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Since last week, I've been trying to finish stuff for an internal company project. It involves the creation of an suit of armor that is inspired by the "Underworld" series of movies, specifically the "Rise of the Lycans" prequel. I kept on putting it off for reasons I will explain below.

I've made a lot of armor sets for Second Life since 2007. Now, I've been having trouble finishing this particular suit of armor, primarily because it involves something which I'm not particularly interested in or perhaps even despise. Most of my previous armor sets involved a lot of research into historical suits of armor from the medieval or renaissance period, and I truly enjoyed that, and the results of my efforts were often to my liking. However, since I'm not really into vampires or werewolves, I really felt uncomfortable working on this particular armor set.

To add salt to the wound, I think I just caught a bad cold, and now I have to work on something I don't really like to work on, and on top of that, I had to work with a runny nose, a sore and tender throat, and watery eyes.

And in the middle of all this, I had to stop and pause, and tried to figure out if there was any reasonable amount of energy and enthusiasm in me, to really get me going on this project, despite my miserable condition. But there was no time to think it over, so I just went to work, "half-blindly". And here is the result:





Although I'm not halfway finished with the suit, I am suprisingly pleased with the results of "just doing", rather than complaining/procrastinating. I guess the Nike ad was right after all.

Lesson learned? Sometimes if you think too much and lack the DOING, you truly won't get anywhere.

-RODION