TMBP: Supernova Toddlers

Today was a hard day. Wearing and trying. K is anxious and I can't help. All I can do is keep my cool and be as sunny and even tempered as possible. My ball of energy was going supernova today and that's hard to deal with in public settings, but he's a toddler. He's doing his job of exploring and experimenting-very messy business, all of it.

Days like today give me an extra appreciation for the evening time. After the last cup of milk has been sipped down, after the lights have been turned off and our little guy says goodnight to the both of us before choosing a lap to crawl into and rest. He pulled me up to the bedroom for a mock good night. He bailed on the bed, ultimately, but it's rewarding to know that at the very least I was a good enough parent for my son to want to pull me upstairs for goodnight cuddles. I did my job, even under stressful situations, and I know it because he trusts me to sit by my side and lay his head in my chest and close his eyes for the night.

TMBP: Frogger and sledding

Late last week/early this week I finished the JavaScript tutorial with code academy. Now I'm back to creating a frogger clone with Udacity. It's a fun project. The canvas and engine has already been created. They can be edited, but the first step is to cause the enemies and player to render, move and collide properly. The code academy classes did great work in helping me understand object oriented programming. Within two days I've got the characters rendered and moving. Now it's time to construct a collision formula. Something that will calculate the pixel box and when there is 0 space between the enemy and player cause the game to reset. If I don't have it down by tonight then tomorrow for sure.

King pulled me up the stairs today, I thought to play, but then he grabbed his boots. I guess he decided it was time to play outside. And it was snowing so who could blame him? We bundled up and slid down our local hill for 20 or 30 minutes before he started losing his mittens. Watching him interact with his environments has been one of my favorite things to do in the recent years. Everything is new and I guess will be new for the next couple years, at least. All the tromping up the snow covered hill helps his appetite. When we got in he ate two apples and a pack of crackers. Guess we can call sledding a work out!

TMBP - A new year

December got away from me. My mind swims with topics to write about but the hours are short. I gave myself more leisure time than usual in December. Visiting with friends, relatives, doing Christmas stuff. We took Kingston to a festival of lights, twice. He loved it. Especially the elf's working in the tiny house and Santa and the Misses looking out their tiny home's window. There's a holiday song, "Christmas through your eyes." If that's not exactly the title, it's the refrain. This past holiday season I had the privilege to see Christmas through my son's new eyes.

I picked up Terraria on iOS for $.99 and convinced my brother to do the same. The title transfers well to a tablet. More fun with friends, in my opinion. Makes the world a little less lonely. The graphics are fun and colorful, music is balanced. Sometimes the controls are less responsive than ideal, but the game is forgiving. 

Look for some layout changes in the near future. I added a segment called "Your Daily Haiku" and plan to add other sections for samples of my writing. I'll be adding scripts, short stories and chapters to longer novels. Might even try my hand at a limerick or sonnet, occasionally. 

I'm excited for the new year. Getting to know my son's personality, forging a path ahead with my wife and pursuing our goals. I made the move to full time freelancer at the end of 2014. 2015 has brought new networking opportunities that I am very excited to explore. 

That's my ten minutes. Look for more content very soon. As in daily.