Flutter Success!

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So after my blog post yesterday, I discovered some things.  Android Studio must be run with administrator rights.  That fixed the project creation issue.
I am not Chip.  Just an fyi.

 So I found some sample code online and bam, Android Studio just mostly worked. 

 But after this little sample project, I feel deflated.  I went to work today and wrote a brief on Preservica, an archival storage system.  My day typically consists of nonsense like that.  We already have a great storage system that would cost nothing to use, but due to centralized IT and another agency charging us for the storage space, our system is "too expensive" to actually use.


I go to these "CPMS meetings."  I spend at least 4 hours of my life every week in there pretending to pay attention, or sometimes not even pretending.  Sometimes I play with my phone.  I hate them with a passion.

 I get up and go to work every day.  Every morning I tell myself "I can't do this", but then I make myself go do it anyway.  I count the days until the weekend.  I count the days until I can leave this agency.  I have almost lost my love of programming.  Or did it get beat out of me?  Where did I lose it?  I wonder if it's possible to get it back?

 I think of American Beauty.  In my fake Batman voice, I am Lester Burnham.

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