The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!!

[Running Bear]

Had a busy day today. Programmed thirteen or fourteen blocks into Native Fury. That was the motel by itself, not including the tie-ins with the forest and dunes modules. Tomorrow I'll be programming the park behind the motel. That's another nine to eleven blocks. Almost a full day counting breaks and I'm taking my time on this. When I wrote 'Hell House' back in 97-98 I was programming almost thirty blocks a day. After ten hours of that kind of fast typing your eyes feel like biscuits that were left in the oven too long and there's so much code running through your head your dreams even come up looking like Fortran, C and C++. In my younger days I could almost speak assembly language. Taking apart a program and rearranging it with a sector editor or a nibbler was child's play. Now it's difficult because I haven't done it much since 1990. It's true what they say about use it or lose it. What I'm doing with Native Fury is nothing. I'm playing with it. An eight year old could do it if you gave him/her the proper instruction in the use of Basic code, C++ and VBasic. Kids used to learn this stuff in the third grade. I gave both my nieces and my nephew their first two semesters of computer instruction. Didn't take with my nephew. He's a gear head. Give him a computer and he's lost. But give him a car or truck engine and he can tear it down and rebuild it in his sleep, under water and blindfolded. My two nieces, they're a different story. The one that lives here, she's always having to show her husband how to program the phones and troubleshoot problems on any of their computers. The niece in Virginia already has her six year old son checked out on Visual Basic and he can already do more things with Windows than I thought was possible. I'd love to see that kids IQ score. I wouldn't be surprised if it's higher than mine.

Well enough with the program talk and techno babble. It's time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.