I recently caught a small case of boredom where I wasn’t too excited about the things that I have listed out to do. I started thinking about it and realized that it might be because, half or more, are things that I am working on for the day job. Yes, they are things I want to learn as well. It’s just that they are more for the day job. And even though I finished the Blender Donuts tutorial, I hadn’t really replaced it with one of the other things I am wanting to learn. That’s because I’m still making 3D donuts. I guess it’s time have another look at things.
The first thing I did while I was thinking about that was to make myself some lunch. I had a steak sandwich wrap and used some of my lovely salad greens that have finally gotten to a size of needing to be harvested periodically. As I was eating my wrap, I thought about the things I’m working on for studies, I realized that I had one course that I have completed a bit over half of. It could be finished fairly soon. And it might be enough to get me what I need. I need to check that out. That is the AWS course. That leaves two other lines of study. SQL and Ruby. I actually have a lot of what I need for what I started out taking the Ruby course for so I can pace myself a little differently with that one. Which brings me to the SQL. I’m studying for a test. As soon as I pass the test, I’m done with that. Done. Hmmm… I think I have a plan.
I’ll be working on that plan and seeing how well I can get it going this week. I’m hopeful. I really think it will work. I will include some of the fun bits too. I mean I still have Taekwondo, I still play guitar, and I’m still making 3D donuts.
Speaking of all those fun things. I did work on the guitar course again this weekend. I’d say I didn’t learn much with this set of lessons I watched except I learned just enough. The discussion of power chords and the why of them. Why they get used and why they work and a little of how to work with them was helpful. I’ve never been a big power chord player, except in a couple of cases for the blues. And I never had any real good explanation of their point. Now I understand. No. I won’t be switching to chunking away at power chords all the time. Seriously, that would be boring. It’s just now, I have a better understanding of them and their place.
Donuts. 3D donuts. Yes. I finished the tutorial in time for last week’s post. And I had an idea for the next scene. I think I told you, I intend to make a lot of 3D donut scenes. I’m treating it like practicing my scales and fingering exercises. I’m hoping to get faster, and to get some of the techniques well entrenched in my brain so that, like doing some of the Taekwondo forms I learned when I first started, I will have done them so much that I don’t have to think that hard to use them.
I did do something a little different this time. Actually, I may have done it one other time a few years ago. Anyway, I sketched out a rough idea of what I want the scene to look like. It’s not too fancy at this point. The point is to go through the exercise. And using a sketch, I think is good practice as well. Both for my sketching skills and for my workflow.
What else is happening? Well, I took some time during that bout of boredom and before making lunch, to work on the Lego set of the VW Samba bus. I’m not really far enough along with it for it to be worth a picture. And I’ve had my plants to take care of. The Basils, I think will make it. The Thai wasn’t getting enough water apparently. The Genovese was just getting enough water. They both have some new growth so it’s a matter of time I think. And the salad greens. They finally got big enough and full enough that I had to start harvesting. I had them as an addition to a salad one night and I’ve had them on wraps a couple of times now. I am hoping to get them transplanted before their roots get too overwhelming or tangled for the water resevoire.
Oh. My greeting cards arrived. I set them up and ordered them online using Moo.com. I got them today. They look great. They are a matte finish but not the matte finish that I was expecting. I was expecting something a little more rough which would have been fine for what I did but not so much for other things I’m thinking of. Now that I know what to expect I can make decisions about other card projects going forward.
That’s it for now. Enjoy the pictures.
