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God today has at last set me free to do anything
I'm back to the start Shannon doesn't know if she wants to be with me or not and wow that's a fucking low point. So it proves to me something I'm Alone. There is no one there for me and no matter what I say or what I do there wont be. The same problems I had with sarah I'm having with Shannon I'm such an ass hole and I cant deal with it. I just fucking do these horrible things to people and I don't know why I do it. I'm really fucked up inside really fucked up. there isn't much of a chance in things getting better because every one who will love me will lose those feelings in time and ill be alone much like how I am now. the only thing left are the words that I write and I don't enjoy reading them they only bring back hurt and emptiness. I love Shannon/ loved Shannon don't know what it is now but I cant fucking do it. I make people want to leave me and the only reason I'm alone like sarah said is because I let my self be alone and because I'm such an ass hole. As fucked up as jazmin was I think that's why she left and same thing with Juan they all left me because I'm such an ass hole and I have to fucking hurt people just so that I can feel better about my fucking problems and just so I can now that there are others that feel as empty as me. But you know what I should die alone I should suffer and every thing I get well I asked for it. Why can't I just let things be and just let it work out. I have to be a fucking ass hole about things and I have to see people that I really care about get hurt because of my fears and demons.
If it feels like a Monday and you see the same people you would see on a Monday then it must be a Monday but its not. I have nothing better to do with my time so I will write about my day. Nothing happened I'm in the talks with some guys over a power metal band they want me in the like how I sing but well power metals not my thing it would be a bad ass idea on paper but that's all it would be. Ill think about it but I don't want to leave my band and I don't want to do anything stupid. Had fun with Sarah like all ways and my band is still in search of a bass player I hate Miami and its lack of bass players then again we have had five. Underneath the bridge the top has sprung a leak ok so yea that's it for now who the fuck reads this wow.
So I haven't written anything here in a few days. Reason because I have been working I have had way less free time to sit and write about how my day has been. So what have I been up too not much. I have been to that mall over a million times with Eric and its not all fun but I'm not going to get into this at this point. I haven't written much poetry so that sucks but every thing else is pretty good. Sucks that I'm spending my summer working but its better than staying home and doing nothing at all. Life is good there is no reason to kill my self and that's great. I haven't hanged out with Jesus much because he got summer school the poor guy failed like 3 classes and that sucks for him. I hope he does good in summer I would hate to leave a friend behind. Jesus is a close friend so I care about the guy a lot. The kids are great and the teachers are cool so I'm not having a hard time working and most of the time I feel like this is just way to easy.This weeks been great well ill try to write more but I don't think I will.
Dead so fucking dead. Ok well I haven't updated in a few days because no one really reads this and there really isn't a point. I don't know why I'm doing this now when I really shouldn't well for the few that read this I have been working and don't expect to see me online much for this month
I Dont have to go to that preppy helllllll YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Same fucking boring shit every year. Great I cant be with my friends and that sucks my mom is making me go to my cousins house and I hate there friends because there nothing but preppy ass holes. That's ok when I come back from there ill spend time with my friend and I'm sure ill have fun I just hope my mom doesn't make me stay late as fuck like she does some times then I would shoot my self. I really hate preppy people know that I come to think about it more and more there all ways telling me to change and cut my hair and shit like that. there trying to make me look better the stupid fuckers them. Why do you all ways wear black? Well why are U so fucking stupid. So what if I wear black its not going to kill any one. Thing is I have fun making jokes about them when they don't even know it. Stupid Preppy people STUPID!!!!!
Wow today is so boring. what the fuck am I going to do? I really need to look for something to do something fun. So I called Eric it doesn't look like him and I are going to do a lot today. Best thing I can do is go to Jesus''s house and then from there go some were but then what. O god I have nothing to do summer sucks for this one reason some days you do to much and you don't have time for every thing and then some days you get bored enough to shoot your self in the face. So every ones got problems mine are small at this point in my life so I'm going to go and start helping people that's something that I should do more often but I gave it up because I needed to help my self
Today was I nice day to be home. I didn't get a change to go out but that's ok because it rained the whole day and I really didn't feel like going out. Eric came over and we played the hulk its a fun game to play every one is little and your this huge green thing its funny. Yup as you can tell I really don't have a lot to write about because I didn't do anything today. Nothing was learned and I didn't have any life changing moments. THe only great thing about today was that I feel closer to Ashley but I do every time we talk so its really nothing out of this world that I really love her more than any thing is it. OK so life as we no it means something its great I'm not just taking space any more I feel special.
Fuck I'm Hypppppperrrrrrrrrrrr and there is nothing I can do about it. I don't get hyper a lot any more I use to when I was in middle school but now I'm so dead that just doesn't happen and then right now of all the times to get hyper guess what I'm Hypppppperrrrrrrrrrrr this sucks I got so much energy and no fucking idea hot to let it all just get out. Today was fun one of the best days I have had in weeks. I'm really happy and at least for now every thing seems ok I know its all going to fall apart very soon and things wont keep been this way but I'm going to enjoy it all for as long as I can. IT sucks how it all ways has to fall apart at one point or another why I don't know they just do and that sucks its probably because I like the misfits or something like that. If only I could see her right now I really love this girl and the longer I'm with her the more I care for it. Its great to be in a situation were your love grow and grows.
Today kicked ass I saw the movie 28 days its a really good movie. Its not the normal zombie movie that's just really fake this movie had things in it that could and would actually happen. Ok so yea I got to see Sarah for the first time all summer she was the same I felt bad for her because some one was bothering her I'm not going to say any names but I will say this I'm glad you came Sarah your my hero and I love you so much god Sarah I just really love you. Well I though Ashley was mad at me but I was wrong and that's a great thing I really don't want her mad at me I loves her to much.
I'm feeling way better don't know why I just am. The darkness has past maybe just because I really do have a lot to live for. Things are just to important for me to leave at this point. I need blood but that's all and take a long walk in the dark and come back you all ways feel better. maybe I'm just really fucked up ant its my job to think fucked up things what ever it is it sucks. but R A T F I N K rat fink R A T fink Rat fink yea yea rat fink. Ok well I got to go bolt my doors up and turn the lights down low maybe laterz
Today well not today but tonight just is a trip into my past. I read my note book that I keep and it has took me back to last year and every thing that has happen in my life how I over came them and all of my new problems. Then what the music that's on the Doors the end this is the same song that I have wanted to die too. This song sets my spirits free. I really some times would just want to die all those nights alone with nothing but pen and paper and how I could never really understand my self. I'm just some one that no matter how I feel I cant be at peace with my self its just some thing that doesn't happen. I really wonder if its just me or are things really that fucked up is there something wrong with every thing or am I just trying to run away because I'm to scared to be there and face every thing like how I should. My fears are growing slowly I worry about a lot more things than I really should and in some ways that's just what makes me. The only reason why I haven't left is because of her and the way I feel about her. There are such few things to hang on too in this world. I'm to hard on people even when I understand what there trying to tell me I'm just to hard on them there is no in between with me. This is something that has been getting me in trouble for such a long time and its about time I work on it but yet I don't. This is something that I know I have a problem with and I'm to cold to care and fix it. I figure that eventually this thing is just going to take over and every thing will be fucked up not by the hands of other or god but by my own. Every thing wrong in my life has no one to blame but my self I am the one that fails to be there when my friends need me I am the one that just at time no matter how hard I try I just simply don't care, Why do I have to be this way ? why? there really is no reason at one point in my life I knew why I was this way because I had been hurt so much that I needed space so I just stop caring for months but now there is no reason for me to be this way yet I still am. I'm sorry Sarah I really came down hard as fuck on you. I understand what you were trying to tell me. Today has all the making of that night when all I could do is here this same song over and over and how it made me feel and I how I was just broken into nothing. How I feel has changed but how I am has not and that really has started to become a problem. for the people that I love and for the people that love me I must change my way of been or I will soon and up with nothing. THe fucking line can you picture what will be so endless and free really just takes me for a walk and then there's the future is uncertain and the end is all ways near. The doors are no longer my favorite band but the only band that really connects with me are them. Jim was a god and he really did change every thing for me. I belief he was a poet some fuckers tell me its all just because he was on acid what ever it maybe the man wrote a lot of great things and he really reaches me as cold as I maybe at moments I'm never far enough for him not to reach me and pull me back. I really have learned a lot about my self in the past few years and I'm going to do some thing I have a lot to give why don't I start now. Save them please it doesn't matter if you leave me. Never will I say I gave up before I went for it and never can I say I never bleed. I'm human and there is nothing more to me. I'm still not a god and I wont be one. I can only save those that want to be saved and why should I save you when you told me you didn't care to save me. COme on and leave the end after it all just let it go walk away.
Fuck it just doesn't stop and it never will. Today is just the same shit will at least it started out good. Ashley's my girl friend I think that's the only good thing I'm going to get out of this month because every thing else just really sucks. I cant go to my friends house because my parents love making plans and shit with out me this is the second week in a row I blow him off and that just sucks. Fuck is it just me or an my a crappy friend every week its the same shit. I really should do something to make it up to all my friends that I blow off for some reason every week. I just hope they don't take it as if I don't care about them because really do and that's the last thing I would need at this point in my fucking life. Fuck Just fuck Fuck Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!! I have a lot of anger I need to get of and just let it all just flow out. Fucking Fuck's not letting me be with my friends they who fucking think there so fucking big well U know what fuck you and you and fuck that guy behind you.This world sucks and I should just take of my pants and run around screaming FUCKKKKKKK don't make a drinking came out of this and take shots every time I say fuck. Laterz


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The rapidly progressing Ground Transport has taken off in recent days as a live longshot for the 100th anniversary edition of the Grade 2, $1 million Louisiana Derby on March 30 at Fair Grounds.
The sophomore son of Big Brown breezed a bullet four furlongs in :47 last Saturday at Fair Grounds on the same morning that Grade 2 Risen Star winner Ive Struck a Nerve traveled that same distance in :48 2/5 before pulling up lame shortly after his move.
Is Ground Transport viable as a longshot for the upcoming Louisiana Derby?
A total of 134 fillies, led by champion Beholder, have been nominated to Keeneland's Grade 1, $500,000 Ashland Stakes, scheduled for April 6. The nominees are available at this link.
The total number of fillies nominated during the early closing period represents a 67 percent increase over 2012. As with the Blue Grass, a late nomination period closes March 27.
Champion Shanghai Bobby, and fellow top Kentucky Derby contenders Orb, Verrazano, and Hear the Ghost lead the 189 three-year-olds nominated to this year's Grade 1, $750,000 Blue Grass Stakes to be run April 13 at Keeneland. A late nomination period closes March 27.
Churchill Downs Racetrack will launch the 2013 version of its free "Road to the Roses Presented by TwinSpires.com" Kentucky Derby online fantasy game of skill with a registration period that runs from March 22-28.
Participants can select a stable of six 3-year-old Thoroughbreds nominated to the Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown races – there's a limit of five stables per person – and earn points for a Top 4 finish in "Kentucky Derby Championship Series" races.
With his dominating three-length victory in Saturday's Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby, Verrazano earned 50 points in the "Road to the Kentucky Derby" point standings, vaulting into a first-place tie and virtually assuring himself a spot in the Run for the Roses on May 4 at Churchill Downs.
Ive Struck a Nerve, the upset winner of the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds on February 23, had led the standings with 51 points, but was taken off the Kentucky Derby trail after sustaining an ankle injury during a Saturday morning workout.
Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott's arsenal of three-year-old filly talent continued to get deeper Sunday at Gulfstream Park as Juddmonte Farm's Close Hatches passed her first distance test with flying colors drawing off to 1 1/4 length victory over Catalyst Stable and partners' Kimberly Jean in the 3RD race, 'a other than' allowance test going 1 1/16 miles under jockey Joel Rosario.
Opinions and speculation were there for the taking Sunday morning on the Grade 2 San Felipe, in which favored Flashback suffered his first defeat and jockey Kevin Krigger, who rode fourth-place finisher Goldencents, was critical of the tactics used by Julien Leparoux, who rode Flashback.
Capitalizing on a bruising pace war between even-money favorite Flashback and 2-1 second choice Goldencents, Hear the Ghost came flying in deep stretch to take Saturday's Grade 2, $300,750 San Felipe at Santa Anita. The 5-1 third choice, who was making his two-turn debut for co-owners Halo Farms and Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, racked up 50 points toward the Kentucky Derby.
Verrazano, the shortest-priced individual entrant in each of the first two Kentucky Derby Future Wagers, validated the enthusiasm of ante-post bettors across the country with a smooth stakes debut win in Saturday's Grade 2, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby.
Kathleen Amaya and Raffaele Centofanti's Rose to Gold took command of the Grade 3, $150,000 Honeybee at Oaklawn Park on Saturday and turned back the pressing 2-5 favorite Flashy Gray to post a 2 3/4-length victory under jockey Calvin Borel. The Sal Santoro-trained daughter of Friends Lake set all the pace in the 1 1/16-mile contest before stopping the clock in 1:45 on the fast Oaklawn dirt.
Grade 2 Risen Star upsetter Ive Struck a Nerve will miss the Triple Crown series after being sidelined with an ankle injury suffered during a breeze at Fair Grounds on Saturday. The Keith Desormeaux trainee was readying for his next expected start in the Grade 2, $1 million Louisiana Derby at the New Orleans track on March 30.
Ive Struck a Nerve posted a half-mile breeze in :48 2/5 just before 9 a.m. (CST) with jockey James Graham aboard but showed signs of discomfort shortly after returning to trainer Keith Desormeaux's barn to cool out.
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas declared himself "very pleased" after two of his leading three-year-olds posted workouts Tuesday in preparation for the Grade 2, $600,000 Rebel at Oaklawn Park on March 16.
Will Take Charge, winner of the Smarty Jones here in January, breezed six furlongs in 1:13 3/5. A short time later, Oxbow breezed the same distance in 1:13 4/5 in his first workout since the Grade 3 LeComte romper finished fourth by just a nose in the Grade 2 Risen Star, both at Fair Grounds in New Orleans.
This is not Doug O'Neill's first rodeo on the Triple Crown trail. The 44-year-old trainer went global last year when he came within 36 hours of a Triple Crown attempt only to have an 11th-hour tendon injury to Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner I'll Have Another that ultimately forced his retirement.
A minority interest in Big Chief Racing's Ive Struck a Nerve, the sophomore son of Yankee Gentleman who vaulted into first on the Road to the Kentucky Derby points list with his upset win in the Grade 2 Risen Star at Fair Grounds on February 23, has been sold, trainer Keith Desormeaux confirmed Thursday.
The First Leg of the Championship Series on the "Road to the Kentucky Derby" continues Saturday with the 33rd running of the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby (Grade II) and the 76th running of the $300,000 San Felipe (GII).
Rose to Gold was sent off the even-money favorite in the February 9 Martha Washington at Oaklawn Park, but found herself passed in the stretch by 19-1 shot Sister Ginger, who would pull off the 2 3/4-length upset victory for trainer Steve Asmussen. On Saturday, those two fillies meet once again and Rose to Gold will try to turn the tables on her rival in the Grade 3, $150,000 Honeybee at the Hot Springs, Arkansas, oval.
Flashback had little difficulty when making his stakes debut in the Grade 2 Robert B. Lewis, dominating on the front end against three overmatched rivals, but the unbeaten colt will face a much sterner class check when he faces Goldencents in Saturday's Grade 2, $300,000 San Felipe at Santa Anita. Goldencents exits a pair of nice wins in the Grade 3 Sham and Grade 3 Delta Jackpot.
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Hello, My name is Jessica I am new to this site, and feel as though I am in some need of a lot of advice. Steve and I have been dating on and off since last August. In mid October I got pregnant. Scary and excited at the same time that is when we decided to work on a real relationship... neither of us planned on getting pregnant, but again we were not actively avoiding it. (I am 27 years old, and he is 30... he has a 4 year old daughter with a women named Angela, and they have been broken up for 3 years).
We were really excited and went on Vacation to New Hampshire for the weekend when we found out, have some alone time, and a nice get away while I was still, "attractive" and before we had an infant to take care of. The weekend was amazing, we did not fight at all...
At my first hospital visit (I had very very light spotting) my phone had died and steve let me borrow one of his. I had signed out of his fb and on to mine, but with technology not being 100% reliable when i went into my messages on fb I was given his. I had found that he was talking to an old friend (someone he claimed to love but nothing had happened), about getting drunk etc...
I confronted him later that day about it and he admitted that he was joking with her, and that they were close friends... being betrayed, and confused when he was in the shower one day i checked his phone and his fb.... found out that he had been talking dirty and sending naughty pics to dozens of women.... also saying to them that he was only "with" me so that our child would have his last name, and that he was a great actor and i would never find out. Needless to say at that moment i left, crying.. taking one of his phones with me. I was logged on to his facebook when he began talking to one of the women again... saying how i found out etc and she felt bad, he assured her that she was the only one he was talking to like that, so i took that opportunity to send a screen shot of a naughty conversation with another women to her, in that convo.
he cried all night and called me dozens of times, also... for the first time he told me that he loved me. boy.... was this confusing. I did not answer him and just went to bed, he had said that he had issues with that, and that he doesnt like doing it, that he sees his therapist about it on a regular basis... I knew i was wrong to have gone through his stuff, but I also felt bad about what he was going through, the next morning i went to his apartment and luckily the door was unlocked, i let myself in and cuddled up with him in his bed, he hugged me and would not let me go.
from that moment on we knew it would be hard but we tried, we faught a lot, and never seemed to be getting along for more than a day at a time, although our fights were intense at the time, we would be over them within minutes and end up going out and enjoying ourselves. Steve and I have a ton of fun together, we love doing all the same things, and we always enjoy each others company. it is when distance comes in to play that there is always an issue.
I have been extremely jealous since that moment, also... he had told me that he was still in love with his ex, but he knew he could never be with her and that he wanted to move on. I tried so hard to believe in him, and to trust him. From what he had told me about his ex she was a horrible mother, she would let her son sit in the crib for hours without being present when he woke up to the point where he chewed on his crib to the point he could no longer use it. the poor kid. she was also arrested for domestic violence when she got into a fight with Steve and bit his neck wide open... with their son in the room. all of the negative things he told me about her just fueled my dislike... and i knew he could not end up back with her, she made him miserable. she would call 2-3 times a week to have steve watch their son, when it was her day, to the point steve would have him 10-12 days in a row without him ever seeing his mother. it just came off to me like she did not care, and did not want to spend time with her son. When she did have him she would also have her mother babysit most of the time. Steve is basically a single father who has his son 5-6 nights a week. He is an amazing father, and that was one good thing about being pregnant with his son.
In January we were at our 14 week ultrasound (i had already had 4 u/s because i was high risk) and we found out that our son had acrania. (a nueral tube defect where the skull does not properly form) we were told it was 100% fatal and made the heartbreaking decision to terminate the pregnancy. at first I never left steve's side, we just cried and cuddled... grieving is horrible. We name our same Alexander Steven. <3 We got his cremains and decided we would go back up to new hampshire to spread them in our favorite waterfall on his due date.
the weeks/months that followed were horrible. within a week of my surgery to terminate pregnancy steve had said that alex was the glue that held us together, that we did not belong together, and thathe did not want to be with me. I lost my son, and my family at the same time. I also lost his son, who had become part of my life when I found out I was pregnant. I was also diagnosed with post Pardem depression. I was crazy, I could not control my mood swings, I was never happy, and my life was falling apart, at points I wanted to die so I could be with my son. I blamed myself for his death, It had gotten so bad that i jumped on steve's car as he was pulling away from my house anad dented his roof.... I was a mess.
about a month later we decided to work on things again, I was happy, and started to calm down, but the next day taht ended when apparently a dream told steve that he could not be with me, It was very difficult, and we started fighting more and more. another month goes by and after spending a week apart (which hadnever happened before) we began hanging out, it was carefree, no fighting, just enjoying each others company. I did not spend the night with him, but it was like we were dating. we began talking about being together, and decided that we would work on things, yet again....
that lasted about a month when randomly out of the blue steve said he couldnt do it, that he needed to find himself, that him and i were not meant to be together. we continued to hang out on a daily basis, as if nothing had changed.... but here's the kicker...
all of a sudden his ex, angela, was coming around more. she got into a car accident and totaled her car so she needed steve to drive her around while she looked for a new car. this is also around the time she split up with her ex. things were getting difficult between steve and I, as we were still sexually active, but now he was ditching me to see her, and drive her around, and one night she never ended up staying at his parents house with him. He was on the phone with me all night and slept in the basement (i only believe this bc he was really upset she was spending the night, and he was on the phone with my all night, he even refused to give her a ride in the morning). we faught pretty bad that night and the next day he came to my house, came inside, layed next to me on the bed, cuddled with me, held my hand and would not let go. the next few days were amazing, he was fighting for me. he promised he would do stuff, and he did it. he really tried.
but that lasted about 4 days. that following week steve and i were hanging out and discussing how scared he was that angela was back around etc, and that he didnt want to get back with her, but he was afraid bc of how he felt about her. he had told me that she invited him out on fathers day with the family, so steve promised me he would meet me on fathers day to visit our son (we had spread a small amoutn of his ashes in the river near our homes)... he had said he only had a half hour after the movie bc thats all his parents would watch his son. well turns out he lied to me, he never even talked to his parents, he made plans with angela for after the movie and met her back at his parents.
that night, angela slept over. the next day i met up with steve to give him his stuff back and to say goodbye, he swore up and down nothing happened between angela, swearing on our son and his son that never happened. so i believed him, we went to donate blood which we had talked about, and went to get lunch at a new place near where we live. we went by the river after to visit with our son and then back to his apartment, one thing led to another we ended up having sex that night, i slept over and we had sex again in the morning.
we took a shower after sex and i was cooking in a see through very light shirt, when i got lightheaded, i decided to lay on the couch, and within minutes someone was knocking at the door, steve looked out the window and it was angela. he went in the hallway to talk with her. she screamed "what is she doing spending the night, you slept with me the other night and now she is spending the night" i lost it... i didnt know what to do, he had slept with her, and told her he wanted to be in a relationship with her, and then slept with me, twice, the NEXT day.... i took his keys locked his doors and went out the other door. eventually we ended up talking, and he was going to work on things with her, but he wanted us to get along.
i want to see him happy and i knew he would never be happy if he always wondered "what if" when angela came back. so I put on a brave face and tried to say goodbye. that week I saw him 3 days in a row, he found out the following night that angela has tumors that may be ovarian cancer, nad the first thing he did was come to me, for support, I felt amazing... i know he loves me. he just doesnt know how. so i went over and took him out for froyo and chatted a while. then i went home, the next day we had plans to babysit my nephew so we went over there and cooked pancakes, after i dropped off my nephew i went back to his place, we just talked a lot... he wasnt sure he wanted to be with angela, but thats what he saw himself doing.
the following day we decided to say goodbye, he needed me to help him find his keys that had gone missing so i went over. we ended up cuddling all day, and just talking, saying how much he loved each other, and how much we would miss each other. he even stood up for me to his mom who was on his ass about "hurting angela" when i had no idea what had happened, i felt awful (go figure. i have a heart). he kept telling me he wasnt going to be with angela now, that he needed time alone, and that everything that was happening happens for a reason, he loved me... i joked with him about taking a shower bc he stunk so he stripped in front of me, i was covering my eyes, trying to be a better person, until he came over and placed his penis in my hand, i immediately pushed him away and he got in the shower. 20 minutes go by and im wondering where he is, so i peak my head in the bathroom, and hes texting away.... i ask him what is going on and he says he is asking angela how she is.... i say goodbye and that ill see him the next day and go to get my shoes on, he jumped out of the tub and chases me into the other room, i can tell he is upset, his eyes are bloodshot... so i ask him for the truth, and i take his phone to read his conversation he says "i love you, what i did was not fair to you, you know all ive ever wanted to work on things with you." i was not only absolutely disgusted, but i felt bad for angela. immediately decided that she should know what she was getting herself in to so i went to text her. he grabbed my phone from me and as i went to get it back he took all of his force and threw me into a table at the end of his bed... i fell down crying and he said sorry, and tried to help, but i wanted the phone still and he was so defensive. luckily i had 2 phones and i went to the other one and called the police.
he was arrested and given a no contact order that night. aftertalking with the domestic violence advocate i was told that the no contact oder is only good in the state we live in, if we went outside the state we would be able to talk. we met up the following night in a parking lot outside of the state, he hugged and kissed me and cried for hours. he said he could not be with angela, he mistook his love for her with his love for his son, he told me he loved me and was going to miss me sooo much. i felt like a girl on a first date.
the following morning he was leaving for a business trip to california. it was hard to know not only was he leaving but i could no see or talk to him. not until he got back. we had plans to go to new hampshire on July 6th for our sons due date and now i am not sure we can go, in fact i know no one will watch his son now. :(
we figured out a way to communicate and he broke down saying how much he loved me how he could never be with angela how he wants a family with me, how he will fight for me, do whatever it took.
part of me wants to believe him, because i truly do love him, part of me things he is acting this way so that my testimony in court will give him a smaller sentence, and another part of me things even if he means every word, havent we been through enough? I will constantly question every move he makes.... what should i do?
|Thu, 06-27-2013 - 8:44pm
You don't really love him, and he certainly does not love you. I think he was probably the most honest when he told you that your son was the only thing holding you two together.
If you aren't in a committed relationship with someone, and you certainly were not in this case, you really need to use protection against STDs and pregnancy. You're being a fool by allowing yourself to have sex with someone who is sleeping with other women or even slightly suggesting that he might want to do that.
You're allowing yourself to be used.
Where are your parents? Do you live with them? Could you move in with them or someone else that you know has your best interests at heart? This guy isn't looking out for you, Angela, his unfortunate son, or anyone other than himself. He's disgusting, and you know that his actions have shown you how disgusting he is.
Please, for the sake of yourself, Angela, and the little boy who unfortunately has this scumbag for a biodad, leave this guy alone. He needs to grow up, and honestly, you need to grow up, too.
|Thu, 06-27-2013 - 9:49pm
First of all, sorry that you lost your baby--that must have been a very traumatic experience for you. As far as Steve, why are you putting yourself through all this drama? I can't really believe that you are 27 & he is 30--you are acting more like immature teenagers. (I have a 24 yr old DD and I am comparing your behavior with hers.) If I read this right, you had just started dating him for 2 months when you got pregnant because you weren't even sensible enough to use birth control with a guy that you didn't even know that well. I do believe he stayed with you then because you got pregnant--here he was texting all these other women behind your back so he wasn't exactly faithful.
Then you have the drama w/ his ex--she's in, then she's out, he loves her, no he loves you--he's lying to both of you and he's violent on top of it. I certainly feel bad for his little boy to be in the middle of this, but why should you put up with this kind of drama? is he really the last man on earth? Break up with him and don't look back--I'm 100% sure you could do better. First of all, it's not too hard to find a guy in his late 20's who doesn't have kids already and if someone commits a violent act against you, you should never give him another chance. Plus you can't trust him--you'll always be sneaking around wanting to look at his phone to see who he is texting. Stop the madness now.
|Thu, 06-27-2013 - 9:51pm
I wrote out this whole long response and it disappeared but the bottom line was--break up with him, avoid the drama and never stay with a man who abuses you. He probably did only want to stay with you cause you got pregnant. And are you really so irresponsible at 27 that you don't use birth control when you're not ready to have a baby?
|Fri, 06-28-2013 - 12:48am
I didn't read every word of this post, because I read enough in the first paragraph. I cannot believe that when you know a man for two months you're having unprotected sex with him. Haven't you heard of std's as well as pregnancy? Evidently he doesn't mind making women pregnant.....look at the 4 year old, but he's still messing with that mother, isn't he? He then stayed with you because you were pregnant. How noble of him. He might have been WITH you but he was playing around with other women, including Angela, and you were jealous. And now we have another child out of wedlock. (he doesn't learn, does he?) and he can tell you what a terrible mother she is, but does he take custody of the abused child......no, he makes another one with you. This is a sick man, and he preys on women who are vulnerable gets them pregnant, then moves on to another woman. I'm sorry you lost your baby, but these things happen occasionally, and maybe it wasn't meant to be. He wouldn't have been a good father, he would have left you and found someone else to make a baby with. Now it's time for you to move on with your life, and please start by getting checked for every STD possible......if they didn't do it in connection with your surgery. With the amount of women he's slept with, and without protection, it's a miracle he hasn't given you anything. You don't trust him (and you shouldn't!), and he got arrested for being physical with you, yet you violated the no contact order? You need a good dose of self respect. This man is worthless, violent, and a sociopath. What testimony can you possibly give......that it was YOUR fault? Let him rot in jail, and start making a life for yourself.......respect yourself, and don't allow anyone who doesn't respect you into your life.
|Fri, 06-28-2013 - 3:37pm
Okay, so you've received some relatively direct responses and I hope you aren't scared off. Some of the folks around here have just been around for a while and can see this situation for exactly what it is and aren't beating around the bush with the advice. While there's nothing wrong with that, not everyone is able to handle that way as well as others.
What we can see that you are far too close to see is how toxic this relationship is and how manipulative he is. If you have a moment, go back and re-read your post and imagine it is someone else posting it. Looking at it from a different perspective, you can see how childish this behavior is - both of you. He is stringing not only you along, but Angela as well and their son will suffer the most from his manipulations. He will grow up with a bad role model on how a normal, balanced relationship should be.
I hope you can see now that he is not honest with anyone, including himself. He is in no way ready to be in any kind of a relationship. He needs to grow up. This back and forth between you two is dizzying. He tells you what you want to hear to get what he wants from you. He acts the way he does because you both have allowed him to behave this way without any serious consequences. The protective order is the first actual consequence he's had to deal with and look at how he handled it - he came running back to you after telling you he didn't want to be with you and that he was going to work on things with Angela. And you let him. You met him and showed him that you weren't serious about the protection order. You let him get away with his behavior and honestly, if he's not getting in trouble for his behavior, why would he change it?
He is immature and you both (you and Angela) can do better, like others have said. Remove yourself from this situation and focus on you. Try to figure out why you are allowing this man to treat you this way. You are 27 years old, not a teenager. You deserve an adult relationship because believe me, adult relationships look nothing like what you guys have. I know that saying good-bye to him will be tough. You've been in this cycle with him for a while and I think you feel like you have to continue enduring his behavior because of the child you conceived with him. I can't honestly imagine losing a child the way you did - and I know that making the decision to terminate the pregnancy will be one of the toughest decisions you will likely ever have to face. But you did it and it was in the best interest of the child. You did what you could with the cards life dealt you. You were brave for your son and now you need to be brave for yourself. You are worth a man that treats you with respect, kindness, honesty and generosity. You are and the sooner you believe it, the easier it will be to let Steve go.
Change is hard. Nobody likes to do it because it takes work, constant work. But for your future children's sake, find your voice. You were dealt with a bad situation and you made it through it! On your due date, do what you need to do to continue to mourn your loss. I think the grief you feel from the loss of your son is still very raw and I believe you need to continue to allow yourself to heal. Forgive yourself for any guilt you feel and begin to find your new path in life.
I feel for you - I really do. I believe that Steve is not the right one for you and I do believe the right one is out there. In order to be ready for the right one, you need to learn to love yourself first and believe that you deserve so much more than Steve could ever dream of giving you. You can do it - you just have to believe that you can.
Good luck!
|Sat, 06-29-2013 - 9:33pm
Thank you for all the advice. although most of it was just rude and i would rather have not be subjected to that. I am only human you know. I want to say goodbye, I have been saying this for months, but im sure most of you realize that it is very difficult to say goodbye. I cannot change how i feel about him, I cannot change his smile, or the way he laughs. I cant change how i love every hair on his head. and his son is unbelievable. and he is an amazing father, no i am not standing up for all the horrible things he has done, but i have done horrible things as well. He wants to see a counselor with me, but I am afraid, like some of you had said he is using me to get what he wants... he keeps telling me to have faith in him, and that we are going to be okay, and to trust him, but deep down i know i cant. he comes home from california tomorrow, and then i start school on monday, finally going back after 5 yrs! I think it may be easier to move on once my time is occupied by school, and homework. I am going to school through a VA program, and I am not allowed to work while i attend school, of they cut off my aid, i know... odd.
anyhow i do thank you all for the advice. I do not see steve and I together, but I am afraid i don't know how to say goodbye. and if you are going to have another rude comment, don't bother, i came here for advice not to be made fun of. Also I have been tested multiple times for STD's, and so has Steve. We are both clean. I did not know he had been with angela or i definitely would have used protection.
It is a day to day struggle, and i am here looking for advice on how to move on, not people to tell me in immature or an idiot, trust me, i tell myself that enough.
|Sun, 06-30-2013 - 12:02am
look i will enlighten you. This guy is confused. as are you. He is caught between what/who he thinks he is supposed to do and be and who he is. He has not figured it all out. He may in time.
He needs a clean break.
|Sun, 06-30-2013 - 9:33am
|Mon, 07-01-2013 - 1:56pm
Honestly? This guy sounds like a sociopath, and there is no way of changing a sociopath's behaviour. Get out while you can.
One definition of a sociopath:
A master deceiver. They are perceived as a nice guy with charm and perhaps charisma but when the layers of the truth are peeled back they are evil, opportunitstic and lack character. A sociopath may look like this:
They are opportunistic and use their keen ability to read people to take advantage of a person's weakness. They have an error in judgement and have no regard for rules. Their extreme egocentricism makes them do whatever they must to get what they want without regard for other people. They are manipulative. Their character flaw seldom makes them feel guilt or learning from punishments. They always justify their actions. They lack personal responsibility and blame others for their shortcomings, labeling themselves the "victim." Many sociopaths are also pathalogical liars and can have a tendancy to commit acts of violence.
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I'm in my psych clinical and each of the students need to lead a group activity for the patients. one student did stress bingo, meditation, drawing, talking about fears, exercise. it's my time to lead soon and i have a few... Read More
- 1Jun 14, '12 by Jayesse7I'm a psychnurse and I LOVE students taking over the one and only task I really stress about. The reason I stress about it is because I am sooooo busy I don't have a lot of time to do groups but I'm expected to anyway even though I ALWAYS get interrupted when I do... but that's another topic.
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Any craft is fun for them just use non-toxic supplies. If you want something that is a bit more educational you can do match the symptom to the diagnosis games. We did a bulletin board once that featured patient-decorated hot air balloons but in the baskets they had to write 3 wishes. You could modify that to 3 things you know about your mental illness and name the balloon itself with the diagnosis. Or if you don't want to get that deep- you could lighten it to your 3 favorite songs or something about themselves.
Somebody once had patients decorate socks with colored sharpie markers. That one sort of depends on your resources. Our hospital gives each pt a pair of socks on admission though... so you could ask if you could have enough for each person to decorate. Believe me the hospital wastes so much more money on much less useful things than that they ought to thank you for doing something cheerful for the pts.
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This place is fantastic. My night of choice here is Monday where talent pours from the stage from about 11.30. The crowd is friendly and relaxed. Same goes for the staff. Any other weeknight is great however, AVOID Saturdays! Full of out-of-towners desperate to have a good time, often to the detriment of a good time. Drinks are fairly priced and so is entry (usually free)
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Wilmington and the beaches at Kure, Carolina and Wrightsville are great for celebrating your Thanksgiving and getting in the mood for the December celebrations. It's all here from special Thanksgiving dinner specials to tree lightings, holiday musical specials, old favorites in the theater, parades and special tours including the famous Old Wilmington by Candlelight tour and the beautiful Enchanted Airlie tour. And, of course, we always have Arts, Sports, History, kids events and much more. Make Wilmington part of your holiday tradition.
Wouldn't it be easier to dine out for Thanksgiving?
Everybody gets just what they want, you don't have to eat leftovers at every meal the next week and someone else cleans the plates. We have a whole host of restaurants that want to accomodate you and the Star News has identified them. Here's their list Thanksgiving Dinner.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
The City decorations are up. Friday brings the public tree lightings to Downtown Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach. Wilmington's lighting begins with entertainment in Riverside Park at 5:30 pm with the lighting at 6:25 pm. And then a familiar figure in a red suit who lives at the North Pole will stop by. Wrightsville Beach will be offering hot chocolate and accepting donations of coats, gloves, hats, scarves, baby formula, diapers and chidlren's toys for Port Human Services. Santa and Mrs. Claus plan to arrive at 5:45. Carolina Beach joins in the fun on the 30th. That's the date for the Island of Lights Christmas Parade. The next day brings the famous Pleasure Island Flotilla. Lighted boats cruise from Snow's Cut Inlet to the Carolina Beach Boat Basin and back to Snow's Cut. Wilmington holds its Christmas Parade on Sunday, December 2. The 6 pm parade runs south on Front Street and back up Water St. You can get more details for all of these at Holiday Events (hint: click on the little magnifying glass next to each event for more info.)
More Special Holiday Events
One of our most spectacular seasonal events is the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society's beautiful Candlelight Tour. Historic homes are decorated for the holidays in spectacular manner and opened for tours Saturday and Sunday, December 1st and 2nd. (Hint: see some of the homes at dusk to enjoy the full effect of the lights.) Looking for a Christmas tree decorating idea? Visit the Festival of Trees at the Cameron Art Museum. This 25 (plus) year old festival features 25 beautifully decorated trees in an exhibit organized by the Cameron, Wilmington Ballet and the Lower Cape Fear Hospice and Life Care Center. This family event brings the season and our local artistic talent together for the display that runs the 24th until December 2. The Wilmington Railroad Museum joins in the celebration with its Train and Light Spectacular. More than 15,000 lights make this gem of a museum sparkle to light up the season. Enjoy the lights, cider and cookies from the 24th through the end of December. Airlie Gardens opens its gates to Enchanted Airlie showing off the beautiful gardens lit with seasonal lights and special "Lego" displays. Last years' display set a record for the largest crowd to see a single Lego display. The show runs from the 23rd until December 22. You can find more about these events at Holiday Events.
Our Theater features are Timely
Jimmy Stewart made it famous, and a classic. It's a Wonderful Life comes to Cape Fear Playhouse with a November 29, opening. Relive George Bailey's tortured night wondering if his life mattered. Would Mr. Potter achieve his dream to run the town? Another classic opens the following weekend. Meredith Wilson's magical adaptation of Miracle on 34th Street brings a young lawyer to the defense of Santa and the transformation of a mother and daughter who are changed when they learn to believe in something. It's at Thalian Hall. The Nutcracker Ballet returns this year with special performances at the Minnie Evans Performing Arts Center, located at Ashley High School. Five professional dancers join a cast of more than 60 local dancers to present the spectacular full-length grand scale traditiontal Nutcracker. It's 3:00 pm December 1 & 2. You can find more about these shows and upcoming productions at Our Theater.
History, too
Some foolish people began talking about secession after the election. That was a serious issue back in 1861 and The Cape Fear Museum gives a serious look at it and the questions before the residents of Wilmington in 1861. Fragments of War uses bits from the museum's collection to explore the difficult decisions many Wilmingtonians' faced then. Should North Carolina remain a part of the Union or join the Confederate States of America. You can read more about this exhibit on the blog, What Would You Have Done? A later war is remembered at the nearby Battleship NC memorial. And the lives of the sailors comes alive on December 1, with Battleship Alive. Interpreters provide insight into the daily lives of the sailors aboard the ship. There's more about these events at Our History. (Hint: the Battleship has set its schedule for 2013 and that schedule can be found on the calendar. Use Advanced Search and select 'Battleship NC.')
This Friday is a fourth Friday of the month which means it is time for a Fourth Friday Artwalk. And that means dozens of downtown art galleries will be open in the evening and many with new shows. New Elements Gallery opens its Holiday Show, WHQR Radio presents paintings by Virginia Belser and David Norris, and Checker Cab invites everyone to their new location to see "Grimm Memories. A number of ongoing shows are open around town including Linda Lavin's show at the Cameron, No Boundaries at Acme, and Fear at Projekter. More about these and more at Our Art.
Bossa Nova, jazz, blues, celtic, and rock are among the musical genres you'll find around Wilmington this month. And a special show at Kenan Auditorium looks back at the music of Bill Monroe, the bluegrass giant. Peter Rowan, Tony Rice and the Travelin' McCoury's pay homage to the undisputed "Father of Bluegrass. Chamber Music of Wilmington presents a Celtic Christmas Concert and the Wilmington Symphony brings us Home For The Holidays. Details on all of this and more performances can be found at Our Music.
And there's more (there's always more)
Find something for the kids at Kids Events. We have Sports at Our Sports. Or just check out the whole schedule at Our Events. We have all kinds of restaurants that you can find and search at Dine Here. And you can find lodging at Our Hotels and more. Use the search function (look for the binoculars) to refine your search.
Find your nonprofit
We have a robust nonprofit community around southeastern North Carolina. You can find a great directory of nonprofits at www.WilmingtonGivesBack.org or find a calendar of nonprofit events at SENC Nonprofit Events.
Forward this to a friend
We have a great community here in southeastern NC. Let a friend know about this blog and let them know how great this place is! They can click on www.EnjoyWilmington.com and find our restaurants, lodging, events and much more. They'll appreciate your thoughtfulness. They can also sign up for newsletters on the website at www.EnjoyWilmington.com
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Sir Anthony Figgis, KCVO CMG (born October 1940) was Her Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from 2001 to 2008. Unusually, he also held the post of Her Majesty's Vice-Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, from 1991 to 1996, when he became Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to Austria. Figgis was born in 1940, and educated at Rugby School and King's College, Cambridge. He joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service in 1962. Figgis' first overseas posting was as 3rd Secretary in Belgrade in 1963. In 1965 he was assigned to the Commonwealth Office in London. He was 2nd Secretary (Political Residency) in Bahrain from 1968 to 1970, when he rejoined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. Figgis' next posting was as 1st Secretary (Commercial) in Madrid, where he was stationed 1971 to 1974. He was in the CSCE delegation at Geneva 1974 to 1975 and again at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London 1975 to 1979. He returned to Madrid in 1979, initially as Head of Chancery and then as Commercial Counsellor from 1980 to 1982. Figgis was assigned to Belgrade again in 1982, when he was made Counsellor, a post he held until  ( Wikipedia article )
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BADJ Day 19: So much stuff…
Nineteen days have gone… WOW! After getting full speed ahead for a number of days, I had a stop for a day… domestic stuff kicked in. A lot of work was finished in those quick days though.
With all physics and blit done, I went straight ahead into coding the level. First task was to look at what I had done previously and finding out… it would be easier to just start over, which I did! One very cool thing is that a Finite State Machine class I wrote earlier really proved its worth and is the base for all stuff in the level. I really have to go through how the level code is structured as soon as the dust settles down since right now a lot can change and it will probably make no sense.
One thing I had to change was the Manager class. Remember I mentioned a dependency to a specific class that put all in motion. That is easier to manage now.
But the really cool thing I did today was to quickly test a console class! I used Junkbyte's Console 2.4 and I just love it! With it we will be able to change a lot of aspects in the game without recompiling.
What is happening right now? Visually? Not much, there's a circle representing Bruce on screen. Code wise there's a lot of stuff going on. For starters all the level classes (controller, factory, scene, blit, physics, etc) are created and doing their thing, so it's just a matter of adding features to it. The state management system is just beautiful and it will save tons of work!
What is missing? Graphics and stuff getting kicked!
Posted: October 19th, 2010
at 12:29am by Vlad
Tagged with Bold Pixel Engine, Bruce Ali, Design Patterns, FlashGameBlogs
Categories: Dev Journal: Bruce Ali
Comments: 1 comment
BADJ Day 11: A successful frustration
So I coded and recoded, tested and retested a Object Pool class with a high degree of success and frustration. I wrote and tested three different pool managers, here's the story…
Objective: Centralized management of pools
This one was easy. There is a PoolManager that has a static method to get a pool for a certain class. If the pool for that class does not exist, it is created, if it does, it is returned. Objective achieved.
Objective: Lightweight pools
I don't need pools to be amazingly complex, I just need the pools to get the job done, which is: be faster at getting new objects at the expense of memory. That didn't go very well. The pools were lightweight alright, but I was not able to make it any faster than creating a objective directly.
This lead to the three versions of the pool manager and still the best performance gain is below 5% for any Bold Pixel entity. I was so frustrated, but then I saw the light!
Not my fault really
After testing and more testing I had a epiphany! What if Bold Pixel's entities are simply too light to make pooling worth. It would not be something I'd consider. It really never crossed my mind that a instancing a object could be faster than getting it from a linked list kind of pool, but it is and the classes I was dealing with are somewhat heavy considering the inheritance and and composition of several.
The highest gain I got was 8ms in 1000 object. Creating 1000 objects took 54ms and getting 1000 objects from the object pool took 46ms.
The unexpected success
So either my classes are very light or flash behaves rather poorly in managing this. So I tested against some movie clip I had around. Creating 1000 movie clips took 102ms, almost doubling the worst case scenario.
Not only I was happy to note that my classes are lightweight, both pool manager and entity type classes, but I also proved that getting movie clips would make a difference.
I'm not happy with the pool manager for now, but I'll work on it some other day. It gets the job done, but the objects I really wanted to make a better use of pooling are the ones that problably will have less impact.
If I regret anything in this bits of code is that I over engineered it at first. Tomorrow blit engine!
Posted: October 7th, 2010
at 12:56am by Vlad
Tagged with Bold Pixel Engine, Bruce Ali, Design Patterns, FlashGameBlogs, Software Engineering
Categories: Dev Journal: Bruce Ali
Comments: 8 comments
Bold Pixel's Namespaces and Interfaces
After much thought and discussion by myself or at the FGL chat I made some decisions about how to make Bold Pixel more modular in order to simplify my own work. Since we are still on top of contracts, I couldn't give enough attention to this but my brain was dealing with it in the background.
Inheritance Spaghetti
The problem presented was somewhat simple. My early coding of the blit engine got tangled in the dreadful inheritance headaches. My solution to it was to create one class per major responsibility. It worked fine until the time I decided to expand one of the classes to do something it wasn't designed to do. So on one hand I solved the inheritance problems but on the other I lost modularity. At this time I had a OOP doubt that I expressed in the FGL forums and the discussion that started there really helped me to move in a different direction, one that I had never considered.
More over I said that I would not support requests that didn't deal with deal with real problems we had in our own development. And while I stick to that, I couldn't help but to think: what if Bold Pixel could help someone but it missed one little tiny feature? While this was puzzling me, there was real problem, one with impact in our development that was taunting me…
The case of Blit vs Physics
So Bold Pixel has a blit engine and it will wrap a physics engine (more about the physics engine this later this month) so the question that was on top of the table was: considering there is a blit entity and a physics entity, which one should access the other? Whatever the answer was, modularity was lost in the sense I imagine it. I don't want blit to know physics and I don't want physics to know blit!
After a nice chat with Antriel at FGL (thanks mate!) I got to know the Strategy Pattern and all my problems were solved. In simple terms, I will be defining interfaces for all interchangeable objects but the implementations of the interfaces can exist anywhere. In the case presented, a blit entity will have its spatial properties (rotation, x, y and scale) defined by a spatial interface. By default it will be a simple class and it's needed since the properties of the spatial interface are needed to render bitmapdata. A physics entity will be a implementation of the spatial interface, so if I want to use physics on a blit entity, I simply write: myBlitEntity.position = myPhysicsEntity;
Visibility and Access Issues
This brought another problem. Bold Pixel has always kept its inner "stuff" hidden. The objective was this was to keep the auto-completion short and the use easy preventing mistakes. In order to implement interfaces I would have to make a lot of code public.
The answer to this would be abstract classes, but ActionScript3 does not support it. That will be addressed with simple naming and convention over configuration. Any class in any namespace in Bold Pixel that starts with Abstract will only have the simplest shortest implementation needed for something to work. For instance, if I want a blit entity that draws pixels I will have to extend a AbstractBlitEntity class (I guess that will be the name) but that brings another problem…
So ActionScript does not support abstract classes… convention will say that Abstract defines an abstract class.
Namespaces (to wrap this up!)
To have a better code organization I will need more packages and to have more packages I will need to provide access to classes in different packages. This will be done with namespaces. The only thing that annoys me is that Flash Develop in the current version (3.2.2) does not support code-completion with custom namespaces, but what matters is that using custom namespaces solves two problems. First I can have a bunch of private functionality like I like, but second, any coder can with a simple namespace use extend Bold Pixel to his own needs in a full modular way.
While I reckon that this is all just in my head and that a lot of work will have to be done and even considering that probably this will make Bold Pixel a little bit more complicated to the average coder, I feel it sorts a lot of questions, so: Namespaces and Interfaces FTW!
Posted: September 1st, 2010
at 1:46am by Vlad
Tagged with Bold Pixel Engine, Design Patterns, FlashGameBlogs, Software Engineering
Categories: The code of VGS
Comments: 1 comment
From refactor to library
Or how to refactor the code from your last game to build up your reusable libs.
First and foremost, thanks to the people at FGL chat that brainstormed a jolly good topic to write about. This post also helps me to rethink my strategy about an issue I have with our core libs that I'll hopfully address in the future as soon as I make sense.
Basic question is how do I handle the code I used in the previous game to reuse it… I'll give several examples of how our core classes appeared or changed hoping that you find something useful for your own code and games.
In the beggining there was music
When we wrote Tech Wars, I had to write a music manager that would know when to change tracks. There are three tracks in Tech Wars, all with the same beats per minute, two share the melody but with different instruments and one has a slight variation of the melody. Each track served a part of the game, such has menus, level, and post-level.
Our current music manager has code from Tech Wars. That code evolved from a game specific class to a generic sound manager class and then to two separate classes: sound manager and music manager. These shifts occured as the next games needed or between projects.
What started with Tech Wars is now what we call the core, which is simply a bunch of abstract, cross-project oriented organization of directories and classes that goes from one project to another. It is not something you do, it is something you keep doing, building and evolving. That sound manager class was a bad case of refactoring, but a good start since we had no reusable AS code.
To create your libs you should make each class abstract from the game code. This maybe trickier than it sounds. For instance, we have a Scene Manager. What it does is quite simple:
1. ensures that one and only one scene is running
2. ensures that one and only one dialog is running
3. ensures that when a scene is started the current scene and current dialog are closed
4. ensures that when a dialog is started the current dialog is closed
And this has to work in every game. To be sure that it works in every game I made sure that a scene or a dialog is always a movie clip that is linked in the fla library and that I can pass up to five arguments to it. I also made sure that the Scene Manager is a singleton.
Get yourself organized
To be sure that your code is generic, organize it! Create a structure outside your game logic, as an example, when I start a project I copy the core directory from the previous project to the root of the current project and I create a separate directory "game" where all the game specific classes go.
It's that simple.
Refactoring plays a big role in all of this. Now that the core classes are a few and that most of the nasty work is done, the process of refactoring tunes it and adds to it.
Again… an example. Some hours ago I was using a static method MathKit.AngleBetweenPoints(p1, p2) which is pretty obvious, but for some reason the code did not produce the results I predicted, so I wrote a bit of code to ensure the output I was looking for.
The issue was that MathKit.AngleBetweenPoints(p1,p2) returns an angle in radians and I wanted degrees. I already have two static methods in the MathKit class to convert radians in degrees and vice-versa, so in the next refactoring session I'll rename MathKit.AngleBetweenPoints to MathKit.RadiansBetweenPoints and create a new DegreesBetweenPoints.
The refactoring will eliminate generic code from game specific code, it will reuse static methods we already have in the MathKit class, make the method already there more intuitive and create an additional method for other uses.
Managers = Singletons
Managers are classes that take care of a specific aspect of your game. Scenes, music, sound and so on. You should be sure that your managers are singletons and that you can access them everywhere. To be sure of it, all our managers are loaded by the Application Manager which is what all our document classes extend. Neat trick and quite useful.
Tools = Static
All our tools are static methods. We don't want our tools to be instantiated. We don't want our tools to hold data. We want our tools to do something specific and produce an output.
At the end of the day
Like I said, when we start a new game I copy the core directory of the latest game to the new one. Usually I take a look a t it or look for //TODO remarks for something I want to review. While the code base was growing this was very useful, right now it's a matter of tunning some details since most work is done while refactoring.
I do have a damn project to go though… writing the graphic handling classes… but I still have a load of doubts to sort first.
Oooops… big one… Vlad out!
Posted: June 30th, 2009
at 11:40pm by Vlad
Tagged with Bold Pixel Engine, Design Patterns, FlashGameBlogs
Categories: The code of VGS
Comments: 1 comment
Model… revisited…
Hi everyone, it's Vlad again.
It's 10:52AM, 30 degrees Celsius if you stand in the shadow and just a couple of hours ago I hit an issue with our current project. Basically static data regarding gameplay was becoming completely unmanageable. Before moving forward I decided to rethink and drew how my classes were organized.
Let me tell you what this is… Data and Gameplay are folders, packages in AS3 terms. Tokentype1, Tokentype2 and Constants are classes that hold data in the form of static functions and constants. LevelController, LevelView, TokenController and TokenView are classes that are either controllers or views of my gameplay objects.
This is how I've organized most projects until now, so what's the problem? For starters, all games until now have only one token type. This game has two but it will have more. I was about to actually copy/paste a method from TokenType1 class to the TokenType2 class… you know how bad this is right?
On top of that a new problem was present for a couple of days. Some variables names, class names and query methods conflicted, not logically but in terms of what I was reading while coding. Building, IsBuilding, buildings, building and so on… variables like type, code and state also weren't 100% clear.
So I decided that it was time to redesign and refactor before it became too nasty. Here's the result:
I simply took the MVC pattern seriously and created models for both level and tokens. On top of that I changed all ambiguous variables, states and methods to be named consistently throughout the project.
The LevelModel is nothing more than the old Constants class. There's no big difference for now except that when gameplay is closed and we move to other stuff, I'll have to create models for all the other stuff instead of having all constants inside one "global" constants class.
The TokenModel is the big change! It holds all the stuff from TokenType1 and TokenType2 classes, but now I can guarantee that there are no duplication of methods, arrays and so on. Big part of this arrangement was to deal with the inconsistent naming of variables and so on.
I'm very happy with the solution, now, if you excuse me, I'll get back to coding game functionalities.
Posted: June 19th, 2009
at 10:25am by Vlad
Tagged with Design Patterns, FlashGameBlogs, Software Engineering
Categories: The code of VGS
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Additional Info
|Various Process
|Top Grade
|Arrival date
|All current coffee stock
|1 d/300gr, 16/17 scr
|Intensity/Prime attribute
|Medium / Balance, fruit
|As with all decafs, remember they roast faster and have the propensity to get away from you and end up darker than you expected. So attend to the roaster and stop the roast manually if possible to get it just right. Roast preference with espresso is up to
|Farm Gate
|Recommended for Espresso