Well, It's Winter...

I wrote a paper about the pyramids in Egypt.  A long time ago, after a really serious head injury, I came to realize they were used for astronomy using a mathematical construct that modeled vision.  Because of the head injury, a lot of stuff in my head stayed stuck up there for a lot of years and I couldn't understand why.

Turns out it wasn't solely because of the injury, but mostly because of the doctor.  He stitched me up nicely, but without the neurological consult, it seems I was left to wander broken for a lot of years with stuff called aphasia and amnesia and no awareness time.  And absolutely no understanding why things were out-of-whack.  I feel very fortunate to be recovering, though it's made for some confounding years.

What are you gonna do?

I've finally opened up Android Studio and I'm looking at the code to put packages in place and...got overwhelmed so I came here to take a minute to get centered before easing into the logic.  Packages have implications that go deep into the heart of Lisp.  It'll be nice if this stuff works.  But really, I just want to get each piece right without stressing much as I try it.

I've done a lot of weird experimentation with Lisp over the years so I'm kind of okay if it doesn't work.  I've just found that it's more fun when it's easy to see the mistakes clearly and quickly so they can be backed out if they don't work, or well-documented as each step is verified to do what it's supposed to.  I'm not a big fan of getting lost in my own code anymore.

This Is Some Involved Kind of Complicated

Wow, I don't know how long it's been since I last wrote, because I've been really busy.  I had the "Aha!" moment tonight.  Finally saw how to install the package code into the Lisp I'm writing.  I forgot how the Lisp went together until I was able to sit down with the code the other day.  Hadn't thought about it much, but after a few minutes of thinking on the subway tonight, it became clear.  It's going to go in easy (famous last words).  It's pretty exciting to have control of the internals of the language.  It's a fun and surprising perspective.

Going to install and test it over the next few days.  Hopefully sooner.  But life feels fast these days.  It might take a little while longer than I'd like.