So I get a little obsessive. Some things are easy to obsess about.
Recently I have wondered if I "turn off my face" so as to commit the 2% of brain power it takes to activate your face and put it toward problem solving. I'm serious. When I am thinking about things I get like that, not a good habit especially when you are supposed to be listening to someone. I am actually trying to kick the habit, but it does seem that the extra 2% sometimes nudges the brain into a successful result, even though you will have no friends left because while you are problem solving you look like a serial murderer. I really do not recommend "turning off your face" to get that little last brain boost.
So, wouldn't it be nice if these obsessions were pleasurable? But nope, not really. There is of course the fleeting happiness moment of solving the problem but fleeting it is.
Don't worry, all of my obsessions sadly are G-rated. That is quite a bummer and will no doubt make this blog much less interesting. Get ready to get very bored because here is an example of the latest.
I wanted to do a really nice upgrade on the Haverstick Films website and if anyone knows anything about the Haverstick Films Method they know this involves learning how to do it and building it yourself from scratch. I had seen that the websites I admired were usually built in a program called Flash, so Flash would be the program of choice.
I am not in love with FLASH, but we are clearly living together already. Upon first meeting through a series of web video tutorials I was disenchanted and initially questioned my choice as this is not a user friendly program. In fact at times it doesn't even make sense. Kind of like a crazy person, and they have a way of fascinating me too.
Gradually I found that with FLASH there was a method to the madness, the crazy coding language with the necessary perfect punctuation. One tiny typo or misplaced space in 15 pages of crazymaking code and you are punished with failure of your entire website, a website you have worked on for over a month. Quite a heavy-handed and torturous backlash for a small infraction, and some would leave such a cruel and heartless program for bluer and easier skies. But that person would not be me.
Oh I thought about it. I mean I really don't think I like FLASH. It's just that I wake up 15 times a night thinking about it. The good news is that I will have no problem breaking up with Flash when the time comes. I am already planning my exit. After 4 weeks of Flash hell I am probably only a week or two from completing this website which took far longer than I expected. Then I will put Flash away and not revisit it until the next upgrade. By that time FLASH will have upgraded too and we will get to know each other all over again. Next time I also plan to keep my face turned on all throughout our courtship. But then it will be a second go-round and that is never quite the same.
I am sure in the meantime a new obsession will arise....
