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Living Again

My brain turned on today! “I can see clearly now the rain is gone..”

The immediate focus is to get the domains transferred. I can’t sell a content management system if I cannot walk someone through the backend. This is the utmost importance.

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Ambivalence

Do I reconcile another bank statement?

Do I program?

Do I open Act and put in contact information for sales calls today?

Do I skip Act and just start calling people?

Do I do the administrative stuff I’ve been delaying in order to get 4 domains transferred from one server to another?

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Progress!

Prior to running my own business from 97-01 I knew to the penny how much money I had. I kept a cash box in the house with “petty cash” from which I would use to put money in my wallet. I kept Quicken up to date and had an account for petty cash so I even knew where the cash was going and could chart it. To back up Quicken, I kept an excel spreadsheet that summarized my income and expeditures so at a glance (that Quicken never comfortably gave me) I could see how I was doing. I updated daily.

After 2001 I fell to pieces and have yet to regain a decent grasp of my finances. Today I know roughly what is going out and roughly what is coming in (nothing). It is very uncomfortable.

Well today I began getting things organized in MS Money! Perhaps I won’t be so extreme as I was prior to 2001 but I am going to be able to do some decent forecasting and understand where our expenses truly are so that we can plug some holes.

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Death to TV

I want to turn our televisions, playstation and gameboys off for a week. Noah wakes and immediately turns on the television. I think I’ll try to track how much tv per day he watches. I just went up and turned it off. I said, “why don’t you read a chapter in a book then watch television?” He whined, “I read chapter 7 yesterday. Can’t that count?”

He is hooked on tv like a drug. I gave up and just turned the television back on.

He is reading and make quick work of Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game.”

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A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…

A New Day!

Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:

This Morning

Woke at 6:15! Yes! We gave the dog free reign of the hosue last night so I policed a little bit. Only one urine stand soaked into the wood floor that I could find. Took the dog outside for 15 minutes and she barked and lay in the grass and ate the grass but did nothing else. I brought her back inside and she immediately peed on the floor.

My new tactics! 1) walk her, bring her inside, and immediately take her outside again 2) I’m going to keep her on the lease inside the house immediately after her walks and 3) from her walks she will go straight to her cage then from the cage straight to another walk

We have to at least paper train this dog.

Last Night

Tried to do some more work but my mind would not settle. I decided to spend some time with the wife but I think she would have preferred me be in a different room.