I'd go barefoot for a chance at a year without C++

For all of those people who ask me, "What do you want for Christmas"..

Rather than answer, "Nothing, damnit. Same as last year" 1

I'm going to answer, "A year without C++"


  1. I'm not a 'things' person

Windows just arbitrarily decided I was in GMT. Boom. Just like that. Looked at the timestamp on something I just built and caught it. Weird.

A year without C++, I think, is what I want.

It'd be lovely to just pick something silly and bury myself in it. It doesn't even have to be a GOOD something.

Node.js, even.

Anything.

Just pick it apart and play with it. No deadlines. No expectations. Just doing it for it's own sake. Eat, sleep, hack.

A little mental instability sort of goes with the territory in this line of work.

Oh you're closing in on it. Or, I should say, it's closing in on you. :)

Small tumbler of bourbon on the rocks. Just enough to take the edge off and relax.

I will not ponder the mis-step of my youth where I had the chance to go off and be an artist because that'd only invite more bourbon. There's medicine and there's a crutch.

grumble

Mid-life crisis? Possibly.

Perhaps, at some point, I can do this for "me" again. That's what I hold onto. :)

Only myself to blame. I saw that trap being laid years ago and I didn't take the opportunity to bail when I had the chance.

Too much is on my shoulders now for a graceful exit.