New Year, Same Issues

I did not magically expect 2010 to come charging in with all the answers to our many problems. I wouldn't have minded, of course, but I certainly wasn't expecting it.

We've rolled into a new year which means we've cleaned out calendars, thrown out as much 2009 stuff as we can and are working towards packing up our house for an expected planned move in the next month or so. We don't have a place to move to yet which is sort of holding up the process.

Here's a quick rant about the ad spammers who waste time posting garbage rental listings on Craigslist. Please, go wander off somewhere and die. You are wrecking a valuable and needed resource with your spam posts for fake rentals at ridiculous prices. It seems like Craigslist could be doing a far better job of shutting down spam accounts but they seem pretty content to play whack-a-mole with the ads as they crop up and are flagged by frustrated users like me.

Anyway.

The new year and decade have started off pretty much where the last year and decade left off. Which is to be expected since the changeover is more cosmetic than cosmic.

I am still pursuing a better job, still pursuing a less expensive place to live, still pursuing what measure of Kyani dream I can (maybe more on that later but no promises), still working to improve our current lot, still pursuing a better school to place our boys in, still pursuing a new rentor at the hair salon, still pursuing on all our fronts and making slow progress across the board.

And that's just the first line. There are too many secondary projects to even list but are also important to keep propelling forward or they risk stagnating and dying on the vine. I don't know how other people are able to keep on top of the ever-growing piles of things they need to get done. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to get lost under the avalanche of crap to do.

But we plug on, we push forward, we make inroads, we cross off minor goals on the trail to the bigger completions. But sometimes it is nice to take on a short project just for the satisfaction of seeing it from start to finish in one go.

It is going to be a busy 2010 for us. How about you?

The Monday Morning Rundown

Perhaps rundown is a bad word to start Monday with. Its the start of the week, another week full of promise, opportunity and chance. What happens this week is, to some degree, within my power to control. I could slack off completely and not do my chores. I could get to bed earlier, get more quality sleep and be even better equipped to complete the myriad tasks I have before at the start of each day. I could set any number of goals for myself and work like a rabid dog to cross them off.

There are a thousand different threads going right now. So many different tasks and chores and errands and things to do that it is a chore in and of itself to keep a list of everything that has to get done. And some things just keep sliding off the table only to come back for more inattention later. I've been trying to apply the Getting Things Done credo to my days but find that too many tasks are more than 5 minute jobs and get added to lists.

I could slam out a quick list of things I need to do but I'm sure your list of things to do is as long, as complicated (well maybe not quite as complicated since I work for three different departments and support close to a thousand people now) and as overwhelming. But there are other tasks on top of these that are just as if not more important.

The hardest thing for me is to stay on a task, ride it through to completion and then cross it off the list. My ADHD medication is helping me tremendously but the very nature of my job and life is distraction after distraction impacting my process. It is very hard to keep putting down one thing to pick up another and then be able to return to the first thing and know whereabouts I'd stopped in the process.

I'm not sure if all of this is making too much sense but, if it is not, then maybe it gives you a tiny glimpse inside my mind and how disjointed it is in there.

Some of the things that I am looking forward to:
- Cyclelicio.us has asked me to ride and review a demo bike.
- Signing up several people as Kyani customers.
- Completing and crossing off the two wedding projects from the summer.

And I'm not even going to touch the tasks I have to do that I'm not really looking forward to. But suffice it to say (or write as the case currently is) that the lists are long and even then are the tip of the iceberg.

So now I should get back to work. I've been writing this while finally finishing up some serious problems with one of my teacher's PCs. It is, at this moment, about 98% done. Which is awesome since it was about 50% done when I came in to work today. Woot progress!

So Much for Coasting

I thought this week was going to be a pretty easy one, unplug some computers, clean up the computer lab a little and enjoy the last few days of employment peacefully. But, as it turns out, there's a crapload of stuff to do and not anywhere near enough time to get it all done.

I'm going to get as much done as I can but there's definitely going to be things that should have gotten done but didn't get done. And they'll likely not get done until midway through next year as there will be no tech support to get them done.

I do not envy those that are left in a system as it slowly grinds itself apart.

Not Feeling It Today

Maybe it was going to bed a little late. Maybe it was the nap I had yesterday. Maybe its the early morning wake up when Sully got into our bed in the middle of the night. Maybe it was Sully having a conversation with himself at 6:30 this morning in our bed. Maybe its the fog. Maybe its the chilly overcast day. Maybe its all of it.

But it doesn't really matter because I'm just not really feeling it today.

Maybe I should just try and work through it. Let's see what's on the list for this week?
- Keep sanding the bunk beds.
- Keep repairing the fence/digging out the trench.
- Pick up and repair my son's pre-school computer.
- Stop by and fix a pal's munged up Wifi settings.
- Work my regular hours above and beyond my regularly scheduled hours at my 4th school.
- Decorate the house for Halloween.
- Break out the scary music and sounds effects playlist on my old iPod.
- Try to get my bike in for a badly, badly needed tune up.
- Various Craigslist postings to be written and posted.
- Put together a tentative racing calendar for late 2008 and 2009.
- Finish editing my last biking video with Nande and Brady.
- Work on invention prototype.

I'm sure I'll remember more as the day wears on.

Plus, I don't know if I slept funny or if my hip is giving out for good now but my left hip joint has been aching most of the day. So much that I decided to drive to work rather than chance it on the motorcycle because a hip cramp while moving can be damned difficult to cope with.