Year: 2004

Unbelieveable! Another bank statement reconciled.

Time to move onto Domain transfer paperwork. Estimate: 1 hour labor.

It’s that time of the day. The part of the morning where the decision about what to do next influences the total outcome of this day.

My mind races!

-Finish documenting email addresses, ftp information etc for domain transfers

-Send nasty gram to Sears DNC Request

-Call my state representative to start pushing fair credit/collections laws (I know..there are some out there but Joe Public doesn’t know their rights)

-Continue reconciling accounts and bills in MS Money

-Program

-Social Networking

-Sales calls for Content Monkey

-Submit Resume(s)

-Update Dice, Monster, Linked-in and other online job tools

so much more..

Student: Am I ok?

Master: Only you can decide.

A New Day!

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

This Morning

I did not get much sleep last night. As a result, I have started the day panicy. To success I have to do the work of 4 or 5 people. I really need help.

I promised to get a piece of code working in the next 5 hours but I’m dead tired and the code is cryptic and undocumented. Ugh!

Student: How can I expect my kids to learn when I cannot even teach myself?

Teacher: Oh they’ll learn alright!

Student: Are my words too free?

Master: Free? These words will cost!

Time to take the boys to their annual checkups. Cathy takes the girls. I take the boys.

I corrected some coding issues with my overseas work.

AND

I have a strong start to my documentation for the domain transfers.

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.

ok. 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)?

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?

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.

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.”