To say that I get easily distracted or have severe ADHD would not be entirely true. Granted it wouldn\u2019t be entirely false either. What being this way means is that you can get easily derailed from something you were otherwise paying attention to.<\/p>\n
Add to this that I also fall into hyper focus. This can be called many things: \u201cThe Zone\u201d, \u201cFugue State\u201d, \u201cProject minded\u201d, etc. What this means is that when I get into a project I will throw everything I have into it. I will burn late night oil to work on it. I will become innovative to try new things associated with it.<\/p>\n
So the collision comes up with one last factor. I call this \u201cThe daunting spectre of struggle.\u201d When I get to a, \u201cBut I don\u2019t wanna. That\u2019s going to be [hard | lugubrious | tedious | take too long without interruption]\u201d phase. At this point I step back from the project to ponder about it. I come out of hyper focus. At this point ADHD\/distraction can move in and another project can sweep me away.<\/p>\n
Two weeks ago I was doing family research. I absolutely adore building this huge tree for my son. Now that I have a child I can actually feel legitimised researching my loved one\u2019s family since my own family history is fairly impossible to research. My wife is Western-European, Blue Blood…. all those good things. I’m the touring company to “Fiddler on the Roof”<\/p>\n
This however once again caused me to contemplate some genealogy tools that I need that just don\u2019t exist. And the quite transition occurred. I spent last week working on my GEDCOM parser. It took me a day or two to get that back on my plate. But, I made some great progress and rebuilt a code version system archive to replace the one that got eaten. Of course this got me into the annoyance of parsing DATE data. It\u2019s really quite ugly. It\u2019s going to require some directed attention and the weekend got in the way. I really can\u2019t code and monitor the toddler.<\/p>\n