"Murphy was an optimist!"
Of Grasshoppers July 28, 2004 9:02 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeStudent: How can I expect my kids to learn when I cannot even teach myself?
Teacher: Oh they’ll learn alright!
Of Grasshoppers July 28, 2004 7:43 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeStudent: Are my words too free?
Master: Free? These words will cost!
Father Duties July 28, 2004 11:22 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeTime to take the boys to their annual checkups. Cathy takes the girls. I take the boys.
add a commentProgress July 28, 2004 10:33 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeI corrected some coding issues with my overseas work.
AND
I have a strong start to my documentation for the domain transfers.
add a commentLiving Again July 28, 2004 9:39 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeMy 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.
add a commentAmy Awakes July 28, 2004 8:13 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Lifeok. Next delimia. Do I wake Cathy (I can keep working) or do I take care of Amy myself (1 – 1.5 hours of my day potential wash away and the odds of getting sales calls in drops to near 0)?
add a commentAmbivalence July 28, 2004 8:07 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeDo 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?
Progress! July 28, 2004 7:58 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifePrior 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.
add a commentDeath to TV July 28, 2004 7:18 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeI 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.”
add a commentA New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa… July 28, 2004 6:42 am
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeA 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.
Melted July 27, 2004 9:01 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeMy evenings here are mentally and physically exhausting. By the time everyone is settled in I am too sore and flustered to do anything productive; and my head feels like it is stuffed with cotton. Usually all I want to do is have a beer and settle in for some mind numbing television. Instead I drink tea and listen to the sound of the washing machine and dryer and feel the pressure in my head continue to swell.
Calgone take me away! July 27, 2004 7:58 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeMost of the day my house sounds like the background noise in one of those Calgone commercials.
add a commentToday’s video clips July 27, 2004 5:38 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Life30 minutes of my day in 30 seconds (2.77mb) note: watch the cat. I still have to learn compression.
I’m going to kill my bandwidth!
add a commentProgress! July 27, 2004 1:54 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily Lifeok. I’ve done nothing to find money today. No job interviews. No sales calls. No programming.
However, I have found my desktop. I have thrown stuff away. I have sorted mail (some dating back to 2003). And am in the process of getting a grasp on my finances..something I view as important as income is managing your finances.
I still haven’t figured out if I have already paid the money the collector seeks but I am getting in a better position to discuss it.
add a commentBill Gates has my house! July 27, 2004 1:53 pm
Posted by djuggler in : Daily LifeTour Bill Gates’ house. This is what my family needs!
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