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I have been reading the godot documentation

as I want to get a lot better at using godot. I have know about godot for probably at least a year and yet have not made anything with it. And one of the reasons I got a computer was that I wanted to make video games. And still have not done that.

So this year I hope to design and make my own video game. I know I can do it if I stay focused on making things instead of trying to learn a whole lot of programming languages and making nothing.

The reason I wanted to learn to program was so that I could make stuff. I did not want to learn to program so that I could learn how to write hello world in every programming language imaginable.

I wish I could make a sports game right this minute but, one video I watched said that a sports simulation games were hard to make. At least I think that is what the video said. So I will have to work up to making a sports video game. I can do it.

I want to make a sports video game because sports video games are my favorite video games to play. Basketball is my favorite sports game genre. So I hope that one day I will make my own basketball game that other people will want to play. Or that I will want to play more than once.

So I will see if I have made at least one game of my own by the end of 2023. Time will tell.

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Another thing I hope to learn more about this year is the ocean

I figure it covers 2/3rds of the Earth and I don’t know much about it so I should learn more about it. I don’t know what I want to know about the ocean exactly. I want to start learning that is for sure.

Even though I have never surfed one of my favorite things to watch is surfing. I suppose I like the freedom of surfing. I don’t want to learn how to surf myself. I would rather play a surfing video game.

A few years ago I read a book about Octopus and I enjoyed it. I have also read a book about crab’s and I like that also. There is so much that I don’t know about the ocean.

And I do like to eat seaweed. Maybe I could learn more about seaweed or maybe I could learn how to grown it and start my own seaweed farm. That would be interesting.

So I hope to learn a lot more this year about the ocean and outerspace than I know now.

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This year I hope to do a lot of star gazing

I have always wanted to star gaze but, have never done much star watching. I do think when I was very young that I looked through a telescope at the moon. At least I think it was the moon. I am not sure what I looked at exactly.

So I hope to learn how to use stellarium which is a program I learned about year ago from kim komando and even tried to use a little but, never have used it much nor have I gotten good at using it.

I am not sure what I want to star gaze at. Could I look for exoplantets, the moon, asteroids, the planets of this solar system.

Do I want to get a telescope, or use binoculars or both? Do I want to take astronomy pictures? I remember in a book I read about gimp that it had how to take astronomy pictures and then enhance them with gimp.

I figure I do wan to learn to take astronomy pictures. But, astronomy pictures of what I am not sure. Maybe I could start with pictures of the moon.

I figure if I start watching the sky and learn more about it I will figure out what I am interested in. But, I must start star gazing first. So that is one thing I hope to do this year.

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So next year I want to become a better programmer

And become a better 3d artist and become a better game developer.

I know I had written those things probably every year for over a decade and I still don’t seem to be as good as I want to be.

I need to work on the things I want to get better at everyday. I need to push though the tough times and keep working. I don’t want to look back and wish I had worked harder or been good at something I never was good it.

I don’t like computers as much as I used to but, I still want to be good at programming them, making music with them, making are with them, making games with them.

So next year I will get better at what I want to get better at.

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I am reading Milk: A 10,000 year food Fracus

By Mark Kurlansky. I started reading it yesterday. And so far I have learned that there are donkey diary’s in Italy. and llamas are milked in south America. I had never heard of either of those animals being milked.

How cool would it be to milk Donkeys. I think it would be interesting that is for sure.

I have been around cows being milked and that is pretty neat. However I have never seen a goats or sheep being milked in person.

One of the coolest animals I think to milk would be a Camel. I don’t know if that would be that easy to milk but, it would sure be something different to milk one. And then to try the milk. Or maybe if I could make cheese or ice cream from it. I have no idea what Camels milk tastes like because drinking it and using it to make food would be cool.

One thing that I hope I do someday is make cheese, yogurt, ice cream from goats, cows, sheep’s milks.

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Three websites where I like to take quizzes

At free wheat I answer multiplication quiz. You know 5 * 5 and then I put the answer in the text field and submit. For every answer I get right I donate 1 grain of rice.

At bean bean I like to take the cell functions quiz. I have to get 21 answers right without a mistake to be able to donate 21 beans.

And at free rice I like to take the Spanish language quiz. For every answer I get right I donate 10 grains of rice.

I have know about free rice for years but, have only within the past year or two used it on a regular basis. I have over 180,000 grains of rice donated. Which is good enough for 3,053 on the leader board.

I would like to get over a million donated. I don’t think I will ever be able to reach the number one position on the leader board at 63 million. That would be cool though.

I learning about and started using free wheat and bean bean this year.

I like that I can play quizzes and donate food to people who need it at the same time.

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I like oranges so I want to learn how to grown an orange tree

I have never grown a fruit tree but, have always wanted to particularly dwarf fruit trees. Oh, wait I have grown a fruit tree.

About 5 apple trees from seed but, I never harvested any fruit from them. And I did grow cactus and did harvest some fruit from that. So I have grown fruit trees thought I have not had much of a harvest.

One of my favorite fruits is oranges so I think it would be fun to grown oranges trees even though I have no idea how to grown them or even if they will grown in my area.

It will give me something to learn.

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I tried spyder ide for python

I had never tried spyder ide before the other day even though it comes with the version of python I use. I usually use jupyter notebook or IDLE or a console when I use python. But, I decided to use spyder and I liked it.

Maybe if I commit myself to writing a line of python code a day next year. Maybe that will get me programming. I still want to learn to program after all these years. I am not getting any younger. And if I want to much longer to learn I fear that I will never program.

I know I want to make games, do machine learning and genetic programming, and try to make a blender addon with python. So I have got ideas of things to make with python. Now I just have to program on a daily basis.

Maybe I am afraid that if I do make an effort to program I will find that I can’t do it. That I will not be good enough. But, I have got to try harder to program. I have other hobbies but, I want programming to be one of them.

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I think I should narrow down what I want to get better at in 2023

I said I want to get better at blender and godot. I think I should pick one of those programs to get better at and when I get good at one I can work on getting better at the other. At least I hope that is what happens. Or maybe I should try and learn both at that same time.

Anyway I want to learn something better. If the choice is between blender and godot I want to learn how to use blender first. And then godot. Since I like to make art.

And I was also thinking about programming. I want to learn python better in 2023. A lot of the time I think wow, if I would have focused on a programming language when I got my first computer and stuck with it I might be a decent programmer by now.

I wish I could go back in time and change what I did then but, I can’t so I will have to get better at blender and python now.

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