Listening to: Fang Island - Make Me

This is where I will document P&JCC, and other McPuppy projects. Maybe no one will ever see it. At this point it could go in any direction, but I’m dead-set on finding out the hard way. Coincidentally, I thought of this idea days before embarking on my annual family trip back home – 12 hours of driving each way – and I spent every dollar I have.

  • In some ways, that feels good. Hard to worry about money when you have none. Just put your head down and make more. Something romantic about that.

I am certainly no artist, but two weeks ago I had a very specific vision and this seems like the best way for me to carry it out. We’ll see, because I can not draw at all. My siblings both became highly skilled graphic designers, with talents in other mediums as well, and I freeze up trying to draw a polar bear during Christmas Pictionary. But I am a math guy, and computer art may be the great equalizer for me. I have accomplished some things in the coding space, some highly ambitious projects, but nothing like what I’m picturing here.

What I worked on:

  • Trip Home. It is a bittersweet trip and this year it came at an incredibly inconvenient time, so just making it there and back was a success this year!

What’s next:

  • I need to work every hour I possibly can to cover the trip expenses and missed work. Requires little brain power; just having the discipline to show up. As long as I make it to every shift over the next few weeks it will be just fine. Discipline has never been my strong suit, though lol.
    • They say discipline is simply taking care of your future self, and that has really helped me as I try and shift my mindset (an obvious requirement to make P&JCC a reality)