Have a Scrooge for The Itty Bitty Galaxy.

I was going to give him a top hat and scarf and whatnot, but figured having him lying in bed would be more unique to the character. This was done really quickly, like in 20 minutes or so. Yay copying and pasting!

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For this project as a whole, I basically see two options, not that I’m dying to dive back into coding right now.

• I can rewrite what I’ve got in Unity.
• I can continue writing in native Java code.

Despite my aversion to ever doing anything in native code again, I’m leaning towards option #2. First of all, it’s free. While the base Unity package is free, the Android libraries are not, and my track record with this sort of stuff is not good enough to justify dropping a few hundred dollars on a product I may never recoup the costs for.

Secondly, I should probably get comfortable with Java. It seems likely that I may need to know that for my current or future jobs.

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I’ve started running regularly! I’ve never done this before, but I sort of hit a tipping point where this seemed worth doing.

• I want to participate in next year’s Warrior Dash. Like pet projects, I’m much more likely to work on a skill if it’s in the service of some well-defined project. So since the Warrior Dash is like a dozen obstacle coursey activities spread out over three miles of trails, my goal is to be able to run three and a half miles uninterrupted.
• My progress is measurable. Thanks to my phone and RunKeeper, I can see detailed statistics about every run I do and see if I’m improving. Without some objective way to see how I’m doing, I’d probably just get flustered and quit after a while.
• I am confident that progress can be made here. I was doing an EA Sports Active routine for a while, and made noticeable progress doing the activities there, which I wasn’t sure would happen within 90-day program they have you do.
• I am confident that this will improve, not take away from, my ability to write good code for work and keep pet projects moving. Again, my experience with EA Sports Active has shown me that exercise is essential to doing complex problem solving, which again, I did not expect.

So there you have it. Once the winter sets in again and the snow starts to fall, I’m not sure how this will work out. I can go back to indoor EA Sports stuff again of course, but I’m not sure about the running.

I’ll figure that out when it happens I guess.