(Babysitting
my grandson, James)
Saturday
March 11 to Saturday March 18, 2017:
On Saturday
March 11th around 2:00 pm, Brent picked me up at
Yonge and York Mills as he usually does and we drove northeast toward his place
in Janetville, Ontario. James wasn’t
with him though - he was going to be dropped off by his mother later this
evening. Meanwhile, we had to go grocery
shopping since Brent had run out of food at home. I would be staying at his place for the week
while he worked and babysitting James
at Brent’s place because it was Brent’s turn for custody. He and James’ mother, Tori, share custody
equally. This week, it’s March Break
and, usually, parents spend it with their kids, except that Brent has to work
this week. He’s used up all of his
holidays for now until July 2017.
It’s a largely grey, sunless week up here on Lake
Scugog. There is still a little bit of
snow on the ground, but not enough to prevent you from going anywhere on
foot. It’s a really nice place to visit
when the sun is out even in the winter, but this week is not one of those weeks,
so far - too bad.
All we did on Saturday evening was to watch some TV
shows that Brent had recorded on his PVR and later on, after dinner, Brent and
James played their football video game on the PlayStation 4 system. It’s pretty awesome. The graphics are very lifelike and, even
though I am not a fan of football by any means, I like the way that Brent and
James interact with the football players in the game.
I really wish that, as a computer programmer, I could
have created something like this during my career, but it was impossible since
it takes a lot of knowledge of graphics as well as Object-Oriented (OO)
programming to create games like this and make them work properly. Computer
technology had just not advanced that far.
This video game is pretty complex.
There are many teams with many football players on each team and many
different plays that can be made. It
would definitely require a team approach to develop a project like this that has
so many design and programming stages.
copyright 2017 - Anne Shier
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