Tuesday 31st May 2011

9.50 am

Have made lists for today. Not so clear on priorities. MIT is two phone calls.

I am procrastinating on sorting paper and tidying my office - not sure why.

Also on a tedious unpaid job I need to get out of the way - well it's fairly clear that one brings up some bad feelings.

Thanks to everyone for being here.

Show up (done)

Making definite progress. Two more cyber exams for my son. Started yesterday with math with him. He did the biololgy all day and did not need my help. He was counting on me to keep notes organized and I messed up but can make up for it . I can help him if he does not understand something.  Last year we had a 3 week extention and this year if we keep on track, we can be done by Friday, on time. We work well together, He has adhd as well and we both recognize the other's downfalls and try to compensate. I am not taking time for much of anything else, but it is ok. Grateful that he is doing well because I am just here. Next year will be easier for him and then he will not need me to be here any more. As long as I remain positive. pleasant  and grateful, the sacrifice is well worth my time. Could not have been "present" enough to do this without PA (ers). Grateful to be here and my consistency of showing up. Don't want to think of the backlog of things I put off for this, but it is what it is and will deal with it after this.

I'm getting a late start due to lounging around at girlfriend's this morning. I have much to do, as usual, including a couple of tasks I didn't get done yesterday. I'm particularly annoyed with myself for not fulfilling my entire contract to post a dozen articles to one of my clients this month. Each article is worth $200 or more and I am desperate for money. Taking a week off last month surely affect that, but I haven't ever gotten the full dozen done in several months of trying. Well, maybe next month...

Prep

• Coffee, paper
• Check-ins

Morning

• Update Quicken, pay bills
• Invoice trash  (system still not working, but I've done what I can)
• File 1 BN (perform)
• Deliver Meals on Wheels

Afternoon

• Outline Bullochs
• Draft Bullochs
• Proof Bullochs
• File Bullochs
• Invoice Bullochs
• File B2B FC
• Outline retain
• Draft retain
• Proof retain
• Fact-check retain
• File retain
• Invoice retain

Evening

• G grass for front yard
• Install grass
• Fix commode
• healthy dinner
• Draw up set list
• Rehearse set list
• Read, relax
• Bed by 10:30 or so

Tomorrow

• Run
• B graduation
• Draft Harlan piece
• Harlan meeting
• Draft Monroe piece
• Monroe meeting
• Convert custom pub dbase to Excel
• Send R custom pub dbase
• Look at support mod docs
• Send music email
• Q - BN
• S/u jury duty

Back at work after a week of vacation.   The good news is that I have a loaner laptop to use until mine is fixed - it died over the weekend.   I think maybe it was God's way of telling me not to work on vacation.   I logged in to do some work, and it shut down.  When I tried to restart it, it started smoking! 

I've been at work for an hour or so but I've been dealing with the laptop issues.  Now I'm going to do my todo list and get started.   The first item on the agenda will be to catch up on email.    I have over 400 emails to get through. 

Have a good day y'all.   I'll check back about lunchtime to report on progress.

Update 1:30 pm I have my laptop back!  Or at least one exactly like it with my old hard drive in it.   The hard drive was fine but the motherboard was fried so they just traded with me.  

I have completed 4 of 7 MITs for the day, and two of them are personal/financial and have to be done after work so that means ONE MORE work MIT.   I will work on that project for a couple of hours, then spent the last hour or so doing some lower priority items.  

UPDATE 4 pm - MIT #5 progress, figured out what needs to be done to bring up patched lab system in the "real" test system.  Now I'll build the config and directory and then stop on this project for today.  

Update 4:45 MIT #5 done!  Now I'll do some lower priority tasks until 5:30, then leave for the day.  On the way home I need to stop at the bank and the credit union, those are my personal MITs. 

Now:  Monthly goals, update calendar, db exercise.  Do as much as I can before 5:30 but don't stay late.

Jo

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. - Les Brown

Today I will:

1- Leave for the gym by 1:45 p.m. 

2- By 4 p.m. I will turn on my musical trigger and set the timer for one hour of administrative work.

3- At 5 p.m. I will take a break, and if I want to I will begin one more hour of admin work.