Ramblings, often stream of conscious, journaling the events of my life.
* Earlier I got some database redesign concerning the login security accomplished on my overseas project
* The kayak washing has begun to prepare it for sale.
* The domain transfers appear near completion. Left to do: a) make sure the inlaws can retrieve their unretrieved mail and b) send a letter cancelling the previous hosting.
Kudos to the new host! The transfer was seamless!
* Touched base with one client regarding additional work and scheduled it for 1.5-2 weeks out
I submitted a resume! The job actually referenced ColdFusion!
Making payment arrangements with Cingular so that they don’t cut off my phone. Kind of hard to get a job if people can’t call you. Good. Done. Now they cut me off on the first of September.
KnoxNews explains why I can’t get a technology job here.
This picture and caption are a perfect example of the stronghanded, Orwellian tactics that the Bush supporters wish to see implemented throughout our country. They are insecure submissives that lack control of their own lives and would happily give up their freedoms to have someone impose control on them. By George [pun] I’ve figured it out! Pro-Busher’s need therapy!!
Amy is such a big girl now. It’s fun to watch her as she makes decisions. She is eatting her first cheese toast (that I know of) and she goes to her table and pulls her chair out all without a thought never moving her eyes from Dora. Then a big yawn!
Now, don’t get me wrong. I think the same thing about each of the children but the older ones often engage me more while they are doing their wonders and I don’t get the pleasure of writing about them.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be staring at your last roll of toilet paper unsure of what you will do when it is gone? Counting down to the last diaper? Wondering if you should be watering down the milk and apple juice? Intentionally skipping meals to make sure that your children do not go without? Calculating how many miles the car can go before you run out of gas and pondering how many interviews that will get you and if you get a job how many work days you will make before having to tell the boss you don’t have transportation? Knowing that you could take the bus but recognizing that the bus requires money that you don’t have? Wondering how resumes will get submitted and jobs found for an IT person without an Internet connection?
It’s not much fun.
I scavenged enough gas from the lawn mower can to get Cathy to her luncheon meeting and back today.
Now to program for an hour.
The temp agency called to tell me that the client is still reviewing resumes. I’m going to be reviewed into living under a bridge!
I have two viable business models that each could separately be very profitable. I had hoped hold onto these and one day with my own investment money grow them as businesses. However, the time has come to share the wealth so angel investors, venture capitalist, and loan sharks step forward! A non-compete and non-disclosure await.
I have so much to do that I am often overwhelmed. I will go to my grave with so much undone that I will certainly become histories most restless soul.
I am still using the Covey system of time management (see: “First Things First” by Stephen R Covey) but I am complimenting it with note cards. Each task is written on a note card so that I can only see (and think about) one task at a time. Each task gets a minimum of one very focused hour and then has the option of returning to the bottom of the stack. The tasks do not have to be done in order. Upon completion, the card may be burned.
A New Day!
Let’s start the day off with a PayPal donation link:
This Morning
I guess my body needed some sleep; my priorities and my mind certainly did not desire it. To bed at 12:30am and up at 6:15am.
Must make miracles today.
Spent part of the evening getting 4 domains transferred including confirming the setup of the email accounts, transfer of files, backup of logfiles (that was tedious), creation of ftp accounts, etc. This was a task I’ve majorly procrastinated on. Felt great to get it done!
Finish the game!
Blogger did a great job with removing that horrid ad banner and replacing it with a fun, functional, and sleek toolbar. The search feature for searching a single blog is a fantastic addition (albeit Soople has reminded us of Google’s shortcut for this for some time). The best thing is obvious the “next blog” random blog hit. I’ve looked at my stats and some others and for the past two days they have been filled with “wierdness” as referrers have inexplicably come from completely unrelated blogs. Everyone’s hits are up! Of course, our metrics for judging how we are promoting our sites are completely thrown off now!
Obviously the blogsphere is enjoying this feature quite a bit! Thanks Blogger.
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