November 17, 2002
Cleanup
I'm in a big cleanup phase again, this time to prepare for a trip I'm taking to Florida. I did this a year ago and it was a good recharge. This time there's the added advantage that I get to see my sister, brother-in-law, and niece. I think the quarters might be sort of cramped, but it shouldn't be too bad.The cleanup is aggravating. In Peanuts, Pig-Pen has a strip where he's scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing in the bathroom, and still has his dust could, then says aloud, "I think I may have passed the point of no return." That's how I feel about my stacks of papers right now. There are just too many papers that don't have categories. What do I do, give them their very own folder in my file cabinet? No, I leave them out on the desk, with the sixty-five other similarly unique documents. In a pile.
I clearly don't know how to file. I like hierarchies, especially multi-parent hierarchies. You can't do that in a file cabinet. Well, maybe you can, but I sure don't know how.
I've also spent time cleaning up my computer. I finally ported Quicken, although I'm now waiting for my new pin numbers (still can't use the damn thing). I'm going to make an appointment with an accountant, and I'm also going to transfer all of my bank accounts and investment accounts to one place (maybe Fidelity) as soon as I start my new company name. That'll be nice and clean.
I'm also gearing up for a set of new personal technical goals - my first priority seems to be my new interest in voting technologies (made blindingly obvious in previous blog entries). One site to set up votes for various polls, and perhaps another site to mimc a direct representation setup with a mock Senate. I'm corresponding with a couple of people regarding these subjects right now.
My second priority is StorySprawl, again. I want to get that moved over to save myself $25/month.
And third priority is to start learning some actual desktop programming. I've done a lot with server-side programming, but now I kind of feel like I want to learn Cocoa (OSX programming). I'll start with Java, but will move on to ActionScript and Objective-C soon enough.
That's enough technically though - keenworks should help me get some new freelance contracts, which helps with money, which aligns with my other goals. The house and the piano, namely. I'm getting into music again - I actually had a song idea the other night and wrote half a song. I will be trying to finish it soon.
That's all, that's that. Off to bed, snooze.
Posted by Curt at November 17, 2002 03:43 AM