All of my todo list is currently dedicated to establishing solid good mental health and staying sober. That doesn't move Armagetron to a back burner, but it does put it in competition for priorities with some other things.
My non-arma todo list:
* Go to regular recovery meetings (looking at SMART Recovery and Refuge Recovery, and possibly founding my own if I don't find a meeting format that I really like)
* Establish an income with Postmates, my new(ish) job. (I've got a cute little scooter for this)
* Finish A Ghost in Time, the book I started and got up to about 90k words while I was in rehab. After that, Fastburger! is next.
* Alarm Clock/stock analyst. I found the most recent code for my stupid alarm clock, during the pytqt3 to pyqt4 port that got aborted because drunk. I need it running on my phone.
The stock analyst program is exploratory, to see if I can use data mining techniques to find good stock investments. You know, take what you know and apply it somewhere and see if it works.* Write next book, currently called Placeholder title. I already know what it's about, though, don't worry.
My arma todo list:
* Davecms, not surprisingly. Actually, this item is "update all themes for arma web properties and get ArmaUnified deployed to all". Davecms will help both my website and the arma main site, which I intend will be updated in the future using a bzr repository on launchpad, so that updates can come more frequently.
* 0.4 work. I'll probably go ahead and rewrite the existing sound engine to use OpenAL and add that dependency. The amount of work it'll take to make SDL_Mixer make the cycle engine sound correctly is roughly equivalent to the amount of work needed to port to openAL, so I need to quit making excuses and just do it. Also: Player Police and Official Servers, and Acme, which I stumbled across on sourceforge.
* Start a rewrite for the 0.5 series. We're talking in irc about this one, but it's pretty low priority.
Now, the way these two lists interact has to do with how practical the need is for some things (like the alarm clock) and how useful for my mental health things are (like working on armagetron stuff, pretty useful and important). The first three items on my non-arma todo list are the most important (I realize it amounts to five items, because of the two that are paired). But when I find the right balance between the two lists, I expect to see some more useful work out of me. Six years of daily drinking following a difficult period caused directly by a divorce has put me in a place where I really need to focus on the identity stuff again, and like it or not, arma has become something I strongly identify with.
