Another butt-kicking, and before 6:30 AM to be exact.
I (obviously) like to write… well, maybe not so much that an editor is going to be reviewing my work, but if I’m doing my own editing, I can go on and on. So my solution to ‘Status Reports’ is to start the weekly report on Monday, and keep it open as a draft, typing in thoughts, problems, solutions… more of a journal than Status. Then at quitting-time on Friday, I send my boss and me both a copy. |  |
Since I’m my own boss for now – hey, a plus – see below, I’m really not doing a Status Report, but I find having such things around keeps me focused. So how I do that is:
- Spreadsheet of all the things I want to try to get onboard – like a ‘bucket list’ for being out of work – I mark off units of learning by chapter or hour or training video or something, and try to keep on track
- I started this series of posts, and I start a new one in the morning, and add onto it during the day, then send it out the first thing in the morning… cuz it’s already written.
- OneNote open for absolutely everything… who I’ve written, events I’m scheduled for, etc.
- Windows Live Writer for blogging
That ‘add onto it all day’ thing is what butt-kicked me this morning. I’d come in from turning off the backyard sprinklers, and next up was to push “Day 3”. I thought I did Day 3 as I did Day 2 --- save off the previous one as a draft, and edit it. So when I pushed Day 3, it opened in my browser and looked good, but the title was Day 2 or something, so I go to the admin page, and whoa… Day 2 was replaced with Day 3… WTF… back to Windows Live Writer and I can clearly see “Day 2” in my “recently posted” list … until I click on it and it became Day 3… yikes…
So somehow the ‘save as’ didn’t work and I’d been modifying Day 2 all day yesterday, and how am I going to rebuild Day 2 at GWB??… it took me 1/2 hour to finally find a cache with that in it to restore… whew that’s done….
Back to WLW and open “Day 3”… oh crap… it’s now replaced with Day 2… of course… sigh…
So Day 3 went out nice and fresh and maybe some humor missing, but it went, and now here I am with a “New” post for Day 4… so nomoresaveascrap
Got some emails to answer, then it’s back to Blend I think…
Too much input today, too much email, too many good web links, trouble getting focused
4PM: Figured out the focusing problem… the whole “not working” thing is getting to me… I guess I did really good for 3 days, 4 if you count Monday. Had to take the car in for almost $300 worth of work today… it’s never a good time, but hey, can I get a break over here?
I guess one way to look at it is… I might be out here looking for work, but as soon as that last invoice is paid, Minerva is going to be out roughly $4,000 worth of income a week by me not being at work … yes, that was over the top of what I got paid… so that’s a couple good salaries back at the office… hope it’s as good for them as it is for me.
plusses
- I’m my own boss – see above
- I can use Windows Live Writer – or anydamnthingIplease – since no IT weenie is looking at my PC twice a day (9AM and 3PM) to make sure I’m not running something unapproved.
- I can use OneNote… holy crap… hadn’t even thought of that… have just been cranking it open since I’m home
minuses
- I’m my own boss – I don’t pay well
- I can use Windows Live Writer --- lol … at least it was a minus for about 1/2 hour this morning.. but we’re friends again
- thisdamnheadache is getting Excedrin-resistant
- I may end up needing a new HD for this laptop since it’s now a full-up workstation. Speed is still good, I like the big monitor and resolution is great… maybe I just need to archive stuff to external HD
so far
With the interruptions and problems staying focused, this was the worst day so far at pm;u 3 units of training: 2 units of Blend and 1 of C#.
SC #940 also went out.