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Having discovered “PSP Ebook Creator” a nice little program that creates readable Ebooks just perfectly sized for the PSP from text documents, I have been busy putting books on my PSP. From Project Gutenberg comes a host of Henty Books plus other favorites of mine like Pride and Prejudice, Hiawatha’s Photography(From a collections of Poems by Lewis Carroll), and many other fine works of literature that is now in the public domain.

This morning however the books I was putting on my PSP were not in the public domain… However I had every right to put them on my PSP because I had written them myself. From the depths of my computers hard drive I pulled out Elaine’s Pearls and my more recent(though still a long time ago) Dragon Trilogy and converted them into Ebooks for my PSP that way I can read them again. And hopefully, they will inspire me to write more.

While I don’t think I have what it takes to write professionally I remember having fun doing it. Also, it’s a very inexpensive thing to do. And saying “I just completed writing a book” sounds a lot more impressive than “I just won a video game!!!” or even “I’m getting much better at jumping!!!” The last statement I have been saying lately. Jumping has in the past been difficult for me(in video games that is). It go so bad that when I got to a point in a video game where I would get to a point in which a lot of jumping was required I would start referring to it as “my bane“. However I would doggedly keep on trying, and trying, and trying because I wanted to see what would happen next in the video game and what the ending was and eventually I would make it.

In Kingdom Hearts one of the scenarios involves you following tigger’s moves exactly as he jumps from tree stump to tree stump. These tree stumps were of varying sizes and heights and placed at varying distances from each other and if you landed on the ground instead of the tree stump you had to start over…

When I initially failed miserably I didn’t try again for a while. But when I did try again… I made it. Then, all of a sudden, it was as if I could JUMP!!! YAY!!! Future jumping challenges became somehow easier. And while realizing that it is a very unimportant thing in the grand scheme of things to be able to handle platform jumping in video games I am still quite proud of myself for persevering and becoming better at jumping.