t even know if I believe it, but it definitely felt that way. Maybe I’ll talk about it more soon, when I don’t think I’m so nutty.
It definitely would make for an odd story. I should go for it.
I have a very lonely booklet stapler just waiting for you anytime you want to stop by. ANYTIME!
I actually still have your long-arm stapler. I will be happy to trade it for the booklet one!
Great post! I’m totally digging the new theme. Although I have yet to lucid dream, I can relate to your trance-like states when developing. Closed door, music all the way and no distractions! I’ll sometimes dream about code and solving problems, only to wake up and forget most of it in the morning. Need to work on remembering!
When I start dreaming about code, I know that I have been working with it entirely too much. It’s like the time I dreamed of flying arrows from playing too much DDR.
You should go for it. Tell us your story!!