This is my first Life vs. Hobby post. I say first because I’ve been doing this long enough to know that there will be many more. I was pretty lucky while working on Project Wish that life didn’t get in the way more than it did. Having no kids yet helped quite a bit. Having a nice wife also helped 
. In fact, it got in the way so little, that I was able to do more than I had ever dreamed going into it. Things are not so easy this time around. Lucky for me (and my family), I am a wiser person now.
Wisdom comes from setting proper priorities, folks. You can’t live life like a video game for very long before you find out that hard way that RL is going to win every time. You can’t ditch class and expect to glide through college like you did high school. You can’t do crappy work and not show up and expect to keep you minimum wage job. You can’t put your hobby first over your real life, no matter what, and expect to be happy later. I am no Damon Grow, that’s for sure. That dude has some balls, to semi-ditch his family for his dream, or at least watch them semi-ditch him (however you look at it). I’m lucky that my hobby/dream never went to that extreme, or rather, I never let it. Make no mistake, it is all about your own personal choice(s). Addiction to your hobby is not a good excuse when it comes down to screwing up your life.
Anyways, enough of that rant that probably nobody will ever read. My site has been sitting here practically untouched for long enough. I knew I needed to post, so that was my justification for the update I now give. My second child was born about 2 1/2 weeks ago, so I have been making the smart choice to help out my wife when I am at home, and not just stay up late. That would make me a zombie, which isn’t much help to her during the night, when babies like to wake up.
My game is still sitting here. Visual Studio is still open, from over a month ago, but yet remains unmodified. That being said, I have spent some time working on my music skills. My game idea is more than just a simple concept. I plan on making the complete game experience by having good music, along with good graphics and gameplay (my fingers are crossed on all of those things). I had spent some time using Fruity Loops back for Project Wish, so I whipped it out again to get myself going. I’ve got some musical ideas going around, so I figured I would get them down before I forget.
Other than that, things are going well with kid #2, so I hope that that means I will be back to programming this month sometime. Hopefully I will even get some videos to post.
