Ok. How does this look: [link]

(It's going to be in B&W, so don't pay attention to the colors)

(Apparently it's so bad, it killed the thread!)

One of the ways I caught /blocked the lazy demon - was to set only one goal per day, which is esp. important when you have a large block of time. This way you make sure that the important thing gets done -and doesn't get sidetracked by all the other things that might happen along the way. and some how I accomplish more that way. It was not laziness that was getting in the way of accomplishing things, but just the amount of stuff out there that could be or needed to be done.

Heh. I decided one of my problems was that I'd gotten out of the habit of making lists, so I sat down this morning and made a list of everything I hoped to get done this week. Today's list is kind of, well, long. As in, 14 items. Of course, nearly half of them are simple things like send out emails that should take me about 5 minutes but might be forgotten if I didn't write them down. And anything I don't get to I'll just shift forward to later in the week.

Poor EM. I hope she comes through this okay.

I like the pick one thing method beth uses for getting stuff done. It can be hard, sometimes, to decide what the one important thing for the day is, but it saves a lot of self-recrimination for all the other things that inevitably don't get done because there is always too much to do

My motivation is officially gone. Who stole it? I was doing so well there for a while.

I was browsing through some other sites and came across an ad for that, and I went, "I know the guy designing that!" I felt cool by association.

Well, I'm designing part of it. I'm the sound and show control designer for the 4 maze experiences. There are other designers for all kinds of other stuff up there. It is fun though.

Isn't it close to dinner time where you are vw?

I still make lists - but my lists are a week long. Really overwhelming if you look at them . Most of the things I have aren't time sensitive It generally doesn't make a difference if I call the doctor monday or tuesday , but it has to be done. Taking care of one thing makes it easier to go on to the next - if there is time.

Well, I'm designing part of it

I can accept being partly cool.

I still make lists - but my lists are a week long. Really overwhelming if you look at them . Most of the things I have aren't time sensitive It generally doesn't make a difference if I call the doctor monday or tuesday , but it has to be done. Taking care of one thing makes it easier to go on to the next - if there is time.

My rationale for my long lists is that I don't write things down, they tend to slip my mind. Kinda like this beta read that I should've done weeks ago. The other writer sent it to me right before we went away for Labor Day weekend. I came home to over 100 messages, and I just didn't think to look below the new email to see if there was anything from before I left that I needed to deal with.

Anyway, having a list helps me focus. E.g. today I still haven't gotten to my real priority--producing at least 3 pages on the WIP--because my primary writing time is after Annabel goes to bed. But by writing all those other things down, I have a sense of what else needs to be done so I can make use of whatever time comes my way, and maybe get to some of the things I've been putting off for weeks.

Anne and GC, Nick is putting Avatar episodes up on TurboNick.

Were any Buffistas at the OMWF Singalong last night? You missed a great show. And me saying lines into a microphone on stage.

We checked out a 1988 Plymouth Grand Voyager today. It would have made a match for the 1988 Dodge Grand Caravan we got last year for $50. Ok, so the asking price was ten times as much, but still, under Blue Book value. It had been smoked in. Nasty something or other the guy must have been smoking. It didn't bother my breathing much, but then we had all the windows down while test driving it. But the skin on my arms felt like someone had been going at me with sandpaper. So I hopped in the shower when we got home, and immediately felt better. Weird. I've never had a reaction like that before.

Needless to say, we are still vehicle-hunting.