Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Managed to make a little progress in the evening, so that the day turned out reasonably well. Today I am again having a hard time getting started. So, I am going to try to leave at 7 PM. I hope this will help me focus a little better. Also , have to time track and avoid email and the internet. I have already been checking and rechecking news and sports sites, along with my work and non-work email accounts. There's really no point; nothing new is happening in the interim. What I have to work on today isn't even particularly painful, just not things I am in the mood for. But knowing I have to do them makes me uncomfortable to do something else productive. Instead, I just sit here, trying in vain to find something that will catch my attention but not make me feel guilty about doing or reading it. Hmmm...like that's going to happen. Awreet. Time to focus and get out of here by 7 PM.

Goal 1: Work 30 minutes per case for 1.5 hours (noon to 1:30 PM)

Actual: 30 minutes x 1 case, then got called to help with a somewhat urgent client care issue, spent 1 hour on that

Goal 2: Lunch 30 minutes (1:30-2 PM)

Actual: On track

Goal 3: Work 30 minutes per case for 2.5 hours (2-4:30 PM)

Actual: 2:24 PM: Oops! Spent the first 30 minutes on email. It just flew by imperceptibly as I thought I "quickly" answered a couple of emails. It's like a time warp for me, since I have no real sense of time to begin with. Back to it.

5:38 PM: Did pretty well, but spent about 2.5 hours on one long case, struggling against nodding off the whole time.

Goal 4: Take a 30 minute break, check email, maybe clean desk or work on some paperwork; no random internet surfing! (4:30 -5 PM)

Actual: 5-5:30 PM.

Goal 5: Work 30 minutes per case for 1.5 hours on old, overdue cases (5-6:30 PM)

Actual: +/- worked, but still hacking away at new cases which proved time-consuming

Goal 6: Spend 30 minutes tying up loose ends (6:30-7 PM)

Actual: Quick dinner in the cafeteria

Goal 7: Leave at 7 PM 

Goal 8: Have dinner, spend some time working on personal development or entertainment *other than* surfing aimlessly.

Goal 9: In bed by 10:30 PM

Actual: Goals 7-9 weren't met. Continued to work until about 10:15 PM on new cases (or slightly overdue ones), didn't get to bed until midnight. Urk.

Lots to do today! However, yesterday was a bad day, I think in part b/c my list was so overwhelmingly long, so I'm going to try and keep today's list manageable:
*check on expts

*collect samples
*Update records (started)
*Draft email (this has been a sticking point, so I'll try breaking this up, drafting it today and sending it tomorrow)
*Finish embedding
*Finish lit.
*Email D w/ condolences  (will do this soon)
*Email about thesis comm (will do this soon)
*Orders (will do this soon)
*Brainstorm pie chart

OK, starting with lit, then I'll check on expts and update records and finish embedding

Thank you, Rosebud, and thanks to everybody who reads and posts here.  

Kind of frustrating day yesterday, with mechanical issues gumming up the works. But that's beyond my conntrol. What I can control is right now, and I'll try to get a good day in today. Onward...

Prep

• Get up at 6 
• Make bed
• Exercise
• Healthy breakfast
• Coffee, paper
• Check-ins
• Walk

Morning

• Update Quicken
• File sellbiz FC
• Outline vacation
• Draft vacation
• FC vacation
• File vacation
• Invoice vacation
• Deliver meals on wheels

Afternoon

• Healthy lunch
• Do Million11 FC
• Call PNC
• File 1 BN (deal)
• Update 5 custom pubs
• Q -FM (lock), AEO (?)
• Send music email
• *Apply for health ins

I've done everything I can do from this list. A couple of things have to wait for something else to happen first. It's only 4:30, but I think I'll call it a day and start on some of my evening tasks. I think putting the most important and hardest taxks first was a good move. I'll try it again tomorrow.

Evening

• Healthy dinner
• Replace smoke detector
• S/u sprinkler
• Clean up kitchen
• Rehearse
• Read, relax
• Bed by 10:30 or so

Tomorrow

• G inspection sticker
• Rewrite kerrivlle
• Send kerrville expenses

Thanks for starting Rosebud and it looks like an elderflower from an elder tree http://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A7x9QXslaiVOWEoAZOR...

Done:
Up prayer and refection
Lay in bed with bad cough
Checked emails

Todo:
Deal with post (if any) and other emails
Rest and take it easy
Phone friend re his letters

Regards Rexroth

9 pm Tuesday

Thankyou Rosebud for starting Tuesday. I wonder what the name of the pretty white flower is?

My Tuesday is nearly over, but I am fairly satisfied with it. I attended a job interview in the next town, which went as well or better than I could have expected. My son came with me for the driving practice and we did some more while we were up there. At home I made some calls (although only one person was in!) and sent some emails, arranged morning coffee with a colleague for tomorrow, did some laundry tasks, finished my novel and did the dishes after dinner. 

Now I still need to get my papers and USB ready for a day at my client's office tomorrow; also clothes, do some piano and exercises, and maybe start looking at programs on this computer ready for transfer/installation on my new computer.

Hope you all have a happy and useful Tuesday!