- 20:44 Every once in a while u have to get off the ranch: fajitas and fruit loops for dinner #
- 09:32 @MsRedPen thankfully LOL #
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Just a quick drive-by posting. I'm off to see the Tax Lady in about an hour and I'm hoping I figured right. If I did, I will owe less than $1k, which I am prepared for. If not, it gets exponentially worse. Wish me luck because I think I'll need it (although good planning will hopefully help ease any pain). D'oh...
Color me: Apprehensive.
- 10:04 Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free bt.io/Edmv #
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- 08:14 Okay Toyota, let's just recall them all before someone else dies...tinyurl.com/yah7a2k #
- 08:37 @karaswisher LOL, I'm still waiting for my jet pack! #
- 09:06 Big audience, funny presenters, so why was it so dull? tinyurl.com/ykyjwfb #
- 11:13 Why do the emergency alert tests on TV? They never appear during an actual emergency, or importantly prior to one #
- 14:22 @pattym this sounds right you your alley tinyurl.c om/yah7qdp #
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- 17:59 Never know, it might catch on tinyurl.com/yg7947n #
- 18:14 This event is filling up quickly, don't miss your opportunity www.svama.org/site/panels #
- 18:16 It's the birthday of the National Organization of Women, they're 39...again:) #
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Things Gone Wrong:
- Brakes on the truck finally bit the big one. Original pads, 107,000 miles. I did need two new rotors though. Ouch.
- Data entry form I sat most of yesterday programming didn't work. Had to start from scratch again today.
- Payroll changed my W-4 withholding and didn't inform me. They set it to Single - Zero Deductions. Triple-Ouch
- Finding my Channellock pliers on the retaining wall by the driveway, wet, rusted. Borrowed, never returned.
Things Gone Right:
- Received four orders at my Lego store this weekend totaling about $50. Woohoo!!!
- New freezer is about a third full of meat and meat products. Now it's time to stock up on veggeis.
- Made roast beef and green pepper pizza. Like eating a hot beef sandwich, only in pizza form.
- Middle Daughter has her Baby Shower today. Baby didn't want to wait and almost came early... Tick-tock... =)
- Finding a Youtube video of the saddest segment from the Doomsday episode of Doctor Who that makes Wookie girl cry every time she see it and then emailing her the link with the comment of "Funny". I'm rotten...
- The Christmas Tree is no longer in the Family Room. Yes, you read right, Christmas Tree. LOL
- I bought parchment paper so now I can make my coconut macaroons!!! <slobber>
- Speaking of cookies, I made several dozen for the baby shower today, since I had to work.
I was trying to find time last night to throw a post or two up. It's been a week and all sorts of ideas and events have happened during that time that just seem to slip through my mind. Something happens and I think to myself, that would make a great post. Then comes the disappointment of not having the time to sit down and type it all out. Gah! So, it's lunch time today and I am taking this opportunity to ponder aloud the idea that swept through my mind yesterday on the subject of time. As in, where does the time go?
I often find myself at certain times of the week asking myself those questions. I understand that there is a large chunk taken up by sleeping. Maybe one third of the time, maybe more. <innocent whistling> There are the moments of service to others, which account for another large chunk of time. Then comes work, both at home and the kind I get paid actual cash to do. It's all the little things in between those larger blocks that need to be brought out into the light nad studied.
To the point, I want to study how I am spending those in between moments. There seems to be too much time slipping through the cracks and I'm not accomplishing what I feel is important, nor am I getting the time to do that which I would choose to do as often as I'd like. I believe that one of my big time wasters is the fact that I am so overwhelmed with the minor details of things that I do not even begin to start on what I need to do. Therefore I have decided to try an experiment. Oh dear...
I want to program the computer to automatically and randomly choose the best thing for me to do from a list of options. Such that I can enter in my present state, much like a lot of websites have you update your status, so I can let it know that today, I'm feeling peppy. A sliding scale of statuses. Alongside that would be a setting for how much time I feel is available. This would be helpful in narrowing the field as well. No sense in starting to replace a sink when I only have half an hour.
The last part of the equation would be some sort of priority rating system to ensure that those things which had the highest priority would get bumped up the list. In this fashion, I can sit down and let the computer do the worrying about what I should be getting done. It spits out a task and I go do it. Feeling icky and only have an hour? Maybe it'll spit out that I should go do laundry or wash the stove top off, do a load of dishes even. Feeling really good and have several hours? Maybe I'll go finish framing in the last wall downstairs or move that piece of ductwork that's been on my list forever. Never know.
The genius behind it is that I can program repetitive tasks like laundry and dishes into it and also make this available for the rest of the family as well. I could prioritize on a whole new level by which person it is asking for something to do. Then it would know that the wife could use the nail gun, but not the saw or some such. It would be the modern day equivalent of the job jar, only instead of one for everyone, it would be one for the entire family. Anyone can cut the grass. Anyone can do laundry. Things like building that deck or what not would certainly be in there, but I would have them programmed such that they would only fall to me to get done.
So, that's my ten minutes worth of idea. I can program in all the work I want done, as can anyone else, prioritize it and then whenever someone is feeling like doing something, it will spit the job right out. Interesting. Maybe even log how much time it takes to do a task for issuing rent credits for the kids as well. Do so many hours of tasks, get the month rent free. That way the work gets done and I don't have to do it. Worth it to me.
I'd be interested to hear any additional ideas on this. So drop me a comment.
- 13:40 Check this video out -- OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w #
- 14:58 Just finished reading Shutter Island, whew...what a ride! #
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- 17:25 @MsRedPen yikes, dirt coke is soylent green! #
- 17:31 "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." HST #
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- 19:46 Gone but not forgotten tiny.cc/w5aor #
- 08:41 "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." W. Shakespeare, aka Willy the Shake #
- 08:43 @mdsouthern Your welcome, all part of the service, m'am. #
- 08:44 @catwmn me! #
- 10:20 Winners and losers: Canadians steal show - 2010 Olympics - Yahoo! Sports: bit.ly/crr1zD via @addthis #
- 10:59 This is really cool: bit.ly/qY6ui #
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