Woo Hoo! 100 days!
I don’t know if I should be overjoyed with that, but it is nice to have a non-structured life.
Today, I actually worked (it helped that my family was gone for much of the day). Unfortunately, the work was “coding” (writing computer programs). Any day I work with code is a very long day for me. Me and code don’t get along at all, but sometimes it’s necessary to code things if you want functionality. Today, I created a process environment for the free layout tools that company #3 will use. After a very full day, I’m mostly done. Tomorrow, I can finish the last touches and then begin to layout out devices.
I think it helps (at least for me) to hit the ground running early in the morning with the hardest tasks. That’s what I always did in corporate life, so I’m sort of surprised that I haven’t been doing the same at home. I’ve been using my mornings to get all the easy stuff out of the way, or exercise, but then I get too tired or I lose focus on the bigger, harder tasks afterwords. No more! I will now save the smaller stuff (and exercise) for late afternoon.
I also turned off my email today. This too helps. Email is extremely distracting, especially as one gets older (or so I read on yahoo-news during lunch).
Now that it’s evening time, I’m turning my attention to the Adult Ed class. It’s not that I want to give God second priority, but in looking over my week, the chip work absolutely has to be done by Friday morning, but I can spend all Saturday if need be to work on the Adult Ed class. Having the class prepared by Thursday would be nice because then I could use it to teach the band… but it’s not necessary. I can use other material to teach the band… and maybe some of them will come to my class on Sunday anyway. The youth are playing this weekend (allowing me to teach!), which also frees up all the elder band members to go to my class.
Day 100 mood: Mentally tired, but satisfied with my progress. Now if I can make some headway on the class before my evening meeting.