Power of intention

So I said I'd get a few things done over break. I would post my games from the Millennium Chess Festival, I would finish my assembler program, and I would beat Through the Fire and Flames on expert level.

I talked to Sarah on the phone on Thursday night, and we might hang out some tonight. I haven't spent more than 30 seconds with her since...October, I think. She's a lot more important to me than that statistic would indicate. Last year, I was working the 24-hour desk at good ol' Lee Hall, and she'd always make a point to visit me during my Friday afternoon shifts. I still haven't gotten over the feeling I had when, probably around a year ago, during one graveyard shift, around 2:30 in the morning, she showed up just to say hi and hang out for a little while, and she gave me a Sudoku book to keep me occupied while no one was coming to the desk. That was probably one of the coolest things anyone has ever done for/to me.

Anyway, I was in the middle of my assembler program when I talked to her (fine...I was actually taking a break and playing Guitar Hero, trying to beat Through the Fire and Flames on expert), and I told her that I would have said program done so that hanging out would be possible (or easier, anyway). Up to that point, I wasn't really organized in my programming...I just started coding and hoping for the best...kind of like trying to paint a masterpiece by spraying paint through a fire hose. The program compiled and worked, but it wasn't fully functional. Keeping with the analogy, technically I created a painting, but it wasn't worth anything.

So having said I would get it done, I pretty much scrapped the entire program (that I had been working on for pretty much 12 hours straight), and started over. I actually made a plan, wrote pseudo code, and all that stuff, and I put out a working program within an hour. So check one thing off my list.

I promised I would beat Through the Fire and Flames on expert before Super Smash Bros. Brawl came out, and I just did it about an hour ago, so check that off too. Phew...done with 6 hours to spare.

Haven't studied my openings as much as I wanted to, but I'll do that soon enough.