- 5 weeks of studying online courses in SAP HCM and Tableau
- 1.5 weeks of studying Python for the one job application I found over the lockdown (that I obviously failed the online assessment for, as you can't pick up Python in 2 weeks. But at least I tried.)
- About half a week of hammering out cover letters for the government's new trainee jobs - part of their reopening stimulus
- Working on my game (for only a few minutes a day) and playing Guild Wars 2, League of Legends, Arknights, and Terraria when I'm not studying or applying to stuff
I'm pretty disappointed in my failures to actually finish a course, and that I haven't picked up Python to a stronger skill level. I need to practice more, I suppose.
Only good news is I'm
actually done drafting player abilities for my game. Just took me the better
portion of 3 months, and I remade vast portions of the entire game in the
meantime. (Makes sense when you think about it: games revolve around the things
the player can and cannot do, so I had to change the rules of my game when I
realized certain cases that shouldn't be.)
My next step
is…monsters. Things you kill. And I'll be writing the story to accommodate some
of them, particularly the bosses. I'm not sure how they will work, though,
because I am neither an animator nor a programmer. I'll try to envision
monsters that don't have a lot of moving parts
Beyond that, aside
from the occasional chide from parents to 'work harder' (what would you have me
do? Not like there were a lot of openings until last week), life is really
uneventful. I guess that's good, considering everything I read about what's
going on in the world. Nothing really surprises me about it. When I look back I
realize US healthcare was always shit (and got worse in the last decade) but I
was super young back when I lived there, so it never occurred to me. And the
race/police protests thing…well, let's say whatever comes to the US police
force, they deserve it. Only real concerning factor to me is probably the
Singapore dengue epidemic going on right now.
