John Jenkins here

Greetings to all. My name is John Jenkins and I am a proud owner of Adobe Flash Professional CS5. I remember going to design school and using Adobe Flash for the first time. "This is the greatest computer program ever made", I thought. Then, as in many of my endeavors as a designer, I became furious when I discovered that making stuff look as awesome as my favorite designers do is really, really, really, really, really difficult. When I finally took the risk and spent my entire check on the $742.69 design program I had high hopes, which were quickly weighed down. Making awesome stuff in flash is already hard enough, but I soon discovered the horrors of facing one of my greatest fears: trying to become a programmer.

Up until the day that I started programming and Actionscript 3.0, my only experiences in programming came from a stint in computer camp where I dabbled in Visual Basic; afterwards I purchased a Visual Basic book and CDrom; taking a course in Programming Logic; making a few odd script for an FPS for which I enjoyed to make maps, not mods (Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis); and all of this was preceded by my amateur foray into HTML, which I had all but completely given up by the time I was a sophomore in college. "This is not going to be another HTML, or even worse, CSS", I told myself as I began hoarding books on programming and digital design from my local Borders store. Adobe Flash CS5  Professional was going to be my program of choice and I have been determined since to make it work for me.

I have been hitting big giant snags everywhere. The problem: I want everything I do to look like coolzies in five minutes. I hate circles, I hate squares, and I hate fills. I want to be able to go into the options menu of flash and grab the cool tool and just paint cool or an ultra cool all over the screen without so much as a bother. The bother about that is that I don't have the skills necessary to do that as of yet. Of course, I won't listen to you if you tell me this; just as I ignore myself as I tell myself this every day.

Oh and by the way; I hate code snippets and I hate reading the instruction manual that came with the program and I have never gone back to the web site to take advantage of the privileges of being a full owner of Adobe Flash CS5 Professional. I want every script I create to confound Asimo.