Student: What ever will I do if my plans become altered?
Master: You should plan more completely.
Year: 2004
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This Morning
Woke at 7am and rushed to get dressed before the dog lost her bladder. See, there is a contest here because when she see me getting dressed she gets excited and tries to jump on the bed and in her excitement, well, creates puddles. My challenge of course is to get dressed while she is snacking or still asleep so that I can rush her outside. I was keeping a robe and some slip on shoes by the bed but the shoes were in danger of getting eatten and the robe was commandeered during yesterday’s flash freeze and besides with the backdoor effectively unfunctional the robe and slipons just doesn’t help much.
Voting day and I’m still uneducated. I can see that the news paper was bought. Today it printed its choices. As you read each one you have to think, “ah.. money for the paper here. ah.. money for the paper on that one. oh yes that benefits the paper.” The paper is for the paper not the people.
I figure by the time I figure out politics I’ll be one of those old people voting on contrived issues from days past and completely out of touch with the generation that matters and the issues that truly concern them. I did not get to update http://august5ballot.blogspot.com/ as much as I would have liked. I will start on the November one sooner.
The puppy wants to romp badly and I am the only one awake. I need to be programming not playing.
I made a decision last night that each evening before I get tired I will consciously decide what the plans for the next day are, pencil them into my planner, and lay out my clothing for the next day. Now, using the Covey system of planning I do my planning a week at a time and review each evening. The mistake I’ve been making has been to try to do my review/looking ahead when I am way too tired to seriously give it any consideration. Unfortunately, I think the weather is causing my plans to be altered.
Life altering products:
Goodbye Google – We will miss your logos
As Microsoft gears up to take on Google in both search engines and the blogsphere, other competitors such as Blinkx and IceRocket.com jump to the scene. Ice Rocket is funded out of Cuba!
Progress!
Instead of multitasking and getting very little of anything done, I focused on my European client and spent the day fixing some behind the scenes issues that have been holding me back. Also made major head way on the user manipulation side of the database which is going to open large doors to getting the signup process completed.
The afternoon sun is here and Sarah wants me to take her to the mall to sign up for a contest. I fear she is going to have a real problem learning the negative side of “free” stuff. Her uncle bought her a lottery ticket and when she only matched one number her response to our “people don’t win these things” was “we need another ticket!” Anyhow, time for some quality time.
Tommy Helps?
I’m listening to Tommy help cut the back yard. I cringe everytime I hear the brand new mowerblade rip through another stick. The concept of clearing the area that he is going to mow and the reasons for doing so just don’t stick in Tommy’s head.
Singing Bush Out of Office
Springsteen, Dixie Chicks, Pearl Jam coming to Michigan, stumping against Bush
“Staged by the left-leaning political groups MoveOn and America Coming Together (ACT), the Vote For Change tour comes dur…”
O.K. The disclaimer paragraph that separates this from an official “we are doing this for Kerry” action.
While the events are not officially affiliated with the Kerry campaign, many of the tour’s artists have been associated with previous Democratic causes and have spoken out publicly against President Bush.
Firefighting
Averted a grease fire in the oven. Hmm.. Yet another of working from home instead of an office!
Focus
I have a task to do. A commitment that was made. I am going to focus on that task and get it done. Everything else will work out.
Making such a decision alone is comforting.
Poem – Water Down the Hill
Water flows downhill
Enjoying Nature’s beauty
As it goes
Never trying to return
Up the mountain
To revisit its past.
Ever accepting of its course
Destiny offers little choice
Other than to decide its distance
From the shore.
Perhaps to eddy is allowed
But not acccepted by the main stream crowd.
“We rush down. Why do you wait?”
“Do you not ponder from which we came?”
“Do you wish to go upstream? You are insane!”
“Do you remember sites of yesterday?”
“Do you not see the things yet to be?”
Try, try as it might
The water cannot win
The upstream fight.
Tis unnatural and stressful
To go against the flow
Better to accept one’s path
Enjoy it! And conserve strength
Not for the impossible
But for that occasional tendency
To be separate from the main current.
Not until the heavens
Take it up into the sky
Does the water get rebirthed
With an opportunity to live again
And be baptised within its own rain.
-copyright © 2004 Doug McCaughan.
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This Morning
Woke this morning at 5:49 feeling pretty good. Went back to sleep immediately and woke at 7:30 in sheer fear and panic.
I walked the dog hoping to calm and it helped. Bonus that she actually did her business outside. I found urine in her cage this morning so this theory that dogs never go in their cages is wrong. Of course, she does accidents when she gets excited so that could have been what the cage was about.
Time to split time between programming, sales and job hunting.
Smarter
I have this really neato pressure in my left temple now. I think my brain is growing!
False starts
I’ve just spent 2 hours trying to start something. This is not only frustrating but exhausting.
Mode change
Programming mode now. All diversions turned off. Perhaps a break to cook dinner shortly. Strike up the programming music!
Amy is standing at the top of the stairs screaming…
Amy is standing at the top of the stairs screaming her head off while I am trying to make phone calls. Now she has change to whimpers and tears. Noah zombied by the television and Sarah hypnotised by the computer.
I need to work with businesses that only work late at night.
Help!
I’m driving my wife crazy and I don’t know how to stop! Note: It’s not as fun as you’d expect it to be.
