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It is a New Year and I miss programming. Somehow two months have passed and I have not programmed during that time. It is hard to imagine how time slips through my fingers.

But I will begin in earnest tomorrow. I have already reviewed some of my own posts to get back into the game. I found it amusing when I wrote that this was for me 3 months later. Well, I was wrong. It is only 2 months later. Still…

The other day I imagined being wealthy. It is a good exercise. What would I do? My lifestyle would remain pretty much the same. I don’t imagine changing anything too much other than not waking up with an alarm clock (fits Apple’s plan of making a mess of alarms).  I think about my projects and interests. Many of them I could see funding others to do, setting up foundations to do some cool stuff. I am interested in following up and understanding what others do, but I don’t want to do a lot of the work myself. For example, if someone came up with a theory of everything, I would be content to understand it. I would not want to take it on myself if I could avoid it.

But when it comes to programming, if someone came up and said “Here, I wrote this parsing program for you to use.” I would not use it. I want to do the programming. Much like I want to write my own fiction, as I am doing elsewhere. I could read a ton of science fiction and fantasy, which I have done at times, but I want to create the stories. This is my passion. I would pay someone to do the editing and marketing and whatever else I wanted done with the stories. But the core construction is my joy.

And so it is with programming. But then why, oh why, are the past two months so blank with regards to it? In part, I am writing and that takes time. It is hard to pursue multiple projects.

So here is a toast to the new year and to new programming, new parsing, and the land of dreams fast approaching.

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