working on Sunday
Working on a Sunday.
Well, I haven't actually done much work yet. But I did come in.
I think I'd be better at my job if I were more organized. You know, set incremental goals, kept todo lists, that sort of thing. But actually doing those things just seems like another distraction. I know what I have to do now. The trouble, usually, is getting down to doing it. I'm a horrible procrastinator, and I don't have much of an attention span.
The project's coming along, though. I've told people I'll be done (more accurately "feature-complete," meaning bugs are fine, it just all has to be there) in two weeks from now. The plan was to get done by the end of next week, because there's a bunch of process things that have to be done before I can hand anything off to anybody. Sure, it can work fine on my machine, but if I can't get it onto anybody else, we have a bit of a problem. That's pretty much what that's all about.
I've got approximately two feature-ish bits that I have to get done this week. Both have some tricks to them I'll have to figure out, but neither are particularly hard. I might even get one done today. So I'm still optimistic. I'll panic sometimes and worry about whether there are things I've completely forgotten about. I'm going to have to go through the QA test spec later this week and make sure I've covered the basics, at least.
I've been writing this in bits and pieces over the course of the last 4 or 5 hours. I actually have gotten a little bit done, which is good. I also played too much Lightening Pool (gah, it's frustrating), floated around my usual rotation of websites and generally goofed off too much, which I suppose is less good, but those things are to be expected. It is Sunday, after all.
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tinkerer
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A book I read sometime in the last year or so had a bit to say about disorganized people. The author commented that it was in his experience that folks who appear disorganized on the outside are often highly organized in their minds. It is really a matter of thinking patterns that generally cause such behavior, and different patterns tend to maintain different environments.
Which isn't to say that a *little* organization goes amiss, however. I myself find that although I cannot ever seem to manage a tidy home, at least I have designated "places" for most categories of things, which cuts down on how much time I waste while digging through the piles in those places. ;>
But, Dude! What a time to work overtime! C'mon, it's Olympics! Tell me you aren't missing those hot and bothering badminton competitions?!?
Submitted 2004-08-16 21:15:39
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Dan
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Tinkerer has a point, yo.
Women's synchronized diving was sweet. Those two Chinese girls were AWESOME. Synch ratio at 400%!!
Anyway, good luck on your project. : )
Submitted 2004-08-17 09:46:43
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flying squirrel
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Well, I'll watch the Olympics if somebody else is (so I caught a bit of synchronized diving on Saturday), but I can't really watch it on my own.
On second thought, I don't know if organization is really the problem. It's the procrastination that kills me, and I'm not sure getting things in the right places would really help. ...Or if that would just give me another excuse to avoid doing what really needs to be done.
Submitted 2004-08-17 10:39:06
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tinkerer
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I'm telling ya, dude--we've got to do a Freaky Friday switch some day. One week, and you'd be amazingly inspired to either dig in or change everything completely.
Now, since I'm evading the guilt of actually taking time for myself, please pass the remote--I think there's more swimming tonite. And since *I'm* watching, *you* aren't really watching alone, then, are you?
;>
Submitted 2004-08-17 22:29:02
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