CatFish and Stress

I need to finally acknowledge that I do not handle stress well. While I did party it up quite a bit last week (including traveling 3 hours for a concert, returning early the next morning to get to work on time, leaving work early to catch Black Panther before I dashed off to catch my son's Poetry Jam, cleaning house the next day, getting my hair cut and my toes polished...) Maybe fighting off stress is just another term for "paying the piper".

I spent president's day meeting with a couple of lawyers to prep for my expert testimony on Thursday. That left me Tuesday and Wednesday to review the four extra phones they wanted me to cover as well as research an obscure app used by the defendant. Luckily I didn't have much time to research before today - because an hour after installing the app and running tests, I got an email saying the defendant took a plea deal.

Yay! I won't have to spend the day in court before I catch a flight to London (work related). Miraculously I am completing my homework on time. My stress level, I feel, has negatively impacted my creativity-- but I was still satisfied with this week's app once I completed it. My major concern is that I don't feel as if I understand all of the coding. In the past, I have been able to tweak multiple items as I understood what the coding was doing. I think there was a good chunk of this app that I would not be able to recreate independently. I did challenge myself by creating a pause button. I had to figure out how to pause each process without causing the process to stop functioning.

I left the main character (the cat) in motion as she was a little bit more of a complicated sprite. I also left the health bar running as I was concerned at pausing all of its processes.