Day 9 - May 10

Tuesday - Obscura Digital
Today was moderately bad and moderately okay.

After being stuck in the Muni underground for almost an hour and being declined for a summer job that I have held for the past two years, I spent my morning back downstairs in the hardware department. The big project right now is for a ... Removed in agreement with NDA ... That means that a lucky intern (me) got to spend the morning un-plugging, untangling, and re-wrapping all the cables behind the physical displays as well as the computers that powered each one. That was tedious (to say the least) and it didn't help that I was tucked against a dark wall doing it all. I am grateful for the existence of headlamps but a nice Johnson & Johnson's De-Tangler for computer cables wouldn't hurt. After a lunch, in which my girlfriend surprised me with a homemade apple crisp, I talked to some random people in the office before heading back down. Instead of unplugging cables this time, I was plugging them in! Specifically, I was ... Removed in agreement with NDA... This was much more fun for me since there were people I could talk to while working (and they were also funny). I was so helpful, that I lost track of time and ended up staying until after 3:30 PM working on the test build.

Home
Later on, I hopped on for another four hours into the night to dabble some more in Unity. I got some features working, such as Button Events and accessing variables in different methods, but am still stumped by sliders... My process involves experimentation, success, thinking of something harder to do, failing at it repeatedly, and repeating the process all over again.