Rewritten from Sam's Journal/Notes
Some ideas show up polite and wait their turn. Others grab you by the collar and refuse to let go. This project I keep circling feels like the second kind.
I will be driving and suddenly catch myself halfway through a sentence I never meant to say out loud. Or scribbling something on the back of a receipt that looks like a diagram only I would understand. Something is taking shape behind my usual work... and it keeps following me from day to day.
I have built a lot of things in my life. Some for work. Some for fun. Some because I thought they might matter to someone down the road. But this feels different. It feels like a conversation that started somewhere in the back of my mind and has finally grown loud enough that I cannot ignore it anymore.
I am not ready to call it a project with a capital P. Not yet. But I can feel the gravity of it tugging at me. Every time I try to set it aside it finds a new way to slip back into my thoughts.
Maybe that is how you know something is worth exploring. Not because it is easy or obvious but because it refuses to stay quiet.
And for the sake of the integrity of this cough project I think honesty to you, dear reader, and myself will be important. I'm kidding myself if I try and pretend this isn't a full on project.
All I know is I have a whole lot of code written already.