A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
Campbell’s Soup does a similar program called Click for Cans which I can personally vouch as legitimate.
Afternoon spent playing with the 20 mth old and helping the 10 yr old with math (after she got started it was just reminders to keep working–homework took 3 hours). Chopped some wood. Helped the neighbors puppy find its way home. Tended the fire. Worked on the wife’s computer on some long procrastinated maintenance issues. Shrimp for dinner. Kids to bed. Now I’m tired.
Managed to slip in several chapters of Mutant Message Down Under. My vote for the book as spiritually uplifting stands. On reading it I find myself questioning all my habits from how I deal with my kids to how I approach business to how I handle strangers in the mall. It inspires me to want to treat people better. I highly recommend this book.
Watch kids.
Enter self-doubt. The job is obviously for a designer more than a programmer which will also pay less than I want; ergo, it is a waste of everyone’s time for me to apply for it.
Research company then send resume and coverletter.
With food in belly and preparations to restart the fire begun. I’m ready to continue. Oh! I also called about a possible job and of all things it would be doing computer work in the entertainment industry. What a match!
Remove layer of frost from hind quarters. I think this can be done by going upstairs for lunch.
Ok. The pictures of the wife’s computer move and cleaning are done. In edition to editing the pictures, I went ahead and created a smaller viewed in ColdFusion just to confirm my skills haven’t all but died.
Yeah Disney!
This is a recreational task. Download pictures of computer move and post.
Star paperwork done. Phone call to voicemail to see if they want it mailed, faxed or hand delivered. The paperwork was begun on Jan 30 and finished on Feb 17. That’s ridiculous!
Took “sick” 10 yr old to school. She could have stayed home but it is too torturous for her to not see her friends.
Returned home and cleaned food off kitchen table to use as a desk so the wife and I could fill out this STAR paperwork. The baby sees me cleaning and immediately grabs her broom and starts helping. What a great kid!
I see the table the wife’s computer now sits on is going to be hard to keep the kids from setting drinks on.
As a Cingular customer, I looked forward to the improved service in the long run. I don’t look forward to the imminent price increases and lousy service during the merger of equipment and technologies.
I’m setting goals 1 at a time today. As I accomplish each goal, I will set the next. I have a fuzzy set of goals such as clean office, program, make marketing materials, cold call, form letters, contact it managers and deliver resumes, contact old friend networks, etc. The objective goal I give myself right now is “fillout and deliver the 13 yr old’s STAR paperwork.”
