So the first week’s assignments are completed and turned in for grading … now we wait to see if the Prof is going to be picky or simply give credit for completing them on time and getting correct output of the program. I have had both types of Profs over the last two years and to be honest, I really prefer the ones who give credit for making the application work though it may not be perfect or done the same way they would have coded it. The ones who are so stuck in their own way of writing code should be doing just that, writing code not teaching others how to do it.
My weekend came … and went … and so did summer. It is now gloomy, cold, and rainy outside and will be for the remainder of the week. It looks like we may see the sun again next Friday but only for part of the day and with an anticipated high in the 60’s. It looks like it may be time to pack up the gear and park the bike for the winter. I think Jen and I are headed to Mom and Dad’s the weekend of 10/25 and since we’ll be going up on a Saturday rather than Friday night it will be the perfect time to ride the bike up and park it for the winter, right after I ask if I can store it there for a few months. Not certain Mom will be okay with it but since the mess in the garage and barn is Dad’s, I’ll ask him instead. If nothing else, there is a mostly empty garage in Kalkaska that it could be stored in provided we know where all the keys are and I can get up there to check on it occasionally over the winter. It may delay getting it out of storage in the spring since it sits on a sand road that often is a mess during the summer and is horrific in the spring, but since I’ll be riding it home rather than putting it on a trailer (at least that is the plan at this point) I might be waiting ‘till May to get it out of storage anyway. The road is usually passable by late April, unless it rains heavy for a few days.
I suspect Jack is home from Main by now though I haven’t heard back from my last e-mail … so in true Shane style I’ll be sending him another one today just to see. I’m hoping that my next trip north will also include a little time with him, and the opportunity to deliver the last copy of Unconditional, unless some publisher does decide to print it for the masses at least. It has been tweaked, added to, modified, and tweaked again over the last few months and I am finally happy with it. The latest round of changes finally sealed the deal and made me decide to keep the chapters that fill in the missing info a few readers have asked about, and the ending was modified slightly to make it fit the additions. I like it for a change, I actually think it’s a good book and coming from me that says a lot. I even like the close parallels between Kerry and Jack now, thought I tried so hard to make them go away when initially writing the story it just seems to work better when I modified the character of Kerry to make it more real life. Inevitably, it ended up being Jack with a little touch of Stacey in there once in a while.
On to the next project I suppose … but should it be developing the new story that will be based on The Dream, or should I start to work with Hide-and-go-Seek?
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