I had a light bright. I don’t know why I got it. Or when I got it. I do remember using the lite brite at least once. I don’t recall using it much. I doubt I made any interesting designs with the lights. I wonder why I got a light brite in the first place????
So I have the idea that I want
to have OatmealBreakfat star in a basketball game. Now all I need to do is make the game. Now its time for the hard part. I want OatmealBreakfast to star in as many sports games as I can make. Hockey, football, water polo, golf and sports I never never even heard of or don’t know how to play.
Making video games could force me to learn new things. I need to take the first stop and write code for my own video game. Its seems after if I will never get that done. I hope I do. If only so that I can finish a video game and know for me that I have made a video game. That would mean I accomplished a goal of mine.
I am not sure what to write about
today so I am going to start writing and see what comes out of my keyboard. I used to think I enjoyed watching movies. For me watching movies don’t make me feel as good as when I listen to music or play a video game.
So that is why I want to make music and make a video game. I can also put my music in my video game. If I ever do get around to making a video game its not likely that anyone will ever watch it.
I will be able to say I made a video game. And to me that is enough.
Chess
Chess I am going to learn how to play chess. I wonder why I want to learn how to play chess? Maybe its because it does not take much equipment. Either a computer or a chess board and chess pieces and a notebook to keep track of my moves.
I just read a short book about chess. Now I know the chess pieces are called Rook, knight, Bishop, King, Queen, pawn. Now all I need to do is play chess so I can remember some of what I have learned.
I need a chess goal. I will one one game of chess before my chess career is over. There that is my chess goal.
Slot Cars
I remember when I was very young when I got a slot car set. It was a small figure 8 track with two controllers.
Even though I did not use my slot car set that often one or two of the slot cars stopped working so I had to get new ones.
I don’t remember how long I would play with the slot cars when I did play with the slot cars. I do remember driving my car off the track. I doubt I was any better at slot cars than I am at video games.
I am not interested in slot cars anymore. Now I would rather drive RC cars around than drive slot cars on a track. Thought I would need a lot less room to have a slot car track. Ah, I still think RC cars are more fun than slot cars.
Slinky
I have used a slinky before. I never did much with it. I wonder what things I can make a slinky do? I will have to look it up. I certainly did not make a slinky go down a lot of stairs like the scene in Ace venture when nature calls where Ace makes a slinky go down lots of stairs before he leaves the Monastery.
I have not used a slinky in years. Maybe its time to start using a slinky again. Or not. I don’t know.
Silly Putty
When I was younger I remember wanting to get silly putty. I was fascinated by silly putty.
Who wouldn’t be. If you put silly putty on a newspaper with test it will copy that text. That is all I remember at silly putty. I wonder what else silly putty can do? I will have to find out.
I finally did get some silly putty. I copied some newspaper or magazine text with it. And that is all I can remember. For all I know I only played with the silly putty one time for five minutes. And then it disappeared into my who knows where.
Silly putty seems like it might be a fun thing to learn about, and not that expensive. So I might try playing with silly putty again.
I don’t have any idea of what to write
about today. So I will start writing and see what happens. When I was young I saw people yoyo and wanted to be able to yoyo so bad. When I picked up a yoyo the yoyo would go down. Sadly it the yoyo would not come back up to my hand.
For years I as convinced I could not yoyo. Many years later I got a yoyo. I tired it and this time after a little practice the yoyo went down and it came back up to my hand. I could yoyo.
I can’t do yoyu tricks. And I want to know how to do yoyo tricks. So learning yoyo tricks is on my list of things to learn. I am sure I can learn them with a lot of effort.
Juggling
I enjoy juggling. I wanted to juggle for years before I started juggling everyday. I remember the time I read a small article in a magazine about how to juggle. I got 3 tennis balls and tried to do what the article said.
I could not juggle at all. I was convinced that I could not juggle. There were people who could juggle and I was not one of those people. I was sad I am sure.
Fast forward to roughly a year ago. I wanted to juggle real bad. I had no juggling balls. So I ripped pages from old magazines I had and formed the pages into juggling balls. After first i used two pages per juggling ball, then I added another page for a total of 3 magazine pages for juggling ball.
I did not want to buy juggling balls because I did not know if I could juggle or even like juggling.
I also read a book about juggling. And I watched a juggling tutorial video. The book I read talked about cascade, reverse cascade and other types of juggling. Before I had only thought there was one way to juggle. I was wrong. One thing I saw in the book that I want to do is juggle on a unicycle. That looks fun.
It took me a long time to get good a juggling even one juggling ball. I practiced hard. Then I added another ball so I was juggling two balls. But, I only juggled the balls once then stopped. I could not keep the 2 balls going. I could not get my heard around how to keep the balls moving.
Eventually I got to the point where I could get two balls going. I still have trouble. I can now juggled 3 balls. Though not that good. Its so hard for me to juggle.
I like juggling because all I need are juggling balls and enough room to juggle them. Nothing more. And It keeps me moving around. Exercise.
I think it would be fun one day to enter a juggling competition. And also I want to be able to keep at least 3 juggling balls up in the air for say five minutes or 10 minutes or an hour. An hour might be pushing it.
Juggling is fun. I am glad I decided to juggle. I may never be the best. If I am never a good juggler at least I have a fun hobby.
So what if the juggling balls drop to the floor all the time. As long as juggling is fun I will keep juggling.
Drawing, is another one of my hobbies
For years. Ever since I was young I wanted to draw. I remember one time I saw a friends drawing and though I wish I could draw that good. Then I must have thought you could never draw anything like that. You can’t draw.
So I very rarely picked up a pen or a pencil and drew. I thought that some people could draw. And there were people like me who could not draw.
Back in 2010 i drew probably everyday for several months. And up to that point that was not most sustained period of my ever having drawn.. Then I gave up drawing for about 3 years. I probably figured I was not good enough to draw.
So I had to have a sketchbook. I had wanted one for awhile. Then I got one. And I drew in it. And since 2013 I have been drawing sometimes everyday. Though there have been weeks or month in that period that I never touched a sketchbook to draw in it.
Now I am back to drawing more like sketching everyday. I hope I keep it up.
One tip that I really like was in a book I read about a storyboard artist for movies. He said to practice drawing you can take tracing paper and put it over say a picture in a magazine and trace the picture.
He also said you could practice by using a computer and tracing over images on the computer.
I thought that was the greatest drawing tip I had ever read. Place tracing paper over a picture and trace it. Its sure a lot more fun to practice than sitting there and trying to draw a object freehand and ending up with a lamp that looks like a television.
Even in my younger days I remember tracing with tracing paper. I am sure I would be a better artist now if I would have known that sure go ahead a practice drawing by tracing over objects in pictures. Then once I got enough practice tracing I am sure I would be able to draw the object free hand.
