JPS Grooves

There’s this scene in The Big Lebowski where Walter, in true chaos-mode, snaps at poor Donny:
“You’re out of your element!”
It’s loud. It’s funny. But damn if it doesn’t echo in my brain sometimes lately.

Because truth is, I am Donny right now.

I should be playing guitar.
I should be writing books.
Those are the arenas I’ve worked in for years. Words and chords — that’s been my groove. That’s where I know what I’m doing. That’s my pinball machine.

But here I am, knee-deep in HTML and CSS and transition logic, trying to make neon math buttons scale perfectly on a phone screen. Learning code conventions, grid layouts, screen ratios. Debugging glowing emoji alignment like my life depends on it.
This isn’t a phase. This is a festival of learning.

It feels like I should be out of my element.
But strangely, I’m not.

Every time I feel like quitting — and yeah, I do — something pulls me back in. I fix one layout bug and the whole app just clicks a little better. I hear a sound in my head and suddenly I’m writing a new song just for this thing. I start mocking up ghost characters and next thing I know I’m outlining a story arc about math and legacy and rebellion and rhythm.

This app — SnowCone MathFest — it’s not just a build. It’s my craziest music project ever.
It’s a game.
It’s a story.
It’s a math tool.
It’s a cosmic art piece.
It’s me, pouring every weird skill I’ve ever picked up into something that somehow makes sense.

I’ve already written three songs just to fit this game.
I’m writing dialogue for characters I created from thin air.
I’m designing a UI that plays like a neon-drenched math jam from another dimension.

So maybe Walter was wrong.
Maybe Donny wasn’t out of his element.
(He probably was tho)
Maybe he was just finding a new one.

And maybe this is mine.
This game? It’s my new whatever.
And I can’t stop me.

– JPS Grooves