do first things first

...turkey day. Have to get the kids back into school mode after a long weekend of doing not much. Can’t complain about the weather however—hard to get anything done inside when it’s almost 30C in the middle of October…

• Vote (ironic that it’s the day after turkey day…)
• coffee done
• family
  
  • get the boys off to school
  • swimming lessons
• work
  
  • more writing—need to do some organization of my thoughts/direction
  • code
• personal
  
  • swim
  • morning pages done! was up early this morning…
  • practice music and do theory!

End of the week already and not a lot to show for it. I did manage to get the kids to (mostly) eat a pot of veg last night so maybe that counts. How you ask? Disguised as sausage, only one step removed from either hot dogs or bacon…

• coffee done
• healthy breaky done steel-cut oats and apples—> oatmeal (oh, and I blended the apples with the skins for bonus fiber. No howls from DW yet…)
• work
  
  • code
  • write up description
  • plan next code-blog entry
• personal
  
  • music lesson today—hopefully we’ll get out of the tedious super-simplified pieces soon
  • exercise—need to stretch more faithfully as I’ve strained a calf (which makes running a tad rough)
• family
  
  • plan movie night (complete with popcorn!)
  • meals for the weekend—it’s turkey time round these parts

• coffee done
• get the kids to school
• write (or stay out of DW’s way so she can)
• clean up the kitchen so the repair man can get to the dishwasher
• code, code, code
• bake some school snacks—time for the fall pumpkin special

Back after an exciting weekend, running about, doing, well, not much. But working really hard at it…

• Bonus meeting at the boy’s school
• Work
  
  • Business Meeting
  • Write some code
  • More reading
• Personal
  
  • Morning pages—that book won’t fill itself
  • Exercise
• Meal Planning & Dinner for tonight
• Clean more working space in the garage

• coffee—it’s a two pot day…
• organize
  
  • expand project plan, add intermediate detail and save as a baseline
  • write weekly goals (for next week, this one’s done), start to think about the month plan
• work
  
  • finish reading through book and write up notes
  • write ‘first’ game, brainstorm on additional possibilities
• personal development
  
  • music lesson today—apparently I’m giving the impression that I’m taking this all too seriously (or maybe I’m too much of an engineer)
  • exercise—yoga is the drug of choice today
  • morning pages

Got sidetracked yesterday helping DW with some of her work—not much done on my own goals as a result. Trying again today…

• coffee done
• practice
  
  • piano done may play some more later if there’s time
  • writing—time waits for no morning pages done
• work
  
  • review notes/milestones from last biz meeting done
  • review yet another learn to program book halfway—finish up today
  • create project to track milestones
• other
  
  • decline exciting opportunity to sell uberjuice done, but nicely…
  • judo—have been putting this off, but need to get back to it

Continuing the theme of getting things done with the second (new) installment of ftf. Still haven’t got a tracking system together, but did manage to finish all of yesterday’s short term goals (Woot!). Today, a new set awaits…

• coffee—done! espresso’s on the stove
• backup work laptops—done, finished overnight
• backup other home computers
• work - had to skip these to work on another problem - tomorrow’s tasks
  
  • review last meeting/milestones
  • read current state of affairs and make notes
  • write a sample program
• morning pages (this morning this time) done
• practice music done

...have to pick up my socks (literally and figuratively) and get back to the schedule. I’m even trying something new—putting some thought into the next day’s goals before the next day gets here. By the time I got to the ftf posting, the day was half over and the coffee already gone. Kinda made the coffee goal (and others) a little redundant… and coffee, goal or otherwise, should never be redundant.

• get up with the alarm—this one’s going to be rough as I haven’t been following it for the last couple days. Back to Mr Six AM… done
• coffee don’t think I really need to confirm this one
• morning pages (goes with the coffee) started, finished this aft while poolwatching
• more coffee (for when DW gets up) done!
• lunches for the kids done
• wrap up final paperwork done
• set up backup system
• swimming lessons done
• back to Judo
• music practice

Tomorrow night, I’ll post again and score the day. That result will go into a chart and at least be trackable. Don’t know what I’m going to do with the numbers yet, as they’ll only mean I’m capable of completing the goals I said I’d complete for the day. At some point, I’ll need to re-evaluate my BYY goals and track those instead. That’s for another day…

Otherwise known as “mid-week-knuckle-down-and-get-something-done-’cause-Friday’s-coming-and-you-don’t-want-to-be-stuck-working-late-day”.

• coffee done a bit late, but done none the less
• kids to school done
• exercise not done wrecked my big toe in judo last night—for some reason having the guy who’s tossing you, stomp on it (accidentally of course) while he’s tossing you, makes it uncomfortable the next day. No running for you…
• write
  
  • morning pages done DW says I worry too much, but at least I wrote my 1000 words (mind you, they aren’t a coherent story, but that wasn’t one of the requirements
  • nanowrimo prep – going to actually make an attempt to complete something this year (or try to keep up—hard to do when working with a professional)
• work
  
  • looking into programming IDE’s this morning. Have to select and set something up
  • contemplate moving back to Vista for the time being – that’s the env I have to teach in and where I should be evaluating tools
• play – set up a scrabble date for tonight

Half way through what promised to be a fairly soggy weekend. Where has my summer gone?

• coffee – DW is still sleeping, looks like I’m on my own this morning
• music – practice, remember not to rush the rests
• exercise – yoga and stretching this morning
• more coffee – pretty much a no brainer, what with the grey skies
• writing
  
  • morning pages
  • plan out the next couple programming lessons
• family – dole out another scrabble lesson