My latest hobby

So the reason that I haven't blogged much lately is because I have a new hobby that takes up all of my time where the kids are fine and I can do something for myself. I have taken up programming again. (I worked for 2 years as a programmer a long time ago, long enough ago that I can hardly grasp that that was part of my life.)
I haven't decided yet if it's really worth it. I mean, it's not like I'm contributing to our family or even programming anything that's really useful. I've had this idea for a recipes program for years now, so I'm finally working on it. But it's not like there aren't a million of those programs out there. Anyway, I'm really enjoying it and learning a lot that could someday be useful, I guess. The problem is that I have the Meyers' obsession to work on projects, and sometimes I find myself working on it too much and neglecting the kids. That's the last thing I want to do. When I can do it reasonably I find myself being a better mom because I'm more involved when I'm with them and not so tired of playing that I just tune them out. Most of the time, anyway. Sometimes I'm just a bad mom altogether.

Anyway, if you care, which you probably don't, I'm just so frustrated right now because my computer can't handle all the fun. I'm using JDeveloper, and it takes about half of the time I have just to wait for it to respond. Usually I use Jake's computer, which is a thousand times faster, but tonight he's playing game with a friend from Texas. I just right clicked on something, and it took a full minute to come back from all the right-clicking stress. Oh, to be rich...