Purpose

I often hold off on posting because I feel like I have nothing important to say. I think that in the past that has been due to a lack of a sense of purpose. While I’ve always known where I was headed and what I should do, I haven’t always felt a sense of drive. It was there, it was pushing me to achieve and do things. It’s gotten me where I am. But I never overtly thought I could feel it.

Because of that lack, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking and praying about purpose lately. I just had a mini-epiphany: I have a sense of purpose. Duh. It is indeed why I am where I am, doing what I’m doing, being who I am. I’m a teacher, an innovator, a doer of things, whether I’m conscious of it or not. Let’s see if that realization translates to more and better work, achievements, posts, etc.

Spend a little time thinking about your sense of purpose. Be objective. Don’t doubt, don’t presuppose. Just ponder. You may find out that you already have it, or you may realize you want to cultivate it more. Either way, ponder it. I think it’ll make you a better person.

Ridiculous month

The last month has been perhaps the most event/activity filled and emotional of my year. Callie passed away, I worked on both my full-time job as well as a side project for a friend of a friend, began studying up to teach at RIT in spring and arranged all the mundane details of preparing for said new job, searched for/found/signed lease on a new townhouse, had my car die and found a new one (purchase in progress), started participating in a new study group at church, plus all the mundane activities of life.

I am mentally exhausted and have been more up and down with bipolar episodes than at any time since I finished undergrad. If that statement surprises you, just know that I’ve learned a *lot* of coping techniques over the years and have a great support group. I am very thankful for all of my amazing friends and family and my God and all the support I’ve had. I can see a little light at the end of this current tunnel and look forward to being the guy others rely on again. Thanks everyone.

AIR and ASDoc

After spending the last couple hours pulling my hair out, I finally figured out a problem with generating ASDoc’s for my AIR app. I had been getting errors that said ASDoc couldn’t find the base class for certain of my custom classes. It seemed to only happen for things like Text objects, ArrayCollection’s, etc. Finally, I found that importing both the standard and AIR libraries when running ASDoc fixed my problem.
-library-path "[your sdk]/frameworks/libs" "[your sdk]/frameworks/libs/air"