Project Progress
| Project Week | Project Hours |
|---|---|
| Mon, Aug 9 - Sun, Aug 22 | 1.5 |
I started using MediatR and it seems promising. I'm now designing a basic user management system so I can start creating users with profiles. I think I'm spending too much time on this, but it's interesting, so I'm just going for it.
I saw a tweet with this guy saying he launched his app without a sign up option. He just had people email him and added them to his user management system or something. The point he was making was to just get the product out. I feel I need a bit of that. I'm already putting the Facebook login thing, so I'm just going to finish it off, but next time, I think I'm just going to make things happen. The login part isn't really that important. What's important is the listing comedy events. If nobody cares about that, then I don't really have anything.
Life
I went to Canada's Wonderland the other day with my wife, kids, and in-laws. It was a rough time, because of the heat. Also, my youngest is about a year and a half, so that made things ever harder, because she wants to explore everything and run around. I suppose running around and waiting in lines is the Wonderland experience, but it seems harder with kids. The in-laws helped out, but it was still hard.
There was a one moment that stuck out in my mind with my older daughter. We took her to the child bumper car arena at Snoopy Planet, only to realize I couldn't go on with her. Only she could go on. I walked with her to pick out a car and then got her strapped in. I gave her some terrible instructions on how to turn the steering wheel, but I guess it didn't matter, because she never drove anything in life before anyway. Then, I walked out of the arena with all the other parents and stood at a spot where I could see her. I waited in anticipation for it to start. I was hoping she would remember what I told her about steering and hoping she even understood what I said. Once they turned on the cars, she drove forward towards all the other kids and they all got stuck. The bumper car steering is really stiff, so unless you know to grab one end with both hands, your pretty much stuck against another car. I tried to get her attention to tell her to pull the steering wheel, but she couldn't hear me over all the sound and all the other parents saying the same thing to their kids. The majority of the kids were all stick in the center while some other ones managed to get out. We all wanted our kids to have fun, but we couldn't step into the arena to help them out.
I realized that this is essentially what parenthood will be. I'll try to do my best to teach my kids things I think they should know and then hope they can make use of what I taught them. After that, all I can do is step away, hope for the best, and reassure them.